Collage Palette: Thin Material

Video Transcript

"So another option aside from using different types of paper is using some thin fabrics, so here I have some different colored fabrics that also have some patterning on the other side. These are actually some Buddhist prayer flags I believe that have some really interesting designs from the goddess or deities and then you can just use the other side or whichever side you are more interested in. But I'm looking at mostly specifically the thinness of the material here, this is most important part of it. Because you want the adhesive to be able to saturate through such as they saturate the paper. And you'll see that as we move along and actually begin to collage, why that's important. But if you are using thicker fabrics it's a lot harder to make them adhere to the surface as well as you are dealing with fabrics that you enjoy the surface of or the softness of and when you are working with adhesives it sort of takes that away and makes the fabrics sort of like the rest of the papers on the board and you'll see, I'll show you some examples that I've used these fabrics on. So again you want to make sure that they're porous enough, they're thin enough and that they are able enough to cut into intricate detail such as paper is."