Collage Materials: Image for Work

Video Transcript

"So the next decision that you need to make, is the image that you're working with. Now the thing about working with different types of images is that you want to be thinking, especially for your first collage piece, to work with something that has enough spacial area so that you can make larger cut pieces. The more small detail that you have, the more intricacy of pieces of paper that you need to be working with, the more challenging that the degree of the work is. Doesn't mean that you can't do it on your first try, I would just suggest doing something with a little more space. So, either you're choosing an image that already exists, you're creating an image of your own. This is a wing from a butterfly that I've already drawn out, and then I traced it, in order to be able to see what it would look like on tracing paper. Because that way I can also lay it out on top of pieces and see what kind of colors would look like inside of the different spaces. So this would be a little bit more easy to cut and paste into, as you can see. Again, you can use the flower piece, which has a little bit more of intricacy of detail as I traced it out, but again you can always work that way. Or you can draw directly onto a board yourself, which is actually the piece I'm going to be working on with you today."