Collage Painting Papier Colle' Soulful

More school work! My first project for my "Special Topics: Collage Painting & Found Sculptural Object" class that's a mouthful holy shit

So, what we're doing is painting and gluing stuff onto a canvas. Can be cardboard, paper, etc. We're studying cubism and collage paintings by other artists such as Picasso and Juan Gris (two artists I recommend looking up!). My painting is supposed to have an androgynous figure with newspaper cutouts surrounding the figure and a bit of gesso negative space. Some newspaper sheets are bare, some of them have (or will have) oil paint. :U Pretty much all of us are seniors but most of us haven't done this before. SO this is pretty much new. I mean, it's similar to Chine Colle in Printmaking, but different for a lot of reasons. 

EDIT (10/5) I'm not QUITE entirely done with it (I need to fix the eye on the left) but I'm uploading this anyway since I haven't updated since I first started working on it. We had our critique today, I got some good feedback, and got a few suggestions from my professor on changing the eye. This will be in my show, and now I'm thinking about putting it on my thesis postcards! I need to start making them...

Got an A-!

I call this one "Soulful."

Enjoy!