Melanie Mowinski

Collage Your Life (eBook, ePUB)

Techniques, Prompts, and Inspiration for Creative Self-Expression and Visual Storytelling

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Requiring nothing more than paper, pen, scissors, and glue, collage is a highly accessible craft that offers a myriad of possibilities for creative self-expression and visual journaling. Artist and teacher Melanie Mowinski combines in-depth technique instructions with dozens of inspiring examples and prompts to assist crafters, artists, and creatives of all levels in developing their own personal style of using collage to create distinctive memory books, journals, and records of daily life experiences.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Storey Publishing, LLC
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Juni 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781635863574
• Artikelnr.: 64262963

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
* What Do You Love?
Chapter 1: Build Your Materials
* General Tools
* Materials
* Building Blocks of Design
* Composition
Chapter 2: Develop Your Techniques
* Collage Building
* Other Techniques
* Low-Tech Printmaking
* Text
* Fabric, Feathers, and Found Objects
Chapter 3: Make Collage a Practice
* Begin, Again
* Find Your Voice
* Translation
* Patience
* What Holds You Back
* Go BIG
* One Size Does Not Fit All
* How to Change Your Mind
* Who or What Guides You?
* ASK
* Disrupt
* Play with Memory
* Find Your Antlers
* Use Your Hands
* There’s Never a Perfect Time
* I Know, I’m Ready, I Can
* Self-Portrait as Mirror
* Let Your Light Shine
* It Is Solved by Walking
* What Yes Comes from No?
* Get Comfortable with Being Uncomfortable
* Envision
* Embrace Fluidity
* What Passes through Your Hands?
* Find Forgiveness
* Revise or Censor?
* Useless Anxiety
* Wander
* I Don’t Have to Do This, I Get to Do This
* Deliberate Practice
* Join a Challenge
* Strength Is Subtle
* Collage with Others
* Face It
* Open for Fun
* Walk the Line
* Build Slowly
* Accept Solitude
* Wait without Thought
* Only Connect
* Wilderness Mindset
* Send Some Mail
* Find Kindness
* Make the Most of Boredom
* Come Alive
* Tap the Power of Enthusiasm
* Focus on What Is Right
* Love Everything that Gets in Your Way
* Delve into Your Dark Nights of the Soul
* Reframe Negativity
* Show Up and Get to Work
* Let the Light Shift
* Follow Your Intuition
* Work Expands to Fill the Time
* Create Accountability
Chapter 4: Create the Container
* Making Your Own Collage Books
Reading List
Resources
Materials and Inspiration
Contributors
Acknowledgments
Index