Every photograph captures a precious memory - and 'Creative Photo Collage' is a complete guide to collecting, archiving and presenting those treasured personal images. Marie Browning offers dozens of unique projects for turning photographs into home decor and gifts.
Discover how to make creative, personal collages with advice, techniques, and projects from craft author and graphic designer Clare Youngs. Discover how to make creative, personal collages with advice, techniques, and projects from craft author and graphic designer Clare Youngs. We are all born with an inner desire to express ourselves. Making collages, especially in the form of art journals, gives you an opportunity to express thoughts, feelings, and wishes and to capture memories. It is a way of collating and putting thoughts in order. You can look back at filled pages with a real sense of accomplishment. Most of all it is fun! In Creative Collage, Clare Youngs reveals the secrets of collaging, one of her favorite crafts. Learn about the kinds of paper you can use, such as maps, tickets, photographs, typography, and magazine pages, and how to add texture, use layering, and make use of geometric designs. Some of Clare's amazing collages are included for inspiration, and she explains how she chose the materials and composition for each one. Clare then presents a collection of projects that offer unique ways to display your collages and even make 3-D collages, such as a decoupaged chest of drawers and a family photo wooden block house. Along with helpful prompts to give you ideas for collages, such as “something you saw on a walk” or “a happy memory,” this book provides all you need to get started with this personal, expressive craft.
Collage allows your creativity to run riot. It lets you juxtapose disparate elements, styles and media against each other and create something entirely novel, bizarre, arresting, beautiful, ironic or unsettling. Old and new can be fused together; digital and handproduced can be combined. What you can create with collage knows no bounds. Expertly curated with an eye to the fresh, the exciting collection of new collage ideas will inspire collage artists at every level, from those dipping a toe in the art form to experts.
Describes techniques in cutting, pasting, sewing, beading, stenciling and decoupaging involved with creating altered collage books. Presents 101 illustrated design ideas with tips and instructions.
This title examines comprehensively the little-known phenomenon of Victorian photocollage, presenting imagery that has rarely - and in many cases, never - been displayed or reproduced.
Oracle of Initiation: Rainbows in the Dark, by visionary artist and adventurer Mellissae Lucia, shares the startling metamorphosis of the author after the death of her husband in the wilds of the desert southwest. It offers a modern mythical tale of reclaiming our instinctive freedom through deep communion with the land and the Spirits of place. With over 70,000 ritualistic photographs birthed in subterranean graffiti tunnels and in the ancient desert landscapes of Georgia O'Keefe's New Mexico, Mellissae's journey offers an earthenbody pathway to reclaiming our Rainbows in the Dark--the paradox of our greatest gifts hidden in our shadows.The book operates as a companion text to her award-winning Oracle of Initiation divination cards, and as a valuable resource on its own for navigating the fierce and fluid initiatory energies currently available to claim your own authentic radiance. Black and white reproductions of the entire deck, with 56 images from the Painted Body series are within, as well as original messages spoken from cross-cultural deities on how to embrace your own sacred gifts through the tempering fires of initiatory awakening. The fascinating story of the emergence of the deck is shared, as well as insights into using Medicine Walks as pathways to embracing change. Unique readings for each of the eight realms within the deck are offered, and contributions for each of the Painted Body images from 22 cutting-edge metaphysical innovators including Mary K. Greer, Joanna Powell Colbert, Carrie Paris, Lisa de St. Croix, Marcus Katz, and Luisah Teish are included. Mellissae currently leads small group and individual deep immersion sacred quests in the New Mexico desert, as well as selling decks and offering intuitive readings with the Oracle.