Creating Botanical Collages from Scratch

Overview

“In this class, I will share with you how I finish a collage. To guide our journey, I leave here two questions: · Once the composition is ready, how do you think about how to glue the parts together? · How do we get better results for the presentation of texture, light and shadow and volumes?”

In this video lesson Manuela Eichner addresses the topic: Paste and finish, which is part of the Domestika online course: Creating Botanical Collages from Scratch. Compose original pieces that awaken the senses by exploring the colors and shapes of plants.

Partial transcription of the video

“paste and finish In this class, I will finish and paste the project, so, I'm going to demonstrate different ways of pasting and how to start thinking about this collage process. First, I try to observe here in the project which parties are related. An example: this person is related to this circle. What I usually do which helps later in the final gluing process, is to glue the parts first. Safe. I apply a very little glue, I don't glue much. I just make the marking glued to the face here, so I don't miss this point. Basically, this isn't going to take off anymore. We mark the segments. Here...”

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Course summary for: Creating Botanical Collages from Scratch

• Level: Beginner
• 100% positive reviews (23)
• 567 students
• 4 units
• 12 lessons (1h 38m)

• Category

  Craft, Illustration

• Areas

  Arts & Crafts, Collage, Pattern Design, Traditional illustration