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- In order for creativity to be interesting, adults come up with more and more new techniques, one of them is a collage. We will try to use what is under hands, at this moment (glossy magazines and catalogs), we also need PVA glue, brushes, scissors and black paint. Let's try to draw a butterfly on a piece of cardboard. It will be interesting for both adults and children, we will not cut the paper, but will tear it into pieces creating uneven edges.
2. The color for the background and the butterfly can be any, but do not forget about the ratio of cold to warm, dark to light. In this master class, we have chosen a yellow background and a blue color for the butterfly.
3. When filling or sealing the background, we also take into account that the pages have images or fonts that can either help create a background or destroy it. As soon as the background is filled, the outline of the butterfly begins to be read more clearly.
4. We can cut out the edges for the butterfly wings in neat pieces, but the filling inside is also by tearing the sheet. For the body of the butterfly, we select an almost black sheet and also cut it out.
5. Completion will be antennae and a black outline on all wings and body of a butterfly, we will do it with black paint and a brush.
American craftswoman Beth Höckel creates witty collages using old periodicals. Clippings from magazines and illustrations from books of the 1940s and 1970s become the material for contemporary works of art. The artist's nostalgia for an unseen past turns into mocking experiments with old photographs. It's funny that these works, in turn, are published in the media, and, who knows, perhaps in the future a new one will gut the binders with Beth Höckel's publications.
Elizabeth Ryan Hoeckel (Elizabeth Ryan Hoeckel), aka Beth Hoeckel, was born and raised in the US city of Baltimore. The girl loved to draw and from childhood dreamed of becoming an artist. Later, classes in painting, graphics and photography at the school at the Art Institute of Chicago were crowned with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree.
Beth Höckel graduated from high school 10 years ago and after that went on to travel, collecting impressions around the world. The artist spent the longest time in Japan and Greece, then spent two years in New York and four more in Los Angeles. A real kaleidoscope! Beth Höckel's travels, this mixture of cultures and countries, are reminiscent of her collages of magazine and book clippings.
Now that Beth Höckel has returned to her native land and settled in Baltimore, she makes numerous collages from old magazines and photographs in her studio. Unusual work attract the attention of exhibition organizers: both local and national. In addition, Beth Höckel's collages illustrate articles in international journals and web pages.
The main material for Beth Höckel's collages is clippings from magazines and books from the 1940s and 1970s. The craftswoman especially loves pictures of the 50s; she says that such colors and such printing are no longer to be found. So the artist has to hunt for vintage publications in second-hand bookshops and flea markets.
Baltimore also has a special center that accepts printed donations from the public, and then distributes them for free to everyone. Guess who goes there almost every week looking for materials for future collages?
Old books, clippings from magazines from the 1950s... Beth Höckel's work evokes nostalgia for a time in which she never lived. Still she blows this marvelous old world irony, resourcefully combining elements of other people's photographs and often creating comic ones.
I found that shamefully little was written on my blog about low-cost decor. Not even just about low-cost (cheap trinkets rarely look decent), but about made from improvised means. A collage of magazine clippings is just right - read and not thrown out magazines are found in every home, the work technique is extremely simple, a successful creation will become an exclusive and your pride, and it’s not a pity to send an unsuccessful one to the trash can. Let's tune in to the best, and imagine what can be decorated with a collage in the interior?
Yes, a lot! You can make a picture-panel and hang it on the wall. You can decorate the wall itself or a small section of it. You can decorate boxes for all sorts of things - in a word, as fantasy tells. Such decor is a real lifesaver for rented or freshly bought (read: not yet renovated to your taste) apartments. By the way, if anyone is looking for an apartment: there is a convenient site-advertising board Slando.com. This service is made on the principle "from hand to hand", I myself use it in my region.
So… What do you need to create a collage? First, the idea is what you want to express/show with your creation. If a brilliant creative idea did not light up, create a simple thematic composition. For example, a medicine box will be pasted over with a collage of doctors, pills, thermometers, a panel for the kitchen - with delicious fruits and chewing faces.
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From technical means needed magazines(as well as photographs, postcards, playing and geographical cards - if the idea requires it), scissors, glue stick or PVA. To fix the finished wall collage, use acrylic lacquer (the one that is suitable for decoupage), the collage on the box can be fixed with a wide transparent tape.
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How to do? Prepare the surface on which the collage will show off: if possible, clean and roughen. Then cut out suitable pictures and inscriptions from magazines. Do not be afraid to leave pieces of text next to the pictures - they will create the desired background. More little advice: how more area collage, the larger the clippings should be, otherwise it will turn out too colorful, and it’s tedious to stick.
Now we compose a composition on a sheet of paper or on the floor: first, the center of the collage is determined, large fragments are stacked, and small clippings are added last. When the most expressive "layout" is found, it's time to put the clippings on the glue. The final stage is varnish or adhesive tape.
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A wall collage of magazine clippings usually turns out to be bright and catchy, so it doesn’t suit every interior. Strict forms classical style or unpainted natural materials ethno is clearly not the right environment for a collage if you are not looking for outrageous contrasts. It is important to maintain a balance in the interior: the collage attracts the eye, which means that there should be something in the room on which the eye rests (for example, a neutral-colored wall without decor, a green corner).
