Collage Palette: 1st Color

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Part of the video series: Collage Papers & Palettes

Summary: In collage, working with one color at at time is sometimes easier. Choose the first color for a collage palette with tips from a professional artist in this free video on visual arts.

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By Justine Crosby
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Justine Crosby is an artist from Cape Cod, MA who has taught classes, workshops, and mentorships in the visual arts since 2000. Crosby attended Savannah College of Art & Design where...read more

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"So your first step in actually towards creating your collage palette is choosing one tone or one hue to begin with. So as I've set aside piles, which is the first thing I tend to do, going through all of my books and magazines initially and setting aside my color palette. I'm going to just choose one of the hues to begin with and set aside the rest, so as not to become too mixed up and confused. It does become a little bit of a messy business working with collage and glue. You're dealing with paper and glue and sticky fingers and messy surface areas, so I'll get into that more as we're moving along, but the less paper that you're not using around your surface area of working, the better. So keep in mind just having one hue at a time is the best way to work for me, but it could be the best way for you as well. Just making sure to not have too much scrap in your way that's going to get sort of stuck to different parts that you're not looking forward to, and also to keep the separation of colors so that you know what you're working with."