Since the present focus
here is on collage, these many approaches will be applied to making a collage
that may work very well without having a formal understanding of composition at
first.
Often children have an
intuitive sense about composition, that comes from observing the world around
them. When the analytical side of awareness develops, many children become
obsessed with details, concern over realism and lose that natural artist that
they once possessed.
I would like to encourage
people to enjoy their inner child in the process of making a collage. There are
multiple approaches and different examples for creating art work. A person can
follow some basic steps, without copying the example shown, or trying to mimic
someone else’s work.
Exposure to these options
will allow the collage artist to recognize the approaches which are appealing
enough for him or her to try. As this process unfolds, I may include comments
about why a piece works as a composition or why it fails, as well as how to
improve upon the problems.
This in turn will become
integrated into the artist’s understanding of why (or not) their process is
achieving what they wish. In time, the artist’s preferences will govern his or
her choices. Eventually an awareness about composition will evolve out of the
process.
My intention is to show
various ways of presenting a subject, which I think of as Approaches. I will probably include several individual Subject
Treatments and Approaches for a month or two on this blog.These should be
suitable for collage. I may include a list of more treatments and approaches at
the end of the allotted time, and then in future, feature Approaches more
periodically on this blog, Labeled with that name.
The approaches I explain
will hopefully be presented in a sequence that builds upon previous
approaches. If I present them out of
sequence, please forgive me.
I will try to put them
back into the correct sequence in the future.
Please Note. My Scanner stopped working about a month ago, so transferring images to my blogs means I must use a camera which does not have high resolution capability. I may get things working again, and could potentially scan actual work for illustration of these techniques after the fact.
