Russell C. Smith Collage Art & Photography

I create my collages with pasted paper and cloth to create strongly designed pieces, often using visual elements of the natural world as a connecting thread. My pieces combine vibrant color and design, making some collages closer in form to graphic and print artwork. I studied life drawing at The Art Student's League of New York from 1978 to 1980, and I have worked in the collage form since the mid-eighties. For many years drawing was my chosen art form, followed by watercolor and brush and ink drawing. After discovering the collage form while living in New York City, I knew this was the art form I'd continue creating in for many years.

Writer, Novelist, Collage Artist, Seattleite, Human Bean, I think Dylan is the Shakespeare of our time, The Kinks are vastly underrated, cats are superior alien beings, and Leonardo da Vinci invented the Internet. The collages on my blog can now be purchased as prints at Imagekind.com. http://russellcsmith. imagekind.com/CollageArtwork. I can be contacted at: russells7 at gmail dot com (fill in the blanks).