Color & Light - I used the color palette I did because brown is my favorite color. I wanted to create the dark effect of hard wood floors. I think it brings warmth to a room. The lighter colored furniture brings a softness that contrasts nicely to the dark brown. I used complimentary colors on the door, orange and blue. I then dulled it with some gold and green. The green was originally a little too saturated, or I would have just stuck with that. There are a lot of different hues and tints of whites and browns in this picture. I just let them work together as easily as possible.
Texture - I used a stamp pad to create the texture of the hardwood floors. I used cut out thank you cards to create the area rug in the middle of the room.
Volume - I rounded the edges of some of the pictures of people I love and layered them up with the furniture in the room, as if they were actually inhabiting it.
Line - The front door is supposed to be the main draw of the collage, because of its size. I used straight lines to focus the viewers eyes here. The hardwood floors have strong lines, all horizontal. The main area rug also echoes this. I used three small green rugs to create a diagonal line pointing towards my husband because I also wanted people to notice him because he means so much to me.
Space - I wanted the illusion of the front door standing up and then from there the hardwood floors to be the background and the rest of the furniture to be foreground.
Scale - On the island in the kitchen I have a large coffee cup, a coffee holder and a chocolate cake, because I love all of these things. I wanted the pictures of friends and family to be large as well to show their importance. The door is the biggest because I always want to invite people in and share life with them.
Symbolism - The door as the entrance to my heart. The large lamp, because I want my life to be a light. The number on the top of the door because it's my husband and I's anniversary. The finger pointing next to the green rugs to show I have a direction for my life.
Subject Matter:
Me: I love my friends, family, cooking and my home.
Friends and Family: Shown in pictures
Town, Community, School: I have books on the bookshelf for school. My community is shown through my friends. Nashville is shown by the style of decorating in the home. I feel this is representative of my view of Nashville.
Your Country: The items in the kitchen show my country most. Different from European countries, there are a lot more things on the shelves, such as china.
The World Today: This collage represents my world in my mind.
Art: The colors I matched together, the patterns I chose to use, all show my view of art.
History: Growing up in the north and moving to the south has given me a mish-mosh of what art I enjoy. I don't always like the traditional southern style of furniture, but more rustic. I associate modern style things with the north and I like those in my life just as much as rustic.
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