This is the fourth Lady-wing collage. She ended up looking like Gina Gershon but she is based on an image from a 1954 Good Housekeeping. I use vellum to trace the original dress and create  a template. The template is placed on designer card stock until the dress looks ‘right’ to me. I cut out the dress and distressed the edges with tea dye Ranger ink. The belt (or any accessory) is created the same way.

The original image is scanned and reprinted on 32 lb linen and then hand colored with pencil and pastel to create a painted look. Sometimes an arm or head will be replaced by other arms/heads (from other images) and pasted on to the body. The dress is pasted over this and sometimes more embellishment occurs with either pastel, ink or adhesive gems, or charms on the work.

When the paper doll is dressed she is placed on a complimentary background. Then the work is scanned and cropped. Sometimes text is added. This particular collage has text that translated reads: “Where is Julie? I think I found the diamond ring she lost in the pool.”