Gluebooks have been around for a few decades now, and recently I’ve seen them become popular again. I really love making gluebooks! Making collages using trash from around my house is almost a meditative experience for me, and I like the act of cutting and…
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Resources
10 more places to get free images for digital collages
Every year there are more and more resources becoming available for free public domain or royalty free images! That’s great news for digital artists, since it means more amazing photos, illustrations, and ephemera to work with. The majority of the image elements I use in…
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5 tips for getting the most out of the NYPL Digital Collections
The New York Public Library Digital Collections is a resource of 900,000+ digitized items, including photos, illustrations, manuscripts, texts and videos– with more being added every day! There’s a huge amount of digitized art, photos, and texts from around the world, and a particularly good…
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Where to get free fonts for digital art (and how to upload fonts to Canva)
Normally collages are pretty image-heavy, and don’t have a whole heap of text. But if you’ve started making digital art journal pages (like me), then you’re suddenly including a lot of text in your collages! And obviously you need to use a font that goes…
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Where to find free public domain images for digital artwork
The backbone of my digital collages are public domain images that I’ve collected over the years. If I didn’t have them to use I’d be in BIG TROUBLE. But what IS public domain? What’s the Public Domain? the realm embracing property rights that belong to…
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