Collages Then and Now

After I showed yesterday's collage ↑ of the park after the ice storm, I was thinking that is not how I have traditionally done collages.

My method has usually been to blend the various photos together, so that they almost became one continuous image. I did scads of such images for the kids when they were young. Below: Jonathan at five months and Danica at three months.

Since that first collage above was from two days after the ice storm, I thought that I should make one for the day after, but try to make it in my more traditional way. However, every project demands its own direction and presentation.

In this case, it didn't seem that feathering the edges to blend the different parts together was the right choice. So, while I did abut them to each other, I used hard edges. I think this worked too, but it's still not my favourite way to do a collage.

Back in the kids' early days, I made many collages, for children change so fast when they're babies. As the years went on, I would do one a year for their birthdays. They have their own lives now, and photos are scarcer, so I didn't make them at all this year. The final two were for their birthdays in 2022.

And as far as I know, that was the end of doing birthday collages for the kids. Great Grandkids, anyone? Kidding. By the time the greats come along I will have gone along.