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Layering Nature: "The Black Parrot"

Layering Nature: "The Black Parrot"

Jan 28, 2022

For my collage of the black parrot, I brought some of the leaves and the cherries forward with the foam dimensional squares while couching the parrot on his branch between the leaves.

Notice that there are a lot of different colors on this page (red, orange, gold, blue, and green), but the black of the parrot unites these colors as the focal point with the leaves softening the scene around the bird.

I also like to pull in some neutral white or cream color to help unify everything and tone the varying colors down. You can see this with the stamped bird, "rebel", and vintage book page with shredded spine piece at the bottom of the collage. Also, notice that I brought in those different colors and neutrals with both paper and fabric scraps, which adds to the texture of the design as well.

"The Black Parrot" collage is from my "Bohemian Beauties" visual journal which can be seen on my Instagram page at https://www.instagram.com/august_birdsong/?hl=en. The video of the "Bohemian Beauties" journal can be seen on The Graphics Fairy's YT channel at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwhgK6etWHA&t=716s. Some of the papers and ephemera for this collage came from https://members.thegraphicsfairy.com/category/bundles/ .

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