Creative Collage: Telling Stories in Layers
Arranging Your Elements
A course by Ellen Weinstein , Author and Illustrator
About the video: Arranging Your Elements
Overview
“I will arrange my elements in different compositions and document each possible scenario with my phone camera. ”
In this video lesson Ellen Weinstein addresses the topic: Arranging Your 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
“Arranging Your Elements Now we have all our pieces we're going to use, in this lesson, we'll place them in the manner that best tells our story. BEFORE PLACING YOUR ELEMENTS ON THE BACKGROUND, REMEMBER TO ADD MORE DETAILS TO YOUR NEST ALSO REMEMBER TO CUT OFF THE BIRD CAREFULLY WITH THE X-ACTO KNIFE I'll place these buildings that I chose for the setting, looking again at the angles and the way they capture the Lower East Side and the low-rise tenement buildings. I want to make sure I capture a little bit of a sense of the crowded, narrow streets and I have the nest that I created to replac...”
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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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