SETTING UP
This lesson in collage is a direct continuation of the compositional lines made
in the previous class. Once the ten painted black sticks are set and glued in
place, they become a scaffold for the addition of further textures, colors,
and tones. To prepare for this lesson, stain and dry a sheet of tissue paper
using blue ink. You will also need spare white paper; scissors, glue, a compass,
correction fluid or white paint, and black ink.
"My understanding is that every object [or shape] emanates—sends out
vibrations beyond its physical body which are specific to itself."
(Russell Page)
ABSTRACT
LINES
Collage
HERE WE EXPERIMENT with collage, which is the shifting, ready-made depths and surfaces; an infinite range of voices
overlapping placement of materials on a flat plane. Cut or and meaning. Images and fragments torn from day-to-day
torn layers and shapes, found or made items, colors and life can be brought together to make a chorus of ideas and
textures can be manipulated until their pictorial harmony, emotions. Returning to Russell Page, he went on to say
or discordance, feels "just" (see pp.228-29). This principal "... you start composing by adding or subtracting shapes
also applies to three-dimensional drawings such as Gaudi's and textures and using colors and tones to achieve the
work with wire and weights on p.69 and Abe's installation impression you want to make—whether dramatic or
on p.220. Collage offers the artist a liberating palette of subdued, hard or soft, harmonious, or even strident."
