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    Artful Collage from Found Objects
    Artful Collage from Found Objects
    Artful Collage from Found Objects
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    Artful Collage from Found Objects

    By Ellen Spector Platt

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    How to create collage artwork by repurposing keepsakes, leftover craft projects, cutouts from magazines, and all sorts of readily available materials.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherStackpole Books
    Release dateAug 1, 2012
    ISBN9780811748490
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    Artful Collage from Found Objects - Ellen Spector Platt

    Contents

    Acknowledgments

    BASICS

    What You Need

    How to Do It

    PROJECTS

    Remembrance of Things Past

    1. Grandma’s Sewing Box

    2. My Field of Dreams

    3. A Room with a View

    4. Write Me

    5. Rusty Memories

    6. Temple of the Gods

    My Landscape, My World

    7. Water Towers, New York City

    8. Night on the Town, New York City

    9. Up at the Met

    10. Building Bridges

    11. Design/Build

    12. A Child’s Skyline

    Color Coded

    13. Black and White

    14. Black and White and Red All Over

    15. Wheelie

    16. The Crown Jewels

    17. Still Life with Black and White

    18. What’s Your Angle?

    Vacations

    19. My Ireland

    20. North of Santa Fe

    21. Art Deco Historic District

    22. Everglades with Mom

    Hobbies

    23. Under Water

    24. Printer’s Box with Seashells and Fossils

    25. The Stuff of Roses

    26. Eat Your Veggies

    Gifts

    27. This Is My Friend Nana

    28. Call Me

    29. Skezas Grocery

    30. Grandma Roses

    31. Easy as ABC

    Holidays

    32. The Mask

    33. It Was a Very Good Year

    34. Will You Be Mine?

    Abstract

    35. Tree Track

    36. Exuberance

    37. Big Sky Country

    38. Big Sky Country with Umbrella

    39. Bursting

    Seasons of the Year

    40. Summer Water Lilies

    41. Autumn Skyline, West Side

    42. The Garden in Winter

    43. Spring Has Sprung

    Because I Wanted To

    44. Time on My Hands

    45. The Weaver

    46. Bird Box

    You can create collage artwork from junk and treasured objects, stuff you find around the house, leftovers from craft projects started and discarded long ago, keepsakes you’ve tucked away, bits and pieces in the backs of drawers, and papers torn from old magazines and newsprint.

    Use collage techniques to design a piece of wall art that you can enjoy at home or in the office, or give away as gift to be long cherished.

    Some collage is like scrapbooking, where you design each page to tell a story. The collages in this book might tell a story, complete within their own boundaries, but many of the designs are abstract; torn and cut papers and other materials are assembled in new and interesting ways and presented within mat and frame, or informally, without mat and frame.

    You will experience particular pleasure from dragging out old stuff at home and scouring the environment wherever you find yourself. Might that gold foil wrapper of the chocolate bar you just devoured form the perfect sun for your next summer sky? Would those tongue depressors I spy shivering in the examining room be just the thing I need to make a small frame? And why did I keep the old license plate from the Jeep I drove on my farm ten years ago, if not to form the centerpiece of my latest 3-D collage featuring rusty metal objects?

    My fat French dictionary says that collage means pasting or gluing, but sometimes glue isn’t the best way to adhere heavy or irregular items. You’ll wind up pinning, tacking, nailing, or tying elements to your artwork. It may feel more like sculpture. Who cares!

    You will see how to manipulate the stuff that you gather for collage— bending, cutting, tearing, folding, fringing, rolling, stretching, felting, crumpling, creasing, flattening, ironing, hammering, pleating, coiling, spiraling, painting, dyeing, sewing, and tying.

    Rely on your sense of humor, your visual and tactile perceptions, your emotions, and your thoughts to have a wonderful time.

    What You Need

    For each of the forty-six projects in this book, I list the materials I used. I don’t expect you to replicate the projects, but only to have a good idea of what I did and how I did it, so that you can adapt the projects or use them as a stimulus for your own work.

    Some of the supplies, like glue, scissors, brushes, pencils, and rulers, will become part of your permanent collage kit. Materials, such as particular papers, objects, and pictures, are specific to one design.

    Paper

    Traditionally, collage is about gluing cut or torn papers to make an artwork. Because in this book I stress recycled, reused, and repurposed materials, I find most of the colorful papers in magazines and newspapers, ads and inserts, old calendars, catalogues, brochures, gift wrap, tissue paper, foil wrappers, greeting cards and envelopes, maps, train schedules, used concert and event tickets, sheet music, composition paper, labels, family photos, playing cards, canceled stamps on envelopes, and construction paper in colors that the children reject.

    I cut out and save stuff in file folders by color tone and also by topic. I’ve had in mind a collage theme of watches and clocks, and filed away many glossy ads and pictures for about six months (see the results on p. 120).

    Of course there are many exquisite handmade and machine-made art papers offered for sale, and the temptation is to run to a fine art store and buy. But I resist. I also resist stickers and lettering found in scrapbooking departments of craft stores. I’d rather draw, make, or cut out what I need from free sources.

    For the forty-six collages in this book, I’ve bought only eight sheets of art paper, a pack of colored tissue, and a pad of watercolor paper to make my own painted papers. The rest is found and saved.

    Hand-Painted or Printed Paper

    With a pad of watercolor paper and a small set of watercolor or acrylic paints, or both, you can make your own papers to later cut or tear and incorporate into a collage. I worked with my two favorite girls, my granddaughters, ages eight and ten, to make the papers shown here. We brushed on acrylic paints, then for some, we used fingers, a comb, or the end of a paintbrush to make marks and texture. In one project, I cut our hand-painted and hand-printed papers to form an abstract collage.

    Glue, Paste, and Other Useful Adhesives

    You will not be happy if your collage falls apart when you go to hang it at home, or even more embarrassing, when you present it as a gift. You need a strong attachment, but once paper or another element has been glued down, it can’t be removed without leaving a gaping hole or other unsightly roughage on the surface of your board. If you’ve made a mistake, it’s usually better to cover it up by gluing something else on

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