Flower Vessel ~ still life newspaper collage art

This is a collage artwork. It depicts a still life image of a flower vessel which was made by gluing over a thousand cut-out pieces of old newspapers. It might be difficult to decipher due to the similarity of some of the colours. It is a whitish vessel with a green and blue plant, mounted on a blue surface with yellowish background (I hope you are able to see it). I wouldn’t be surprised or offended if someone hung it upside down because they don’t understand what it is. It is a form of recycled art because I am repurposing old newspapers that could have otherwise been recycled into tissue...

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Stages of the highly published Newspaper Collage Portrait of a Lion

I live streamed the creation of this newspaper collage. 50% of the time spent making it was done live via Facebook, although I lost some of the videos because of copyright infringement sanction (I ignorantly played some songs at the background).With over 15 hours of different fragments of recording-time; this is by far the most documented creation of an artwork I ever made (as of the year 2016) and it was an interesting experiment.I would definitely encore it. Until it become a habit. This is in line with my goals to blog daily. So when I have nothing to write about or talk about, at least I have...

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Black and white newspaper collage

The above image is a collage that was made with shredded pieces of newspaper. Read more about it at http://ifeka.blogspot.com/2013/03/first-collage-art-for-2013.html I 'completed' it 3 days ago but, my studio is still littered with bits of cut-out (left over) newspapers (which is the materials use in making the 'recycled-art'). My studio is always messy when am productive/creating because when I want to procrastinate, I tend to engage myself with cleaning the studio lol... Thanks for reading through, please visit again. I am very excited to be blogging again. Ife'ka Terry www.ifekaterry.com (adsbygoogle...

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FACING THE MOON ~ Collage

The above picture is a black and white African collage-art made with over one thousand pieces of (black and white) papers. Title: Facing the MoonSize: 23.8 x 20.2 inchesYear: 2008AFS This is a link to a blog-post I published on the first day of the year 2009 http://ifeka.blogspot.com/2009/01/facing-moon.html Howevert; About three (3) months ago, I published a close-up-photo of the above artwork (trying to show the details of how the collage is composed of little bits of square papers). Please follow the links below to see the large close-up image http://www.collage-artwork.blogspot.com/2012/05/making-collage-can-be-fun-2.html Thanks. ©...

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Less Tedious Collage Works

It isn't all my collage artworks that are made up of thousands of pieces of papers (usually 1500 or 2000 pieces of papers)... Back in 2009, I made a series of smaller size collage artworks. The above (collage) image is a small size10 x 8 inches (with white margin)and only8 x 6 inches (without the white margin)... It contains far less than 300 (three hundred) cut-out little pieces of papers (approximately 250) and was made within two (2) hours. The title of the art is called; 'Remember?', Signed Year 2009, AFS. Two hours is (kind of) a short time, and they are other less tedious collage works...

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Power Changes People... trust in God & not man (EXPECTATIONS)

The above is collage artwork I made 4years ago. Today, Nigeria celebrates her Democracy Day (as Americans celebrate Memorial Day). A lot of people are disappointed with the way things are, and are asking the President (Goodluck Ebele Jonathan_ questions like; "where are the dividends of our democracy?". Someone said 'no real progress has been made in the past one year' but the funny truth is that; The founding fathers of Nigeria (those who fought for our independence) promised us Electricity, Water and Good-roads... Today, those that are campaigning for political position are still...

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Making Collage can be Fun #2

Making collage art can be really fun, although to some, the process can be painstaking. A few people might find it hard to meticulously glue thousands of little pieces of paper (together) to form a collage artwork (I'm referring to my type of collage which are mostly in black & white). ¤ COLLAGE IS LIKE SCRAPBOOK (FUN) The great collage artist like Pablo Picasso, George Braque and Kurt Schwitters made collage-art that were no different from a scrapbook. These artworks were not as technical as some of my works but it is the same principles. Most of us had scrapbooks where we stick...

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