I present you today a little duck family in my collage collection of cute animals. I find the colours in animals so inspiring. I add my personal touch keeping my imagination going looking for bits of paper to match more or less the reference picture… I always end up with something quite different!

Collage painting with texture and bright colour accents. These chickens are definitively telling a story ..A bit like the golden goose except it is a golden hen here…

Like the cat, the fox is most active after the sun goes down. In fact, it has vertically oriented pupils that allow it to see in dim light. It even hunts in a similar manner to a cat, by stalking and pouncing on its prey. I chose a moonlight setting for a more dramatic effect. You can imagine many reasons why this fox is watching his back…

These amazing birds are a work of art with their fabulous colours. A great subject for a mixed media collage. Puffins breed in large colonies  on coastal cliffs or offshore islands, nesting in crevices among rocks or in burrows in the soil. I used a mixture of different papers to do the rocks in the foreground adding a lot of texture to the painting.

I haven’t done any animal collage for a while and as I was traveling a lot recently, I managed to do this little one in between trips using whatever was at hand…wrapping paper was one of the supplies..

To continue this series of mixed-media girls with tattoos, I had to buy 1 particular pencil from the polychromos Faber Castell range to get that very specific blue that you often see on tattoos, namely, dark indigo. As these pencils are quite expensive it is great to buy them individually if you happen to have a small standard set.

This hat was created with a specific shape in mind .I wanted it to be heavy on the right hand side to counter balance the effect of the dress touching the left hand corner.I kept the same colour scheme for cohesion and hopefully achieved a striking look for this mixed media portrait!