Creative Collage: Telling Stories in Layers
Adding Embellishments 1
A course by Ellen Weinstein , Author and Illustrator
About the video: Adding Embellishments 1
Overview
“In this last step, I will do the final glueing down of the elements.”
In this video lesson Ellen Weinstein addresses the topic: Adding Embellishments 1, 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 Embellishments We're almost done. You should be satisfied with your piece. In this lesson, we'll add embellishments before we glue everything. Everything's coming together well but this nest is getting a bit lost. I want to get more contrast inside the nest itself and make the center part a little bit darker. These are the two main pieces that I want to work on. I'll put these over here and take the rest and move it out of the way. It's a nice idea to revisit something in your piece as you're finalizing it. Keep asking the question, "Is it saying what I wanted to say?" In this case, ...”
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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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