The warm colors of this piece, along with references to mountains and fences, are saying Wild West to me — you too?

My base collage used watercolor washes to suggest sky, folded and wrinkled tissue paper to create texture, and strips of text stand in for fields: an overall landscape effect. So naturally, I overlaid photographs that fit: cracked clay, fencing, wildflowers and a farm horizon line.

Overall texture is supplied by a gray/green texture composite, another ochre composite built up from monoprints, my usual stone texture, and, as a twist, another whole collage, number 017, for some additional warming color.

Digital collage © 2014 Liz Ruest, 31 layers
From the 2014: Building Blocks series
Based on day 312 of my daily collage project, 2013-2014.