Collage 1, “Lucidity” Shelby Charette

Below is a photograph I took of a woman in a store. I caught her in mid-thought and used photoshop to include several other parts of images to create a sort of daydream-like state.

Collage 2, “Portrait, Milla” Shelby Charette

The photo is a portrait of one of my friends. I used scans of a page of a book, and things I found on South Congress, along with a photo of foliage and some colorful stones in order to create this image. The paper in the background makes the image seem as if it is textured, yet it is printed on normal matte paper.

Collage 3, Austin Guitar Man, Shelby Charette

Before hand, the photo was very colorless, and despite being a very visually appealing photo, it lacked character. I used different colored layers in photoshop in order to subtract and add shapes to the photo.

Collage 4, Outside Looking Outside, Shelby Charette

I crafted this piece by hand, and used a photo of a window surrounded by foliage and cut the windows out, then I layered another photograph behind it. Also I added some black and white foliage photographs to the corners.

Outside Looking Outside.

Collage 5, Different Perspective Shelby Charette

I took one photo I shot from congress that was not particularly interesting, and cut and combined the shapes in order to make the photo more exciting to look at. I made this one by hand, and scanned it, although the texture is better understood in person.

Collage 6, Associate.

I did this collage a lot like the one above, although instead of gluing the shapes down, I scanned them in the way I thought they looked best, and took that scan and printed it on 17″ by 22″ Matte paper and cut the shape out so there was no white as a background.