Creative Collage: Telling Stories in Layers
Adding Text Elements
A course by Ellen Weinstein , Author and Illustrator
About the video: Adding Text Elements
Overview
“I am going to select a line of text that goes with my narrative of my grandfather, the tailor. I will pre-paint the text and cut it out. All the elements for the collage will be in layers and not glued down until the end. ”
In this video lesson Ellen Weinstein addresses the topic: Adding Text Elements, which is part of the Domestika online course: Creative Collage: Telling Stories in Layers. Make visual narratives inspired by everyday scenarios, combining photography, painting, and digital tools.
Partial transcription of the video
“Adding Text Elements In this lesson, we'll add some text. I love this measuring tape for what it means and I also appreciate it visually. and the way it scanned and the way I cut it out, it's something that we'll incorporate nicely into the collage, perhaps floating against the background and, thinking about text, I want to incorporate my text as part of the image, rather than having it look like a standalone quote, that's separate from the image, so I was looking for different texts that related to being a tailor, or a garment worker, and came across this quote by Ada Louise Huxtable, “Eve...”
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Course summary for: Creative Collage: Telling Stories in Layers
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Category
Craft, Illustration -
Software
Adobe Photoshop -
Areas
Collage, Digital Illustration, Editorial Illustration, Narrative, Storytelling, Traditional illustration
Ellen Weinstein
A course by Ellen Weinstein
Ellen Weinstein is an illustrator, author, and regular contributor to The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Washington Post, Pentagram Design, and many others. She has won numerous awards from American Illustration, Communication Arts, the Society of Illustrators Society of News Designers, and Art Directors Club. Ellen illustrated the children’s book Yayoi Kusama: From Here to Infinity and is the author and illustrator of Recipes for Good Luck: The Superstitions, Rituals and Practices of Extraordinary People.
Her work is in the permanent collection of the Library of Congress. She also teaches at the School of Visual Arts in New York City and hosts lectures and workshops at art schools internationally.
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