Week 13: Texture Collage

Craft
All natural and manufactured textures were imported with a scanner at 300ppi. In the first collage, the leaves were cut out with the eraser and magic wand tools. Their hue was changed to a brownish, yellowish orange. The textures in the background were cut out with the lasso tool and the inverted selection was deleted. In the second collage, the leaves' hue was changed to green. They were arranged to ressemble a shrub or crop and were merged into one image layer, then repeated, rotated, and rescaled. The rag textures had their hues changed and they were rearranged and skewed. The same rag texture was used used to create the barn with hue and saturation changes. The mountains were made with the sandpaper texture which was cut out in various shapes and layered with lessening opacity against a blue background.
Concept
The first collage's concept is to represent collors and textures of autumn. The second is a farm landscape.
Composition
The first collage draws the viewer to the leaves on top, then the brighter textures, then the darker textures. The second collage draws the viewer's eye along the row of foliage to the barn in the background.