This activity requires some preparation work in advance. I use this opportunity to discuss about shapes around us and what we can look out for in nature and all around us. Like a playground, buildings, vehicles, etc. I love that this is very open, process art and the kids and I talk about the possibilities that we could create. There are also other types of materials that could be used such as fabric scraps, bottle caps, straws that can also be used to create your collage. We also had different textures like magazine papers, construction paper, corrugated board, foam, aluminium foils and colored tissue papers. This activity promotes fine motor skills when using scissors to cut, using a brush to put on glue and pinching little shapes to stick onto the collage. They also get to learn colors and explore textures while they are at it. It is a simple activity with minimal preparation and clean up. Its great as it teaches and reinforces shapes to them. You need a.One of our favorite activities to do with our kids at home and at our workshops is shape collages. There are very few basic materials you need to begin collage work. You can work for months to cover even a fraction but, I ended up trying those that appealed to me and I hope this beginning collage post will help you get started on this fun, enriching, relaxing activity of making art collages. Of course, I barely touched the amount of collage ideas that were in those books. These are mostly paper collages even though I do know that assemblages are part of collage I do not cover that here. To write about more concrete collage ideas I went through the 5 books I own on collage and started making lists of which collages I was going to do so that I could post them here. (As I get more comfortable with the other type of collage work I will post about that) In order to create collages we are often asked to paste random papers together to form some kind of artwork.Īs I am not so proficient or very comfortable with this kind of collage work I knew that in order to get you interested in doing collages, I had to bring you collage art ideas that were more down to earth and not symbolic. I find that many of the collage ideas and activities that are out there in museums are similar to this type of collage work which is symbolic and often non understandable without an explanation. The second part, where I had to figure out how to get abstract ideas onto a canvas was not so much fun for me. ![]() ![]() I loved the beginning of the activity where we got to rip and glue and paint. I chose the Taj Mahal and the slums of Mumbai to show inequality in life and it ended up looking like the image on the right which I titled "Worlds Apart". We then had to use google earth images to depict things relating to either gender, place, time or equality. This was a progressive collage activity that I did at my Summer 2016 Columbus School for Art & Design Summer Educators program where we started by covering the canvas with pieces of ripped magazine, paint and anything else I could find. That is because collage is often presented as the type of activity I did shown in the image above. They can be abstract or very realistic.Ĭollage can be intimidating to some. To define collage we can say that a collage is a piece of artwork made by gluing bits of paper and fabrics to some kind of background like paper, cardboard or canvas. That's if you understand what a collage is.
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