Create this easy photo-paper artwork easily and quickly.
This vivid, colorful piece, below, reminds me of a billboard with layers and layers of posters that have been partially stripped off. Décollage comes from the French word décoller (take off, unstick). In art, we refer to décollage as a technique based on the appearance of advertisements peeled from billboards. The result leaves fragments of papers and the layering of previous papers.
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| Collage, Copyright Paula Guhin |
I used discarded, glossy photo prints, and tore the edges so white would show.
TIP: If you don't care for the white accent, use a designer marker to color the edge!
My advice? Audition assorted prints and their colors, shapes, lines, and visual textures until you find a combination that POPS! My limited color scheme, above, did it for me.
I used an enlargement as my background, adhering the torn strips to that.
Here's another example of décollage, below, that I did with magazine papers.
(Art teachers, parents, and grands, please stay tuned here for another post, soon, on drawing with kids.)
(Art teachers, parents, and grands, please stay tuned here for another post, soon, on drawing with kids.)
Cool. Looks like a fun way to work.
ReplyDeleteThis is great! Reminds me of deconstructed collage; one of my favorite ways to collage. I never thought of doing this with photos or many other ideas until I received your book! I don't know why. It's like I had a mental block about using photos to make art but of course use all kinds of other images. But, the only think I really ever did with photos was to paint them or color them with photo tinting markers and pencils and to make mosaic greeting cards with them that I saw on Carol Duval years ago. Your book has opened up so many new ideas using photos for me! Thanks!
ReplyDeleteThanks a million, girl! For anyone else reading this, the book Shauna got is called Adventures in Photo Artistry, and it's extremely reasonably-priced on Amazon!
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