Artistic Mixed-media Collages
Background Preparation
A course by Petra Zehner , Illustrator and Collage Artist
About the video: Background Preparation
Overview
“Now you will see how to scan and prepare a couple of backgrounds for your collage. I will share with you some tips in order for you to see that you are not limited to the obvious choices like a piece of paper. You will notice you can use anything you want!”
In this video lesson Petra Zehner addresses the topic: Background Preparation, 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
“Background Preparation In this lesson, we'll scan and prepare some backgrounds I found for our collage. I found these in old books with these nice textures. We'll scan these at high resolution and then look at them in Photoshop. Let me show you. Let's add a little background to our portrait. We're working on a white canvas so we can add what we want. It doesn't have to be white paper. It can be anything. It can be another photo or an illustration. For this image, I'd like to work with an illustration I found. Somebody left it in my apartment building's lobby. An old book with cool and inter...”
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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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