flower still life? alien getting cooked in a pot? onion waving for the bus?

Today (Friday) the Virtual Studio was Collage Techniques: Floral Still Life. I guess doing this over and over leads to some improvement? at least in glueing techniques and making less of a glue mess. Today we looked at 1. Steichen's Sunflower and 2. his Study of Sunflower (Links below) for inspiration. 

We looked at the shapes and backgrounds and then gridded our paper into 9s and started working on the background. We used water soluble crayons and pencils to make some of our collage materials and used existing trash papers for others. 

I grew the collage a bit more after class and joined in the upper previously sketched garden drawing by adding the frame. I guess it could be called a still life with a flower but looks more like a cooking pot with an alien in it, being cooked and maybe screaming. 

I zoomed into to the the Virtual Studio on Saturday and did the still life again. Now looks like an onion wearing a hat and a potato dress waving for the bus.  

These will probably grow on my over time. 

1. Edward Steichen, Le Tournesol (The Sunflower), 1920, tempera and oil on canvas, Gift of the Collector’s Committee, 1999.43.1, © Estate of Edward Steichen
2. Edward Steichen, Study for “Le Tournesol (The Sunflower)”, 1920, tempera and oil on canvas, Gift of Joanna T. Steichen, 2007.123.1, © Estate of Edward Steichen