Creative Collage: Telling Stories in Layers
Sample Collage Review
A course by Ellen Weinstein , Author and Illustrator
About the video: Sample Collage Review
Overview
“I will review samples of students’ work and remark on the different steps of the process as well as finalise the image. ”
In this video lesson Ellen Weinstein addresses the topic: Sample Collage Review, 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
“Sample Collage Review We've finished our projects, creating a collage that combines together, setting, object, text and character. The most crucial thing is that the work communicates on its own and tells a story. We have some work done by students that I'm seeing for the first time, and as I look at them, we’ll see how well their work communicates and how they constructed their stories. Here, this person took this character, I think it's a bear, judging from the little ears and the long snout, and shows him in an interior scene, baking. This piece communicates very well and it's great stor...”
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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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