Assemblage art is, as the name suggests, literally assembling a various assortment of odds and ends cohesively together. Mixed media would also be included in this genre. In my assemblage art, I have a central character portrait, which I hand draw in pencil, and around which everything else is related to.
I started this kind of art several years' ago, using in the main a much bigger, eclectic range of pieces to embellish. I've now developed my art to concentrate on silk flowers as the main embellishment, creating the hair - highly exaggerated! - for each portrait, with smaller pieces taking a more back stage in the composition. My early pieces with the flowers have been created with a plain white background, but I have since developed my work to incorporate a layer of clear, and very shiny, top coat of Hyperion, which is an alternative to resin. I started with epoxy resin, but I very quickly developed a severe allergy to it and it's fortunate Hyperion is a brilliant alternative, which is water based and has no toxicity. The assembled flowers are arranged on the top of this glossy coat,
