Fabricated Artifact; Archaeopteryx

So I'm posting here now because I have so much on my to do list that I'm struggling to get anything really started at all. Technical difficulties have me in a standstill on one of my projects and general lethargy on everything else. Still trying to stay motivated and productive, but I digress; heres a post which I should have updated weeks ago now. I guess I had high hopes while I did the project. I got pretty caught up in the process so once it was over I was a bit underwhelmed with the results. I had a fractal idea of different things I wanted from the piece so I think I could have used some more planning to get better results. I guess I the piece as a whole as a bit unresolved. Anyways, this is a terrible rant to introduce a post, so here it is.

 So the process involved scanning objects then printing them out in black and white on velum and doing matt medium photo transfers, then cutting them out and arranging them into this composite creature you see here. Then a combination of ink, acrylic, water colour, chalk and charcoal were used to blend them all together. Some of the objects used included twigs, pebbles, feathers, bones, horns, grass clippers, and a raccoon skull (that I boiled and bleached myself). Also its just on raw, unstretched canvas and is roughly 34x39 inches

Ill also offer a brief explanation to contextualize the collage. I've been toying with these kind of biological/diagrammatic images along with some fabricated evolutionary studies. So if your not aware, the Archaeopteryx is generally accepted as the evolutionary link between dinosaurs and birds. And I'm fascinated that some people are still refusing to accept that evolution exists, so this is essentially toying with the idea that someone would go and piece together a creature from parts and pass it as scientific fact. I'm obviously not legitimately doing that here but I think it might be an interesting direction to push this idea in. 

On a side-note, I'm over-analysing this because is not my typical medium, I ended up signing up for a couple drawing and painting courses, so I'm obviously not very confident, but I'm working on getting better. (I typically work in sound/video if you don't already know that-but you probably do if you are reading my blog)

So this is by far the wordiest post on here yet, probably because I'm still in denial over my excessive workload, so posts will probably slow down until december. By then I should hopefully have my final projects documented to post so just for that reason ill put a little bonus collage here too. This one was just for fun from the summer, and I really just like it, nothing serious...just Hippos and Crocs. This ones just tiny 6x12 inches