Collage Ideas and How to Make A Collage
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You Will Find Some Great Collage Ideas Here!
There is such freedom in the art of collage. Basically you can do whatever you like. There are no rules, you just go for it!
If you have never tried to make a Collage then now is the time, you must have a go. Its such fun. I have also included links to many FREE collage sheets that you can use.....just scroll down a little.
This collage is created by Teesha Moore.
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FREE Collage Sheets to use in your work.
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FREE Assorted Vintage Collage Sheets8 FREE Vintage Collage Sheets
Many Pages of FREE Collage Sheets..All Styles
Gorgeous Vintage Women For FREE
Retro 30's and 60's FREE Collage Images
FREE Assorted Collage Sheets
Absolutely FREE collage sheets
AMAZING FREE photos and images and collage sheets just for crafting!
FREE Collage Sheet
Wonderful Collage Sheets to buy
Different FREE Collage Sheet...well worth a look.
Collage Making Ideas
One of the best ways to start a collage is to gather a number of magazines together. I love the very arty funky art magazines and the Oprah magazine is very good for collecting text. Now, with all creativity its best to be very relaxed and not over think things.
I have a lot of people writing to ask me what are good topics for collage. Well any topic is just fine, but even better, is to start with no topic at all.
What you do is get those magazines and go through them looking at the pictures. Every now and again for no reason you will want to rip one out and you need to do this. There seems to be some attraction to certain pictures when we are in creative mode. I can't really explain it but to say that you will know. You will just know! Keep ripping till you have been through all the magazines and you have a pile of pictures.
The next step is to look through the pics and just rip around the parts of the pics you like best and glue them onto your collage backing one by one. You may choose to use two or up to twelve pics together. You can overlap them or keep them apart, whatever you want to do is fine.
Once you have all your pics in place ( and I must mention that even if they make no sense to anyone it is still fine.......they were what your creative instincts were telling you to use.) It is now time to find some text that will work over the pics or around the pics. If you like you can cut each letter out seperately, or you may decide to cut out words and paste them together. Use different sizes, shapes and colors because they look great all mixed up.
If you can learn to let go and trust your creative self, you will be amazed at what you come up with. It feels very satisfying to finish a collage intuitively. Have fun.
Make Your collage Pictures Unique!
When you are collageing, you need to remember to disguise your pictures especially if they are from magazines. Faces are the most important to change around as they may be of famous people or models. This can be a copyright issue otherwise.! The best thing to do is to alter the eyes or mouth and add some kid of different hat or hair. I like to cut out some eyes from another image and paste them on top of the collage eyes I am using on the page. You can also do this with a mouth. It gives the collage a really funky look and no one will know the face.
Sometimes I like to add eyelashes or make the mouth bigger with pens. Some people actually add some animal parts to the face. Feel free to do whatever feels right at the time...you can always cover it up again if you don't like it. That's the fantastic thing about Collage.
Journal page collage by Teesha Moore
More Incredible FREE Collage Sheets
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FREE Vintage Children and Babies Images
FREE Vintage Ephemera for Collages
FREE Huge Collection of Vintage letters and bills
FREE Vintage Cowboy and Cowgirl Images
Heaps of FREE Collage Images
Free Collage Sheet
FREE Steampunk Collage Sheets
FREE Vintage Advertisments for your Collage
Free Background Textual Images
FREE Vintage Images and other great Ephemera
Tim Holtz Idea-ology Timepieces Clock Faces
Give your Collage the "WOW" factor!
Art at the Speed of Life: Motivation and Inspiration for Making Mixed-Media Art Every Day [Paperback]
Creative Collage Ideas
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 wasn't it?
Collage Lab: Experiments, Investigations, and Exploratory Projects (Lab Series)
Great Collage Ideas
Idea-Ology Ruler Ribbon 1 Yard/Pkg-Beige
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Collage Making TOPICS
Fashion
Birthdays
Friends
Love
Happiness
Art
Creating
The beach
Walking
Giving to others
Flowers
Makeup
Lips
Eyes
Hands
Running
Shopping
Nails
The forest
Babies
Books
Food
Dogs
Cats
Pets
Vision Board
Inspiration Board
Collage a wall
Collage a mirror
Global Warming
Shoes
Rubber stamps
Candles
Beading
Home
Bedrooms
Dreams
Money
Gifts
Baking
Artist Trading Cards
Motivation
Law of attraction
Favorite movies
Best rock concert
Favorite band
Pink
Red
Green
Black,
White
Blue
Handbags
Goal setting
Pain
Life
Family
Money
Clocks
Phones
Flavor for Mixed Media: A Feast of Techniques for Texture, Color and Layers [Paperback]
Mixed media and Collage and recipes LOL
Vagabond Machine Inspired By Tim Holtz
Cut your own pictures for collage
Collage Ideas For Everyone
How to make a collage
Fabric Art Collage: 40+ Mixed Media Techniques [Paperback]
How to make a collage
Masters: Collage: Major Works by Leading Artists [Paperback]
EXamples of wonderful collage
Unfurling, A Mixed-Media Workshop with Misty Mawn: Inspiration and Techniques for Self-Expression through Art [Paperback]
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Incredible Collage Ideas in this Book
This book will give you so much pleasure, Its one of my favorites!
