Artistic Mixed-media Collages
Creating Material Libraries
A course by Petra Zehner , Illustrator and Collage Artist
About the video: Creating Material Libraries
Overview
“Having all your material organized will be very helpful for you to work easier and faster. I will show you how I collect and organize my materials, that way you can also have an idea of how to organize yours! ”
In this video lesson Petra Zehner addresses the topic: Creating Material Libraries, 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
“Creating Material Libraries In this lesson, you'll see how I collect and organize my materials into libraries. Let's have a look. Let me show you how I organize my materials. I'm a packrat, I collect everything. Torn pieces of paper, old book pages, anything I can find that has an interesting stain or something written on it, I collect it all and take it home. I can't keep it all because my studio would get messy so I scan all the pieces of paper I find and name them and organize them into libraries. A piece of advice, if you want to do a similar type of work, work with analog materials, sc...”
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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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