Depending on your collage style, you may or may not want to have a “focus image.” I come from the world of mixed media art journals, where usually there’s a specific photo or drawing that the rest of the page is centered around. Having a…
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How to declutter a paper ephemera collection
If you’ve been crafting for a while, you’ve probably collected a huge amount of paper, photos, magazines, and junk— not to mention all the paint, ink, stamps, and stencils that you need to make an art journal. Having a huge ephemera collection can be great,…
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Get organized! Using Canva to store digital collage elements
The more digital collages you create, the more image elements you end up collecting. It’s just a fact of life for a digital artist! I started off with a tiny collection of vintage photographs and have worked my way up to hundreds of image elements…
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What to do when you hate your collage
Sometimes a piece just isn’t coming together. You’ve been working on something for hours and it still doesn’t look right. What do you do? Delete the file in shame? Turn to oil painting instead of digital collage? Quit being an artist all together? Hell no!…
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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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Going digital – why I’m dumping my paper ephemera collection
Being stuck indoors for the last three months has changed my thinking on hoarding art supplies. Pre-pandemic, it was totally fine to have stacks and stacks of books, papers, and ephemera– because I (basically) had everything in boxes and semi-organized, and eventually I’d use them….
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How to handle art jealousy and become a better artist
How do you handle art jealousy? I mean, spend any amount of time online in the artistic community, and you’ll inevitably run into the Big Green Monster. No, not Shrek. JEALOUSY. I struggle with art jealousy all the time. I see an amazing art journal…
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