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Collage Your Life: Techniques, Prompts, and Inspiration for Creative Self-Expression and Visual Storytelling

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Collage Your Life: Techniques, Prompts, and Inspiration for Creative Self-Expression and Visual Storytelling

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Requiring minimal equipment--just scissors, glue, paper, and pens--collage is an accessible craft that offers limitless creative possibilities. Like meditation or journaling, making collage can be an avenue for self-reflection and artistic exploration. In Collage Your Life, artist and teacher Melanie Mowinski teaches a variety of core techniques including lettering, stamping, stenciling, transfers, and adhesive methods, and provides dozens of prompts to jumpstart the creative process and encourage crafters to explore the versatility of collage, such as: make a self-portrait; disrupt your routine instincts; incorporate text; assemble mementos from a trip; process anger or anxiety; collage with others; or try creating block-out poetry with pages from a magazine. Inspiring examples of the author's work along with that of other collage artists are featured throughout. Crafters, journaling fans, scrapbookers, and artists alike will find guidance and support for developing their own distinctive collage style, whether the goal is to create a visual record of daily experiences and special occasions or to expand a creative journaling practice.
 

Melanie Mowinski is a professor of art at Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts and founder of PRESS: Letterpress as a Public Art Project. She has maintained a daily practice of collage and creating with paper for more than 10 years. Her artist books are part of special collections at the American Library at the Smithsonian, Haas Arts Library at Yale University, and the Tate Modern Museum of Art in London. She lives in Williamstown, MA. 

ISBN: 9781635863567

ISBN-10: 9781635863567

Publisher: Storey Publishing, LLC

Publication Date: 06/21/2022 - 12:00am

On Sale: 06/21/2022 - 12:00am

Pages: 224

Language: English

Categories

Crafts & Hobbies / Papercrafts

Crafts & Hobbies / Upcycling & Repurposing

Crafts & Hobbies / Mixed Media