Tips For Making Collages!…
Plenty of freedom is afforded when you create collages. Basically you can use anything you like to make up your collage, and not only that, you can express your feelings on it in any way you choose.
You have many textures which can be of use to you for creating collages. As an example, take gold and silver paper, wool, felt, corrugated paper, wood, metal, newspaper and ribbon for starters.
As an example, you could draw a picture as a base on canvas, card or paper. Then gather an assortment of bits and pieces together and, temporarily, place them in position to fill your drawing. In fact, you could paint your background first.
At this stage, eliminate anything you are not going to use. You could use crepe paper, but any sort of paper you will need in your collage, is in need of tearing or cutting into various shapes and colour choices.
You want your pieces to stay affixed, so one of the important issues here is, that you need the correct glues for the materials you are using. For example, for fabrics, you need a glue to handle this. If in doubt, read my article on adhesives which can be found at my website.
The collage I have described here is a pretty basic one, but really, if you want to take this a step further, you can use pastels, leather, metal, gravel, buttons etc. Most things can actually be affixed to a flat surface. The rule is really that you can use any items to support what you have in your mind visually.
School children do this regularly, perhaps first of all pictures simply made from silver or gold paper, magazines, or even felt and bottle tops. Interesting collages too, can simply be made consisting only of black and white newspaper print to achieve quite stunning effects.
Of course you could heap together a gallery of photos of people significant to you personally and mix and match them. This seems to be one of the hip and up to date collages at the moment.
So, to do a collage, we have established that you need a base and these can differ enormously with the different weights of objects to be applied to it. Your background plays an important part too. It could be that you paste photos or magazine shots, or you may even have to paint it first, but you will need to sketch out the subject.
Then you need an assortment of gathered items to choose from. You are unlikely to use them all and no need to fret about using, what may seem rather strange items, nor do they all have to be flat on your surface.
Try and arrange them how you want them and then glue each section carefully. Be patient and wait for this to dry. When your collage is finished you might like to give it a layer of protection with a sealant.
Now, it may be, that you want to frame it as a picture or have it raised on a mat. You could also do a wall hanging this way, the choice is endless.
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