Using Beth Hoeckel as an artist model

Since my post this morning I have been hard at work trying to be Beth Hoeckel. Collage, which I haven’t done in years and years, is really hard work. I spent honestly three hours pouring through national geographic magazines trying to find things to cut out. What I have deduced is that Hoeckel also spends a long time looking for images except I think she must collect hers over months even years. It is ridiculously hard to get anything to quite match up like hers. Anyway this is my attempt:

The only thing that matches is the spots of rain/ underwater bubbles but oh well. I can see also that she takes only two photos puts them together to make one image. This means she can keep the peoples shadows for example that give a slight realism to her work. I think I will keep trying….

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