This collage was created following a vintage collage tutorial.
The original image of the cowgirl is taken from an illustration of Gil Elvgren, a renowned pin up artist of the 40s and 50s. Gil's paintings are famous to this day and are an influence to lot of artists.

I cut out the girl from the background using the pen and magic wand tools in photoshop. The composition felt a bit empty with her just standing, so I added a horse in the background. I cropped the horse out of a picture I found on google. I lowered the opacity on it a bit so the focus was still on the girl.

This collage relates to what I want to do for my final piece a lot. I also want to use 40s artwork and photographs to create my collages, and I'll probably end up using this technique.