Cloth Paper Scissors Reader Challenge - Mixed Media Portraits

For quite a few years Cloth Paper Scissors magazine has run frequent "Reader Challenges." Readers are invited to submit mixed media artwork that fits the theme of the particular challenge. Finalists are selected and published in an upcoming issue of the magazine.

The theme of this challenge was Mixed Media Portraits. The portrait could be of anyone, real or imagined. In addition to collage, any and all mixed media materials or techniques were acceptable.

I was fortunate enough to be among the nine finalists whose work appeared in the Winter 2018 issue of Cloth Paper Scissors. (Also see my 2011 post re the CPS Mother Earth Doll Reader Challenge.)

Sadly, the Winter 2018 issue was Cloth Paper Scissors' last. To the dismay of an army of fans, the magazine shut down after some 15 years as a favorite among mixed media devotees

Haughty Lady

Mixed Media Collage 

This portrait started out life as a graphite drawing done from a photograph I took of a somewhat pensive young woman at my son's collage graduation. The finished piece is essentially a graphite drawing over a collaged background that has many layers of acrylic paint over the collage elements.

Published in the Winter 2018 issue of Cloth Paper Scissors (also the final issue of the magazine)