Creative collage techniques

Creative collage techniques

Nita Leland

Book - 1994

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Subjects
Collage > Technique.
Published
Cincinnati, Ohio : North Light Books [1994]
Language
English
Main Author
Nita Leland (-)
Other Authors
Virginia Lee Williams, 1924- (-)
Physical Description
134 pages : color photographs
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (page 132) and index.
ISBN
9780891345633
  • Preface
  • Part 1. About Collage
  • Introduction
  • Project 1.. A Treasure Hunt for Collage Materials
  • Project 2.. Making Rubbings for Collage
  • Chapter 1. The Origins of Collage
  • Project 3.. A Matisse Collage of Your Own
  • Part 2. Collage Process
  • Chapter 2. Getting Started
  • Project 4.. Creating a Magazine Theme Collage
  • Project 5.. Creating a Found Papers Collage
  • Project 6.. Working With Printed Words
  • Chapter 3. Getting Serious About Collage
  • Project 7.. Encasing Papers in Medium
  • Project 8.. Creating a Transfer Film
  • Chapter 4. Landscapes and Portraits
  • Project 9.. Using Newspapers in a Landscape Collage
  • Project 10.. Creating Form With Magazine Clippings
  • Project 11.. Making a Portrait Collage
  • Demonstration 1. Combining Basic Collage Processes
  • Part 3. Collage Design
  • Chapter 5. Design and Color
  • Project 12.. Making Design Charts
  • Project 13.. Monochromatic Collage
  • Project 14.. Weaving Colored Papers
  • Chapter 6. Using Ready-Made Papers
  • Project 15.. Rice Paper Collage
  • Project 16.. Creating a Torn Paper Organic Design
  • Project 17.. Making a Collage Mosaic
  • Chapter 7. Designing Collage Abstractions
  • Project 18.. Geometric Abstraction With Cut Paper
  • Project 19.. Organic Abstraction With Cut Paper
  • Project 20.. Combining Cut and Torn Papers
  • Demonstration 2. Designing With Ready-Made Papers
  • Part 4. Mixed Media Collage
  • Chapter 8. More Techniques and Materials
  • Project 21.. Paper Collage With Colored Pencil
  • Project 22.. Autobiographical Collage
  • Project 23.. Using Photographs in Collage
  • Project 24.. Using Antique Photos
  • Chapter 9. Watercolors With Collage
  • Project 25.. Watercolor With Collage
  • Project 26.. Watercolor on Rice Paper Collage
  • Project 27.. Rice Paper Overlay
  • Chapter 10. Acrylic Paints With Collage
  • Project 28.. Acrylic Applique
  • Project 29.. Textural Effects in Acrylic
  • Project 30.. Creating a Monotype
  • Demonstration 3. Collage With Mixed Media
  • Part 5. Making Collage Supports
  • Chapter 11. Texturing Supports
  • Project 31.. Creating Distressed Paper Supports
  • Project 32.. Texturing Supports With Mediums
  • Project 33.. Creating a Layered Support
  • Chapter 12. More Textured Supports
  • Project 34.. Making Sand-Textured Supports
  • Project 35.. Using Wood Shavings or Chips
  • Project 36.. Applying Fibers to a Textured Support
  • Demonstration 4. Working With Textured Supports
  • Part 6. Making Collage Papers
  • Chapter 13. Customized Collage Papers
  • Project 37.. Making Brayer Papers With Gesso
  • Project 38.. Painting Your Brayer Papers
  • Project 39.. Making Crystalline Paper
  • Project 40.. Creating a Crystalline Free-Form
  • Project 41.. Encasing Materials in Rice Paper
  • Chapter 14. Marbled and Handmade Papers
  • Project 42.. Marbling Papers for Collage
  • Project 43.. Embossing Paper for Collage
  • Project 44.. Making Cast Paper for Collage
  • Project 45.. Making Handmade Paper for Collage
  • Demonstration 5. Using Customized Papers in Collage
  • Part 7. The Finishing Touches
  • Chapter 15. So What Else Is New?
  • Project 46.. Creating an Environmental Collage
  • Project 47.. Other Possibilities With Collage
  • Conclusion
  • Appendix
  • Selected Bibliography
  • Index
Review by Booklist Review

Collage is a versatile and dynamic medium suitable for artists with any level of skill and experience. Collage can be spontaneous and inexpensive when artists use materials at hand, such as magazines or newspapers, or collage can involve elaborate designs, precise detail, and exquisite craftsmanship. Materials suitable for collage are limited only by the creator's imagination and include papers of all kinds, fabric, photographs, and three-dimensional objects. Media such as watercolor, ink, and acrylics can be used to create varied effects and textures. Instructor, artist, and author Leland and her collage-artist coauthor Williams provide readers with step-by-step instructions for increasingly sophisticated collage techniques. Charts highlight recommended materials such as adhesives, protective coatings, types of paper, and supports. Numerous examples of finished collages are displayed in color reproductions, from homey family projects to beautifully textured abstractions. While Leland and Williams excel at covering technique and practical concerns, they spend some time discussing design principles and the matching of materials to subject or theme. This is as comprehensive and useful as a how-to on collage can be. ~--Donna Seaman

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Review by Library Journal Review

This is one studio handbook that lives up to the overused adjective "creative." In a colorful and inspiring layout, the book touches on the obvious clip-and-paste methods, incorporates other traditional media (rice paper, watercolor, acrylic), and then expands to consider a riot of materials, including found objects, clay, copper, beads, cloth, and rhinestones. In addition, it mines the history of collage for ideas and grounds the artist in modern legal concerns (i.e., the copyright issues involved in using others' work in your collage). This handbook will be useful to both beginning and advanced artists, and its wealth of examples make it more attractive than Anne Brigadier's more technical Collage: A Guide for Artists (Watson Guptill, 1970). Highly recommended.-Daniel J. Lombardo, Jones Lib., Amherst, Mass. (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

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