Realistic Collage: Step by Step

by Michael David Brown, Phil Metzger

Collage is an exploration of image, texture, and pattern - and a liberating creative experience for any artist. In this book, collage artist Michael David Brown leads you, step by step, through 12 projects. You'll learn basic techniques for creating realistic images with cut paper, watercolors, acrylics, fabric, poster bits, dried flowers...anything that adds interesting shapes and textures. Complete with galleries of work from Brown and 8 other artists, this book will inspire you, piece by piece, to expand your creativity.

Genres: Art, Nonfiction

Hardcover

First published March 1, 1998

Reviews

[jimtown · Rating 4 out of 5]

The images in Realistic Collage Step by Step, especially the rural building and city buildings done by Michael David Brown are what made me buy this book. His collages are so inspiring. I already tried to make one today. There are good lists of tools, materials and some helpful methods, some of which is too advanced for what I like to do. I wish he'd told just a little more about how he cuts his pieces. His are very exact which is not alway usual in collage. But the effect is stunning. A good collaging resource.

[Angela · Rating 3 out of 5]

I have a bad habit of taking this sort of book out of the library when I know very well that I don't have time right now to actually gather up all the required materials and TRY any of the projects. That said, reading through it the instructions looked clear and straight-forward and the resulting projects were pretty cool. I also liked that the instructions focused more on general principles (figuring out where shadows would go, etc.), rather than just how to re-create the specific project examples.