Digital collage experiments

I’ve been drawing, painting, tearing and scanning a variety of textures to experiment doing some digital collage.

I spent quite a long time retouching the scan of the torn paper strips and now I’m layering and arranging them into colourful collage textures like this:

Magenta torn paper striped collage - Quirky Mundo — Magenta torn paper striped collage – Quirky Mundo

I’m looking forward to experimenting with some more varied colour combinations now I’ve thoroughly explored the monochrome palette options. There will be for sale within my stock image offerings asap.

Arty background textures

I’ve been trying to use a variety of media to produce my background textures. I love the effect I can get if I scan pencil lines at very high resolutions. I produced two simple striped textures, one in pencil and one inverted to look like chalk lines on a blackboard. These are for sale in my image collection on Shutterstock.

Background texture featuring horizontal pencil lines - Quirky Mundo — Background texture featuring horizontal pencil lines – Quirky Mundo

Background texture featuring horizontal faux chalk lines - Quirky Mundo — Background texture featuring horizontal faux chalk lines – Quirky Mundo