Mixed-Media Illustration: Activate Your Imagination
Photomontage
A course by Leonor Pérez B. , Illustrator and Instructor
About the video: Photomontage
Overview
“Analog photomontage results from the assembly of recognizable images. I will show you several technical and narrative characteristics of the photomontage, and we will see how this resource is an excellent means to start various creative processes.”
In this video lesson Leonor Pérez B. addresses the topic: Photomontage, which is part of the Domestika online course: Mixed-Media Illustration: Activate Your Imagination. Learn to mix different materials and discover new visual narratives that feed your creativity.
Partial transcription of the video
“Photomontage In this lesson, we are going to work around analog photomontage, whose essence is the assembly of recognizable images. The photomontage technique is characterized by creating constructed images through the relationship of other images. To develop a photomontage, you can work with complete shapes or work with fragments that you consider necessary, depending on the purpose. It is necessary in terms of trade for the photomontage generate precise cuts that allow to generate this optical illusion that it is an image. Although it is created with different elements, different graphic ...”
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Course summary for: Mixed-Media Illustration: Activate Your Imagination
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Category
Illustration -
Areas
Acrylic Painting, Collage, Drawing, Fine Arts, Traditional illustration
Leonor Pérez B.
A course by Leonor Pérez B.
Illustrator Leonor Pérez was born in Santiago, Chile where she also received her BA in visual arts. She taught children and teens for some years until finally deciding to dedicate herself solely to illustration. She then moved to Mexico to study the discipline at the UNAM's Casa Universitario del Libro, a trip that had a great impact on her career. She went on to study imagination and creativity and is currently taking a master's in education. She has worked for the vast majority of the publishing houses across Chile as well as collaborated with publishers in Mexico, the US, Korea, and Brazil.
She is a three-time winner of the IBBY Chile's Hummingbird Medal and her book Balada da estrela e outros poemas has won awards from the FNLIJ IBBY Brasil and the Catedra Unesco de Leitura PUC-Rio. Additionally, Leonor is a professor for the illustration diploma and continuing education program at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile.
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