For this project, we were suppose to create practice collage on any subject. My first collage was a christmas themed collage. Before we collaged in our sketch book we painted the paper with geso. Geso is a white paint that makes the paper harder. For the Christmas Collage I used different green tissue paper, beads, coffee filter and wrapping paper. Out of the green tissue paper I made the tree. Then I used the bead to represent ornaments. And I cut the wrapping paper into boxes to represent presents. I used the coffee filter to give a interesting looking snow. Since this was a practice for our real collage projects, not much effort and imagination was put into this. I chose the Christmas topic because, it was a week before christmas so I was in Christmas mood. This project was fun to do mostly because I thought it was relaxing and my friends and I just were having fun. If I were to redo this project I would add water color to the sky to make it have some detail instead of being a plain white. I think I did a good job at mixing the different greens to create the tree. Adding the geso really helps with collaging because my sketch book paper is very thin.