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Try Your Hand At Collage Making
I am writing this lens about Collage with the hope of giving you lots of Collage Ideas.
I love the freedom of collage making. Basically you can do whatever you like. There are no rules, you just go for it!
If you have never tried creative ways to make a Collage you must. Its such fun. I have learnt that the art of it is in the layering process. You need many many layers so that when you look at the piece you are not sure what is on the top and what is showing from underneath.
The images shown are large examples of a collage that I made on canvas to decorate my home. I used handmade papers, scrapbook papers, acrylic paints, lumiere paints, fabrics, glass flat sides beads, fibers, fabric paper that I have made as well as many other media and tissue paper.
Hope you enjoy this lens and find it informs and inspires you.
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So You Want To Know How to Make a Collage?
Here Are Some Tips on Making a Collage
1: If this is your first time I would use a page of card stock the same size as a piece of copy paper. Later on when you are confident you can upsize to canvas's or whatever you like.2: Decide what colours you want to use for a start. I usually chose 3-4 colours as the main features.
3: Gather all your materials together and wear some old clothes.
4: The sorts of materials you need are PVA white glue, water it down 1 part glue to 1/8th Part water.
Scrapbook and handmade paper ( little bits)
Tiny scraps of glittery fabric.
Acrylic Paints, rubber stamps and stamp pads, some magazine or photocopied pictures that you love and some words, you can cut the letters out seperately from magazines or buy letters to stick on from scrapbook shops..
5: Start by ripping the pictures out and instead of cutting them rip them all the way around so they have lovely uneven edges.
6: I start by coating my surface with acrylic paints or Lumiere Halo paints. Let this dry.
7: Start ripping out small pieces of decorated papers and gluing them on the card with the pva glue. Also brush over the top of them while its all wet.
8: Glue on your pictures and cover them with glue also.
9: Add in little pieces of fabric.
10: Now start gluing down another layer over the top. At this point I love to use coloured and printed tissue paper as it is nearly transparent when dry and gives a wonderful look.
11: Mix some clear glaze with acrylic paint and paint over places that you would like to see more colour.
12: Add more layers building up till you are happy with it. Dont forget to cover everything each time with the watered down PVA. It will dry clear.
13: add a little more paint into the wet PVA in places.
14: Let everything dry.
15: Decide if you want to draw on it, then add the letters and words. Add more fabric if you need to.
Thats it, finished. Easy wasnt it?
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Make a small Collage every day!
Great Collage Materials
Fetching RSS feed... please stand byBeautiful Collage Book
Pretty Little Things: Collage Jewelry, Trinkets, Keepsakes
Amazon Price: $15.40 (as of 05/11/2008)
EVEN if you think you'll never pick up a soldering tool you will still adore this book. THIS is Sally as we have come to know her - a silly girl, a clever talent, a wit, and a wonder. (Visit her site, you'll see what I mean). She begins by taking us on tour in her studio. (Gasp) THEN you get to collage with her, cut glass, and solder. THIS is a generous soul - she holds nothing back as she shows you how to make the beautiful baubles that she made famous. THEN she simply takes your breath away as she illustrates many more dimensional treasures made of glass and solder. THIS is a very very lovely book, written in an endearing manner with so much to see
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More About Collage!
Collage is the French word for sticking or gluing. It is used to describe an artwork that has materials like paper and/or fabric stuck onto a flat surface like paper or canvas.Collage is different from other art forms because it does not dictate a particular style. Style is often controlled by materials and because the materials are never the same for any two persons, the style of collage is always a variable.
Collage is an intriguing area to explore. Collage is fun and also serious.
It's accessible to artists at all levels, from beginners to professional, and it's a great way to work intuitively and play with new materials, processes and techniques.
Collage is used to explore ideas, advocate concepts, and develop possible directions in which to work. But just as often it is the consummate means of personal visual expression and distinct vocabulary.
Collage is ephemeral and omnivorous; it can evolve, mutate, and assimilate to almost any form of so-called "art" in today's modern world.
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Incredible Collage Ideas in this Book
Alphabetica: An A-Z Creativity Guide for Collage and Book Artists (Quarry Book)
Amazon Price: $14.95 (as of 05/11/2008)
Your Muse will love you for putting Alphabetica on your creative plate! It is a book to be savored slowly, and many times. Featuring a delightful array of works done as part of a collaborative journal project undertaken by fourteen artists, it features page after page of rich color, sweet ideas, and delicious details and tidbits about the project itself, the artists' inspirations for their individual journals and work in each others' journals, and plenty of eye candy to satisfy your artistic sweet tooth.
The fun part is that all the artists have such widely varying styles--I love seeing how they interpreted themes for various letters of the alphabet. Not every artist's style appealed to me but I can appreciate their processes, their techniques, and the way their individual works fit into the whole.
Not a how-to book, but full of ideas. Highly recommended for those who are inspired by the work of others to find new possibilities, direction, and adventure in their own artistic endeavors.
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Delicious Handpainted Metallic Yarn To Use In Your Collage
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Shizen Handmade Decorative Paper Assortment- Purples/Lavenders
Amazon Price: $7.99 (as of 05/11/2008)
Shizen Decorative Paper Assortments- Reds/OrangesThese packages of decorative paper are breathtaking. Each one features a color co-ordinated selection of papers ideal for scrapbooking rubber stamping collage bookmaking card making and more. The papers included are embossed screenprinted flocked stitched and decorated with glitter and metallic colors. The packages also include two small packets of color co-ordinated embellishments. One package will give you endless possibilities! Each package contains 10 4x4 inch sheets 10 4x5 inch sheets 10 4x6 inch sheets and two embellishment packets. Made in India. This packet features papers in a purple and lavander color scheme.
How To Use Your Collage Ideas In Your Home
There are many ways to use the Collages you make or even decorate household accessories with your collage.You can collage around a photo frame or collage all over a jewelry box, there are many creative ways to make a collage work in your home.
Collage pages can be made into art or visual journals. In fact many artists start their days by doing a collage in their Visual Journal.
You may decide like I did, to decorate your home with big collage art works on canvases.They certainly give people something to talk about when they come to visit.
Another fun thing to do with your collages is to cut them up into the size of regular playing cards and make them into Artist Trading cards to swap with other artists.
If you want to be really wacky, I love the idea of cutting them into 1 inch x 1 inch squares and sen ding out a bunch of them to artist friends in an envelope, with the hope that they will send you some back.
Another thing you can do with those tiny pieces is glue one onto the front of an Art Journal and give them away as a gift.
The last idea I have is to cut them up then glue them back together again in a different way to make a completely new collage.
The main idea is to have fun and really enjoy what you are doing. Try not to judge your work at all.
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Going to Pluto Collage Tutorial
I'm going to put up a video of the inside of my home next week. Today's video is a Collage tutorial. Please check my art tips section http://www.violette.ca/arttips.html on Monday for a how to write up! Don't forget to check out the supply list at the end of my video! Enjoy! Namaste, Violette www.violette.ca
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An artist's art book of distilled techniques from A-Z, written in an easy to digest, breezy style, the background for Traci's pages are decorative and colorful - I would say they're best described by the word LUSH.
De-lish!
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nightcats
Love your lens. Collage is a challenge for me to do, although I love to look at good collage. I am working on increasing my skills in this area. Posted April 23, 2008 |
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Neat lens! I gave you 5 Stars and a Squid Angel Blessing! Posted April 13, 2008 |
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JackieLee
Wow. great lens. I think collage is so interesting, but have never really tried it~ Great resources. Posted April 05, 2008 |
