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Red and Roses

Some recent collages made using Desi bride magazines big and small. 

Their full of lush colour spreads and head to toe images of models vary greatly 

from pure Western bridal magazines and fashion magazines. 

I remember reading somewhere that even in the Indian subcontinent, 

the poorest are dressed in vibrant colours.

Colour chains

In fact it reminds me of the beautifully shot and written film Monsoon Wedding (2001), 

directed by Mira Nair and written by Sabrina Dhawan. 

Colour is in its element and even in the darkest moments of the film, 

colour is boundless and just as complex and gritty too.   

Patchwork collage

Colour Archive: Stylist (unknown issue no, 2012/13)

Magazine online @ http://www.stylist.co.uk/

 

 The pages below, scanned in from the magazine, would make a particularly beautiful desktop or mobile wallpaper (maybe even literal wallpaper for interior design?).

Why not include the text too?

See, this is why I use magazines to collage from, their sources of colour is immeasurable.

Due to the cost of inkjet printing and colour laser printing (which is mind numbingly high), printing sheets and sheets of coloured stuff just seems like madness. In the end using pages from found or bought magazines makes more sense and to sweeten the deal different magazines use different kinds of papers. For example, Stylist uses this soft paper that is like newsprint but much better quality for printing on and unlike its glossy sisters, you can in fact draw, annotate and doodle on the pages.

 

Beautiful Technicolor.

Yes ladies and gents, that is colour spelt the British way :) 

 

 

 

Doll house windows and reflective materials

I found a magazine spread with a doll house in it and appropriated its windows and walls for this collage, mixing with plant imagery and imagery consisting of mosaic like work and strange looking surfaces such as metallic papers and foils.

 
 

Geometrics and the red telephone box

Old red telephone box.
Black and white dots.
Golden-yellow lines and boxes.

A part of a series of collages I made last year.
Looking at both colour and geometric shapes that bring together a strange kind of theme to the collage.

 
 

Faded Oranges

Faded Oranges

Collage on cartridge paper (in sketchbook)

2010

Faded Reds

Faded Reds
Collage on cartridge paper (in sketchbook)
2010

Faded Yellows

Faded Yellows

Collage on cartridge paper (in sketchbook)

2010