The simple art of collage is within the power of almost anyone - not only site creation, eg. Many times I have already admired the samples from the portfolio of the InWeb studio, and I’m thinking: I’ll also start a website for myself, or something, in a company for a blog. Oh, who would have added more time per day!
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For such a decor, at least you need a creative approach and at least some Creative skills, but very well displays the inner world of a person ...
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Oh, what a delight! I had never heard of this before...
You can work both on your own and involve the children :). How much useful activity– and it is interesting and develops the creative side + the work done is pleasing to the eye!
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Today - another material from the series "what about us." How do I store numerous pictures and clippings so that they are easy to find and use at the right time. About homemade books - leaflets a small note -
Where to get pictures
The main source is magazines. Old ones (at one time I gutted several bales, stored for no one knows what occasion) and read. Advertising magazines are very prolific for themed pictures. It is absolutely not necessary for them to be children's in order to contain the pictures necessary for children.
Newspapers, and, again, mostly advertising newspapers, are getting by too. Minus - in thin paper and print quality. But they are suitable for lamination or for a one-time game. I have such a catalog from a household appliance store in its entirety - you can cut out a lot of pictures.
From the children’s proper: coloring books (their covers), workbooks and manuals (resolved), task books and just boring books, toy packaging (there often are reduced images of the purchased toy or all the toys in the series).
How to recycle and decompose everything collected
Almost always there is no time immediately, as soon as a piece of paper with a picture fell into the hands, to sit down and cut it out, and even more so put it in the right place. Therefore, I have a special box (a paper gift bag) where I throw whole magazines, or better, torn pages from a flipped through magazine, and everything else from which I planned to cut out pictures. On occasion, I disassemble this box, a little bit. It is clear that sitting down and cutting - such a pleasure rarely falls. For me, this is just a pleasure, a kind of meditation, and exciting game- find among the "ore" (magazine piles) valuable breed- pictures for the collection. Pictures are selected for the collection small, from 3-4 cm to A5 format (half of a sheet), these are most often useful in classes and creativity.
I cut magazines while watching movies, listening to webinars. Together with the child, you can also cut. True, you have to come to terms with the fact that everything will be mixed up, so it’s better to immediately put the garbage in some kind of bag, and for a child who already knows how to handle scissors, you need to give a few pages for arbitrary cutting. If you also give a glue stick and a sheet for the background, you can count yourself for a creative lesson: you get an application on an arbitrary topic, and it is completely independently executed.
I cut too, depending on the available time. It’s easier to cut out the pictures along the contour for further use, but when there is very little time, at least cut out the “rectangle” with the picture.
I also try to sort pictures right away, but this is not always available, so everything that is cut out, but not sorted, is placed in an envelope or a transparent file, depending on the size and number of pictures obtained.
Further sorting is a baldness for meticulous people like me. Here is the folder in which I keep “everything, everything”, and to which I let my daughter go “on holidays”, because it’s easy to break it down, and then putting everything back together takes quite a long time. 
It's a folder with 40 files sewn in, where the pictures are stored by topic, rather narrow so that it's easy to find a place for each picture and also easy to find them later to work with. Topics are traditional for thematic classes with preschoolers. Below full list, in that order they go. At first they were placed arbitrarily, but I also had to keep their order in my head, and now I find the right one much faster.
- Nature, landscapes, seasons
- Plants, flowers
- Fruits, berries, fruits
- "Lower" animals: protozoa, mollusks and others - up to fish.
- Insects
- Amphibians and reptiles
- Birds
- Pets
- forest animals
- Animals of Africa
- Animals of Australia, two Americas, Asia
- Animals of the North.
- Toys
- Human life.
- Sport.
- Cosmetics and other "feminine things"
- Cloth
- Utensils, household items
- Furniture
- Appliances
- House (houses, rooms)
- Transport
- Travels
- sights
- Cards
- Space
- Schooling
- Story
- Holidays
- New Year separately
- Pictures "for the sake of color" (for color cards), multi-colored, iridescent.
My collection. Multiple reversals
The theme is "Animals of Australia", "Animals of the North", "Forest Animals".
Theme "Natural landscapes"
Theme "Products"
Theme "Birds"
Two spreads - "Sport" and "Women's stuff"
And this is how games and cards made from clippings are stored: each set is in a separate pocket of a photo album, the simplest. 
This is a set of products that Irina adores: cut out from everywhere, laminated with adhesive tape.
Cards on the topics "Furniture", "Household appliances", as well as a cut book with fairy tales.
How to work with a collection. A few examples.
1. You need to make a poster with a child on the theme "Africa" - I look for the right file, shake out the pictures available there, choose the ones that are appropriate in content and size, cut it out, if necessary, along the contour. It remains to stick and sign, the poster is ready! Read more about how my daughter and I made posters from these pictures, read.
