Collaborative Collages: Making New Art with Old Images
Live class with Rob Kelsey on January 28, 2026
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I was thinking of the quote below during this class.
Agatha Christie (The Orient Express), describing passenger Princess Dragomiroff: Her small toad-like face looked even yellower than the day before. She was certainly ugly, and yet, like the toad, she had eyes like jewels, dark and imperious …
Project One (before / after):
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This is spectacular. Great choice of image to play with! How fun!
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Project Two (with apologies to Queen Victoria)
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Here are mine! My acrylic black and white paint were Artist’s Loft, my paint pens are Betem (would not recommend), and outlines in a Micron fineliner. The ‘sky’ on the top one is a mix of Crayola, RoseArt and Caliber washable markers smudged with a cloth.
The top on is newsprint from a German newpaper according to the back, no idea where I got it. The sailboat is from an old greeting card, the lighthouse is glossy and from a travel advertisement, the bridge is from an old Nat Geo magazine I think, and the very dapper cat is on printer paper from a newsletter from my local animal shelter. It was fun to work with the different paper textures!
I like all of them except the bridge one. That creature suffered from poor planning from the first stroke! But that’s how we learn 😀
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