Today's session was aimed at generating ideas and illustrating them through collage.
Interestingly, the word collage stems from the french word...coller...which means 'to stick'. So if you can't remember the word for sticking various, seemingly unrelated images together in one place, you can always pick up ya french dictionary and look up the word stick (together).......... that's if you're anything like me :)
....anyway, the aim was to create a collage using a small 4"x6" card. We had newspapers and magazines to scamper thru and salvage what we could.
Initially, the work being produced was unsure and ill-confident, that changed after we had a few pointers thrown our way.
One critisiscm was how we were occupying too much of the negative space.
The negative space can make the images in the collage stronger drawing your attention to them. My first piece was cluttered and outside regulations. Second piece was better!
Looking back on this exercise, I enjoyed it, I felt like I learnt something from it. I think it's good to be able to look at other people's works and make strong, intelligent critics.
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