The Haber Boys by Nita Leland
Mixed Media Collage
10"X13"
NFS

My grandmother's family was a delight to me when I was a child. Her brothers were hardy country people from a small town in Ohio named Rossburg. This collage swings from a rabbit-hunting trip in the early 1920s, commemorated by a postcard they sent to my grandmother, to a visit to her, all duded up, when they were in their eighties. I began by cutting strips of fibrous decorative paper for a border. The old newspaper (1881) was crumbling, so I applied matte medium to the background, laid it on the wet medium, and coated it immediately with medium. After I scanned the old pictures and aged them with my photo-editing program, I adhered these elements with Golden's Soft Gel. The wheat stalk was dipped in fluid medium to encase it completely, then adhered with regular gel.

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