EDITING YOUR COLLAGES

Use thinned Gesso or rice paper over the top to create big shapes and simplify the composition

(Brenda Hoelze)

Donna Watson

Simplify images! Use repositionable glue stick before gluing elements down to see how much you want to put on one piece.

(Holly Chastain)

Play with scale – large elements added to smaller ones create new visions.Sometimes just one element added to a found background is enough

(Kara Walker)

Scale – Marty Skocilich

Herbert Bayer

(student)

Look for the BIG SHAPE composed of many smaller ones[Raphael (left), Rubens (right)]

Hannah Hoch

Holly Chastain

Look for ways to unify your composition with

color or repeated shapes

(Juan Gris)

Learn to use open space as a major compositional element (Melinda Tidwell)

Crop, crop, crop!

Surface Texture:

Try adding paper towels, rice paper, thick gesso that has been scored into, waxed paper, small 3D objects, etc. to

create surface texture.

This separates hand-made collage from digital.

Donna Watson

Lance Carlson

Kurt Schwitterss

Homework:

Master Study in Collage

Choose your own master to study or choose one I will send in weekly class email.

MASTER’S STUDIES

(Left - Jacob Lawrence; Right - student master study collage)

Crop, crop, crop!

Student Master Study

Student