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A lot of times I’ll protect my work surface with a big sheet of kraft paper and will often clean paint off my brushes by scumbling them about on the paper. After a week or two I’ll pull up the paper and be pleasantly surprised by what I’ve inadvertently created. So then I may use some of that paper in subsequent collages, or make tags with them, etc. In this case, I apparently had some Payne’s Grey, some black sumi ink, and red I-don’t-remember-what color on my brushes. Didn’t want to throw that bit away! I remembered a lovely postage stamp I had of a California condor that coincidentally incorporated these same black, red, and ochre colors. Perfect. The stamp was issued in 1971, when we could send a letter through the mail for just 8 cents.

I'm a photographer, writer, educator based on Whidbey Island in the Pacific Northwest, specializing in photomontage work, combining photos I've taken of rust, walls, peeling paint, birds, postage stamps, trees, etc. into images that are completely new, different, and often weird. I also create physical collages, then find myself photographing parts of them to include in my photomontages. It's crazy, but it's fun! My career has encompassed writing guidebooks (primarily about where to photograph in California), newsletters (guides for photographers about where to photograph in the United States), leading photo workshops, and conducting online classes. I am at Instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/visualeigh/ On Facebook here:...