SKETCH BOOK Collage Cover

Main Focus: you!!!

Why do we need a

Sketchbook?To put your ideas and opinions on paper

To take important notes

To doodle and draw things you see or imagine

To work out your ideas in numerous thumbnail

sketches

It acts as a record of where you started and how

you have grown as an artist

To aid in the creative process

What is a

Collage ?

Collage (From the French: coller, to glue, is a technique of art production, primarily used in the visual arts, where the artwork is made from an assemblage of different forms, thus creating a new whole.

It can include: newspaper clippings, ribbons, bits of colored or handmade papers, portions of other artwork or texts, photographs and other found objects, glued to a piece of paper or canvas.

The origins of collage can be traced back hundreds of years, but this technique made a dramatic reappearance in the early 20th century as an art form of novelty.

The Sorrows of the King, Henri Matisse

Let’s look at some types of

collages…

Torn Paper

Simple and Bold

Color and Shapes

Mixed Mediums

Do you have

ideas?

Criteria (how will you be graded)

Must cover entire background

Need minimum of 3 medias

ex. Crayon, colored pencil, watercolor paint, magazine pictures, photos, drawings, oil

pastel,etc.

Must be creative and create an interesting composition

Needs to have an overall theme

Must have letters or words that aid in representing you or the theme

Craftmanship, effort, and participation are also a part of your grade.

Previous Student Collages

Things that will help you

have a successful collage

cover…Write down things you like ex. Hobbies, music, friends

Collect a variety of magazine pictures that you like

Find different pictures of textures in magazines that can add interest to your collage

Test different mediums on scrap paper before adding to final cover

Bring in pictures and scraps from home (photos, ribbon, lace, feathers, buttons, etc.

Creative block? Start by thinking how you can use the elements of art: line, shape, color, value,

Good or Bad?