A collage of glossy magazines - simple and very stylish!!! Collage of glossy magazines (butterfly).

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 Blank 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 (Jeremy Gesualdo), who now lives and works in the Canadian city of Toronto, took old photographs as the basis for his abstract collages, causing him feelings of nostalgia. 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, maps and other 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.

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 geographic Maps- 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, for example. 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 a creative approach and at least some creative abilities are needed, but it displays the inner world of a person very well ...

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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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Master Class. Collage. Still life with flowers

Age of children - 9-10 years

Target: development creativity children through acquaintance with one of the types of applications - a collage.

Tasks:

Educational- mastering the technology of compilation decorative composition on the theme "Still life with flowers" and the technology of working with various materials(newspapers, magazines, colored paper).

Educational- development of creativity, imagination, fantasy based on familiarization with the collage method.

educators- to educate pupils in accuracy, composure in the performance of work methods, diligence.

Methodical equipment:

Samples of previous work.

Necessary materials: a sheet of paper, A-3 format, gouache, a jar of water, brushes, glue stick, scissors.

Course progress.

1. Introduction.

Collage (from the French collage - gluing) - a technique in fine arts, which consists in the creation of paintings or graphic works by gluing objects and materials that differ from the base in color and texture onto any base.

At the heart of any collage is an application with which children have been familiar since kindergarten. Our task is more complex. First you need to come up with a decorative still life with flowers, and then use glossy magazines to make a collage.

To begin with, we make a sketch in which we must depict a vase or a jug of flowers. In the background we place a window or landscape.

(Children always get more emotional work)

Poets come to the aid of children, whose poems allow you to come up with a composition in which you can combine everything you want.

Notebook

I like to scribble in a shabby notebook,

On the way to work a couple of lines ...

'Cause I feel like I'm on the hunt

Watching the flow of the city beat...

Here is passion, here is loneliness, here is happiness...

There are a lot of topics in the human stream ...

I write "from nature" with the power given from above,

That's why I carry a notebook!

And if there is no invoice,

I turn my mind to the landscape

I look at the face of architecture,

With nature constituting a collage...

Many amazing discoveries

I did while watching...

When I forget - life is out of tune!

The children's compositions remind us that autumn has come, but the memories of summer are still strong. Almost all depict exactly the summer landscape.

We proceed to the most interesting, we consider magazines.

We select various shades colors that we need to implement the idea and get to work. First, we work on the center of the composition - flowers.

Gradually we create a picturesque environment. AT this case window, wall.

Gradually we move on to the jug and the table on which the jug stands.

The collage is ready.

1. 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.

Does a person think when he looks at beautiful pictures, oh effective method visualization? To A magazine collage can be used to decorate a home, as well as a way to fulfill any dream. It all depends on preference and general style apartments.

Collage as an element of decor

You want to decorate bare walls with bright and eye-catching paintings. One of the types of modern decor is considered collage of magazine clippings. Its subject can be any: sports, cosmetology, vegetables and fruits, children.

Once you read another magazine, you don't want to throw it away. This is where collage making can help. It is so simple that even a child can handle it. With its help, they decorate part of the wall, make panels, decorate boxes.

How to do?

What is needed to create collage from First of all - idea. Think well, develop a composition. If the panel will decorate the wall in the kitchen, it is wise to choose food pictures. If the collage is on the first-aid kit, then the drawings are selected with medicines or doctors.

Having decided on the idea, we find the necessary magazines and the following materials:

• scissors;
• glue;
• acrylic lacquer;
• scotch.

How to DIY:

1. First, prepare the surface, if necessary.
2. Cut out pictures. It is important to choose the right size for them. For small area- small, for walls - large.
3. We define the composition before we get to work. Large images are placed in the center, smaller ones are located at the edges.
4. Glue the cutouts to the surface with glue or tape.
5. We fix with acrylic varnish.

The manufacturing process is quite simple and does not require expensive materials. A magazine collage is an incredibly stylish and trendy decor.

render effect

Dream collage - this is the name of the created one, which helps to fulfill the most secret desires.