Learn What You Need to Make a Collage

Series Summary

“Collage” is a term created by Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso to refer to their series of paintings in the early 20th century that incorporated everyday elements such as matchbooks and newspapers onto the surface of the art. For decades, collage has been a favorite project for elementary school students creating self portraits with their favorite magazine photos, candy wrappers and stamps. But with the rise of scrapbooking as an immensely popular hobby, the art of collaging has reached a whole new level of artistic achievement for people who had never previously considered themselves artists.

Once you learn how to make a collage, you can use your collage-making abilities for a number of different forms of artistic expression. In this free video series, our expert will not only show you how to make a collage, but how to use collages to help plan projects, to help with shopping, and as a motivational tool. You'll learn how to make family photo collages, nature collages, and collages with a variety of themes. Be creative! Learn a new art form and use it in whatever way you like. Collages are great for scrapbooking, art projects, or as a hobby!

Video Transcript

"Hi, my name is Lanie Evans and on behalf of Expert Village, I'm here to let you know it's not hard to make a collage. It's really easy. Basically anything that you can glue down, becomes a collage. I don't know if you know this, Picasso and George Brock started collage back in the 20s I believe. It basically comes from a French word meaning "Glue". So let's get started and look at the some of the things we can glue down. Here you can use anything like wrapping paper, any kind of tissue papers. Old family photos, you can make a collage from them. Magazines are great. You can even use things like flower petals or leaves. Also I found some really great old books that people discarded that nobody seems to want and they have this beautiful discoloration and you can use things like this as well as a background or pieces of collage. You can also use things like paint samples or swatches. Old family recipes are great to save and make into a collage and you can also use letters or things from your children and incorporate into some artwork."