Post 41: Printing and Cutting Out the Elements of the Photo Collage

    It actually took me a good couple of days to measure and size the different elements of the collage. A few are single images, but most include several overlapping images, and have to be lined up and sized precisely.
     All the parts for the first two panels actually fit on a single 13"x19" sheet of matte paper. I like to add a few extra things to fill blank spaces, like extra insects, marbles, buttons, etc...

      It is a tight fit, and looks like a big jumble of things...

     Then comes the rather tedious, but somewhat zen like job of precisely cutting out all the pieces of the puzzle. The legs of insect are so small that I usually reenforce them with some white glue to keep them from braking, or reattach them if they already broke off. Same with the cords. I use a magnifier lamp for the smallest details.

    Then the white edges of the paper have to be colored with pastels so they blend in.