Overview
Collage is a fine art combination of paper and shape, color and texture, imagination and vision. This book can help you bring all of these together in one beautiful creation.
Here you'll see magnificent collages by leading artists who show you—in step-by-step demonstrations—how to begin, how to design, how to apply collage techniques in exciting ways.
Plus you'll get your chance to use those techniques with nearly fifty projects that challenge you to do your most creative work.
Synopsis
Features work from 50 collage artists who explain their techniques in step by step demonstrations
Library Journal
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.