Artistic Mixed-media Collages
About Me
A course by Petra Zehner , Illustrator and Collage Artist
About the video: About Me
Overview
“In this lesson, I will tell you about my background and life, and how all of it influenced my personal and artistic development. I will also share with you how I became a collage artist!”
In this video lesson Petra Zehner addresses the topic: About Me, which is part of the Domestika online course: Artistic Mixed-media Collages. Create unique collages that are both vintage and contemporary, and blur the line between traditional art and digital illustration.
Partial transcription of the video
“About Me Hi, I'm Petra Zehner. I'm a graphic designer, illustrator, and collage artist. I was born in a small town in former East Germany, into a non-creative, non-artistic family. There was no art growing up, or books, or galleries, or museums. We had a small theater but no one took me there. I liked doing creative things, drawing, and creating things with my hands. I managed to get into art classes when I was six or seven years old. My kindergarten teacher recommended me. My mom took me but she wasn't into it. She signed me up for swimming classes instead and I ended up being a competitiv...”
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Course summary for: Artistic Mixed-media Collages
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Category
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Software
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Areas
Collage, Digital Illustration, Editorial Illustration
Petra Zehner
A course by Petra Zehner
Petra Zehner is a German illustrator and collage artist. After studying literature and linguistics in Berlin, Petra experimented with writing, photography, and illustration, which led her to study graphic design in London. Since then, she has moved back and forth between Germany, the UK, Malaysia, and Singapore, before basing herself in Paris. During this time, Petra rediscovered collage as a medium that combines all of her interests. For Petra, collage is also a metaphor for life as a whole, and the way we collect, mix, match, and make things our own.
Petra discovered that she didn’t want to work exclusively with traditional collage methods and created her own combination of analog and digital elements. She is the creative director and founder of Paris Collage Collective, a community that sets regular creative challenges to connect local and global artists, and encourage creative expression that goes “further than likes and shares on social media platforms”. Petra has also worked on various art projects, including Elleree, her own series of 365 images based on the same photo of an unknown woman taken in the early 1900s. She says that having to try new things repetitively in such a way pushes her to look at things with different eyes
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