Alphabetica: An A-Z Creativity Guide for Collage and Book Artists (Quarry Book S.)
Amazon Price: $8.39 (as of 02/17/2012)
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.
Here are some other Arty Lenses
- Art Journals
- Full of information, pictures and videos to help you with your art journals
- Altered Books
- Full of information, pictures and videos to help you make some altered books
- Wool Felting
- Fabulous Lenses full of tips and information, videos and pictures of how to make felt
- Fabric Books
- Great lens full of pictures videos and information about making fabric books
How To Use Your Collage Ideas In Your Home
Make a collage on a canvas
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.
Collage Art Products
The Elemental Journal: Composing Artful Expressions from Items Cast Aside [Paperback]
Another New book
Collage Unleashed
Traci Is incredible to read about
Collage Unleashed
Amazon Price: $8.82 (as of 02/17/2012)
Indulge in the visual feast of Traci's art techniques; you'll leave the table with enough delightful "tastes" to keep you busy for weeks. Since I like to read a book through from start to finish, then later go back and take a little time going in depth, I stayed up until 2 in the morning the night I first picked this book from my stack.
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!
The Art Journal Workshop: Break Through, Explore, and Make it Your Own
Collage in your Journal
Surface Treatment Workshop: Explore 45 Mixed-Media Techniques [Paperback]
Pre order this one now! It looks excellent
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So! Whats The Biggest Problem You Have With Your Collages?
How Easy Do You Find It To Make Money With Your Art?
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whitneywpanetta
Feb 2, 2012 @ 6:30 pm | delete
- You have so many great resources on this lens! Thanks for sharing! I have a visual journal lens and blog and I'm glad you mentioned altered books and visual journals as options for collages! They are a great way to practice collaging and keep them all in one place!
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BarbraSundquist Nov 30, 2011 @ 1:55 am | delete
- I really enjoyed your lens. You have lots of great collage ideas, some of which I've never seen before.
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clemency
Nov 28, 2011 @ 5:25 pm | delete
- Fantastic lens. I love making collages - all that cutting and sticking is very therapeutic.
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DANCINGCOWGIRLDESIGN
Oct 21, 2011 @ 8:08 am | delete
- Great lens. Thanks for all the new ideas.
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23squidoo
Oct 7, 2011 @ 7:05 pm | delete
- Incredible lens that I'll be visiting over and over again. Thank you for all the information and free resources. Angel Blessings!
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Close2Art
Oct 3, 2011 @ 10:31 am | delete
- I keep coming back and checking out your collage page, you have such a variety of information and ways to help people get started with collages, you deserve another Blessing!....:)rwjr
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MelissaInTheSky
Sep 27, 2011 @ 8:04 am | delete
- Great lens!
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Close2Art
Aug 30, 2011 @ 11:58 pm | delete
- I love collages, I use it alot in my graffiti art, great lens!!!..:)RWJR
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crosscreations
Aug 18, 2011 @ 5:41 pm | delete
- I love creative collage and this lens is one of the very BEST I've seen about it, great examples and how-to, ideas and interaction. *Blessed by a Squid Angel* :-)
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Michelle77
Jul 22, 2011 @ 9:04 pm | delete
- collages are like idea storms~everyone has a different one...i LuV all your info.!!
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seedplanter
Jul 18, 2011 @ 8:21 pm | delete
- I've created digital collages for my Etsy shop by layering photos and textures, but I love the ideas you've included in this lens for a hands-on approach. Collages make me look deeper than most art forms. LOVE this lens. Thank you!
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theraggededge
Jun 24, 2011 @ 7:27 am | delete
- How lovely! Teesha Moore is my favourite mixed media artist!
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artyfax
Jun 20, 2011 @ 5:37 am | delete
- Wow , a great ideas lens. Love the amount of information you have assembled, I have added this to the featured lens section of mu lens on collage in fine art.
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seedplanter
Jun 13, 2011 @ 6:45 pm | delete
- Some of my favorite Etsy shops are collage art, so it was a real treat to bump into your lens. My mom and grandmother loved scrapbooking and layering their pages--collage artists without knowing it. Thanks for a great lens!
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fashionality Feb 8, 2011 @ 11:44 pm | delete
- I make it available on etsy. Best place to sell.
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jojokaya
Jan 24, 2011 @ 5:57 am | delete
- very informative. Great lens
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RetroCollage
Jan 22, 2011 @ 6:34 pm | delete
- I have so much material, and so much I want to create, it can be be challenging to be selective. Much of my collage work is made using wood engravings from 1850-1922 that I scanned and fixed up. So much art, so little time...
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MoonandMagic Jan 5, 2011 @ 2:23 pm | delete
- This is a really great lens, I've just gotten back into collaging and I'm finding it very entertaining. I like the idea of making one at the start of each day to get ideas going. Thanks for the tips.
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artyfax
Dec 13, 2010 @ 2:05 pm | delete
- lots of information, presented in an interesting way. Enjoyed the lens.
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ArtConscience
Nov 16, 2010 @ 5:28 pm | delete
- Fantastic Lens... really informative. Thank you. I've had a series of failures trying to sell art with online image libraries, but finally found success selling some of my art on tailcast.com
where buyers can create wall art and greetings cards with it.
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