Tate: Project Collage: 50 Projects to Spark Your Creativity

by Bev Speight

Cut it, stick it, twist it!Collage is the art of reinvention, a magical and tactile process that invites you to collect, combine and transform existing imagery and ephemera, both old and new, into entirely original compositions. Tactile, versatile and accessible, collage encapsulates the magic of experimentation. Collage can elevate trash into treasure, reinterpreting the familiar and mundane. Requiring no specialist equipment - only everyday materials - it is an art form for everyone and every budget.The 50 contemporary collage projects within this book will both inform and inspire you to experiment with a range of materials, techniques and themes. Each chapter centres around a different subject, and the projects within develop on this theme and offer a variety of fresh approaches to it. Simple step-by-step directions demonstrate the creative process behind an example artwork. With a great mix of collage styles to choose from, you can start at the beginning and work your way through the book, or dip in and out of the projects as you wish.From striking architectural builds to mixed-media menageries, this book offers fresh ideas and guidance to help you cut and paste your way to your own unique artworks.

Genres: Art, Nonfiction

146 pages, Kindle Edition

Published March 7, 2019

Reviews

[Marie · Rating 4 out of 5]

Wonderful ideas for multiple creative collages: Layers, tears, confetti, fabric, cardboard, geometric, aura, scene within a scene, disintegrate into puzzle pieces, repeat.

[Foivos Manoloudis · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great book for beginners (and master collagists too)

I enjoyed this book a lot. Explored a lot of the ideas provided and will continue to do so with others.

[Eloise Wilson · Rating 5 out of 5]

Well worth the price!

An intellectually accessible approach to creative endeavour in the visual arts arena, the narrative is readable for anyone interested in collage. It is also useful as an inspirational device. 5 stars!

[Jaime Lyerly · Rating 3 out of 5]

It's just a bunch of how to techniques to do collage in different ways, not really anything about why you would choose to do that technique, or how it is put into real art. This may appeal to someone who is not an artist, and just wants to play around with someone else's ideas of how to collage.

[Kate Lesar · Rating 5 out of 5]

WOW

So many wonderful ideas, very good instruction. The possibilities feel limitless. I can’t wait to use this this with my 98 year old mom who still loves to create.

[Y0-von · Rating 5 out of 5]

a well rounded book exploring techniques and styles.
Thoroughly enjoyed the wander

[Jacquie Parry · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great book

At last a book that treats Collage as a art form and not some whimsical nonsense as books on this subject often are
Highly recommended

[JenniferJennifer · Rating 5 out of 5]

Fantastic book for ideas and inspiration.