2. You need to make New Year cards or decorate an advent calendar. We open the tab with New Year's pictures, shake them out, select the ones we need in size, color, or simply by “liked them”, and return the rest to the archive.
3. It is necessary to conduct classes on the topic “what color happens”, cards with multi-colored objects are conceived, separate for each color. Age - 1.5-3 years. This is where a lot of things have to be shaken up. You can prepare everything in advance, but it is more productive and useful to do the whole selection together with the child. We start with the reasoning that red can be. And on the topics we begin to shake out the cards. One topic was reviewed, the necessary ones were selected, and returned to their place. We take the following file. Then nothing will mix. It is unlikely that red items will be found in the "Animals of the North" theme, but among the flowers, toys, clothes, it is worth looking. Maybe you once carved a red car or ladybug- We look at equipment and insects. We also develop logic with other colors. Pictures in green are, first of all, plants and food, some animals, as well as themes that are universal in terms of colors, like clothes and toys.
Recently, collage has become a popular technique among both amateurs and professional artists, not requiring the ability to draw and large financial costs for materials, but only imagination and a desire to create. Look At Me presented a selection of 10 talented collagists whose work proves how diverse and multifaceted this technique can be.
Two Romanians wandering around Europe, living in this moment in the UK, sisters Silviu and Irina Szekely create collages inspired by neo-Dadaism, post-surrealism and deconstructivism. They themselves described their work as "experimental overlays of pseudo space". With no artistic background, the sisters began making surreal collages about a year ago, using only newspaper and magazine clippings and scissors. Silviu and Irina were driven by a great desire to plunge into the world of freedom, strength and their own imagination in order to experience those sensations that they lacked so much in real life.
French fashion designer Laurent Desgrange, known for his original men's bow ties, also creates psychedelic collages featuring David Bowie, Will Smith, and members of the A-Team. Some of his collages become t-shirt prints and exhibits. Most often in his works, Laurent touches on various pressing issues - what is mass consumption leading to and how pop culture affects modern society.
Iranian-born Dutch artist Ashkan Honarvar creates layered collages that focus on the mutilated human body: "The body, torn apart by war, exploited by the sex industry, or used as a vehicle in search of identity, is the focus of my work. This is constitutes a search for the evil hidden in every man." In the presented series of works, inspired by the ideas of Mao Zedong and Chinese communism, he hides the faces of Chinese girls, emphasizing the lack of individuality and "self-identity".
Matt Wisniewski is a web developer based in Brooklyn, New York. free time doing creative work. He finds on the web interesting photos and creates surreal collage portraits from them, using a variety of tools - from paper and scissors - to computer graphics. His work harmoniously combines fashion, people and beauty with nature: "Sometimes the appearance of a person and the expression of his face affects how I will make a collage, but most often I try to look at my heroes as clear sheet. Most of them I don't know, but the personality of those I know doesn't usually affect me."
Andrei Cojocaru, a Romanian collage artist with a degree in law from the Sorbonne and currently living in Paris, has been creating original collages by hand for several years, which he himself describes as "a random combination of shapes, colors, prints, letters and numbers ". Despite the lack of professional art education, Andrey manages to create original multi-layered collages from improvised materials and engage in graphic design.
Hollie Chastain is a collage artist from the US state of Tennessee. Her early interest in art and her experiences with ceramics, watercolor and glass eventually influenced her later choice of collage as a means of self-expression. To create her works, she uses photographs and drawings, which she ages with the help of watercolors and other means. Recently, she has only worked with retro materials, such as books from the late nineteenth century or issues of LIFE magazine from the seventies of the twentieth century: "Character and unique textures that add age to materials define my work in many ways...Open book and see on one of the pages ink blot- a big luck for me" Inspired by old books, nature and children's fairy tales, Holly creates new world adventures and mysteries, open to the viewer's imagination.
Photographer Jeremy Gesualdo, who now lives and works in the Canadian city of Toronto, based his abstract collages on old photographs that evoke feelings of nostalgia in him. Through his works, he calls to appreciate every moment of life and to consider the most banal things special: such activities as something special."
American artist from Vermont Erika Lawlor Schmidt (Erika Lawlor Schmidt) collects materials for her collages from books, magazines, geographical maps and others printed publications, many of which hold echoes of nostalgia, history and a half-forgotten past. Then she begins to select suitable pictures from her vast archive and create a different reality from them: "Collage is the process of collecting individual elements and turning them into something whole."
Ariel Chiesa, an enigmatic art director, illustrator and graphic designer based in Buenos Aires, Argentina, creates concise retro collages using a variety of tools, from old magazines to computer graphics. On a black and white background, she superimposes colorful pictures from the seventies and eighties - most often portraits of celebrities or young people - giving the selected images a completely different look.
Poet, photographer and collagist Delilah Jones, who moved from New York to Portland to work in an ice cream parlor, believes her collages are filled with magic: "I try to make art a reality, touch minds, hearts and souls with my amazing and absurd creations in these times of uncertainty and splendor." Delilah recently started a collaborative project with fellow collagist Jesse Treece called Ice Cream Kingdoms. His main goal is the release of a book with collages by artists from different countries.
