I loved reading about your experience at Meraki studio and seeing your beautiful outcomes Holly. I really enjoy working with paper collage, particularly painting my own papers to combine with other imagery. I am working on a small series at the moment and you have inspired me to share some of my process.
Collage is my preferred art form since my 20's. I was prolific back then creating a whole series on the objectification of women ironically using model pictures from M. I've since done several 100 day projects using collage. What i wanted to add is that i may conceive a color way or theme but I truly don't have a message in mind when i start. I just show up and discover the collage's meaning as it's birthed. And yes, never glue it down until your certain of it's layout.
PS, you had us do collage mood boards for our new blogsites back in your blog course 12 years ago. Still blogging.
Whenever I visit a city away from home, I gather all kinds of papers that I come across in my travels and make a collage about my experience when I get back home. I enjoy looking through all my travel collages from time to time. I will also make collages with photos of my granddaughter. I'll take one photo and make a collage with it. I like to hang those on the refrigerator because they're quite playful.
I absolutely love doing collages! My current wall calendar gets pimped by me every month. Sometimes the background colour gives hints, sometimes I decide on a spesific theme.
And other times just free flowing letting my feelings guide me. Doing this is one of my happy places. 😊
I loved reading about your experience at Meraki studio and seeing your beautiful outcomes Holly. I really enjoy working with paper collage, particularly painting my own papers to combine with other imagery. I am working on a small series at the moment and you have inspired me to share some of my process.
Collage is my preferred art form since my 20's. I was prolific back then creating a whole series on the objectification of women ironically using model pictures from M. I've since done several 100 day projects using collage. What i wanted to add is that i may conceive a color way or theme but I truly don't have a message in mind when i start. I just show up and discover the collage's meaning as it's birthed. And yes, never glue it down until your certain of it's layout.
PS, you had us do collage mood boards for our new blogsites back in your blog course 12 years ago. Still blogging.
Much gratitude and collage joy,
Shalagh
Whenever I visit a city away from home, I gather all kinds of papers that I come across in my travels and make a collage about my experience when I get back home. I enjoy looking through all my travel collages from time to time. I will also make collages with photos of my granddaughter. I'll take one photo and make a collage with it. I like to hang those on the refrigerator because they're quite playful.
I absolutely love doing collages! My current wall calendar gets pimped by me every month. Sometimes the background colour gives hints, sometimes I decide on a spesific theme.
And other times just free flowing letting my feelings guide me. Doing this is one of my happy places. 😊