OA#2 Rethinking the Digital Collage

While looking at other examples of digital collage on my classmates’ blogs, I realized how digital painting and drawing allows artists to push their works to the limit.  Programs like Photoshop are quicker than traditional painting and allow artists to take chances with their work because the undo button is always a click away.  If I were to redo the assignment, I would go farther and create a completely stuffed collage.  Although I like my original collage and it is more to my liking to have the kissing couples each have their own breathing room.  If I wanted to test the limits of the assignment, I would use many more art historical kisses and completely fill the canvas so that there were no visible background.  The result would be an orgy of figures tangled in each others arms and indistinguishable from each other.  I would make many of the couples very small in order to fill in the smaller gaps between the other figures and they would only be distinguishable when the image was magnified.  If I knew how to, I would love to animate certain figures so that a few limbs or heads would move and create even more excitement in the work.