Artistic Mixed-media Collages
Composition
A course by Petra Zehner , Illustrator and Collage Artist
About the video: Composition
Overview
“I will show you how to finish your collage! I will tell you everything you need to know about composition, how to pull visual elements and a design together, and how to decide when is the right moment to stop. ”
In this video lesson Petra Zehner addresses the topic: Composition, 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
“Composition In this lesson, we'll talk about composition, how to bring visual elements together, and how to decide when to stop. Let's have a look. Let's look one more time at our initial collage portrait. I like less is more and I wouldn't add more to this piece. I still think it's almost done but going from almost done to done is often the hardest part. Composition is important. The fewer elements you use, the more important it gets. I have to fix my overlay pattern here a bit, There're certain issues when I move it around. It doesn't work with the alignment of these windows here, and it ...”
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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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