Artistic Mixed-media Collages
Where to Find Materials
A course by Petra Zehner , Illustrator and Collage Artist
About the video: Where to Find Materials
Overview
“I will show you where to find collage materials, and I will talk to you about copyright restrictions that you should keep in mind before you start creating your final project or any project. I will also share with you some places where to find copyright-free materials to work with. ”
In this video lesson Petra Zehner addresses the topic: Where to Find Materials, 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
“Where to Find Materials In this lesson, I'll tell you a bit about where to find materials, copyright, and finding copyright-free materials. You can't talk about collage without talking about copyright. One of the reasons you see so many vintage or retro collages is that once images reach a certain age, they're passed into the public domain and can be used without any copyright restrictions. Copyright is complicated and differs from country to country. Generally, it expires between 70 and 125 years, after either the death of the author, which is in our case the photographer or the illustrato...”
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Course summary for: Artistic Mixed-media Collages
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Category
Craft, Illustration -
Software
Adobe Photoshop -
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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