Here is my new finished collage: Flute Player with World Tree. I started with an arrangement that I planned to stick to! And I planned to stay with the basic white paper background in the mock-up seen on the right. Well that didn’t happen! I changed the color scheme and a few other things along the way, of course. The finished work is on the green background at left. Always things change!

It is fixed and final now, after a good deal of struggle, so I guess I will like it better! It does seem more finished, balanced, and better fitted within the overall dimension. The paper parts are mounted to a painted board, and the whole is an awkward dimension of 15″x22″x5/16″.

I sometimes like to think that I know what I am doing these days, after so much practice. But it is quite the opposite! I still make just as many mistakes, and often almost destroy a piece before salvaging it. All I can really say is I do get most of my work completed to a satisfying state that I am not ashamed to display. And I absolutely get immense satisfaction along the way. What more can anyone ask of life?

Of course I also experience plenty of frustration, and make a lot of mess. I am not making much progress tidying up my studio, but making is much more fun!