CONTENTS GET INTO COLLAGE MATERIALS AND COLORS SHAPING PAPER NOT WHAT IT SEEMS LANDSCAPE COMPOSITION REMOVING LAYERS TEXTURE COLLAGE SURFACE TEXTURES COMBINING PHOTOS THAT’S INTERESTING PIECES OF A PHOTO LETTER MANIA STORY IN PICTURES LEARNING MORE GLOSSARY INDEX AND ABOUT THE AUTHOR 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 18 20 22 24 26 28 30 31 32
GET INTO COLLAGE Approach this book with a sense of adventure It is designed to unleash your creativity The projects in this book will help you express your ideas and feelings through art Collages are fun and easy to do projects You only need basic art supplies like paper pencil scissors glue and your imagination Create images of things you want to say and messages you want to share Find your own individual style and run with it MINI-BIOGRAPHIES WHAT IS COLLAGE Collage involves gluing pieces of different materials to a surface Examples of collage work have been found from the 18th and 19th century but they were created as collections of keepsakes glued together The modern collage unlike most forms of art has a known birth year 1912 That’s when Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso began pasting bits of paper and other items onto still life compositions They called this new style of art collage The name comes from the French word coller which means to glue More artists soon began using this new style and they continue to do so today Collage offers a way to explore the connection between what the artist sees and actual objects while also showing how different the two can be Today’s collage artists use photos fabric beads thread metal paper and all kinds of found objects Throughout the book you will find mini-biographies mini-biographies highlighting the works of well-known well-known artists You can learn a lot about collage techniques by looking at great works of art Experiment with the techniques these artists used Examine the collages to see how they were composed including the use of line and color Still Life Art Some art compositions show a collection of ordinary objects arranged in a specific way such as a vase with flowers or a bowl of fruit on a table Such art is called still life art The objects shown are things that are still or motionless unable to move on their own 4 Collage unknown artist Germany 1796
Design elements The elements of design include line shape texture and composition Artists use these elements in different ways to achieve the result they want Line is the edge between two colors or shapes It does not have to be straight Lines can go in any direction and come in any shape length or thickness Artists use lines to direct the viewer’s eye in the direction they want it to go Shape is any enclosed space in a piece of art A shape’s edges may be created by lines textures or colors Texture is created in two different ways Physical texture describes the surface of the artwork such as smooth or rough Optical or visual texture is the way an artist creates the look of a texture Composition is the arrangement of all the shapes lines colors spaces and textures in a drawing Artists carefully use these elements so viewers eyes will follow a path leading to the key or most important element or message of the work GEORGES BRAQUE 1882-1963 France Georges Braque liked to experiment with many styles of art and invent new ones Still Life with Tenora is one of the first collages of the modern era Braque playfully incorporated pieces of newspaper wallpaper and wood-grained wood-grained paper He wanted to blur the boundaries between traditional two-dimensional art and the real world Still Life with Tenora 1913 A tenora is an instrument similar to an oboe 5
