Fi Webster's photos with the keyword: red

Cut-paper collage created for Kollage Kit theme: "Shoes & Boots." The red legs are from a different version of the same liquor advertisement I used for stilettos .

Cut-paper collage created for Kollage Kit theme: "Homage to a Favorite Artist" Wassily Kandinsky played a special role in my art education. The parents of a friend of mine had a Kandinsky print in their living room. I was ten years old, and I'd never seen an abstract before. I was blown away. I've always thought it's a good exercise for an artist to copy a painting they admire. I'll leave it to you to figure out (if you're interested) which Kandinsky inspired me to make this mixed-media piece: paper, glue, acrylic paint, and markers. Kandinsky's eye for composition is a heck of a lot better than mine, so please view this as an homage, not an attempt at an exact copy.

Cut-paper collage postccard created for swap-bot challenge "A Bit of Red." For this swap we were supposed to create a collage that is mostly "neutrals" (including brown) with just a bit of red. I decided to work only with the clippings from my collection of writing, maps, & diagrams. As I put together the neutrals, I noticed that a lot of my elements (the ones that are legible) had something to do with men: men's hats, helmets, & swords; men fighting dragons, carving tablets, designing ancient temples, building cities; men getting in fights; a man who faked his C.V. and wore blue eyeshadow; even men choosing restaurants. So, inspired in part by Hallowe'en, I decided that the "bit of red" should be a ghost of an unhappy man. As it happened, the only red I had in that box had to do with male-male competition in different species--fish, mammals, birds, etc. (!) When I cut out the little red ghost, I didn't expect words like "vigorous thrusting" & "sperm" & males dealing with rivals to show up so prominently, but it seemed fitting--and humorous to boot. The last piece I added was the big "El"—Spanish for the masculine "the."

Cut-paper collage postcard created for Illustration Friday theme "Red." The spiders, from left to right, are a goliath tarantula, a Mexican jumping spider, and a hunting spider of genus Dysdera . Mister Red is from a painting by Walter M. Baumhofer on the cover of Doc Savage magazine, 1935.