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Summary: Tracing paper for collages can be any size depending on personal preference. Get tracing paper for collages with tips from a professional artist in this free video on visual arts.
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
"So the next supply that you'll need is to have some tracing paper. You can get any size, whatever works best for you. You'll probably end up ripping it down into smaller size pieces and you'll be using the tracing paper a lot actually as you are going on. In order to make sizes of paper, collage pieces of paper that actually fit exactly certain areas of your drawing. We'll get into that a little bit more as we go on. I tend to have several pieces of tracing paper. You can also use vellum. Vellum is just another type of tracing paper and it has a bit of a frosted look. It is a little bit thicker but it's up to you really what you prefer to do. I have that with already a drawing on it. Then the next thing you might want to think about using as opposed to random collage cut outs I tend to also make some patterns and I tend to use a bit thicker stock paper. These are nothing in specific. They are just patterns that I enjoy. So if you have them then they are easy to trace out on to the different types of paper that you have and then you can cut out the different shapes and have multiples."