Enjoy the Monkey Business | Collage week 25

Hi friend, hope you’re doing good. I love this batch of collages, and hope you do too. Today’s post contains seven freshly made collages (number 169 to 175) from this summer, as I continue creating in my series “365 collages in 2025”. I hope you like them.

The common theme in all these collages comes from the black and white photos of animals. I think the photos came out of a nature book that I altered to become my Book of Greenery. I always pull out several pages when I’m altering a book, to give room to the images or paint I’ll add in as I work through the book. The pages from that book was randomly ditched into a folder and as I found it this week, I decided to try to use some of the images or part of the images as you’ll see in my next post. I wish I had a plan at some point, a clear map of where I’m going, but it seams that I’m all floundering around blindly and going what happens to land on my desk with these collages. I guess it will have to be this way as I can’t plan ahead or even steer my day in any direction right now.

Because these animals are in black and white, I decided to go all in with colors in the background. I think it was a success. What do you think?

Just look at this cutie:

Feeling like you can do just about anything (above), then realizing you shouldn’t (below).

Not real ribbons, but a magazine image of some polka dot ribbons in the background:

The yellow flowers is my own doodles with a marker on writing paper from a pad, but I glued it wrong-side down because I liked the paler yellow here. On some of the collages from week 24 I used the front of it.

The title of collage number 174 comes from the fact that the author of the book (probably traveling in the 1950s or 60s) described that many islanders kept these monkeys as pets, putting them in their hair to let them pick flees from their owner… Yum.

I think you can tell what’s going on inside this guy’s brain:

That’s it folks. I hope you’re up to no good, being lazy or artsy and enjoying lots of monkey business as well. :-)

Thank you so much for clicking over, taking a look and leaving me a comment below telling me which of these collages you like best – and why you like it. Take care.

Please also check out week 25 2013 Week 25 – Foxy Edition and week 25 2018 – Creating a Synthesis.

About this project: I am making one collage for each day of the year in 2025 and blogging seven at a time each week here. I have created 365 artworks in a year thrice before so I am hopeful that I can do it again. I’d love to know which of these you like best – and why you like it. Thanks for helping me finish this by cheering me on. I appreciate you being here.
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365 collages in 2025 | previously w. 24 | this is w. 25 | next up w. 26

All art created by hand by iHanna. Copyright Hanna Andersson. All rights reserved. AI FUCK OF