This is a mixed media collage on canvas. The face is one of the leftovers after I had used the eyes out of it for another collage last year. I have becoming more and more obsessed with the images left behind after I have used pieces of them for collage.
I have used metallic oil bars and roughly dragged over the canvas so it shows the texture of the canvas. Also I used a texture gel with a gold metallic acrylic paint to go round the edge of the canvas to create a frame effect, like gilt effect on old frames. This is not visible in this photograph. There is also a streak of metallic nail varnish to add to the types of media I had used on this image.
I liked this particular left over image because of the scarf round her neck made her almost look like she was being strangled now that her eyes and mouth were missing.
I used the dried acrylic paint that I left on the paper from my stay wet pallette to attach to the space where the eyes and mouth had been. The texture of this gave an interesting effect, making it appear that it was oozing from the space where her eyes and mouth should have been.
This made me think of everything I thought about the fashion world and this substance oozing from her missing features being the nonsense and lies spoken by and seen by those included in the media.
