I am a paper cutter or collage maker by heart

So how do I work?

I start to give some, mostly used, pieces of paper colours and structures. I use acrylic paint, colour pencil, watercolour and acrylic pens to do so. To get nice structures I not only use brushes in all forms and sorts but also the occasional odd object like a toy Lama or a cheese grater. Basically anything that can make a structure and there is a lot if you start looking for them ;-)

I then cut out the shapes I want and stick them in my precious workbook. After scanning in the pages I shuffle the shapes around and finish the illustration in Photoshop. Sometimes I add a handmade stamp or a pencil-drawn object to the illustration too, just for the fun of it,.

Music  ©Matthijs Hage