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Summary: When using a glue stick for collage adhesive, first place the image on Plexiglas or another washable surface. Use glue sticks for collage 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 I'm going to show you how to use the glue stick, we've already cut out a piece for this already made image that I have here, that I've been working on doing some collaging on as well as printing and painting and drawing so you can see how this thing sort of worked together. We cut this piece out here, so basically what we are going to do, we are going to lay it on to our clean washable surface, our Plexiglas. So this is one of those things when you are working with a glue stick, you want to make sure that when you work in one area you sort of, you brush out or move out with the glue stick form the center of the piece, cause as you can see it's sort of gets a little stuck. And as you turn around you use one finger to sort of hold it in place, making sure one of the points about glue sticks is that you get all the edges covered. Cause once you place your piece down, you don't really have the opportunity as much to lift if up and get the glue stick underneath to re-adhere some glue. So here we are just going to take it after we put our glue on the back side, lay it out exactly where we want it. And then we are just going to go ahead and rub from corner to corner and lay it out on to our surface. Like that. And there you can see."