If You Can Cut, You Can Collage : From Paper Scraps to Works of Art by Chastain, Ms. Hollie

Author: Chastain, Ms. Hollie

Collage & photomontage

Published on 2 November 2017 by Quarto Publishing Group USA Inc (Quarry Books) in the United States.

Paperback | 128 pages, colour illustrations
218 x 254 x 12 | 432g

If You Can Cut, You Can Collage is specially designed for people who feel like they can’t make art. Want to know a secret? You can! You just need a little inspiration, instruction, and confidence.

Collage is a wonderful creative outlet, particularly for people who want to make art, but dont feel they have the skillsor confidencefor other endeavors. You can still explore and experiment with color, composition, and various themes and end up with exciting and often unexpected results.

If you Can Cut, You Can Collage takes some of the mystery out of collage through easy illustrated pages that show you the basic techniques of collecting and cutting imagery, composing and adhering compositions, and then provides a wealth of exercises that get readers going on their own creative projects.

Well get you started with simple, focused, projects like making a collage with only circles, where youll learn important concepts like how to create a focal point, how to use repetition successfully, how to achieve contrast, balance, symmetry, and more. Youll be incorporating vintage ephemera, typography and lettering, and even urban and found materials in no time!