final collages

These are my final collages, which are to be printed out 280 x 563 mm, so they will be quite large scale, so to allow all the detail to hopefully be fully noticed.

Overall I am happy with how this project turned out. I am mostly pleased with my final outcomes. 
I don't like my fire collage; I feel it doesn't fit at all with the other two, it looks quite messy in comparison, like there is a bit too much going on. 
I realised that photos of people in collages don't work as well as landscapes, they have turned out a bit blurry and jar a bit with the background. 
I think that is the case with the figure in the mountain collage, I think it would look better if it was just scenery. 

I do really like my car collage though, it has turned out just how I wanted it - very surreal and dreamy, I think it is composed well and the unrealistic scaling of all the elements work in its favour. I think it could probably be quite effective as a piece on its own, as it has been the most successful in responding to a quote, in my opinion. 

I am happy with the mountain collage, I really enjoyed making it. It is very colourful and surreal, but I don't feel all the elements in it fit together as well as in the car one. It might be because of the colours I used, thy are all so bright and clashing that there is no harmony between them. I think that is what works so well in the car collage; it is colourful but all quite dark shades with only a few bright parts. 
So if I was to do the mountain collage again, I think I would alter the colour scheme, and get rid of the figure. 

I managed to get to digital print in time, luckily. On the most part they printed out well, but parts of the painted elements came out a bit blurry. This must have been due to the resolution I scanned them in at. 
It was only once I had them all printed out, that I realised how much the fire quote doesn't fit with the other two, sometimes you need to see everything in their final format in order to analyse it properly. 
I need to start thinking about the exhibition; I definitely won't be using the fire collage, and the mountain one would have to be altered. But I would be happy with just using the car collage because I feel it is strong as a piece in itself.