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Fractured collage


Cindy Tonkin - November 18, 2024

I have been using this image (in which I see a fractured rearing horse or city scape) as a basis to create some collage/paint/sharpies works.

I started with this fractured alarm clock – fractured across

You’ll see below I have taken a national geographic image of silos (aren’t the shadows just beautiful?) and fractured it up/down

The second image is the eiffel tower, and that was after I’d created a cardboard grid on my cricut and made ink. These images are mostly on craft paper where I’d already experimented with my monoprints on glass (to get texture). they won’t last long, but since I’ve decided all my work is either a maquette, or the photograph is the final work, i’m free from that constraint. I even added oil to the aging oil paints i used to do the monoprints, so there’s an oily smell in the paper.

Pioneer silos from Nat Geographic Picture on some photocopied sheet music of La Vie en Rose. Should have put the Eiffel Tower one on this, but it was about what came to hand.
Paris and Eiffel tower in the foreground, experimenting with white crayola twistable and inked grid from my cricut template
Nat Geo image of Malta (i like to call this one “Maltered” I also discovered a way to make random dots using a cricut cut dot pattern and a too-full gold paint marker which pleases me immensely
Japanese temple image from a magazine, added the blues which please me greatly, and the ink grid from the cricut template. I like this one enough to have left it on my pinboard, hence the thumb tacks visible if you look hard

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