If You Can Cut, You Can Collage

Author: Hollie Chastain
Publisher:
ISBN: 1631593358
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 131

Book Description
If You Can Cut, You Can Collage is specially designed for people who feel like they can't make art. Want to know a secret? You can You just need a little inspiration, instruction, and confidence. Collage is a wonderful creative outlet, particularly for people who want to make art, but don't feel they have the skills or confidence for other endeavors. You can still explore and experiment with color, composition, and various themes and end up with exciting and often unexpected results. If you Can Cut, You Can Collage takes some of the mystery out of collage through easy illustrated pages that show you the basic techniques of collecting and cutting imagery, composing and adhering compositions, and then provides a wealth of exercises that get readers going on their own creative projects. We'll get you started with simple, focused, projects like making a collage with only circles, where you'll learn important concepts like how to create a focal point, how to use repetition successfully, how to achieve contrast, balance, symmetry, and more. You'll be incorporating vintage ephemera, typography and lettering, and even urban and found materials in no time

Extraordinary Things to Cut Out and Collage

Author: Maria Rivans
Publisher: Laurence King Publishing
ISBN: 9781786274946
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
If you want to discover the fun of collage then this fabulous book is the perfect kit. Collage artist Maria Rivans has gathered hundreds of beautiful, quirky, and downright daft images, and they're all here for you to cut out and stick. Flowers, birds, cats, and butterflies can be combined with buildings, eyes, moustaches, and catalog models in dubious pants to create extraordinary original artworks and talking pieces! Maria provides an introduction to collage styles and tips on technique. An ideal activity for young and old, this book is a perfect gift or self-purchase for anyone seeking arty fun and a great deal of sticky silliness!

If You Can Cut, You Can Collage

Author: Hollie Chastain
Publisher: Quarry Books
ISBN: 1631595288
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 131

Book Description
If You Can Cut, You Can Collage is specially designed for people who feel like they can't make art. Want to know a secret? You can! You just need a little inspiration, instruction, and confidence. Collage is a wonderful creative outlet, particularly for people who want to make art, but don’t feel they have the skills or confidence for other endeavors. You can still explore and experiment with color, composition, and various themes and end up with exciting and often unexpected results. If you Can Cut, You Can Collage takes some of the mystery out of collage through easy illustrated pages that show you the basic techniques of collecting and cutting imagery, composing and adhering compositions, and then provides a wealth of exercises that get readers going on their own creative projects. We’ll get you started with simple, focused, projects like making a collage with only circles, where you’ll learn important concepts like how to create a focal point, how to use repetition successfully, how to achieve contrast, balance, symmetry, and more. You’ll be incorporating vintage ephemera, typography and lettering, and even urban and found materials in no time!

The Collage Ideas Book

Author: Alannah Moore
Publisher: Ilex Press
ISBN: 9781781575277
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Collage allows your creativity to run riot. It lets you juxtapose disparate elements, styles and media against each other and create something entirely novel, bizarre, arresting, beautiful, ironic or unsettling. Old and new can be fused together; digital and handproduced can be combined. What you can create with collage knows no bounds. Expertly curated with an eye to the fresh, the exciting collection of new collage ideas will inspire collage artists at every level, from those dipping a toe in the art form to experts.

The Scraps Book

Author: Lois Ehlert
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1442435720
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 72

Book Description
The renowned Caldecott Honoree and illustrator of Chicka Chicka Boom Boom provides a moving, intimate, and inspiring inside look at her colorful picture book career. Lois Ehlert always knew she was an artist. Her parents encouraged her from a young age by teaching her how to sew and saw wood and pound nails, and by giving her colorful art supplies. They even gave her a special spot to work that was all her own. Today, many years and many books later, Lois takes readers and aspiring artists on a delightful behind-the-scenes tour of her books and her book-making process. Part fascinating retrospective, part moving testament to the value of following your dreams, this richly illustrated picture book is sure to inspire children and adults alike to explore their own creativity.

Create Your Own Collage

Author: Lizzie Lees
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1250099242
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 189

Book Description
"Create your own artworks and collages with this interactive and joyful book"--Page [4] of cover.

The Art of Paper Collage

Author: Susan Pickering Rothamel
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
ISBN: 9781402756139
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 136

Book Description
Techniques for creating and embellishing paper collage including rubber-stamping, heat-embossing, and acrylic underpainting.

Cut & Paste

Author: Richard Brereton
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781780672366
Category : Collage
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Collage is at the cutting edge of visual design, and can be seen everywhere from advertisements, magazine editorials and fashion stories to street art, album covers, animation and website design. Cut & Paste brings together over 250 images from more than 40 contemporary collage artists, including Serge Bloch, Borsodi Bela, Sara Fanelli, Julian House, Christoph Niemann, John Stezaker and Sergei Sviatchenko.

Scraps

Author: Elsebeth Gynther
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
ISBN: 9781600593864
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 132

Book Description
Crafters of all levels and types will delight in this visual feast.Few artistic pursuits lend themselves to free-form creativity like collage: using paper, cloth, old maps, memorabilia, and more, anyone can produce quality artwork. The authors provide helpful tips on texture and coloring techniques, photocopying and image transfer ideas, and even creating stamps and stitching on the surface. Lush color photography showcases outstanding examples of beautiful work. "

Masters

Author: Randel Plowman
Publisher: Lark Books (NC)
ISBN: 9781600591082
Category : Assemblage (Art)
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
"Collage is the perfect art form---spontaneous, forgiving, expressive, descriptive, impetuous, and expansive."---Lynne Perrella --Book Jacket.