Collage of my Grandmother

One of my favorite images to use in collage is my grandmother. I love this photo of her and use it often. She lived in Russia until just after she was married. She was 25 here and a school teacher. She went on to have seven children, one of them being my mother. This is a very simple collage, done on the back cover of a notebook. I used the peeling paint technique described in Claudine Hellmuth's book Collage Discovery Workbook. It's a great book for background techniques, image transfers, composition and more.