Summary: A painting grid is a help tool for visualizing collages. Learn how to combine images in a grid pattern to create interesting images in this free art lesson video from an art instructor.
Gretchen Kibbe is an artist and part-time faculty member at Appalachian State University. She worked as a scenic artist on the Spike Lee movie School Daze.read more
"I wanted to just try a different way of recombining these. Again, thinking about the grid and components and motifs and so on and so I've cut these up into rectangles. I haven't cut up the whole image so you can still kind of get an idea. Here's the original one that we worked with. And I've cut these up and I'm going to start seeing, I'm not going to try to keep that as an image, I'm going to try to keep this as an image. But I'm going to see what I can do with sort of putting in some of these facets. And how successful that can be. So this is really sort of playing with this idea of I'm using a grid cause you can see the grid components here but I'm moving things around so that they're sort of off-kilter. See so I'm going to move that over here and so we want more of this image over here. So we're sort of moving on up this way, so that actually makes more sense if we do this and then that moves over here and then this would move over here. So that you get this sense of, how far can you take this? What can you make out of it? And all I'm using is a bunch of cut up photograph. But design has a lot of places to take you so this is all like offset and I think it's actually something I could start to work with."