This is a close up of "The Wizard of Oz" shoes I made. The bottoms have newsprint and illustrations from the book. Now I do realize that in the book her shoes were silver, but who can resist making a pair of ruby slippers? I've always wanted a pair, but instead my mom gave me gold ones to wear to church. Cool, but not as cool.
This is another picture I took for my photography class. I love the Sunday comics, they are the best! They make any art look much more interesting, which is why I used this umbrella in this otherwise boring picture. See, the printed word (or the printed humor) is way cooler when implemented in Art!
Here newsprint and an Arby's ad combine to mimic a painting by Leonardo Da Vinci "Head of a Young Woman with Tousled Hair" (I don't know if that is the exact name, but that's what Google said). After making the collage, I altered it on Photoshop a couple of different times. I dunno, fun stuff.
Some types of literature make fingers twitch. Reading Frankenstein compels me to make Halloween decorations, some short stories make me want to draw comics making fun of them, and seeing a newspaper makes me want to rip it up and create a collage. I don't mean to be corny, truly, its just that great inspiration comes from great literature (not that reading the newspaper is anything to write home about). Its exciting to read and even more exciting to visually create. But really, anything looks good when done with newspaper or print. Please read literature, but when you're done, create something else with it!
