It was a beautiful party for my mother's 90th birthday. I agonized over what to get her. What do you get someone who has everything... except dad? So I created this collage using the old footage of my dad and baby brother at the lake in the 1960s.
Step 1. I started by isolating just the frame of the footage I wanted. That wasn't easy. The footage was originally shot in 8mm and then an uncle had projected it onto a screen and setting up a VHS camcorder, shot footage of the movie playing against the screen. The VHS tape doesn't freeze nicely like a digital video would but I did the best I could.
Step 2. Then I drew the picture and tweaked it as best I could to get a likeness before covering the background with blues for the water. To keep the likeness of my dad and brother, I traced them onto tracing paper.
Step 3. I then began to layer colored paper onto the tracking paper, working to get just the right light and shadow areas. It doesn't matter if you use orange for a face color if the values are in the right place.
Step 4. After gluing the tracing paper down against the water, I added words and pictures that I thought would add to the composition.
All done.
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