For this assignment you will be creating a collage out of the four drawings you made from multiple views of your tabletop still-life. The challenge with this part of the two-part assignment is to synthesize your four drawings into one coherent picture that will retain the “essence” of your multiple views while transforming them into something completely new.
Cutting your drawings: Begin by cutting your four drawings into interesting shapes of varying sizes. Although you can make exceptions where necessary, you should try to cut along the edges of the shapes as you had drawn them (i.e., cut out the shadows, highlights, negative space shapes, etc.).
Reassembling your shapes: Before gluing anything to your sketch vellum (use a fresh sheet as the ground for your collage), spend some time moving the shapes around and considering your new composition. The greatest challenge of this assignment is in avoiding the arbitrary: You will want your new composition to be as visually interesting as possible, but it should not be entirely abstract. You will want to retain just enough information about the original drawings that the collage will be recognizable, to some degree, as a still-life. The ultimate goal is the simultaneous representation of four different views on your still-life in a composition that is more dynamic and interesting than the original drawings. The final product should be greater than the sum of its parts!
Feel free to draw back into (and on top of) your collage wherever necessary, using any medium.
Suggestions for adhesive fluid: You may use any kind of glue, but I recommend acrylic gel medium. This product is made by a number of brands (Liquitex, Golden, etc.) and comes in many consistencies and finishes (heavy, light, matte, glossy). I recommend the matte medium made by Golden.
Here's an example of a Cubist collage made by a former student (Cindy Kim):
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