Overview of Kids Collage Art

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"So let's see. First of all this is probably the most important thing, because this is the glue that I use to collage, it's called Golden Gel Mediums, it's the soft gel mat, and I found it by accident, because it says down here in the paragraph, "Excellent glue for collage." Okay, I also use a couple brushes. This is a one-inch, and I like this size because it's not too big and it's not too small. This probably goes for like seventy-five cents, a buck at like Home Depot, and it doesn't matter if the glue dries on this, I mean, I have water here to get the glue off in between putting glue on the pieces of paper, but sometimes there's a residue of the glue, so these brushes, they're like a dime-a-dozen, you can throw them out and it's Okay. Then there's also this one, this is like a kids brush I found somewhere, and this is for smaller items, like for one-inch squares, really small items, and I also, I think this is a knitting needle, and I use this when I want to glue glitter onto things, or really small dried flowers, or just really small things where I just want to put a dab of glue on something. So this is really nice. I have a big pair of scissors, a small pair of scissors, this is really, really handy. I'd say that this is more important than the big ones because if I want to do detailed cuts around objects that I'm cutting, like I want to cut around a person's face, this is really nice, because you can get really detailed cuts. I also have a hole-puncher, if I want to punch a hole in paper and tie some ribbon through it. Oh, and here's another pair of scissors, it has a serrated edge, which is really nice. You can buy different kinds of scissors at the crafts store. They have ones with scalloped edges, but this is one's just kind of a serrated V edge. And then I also have this towel here when I want to blot out the brush after I've dabbed it in the water and I just want to blot it out, which is really nice. Here's a container of water to put my brush in. Like I said before, for in between when I'm putting the glue on the paper, because if the weather's really hot outside, the glue's going to dry really fast, and you have to kind of pace yourself depending on the heat. If you're in a cold climate, you don't have to wash the brush as much. And there's no soap in here, I don't use soap, because I'm not going to mix soap with the glue. That's important, that it's just plain water. And I use lukewarm water, or water that's on the hot side of lukewarm because that'll get the glue off quicker. Okay, I have a spray bottle too. The spray bottle is for when this container of glue is open and it's really hot out, like, we've had the heatwave here in L.A., the glue will dry on the sides, even when it's open. So that's why I use spray bottle, just to spray it on the sides. And this little guy, this is sponge, is for our residue, glue residue, like when you glue your paper down on the object, the journal, or the book and you have glue that comes out on the sides of the paper, you can just wipe this puppy down and the sponge will take off the glue residue, which is really nice. Okay, and of course you're going to need some hard objects to do, like right here, need some hard objects to glue my collage onto. Here's an example of what I've already done. And here are some of my figures, my scribble figures. Here's a lady, and then here's a lady with a telephone, an old style telephone, which we don't really see anymore. It's kind of like, 'give me a call' and then here's a lady dancing through some sunflowers, and here's a, I call this the reclining nude. So those are my figures, they're really fun. Yeah and one more thing I forgot to mention is after the collage is dry, after you let it dry for like a day, like I said, depending on the weather, if it's hot weather it can dry probably within ten or twelve hours, but if you're in a cold climate you definitely need to let it dry overnight, because if you want to come in the next day and use colored pens, on some of the figures, you don't want them to bleed, so you want the items to dry. So I use different colored pens, especially these guys. Like, the gold and silver is really great. And these are called Uniball, and this one's Hybrid. They're gel rollers, and this one's really good with my figures, like the hair, because they look like they have blond hair so they're really cool. And then also, you can use colored pencils, you can come back in and use colored pencils into the figures for the clothing, like one of my figures has a headband, a pink little headband and it's really nice, really girly. So thanks."