Collage Examples

Hey everyone here are a few collage examples. I found these by googling things such as Modernist Collage or Contemporary Collage. It doesn't have to be abstract it can have realistic elements and text, abstract is just a personal bias for me.

3rd Assignment Collage Assignment

For your third assignment we will be painting a collage you have made from newspapers, magazines, and printed materials that you will collect.  I will be posting multiple examples on the blog so check in with that if you need any.

Tuesday(27^th) bring the necessary materials to make a collage. And maybe an extra piece of hardboard or cardboard to mount the collage on since you will be using it throughout the project. The dimensions of your collage need to be 50% of your canvas, same shape just 50%

The collages will be made in class Tuesday so please use this weekend to collect those. Please no high-school content think modernist.

Because lack of large staplers I am able to obtain I will have to do the stretching demo in small groups rather than all at once and this will give you the time to create the collages.

Tuesday(27^th) bring to class

-Built stretcher bars- just the wood

-Collage materials- spend some time finding these because you will be making a full size painting from it.

Thursday(29th) bring to class

-Your primed canvas

-Your completed collage

-Pencil and a ruler if you want to graph it onto your canvas.

-Three large tubes of acrylic paint in the primary colors

-Black and white acrylic

-Pallet paper- “imagine a pad of wax paper for mixing color on”

-3 different size brushes with one being the 2 inch which you can get from a hardware store but please do no buy the cheap bristle brush it will save you the headache of pulling bristles out of your painting.

-Spray bottle

Painting Vocabulary

VOCABULARY

Positive Space: The figure(s) or object(s) or tangible thing(s) in a composition. Sometimes an object can be both positive and negative depending on its relationship to other tangible things in the composition.

Negative Space: The “empty” areas; the space that exists between, around, and behind tangible forms and in part defines tangible forms. Negative space is as significant in a composition as positive space.

Proportion: The relative size or amount of one element to another.

Planes: Imaginary, transparent flat surfaces, infinite in size.

Picture Plane: The area the canvas takes up containing what happens in/on it

Framing: The edges that define the given space in which a work of art is composed.

Value: The relative degree of lightness or darkness given to an area by the amount of light reflected from it. High value means approaching white. Low value means approaching black.

Volume: The size of a three-dimensional space enclosed within or occupied by an object. In a drawing we create the illusion of volume in a 2-dimensional plane.

Linear: Relating to, consisting of, or using lines.

Composition: The way that the elements (formal components) are arranged in a given space.

Figure/Ground Relationship: Similar to the positive/negative space relationship, the ground represents the picture plane or the surface of the paper.

Balance: A feeling of equality in weight, attention, or attraction of the various visual elements within the pictorial field as a means of accomplishing unity.

Symmetrical Balance: A form of balance achieved by the use of identical compositional units on either side of a vertical axis within the confining pictorial space. This creates a static, formal composition.

Asymmetrical Balance: A form of balance attained when the visual units on either side of a vertical axis are identical, but are placed within the pictorial field so as to create a “felt” equilibrium. This creates a more dynamic composition.

Repetition: In repetition, some visual element(s) are repeated, providing stepping stones for our eye to follow.

Rhythm: The orderly repetition of visual elements or repetition in a marked pattern, which creates flowing movement.

Pattern: A two-dimensional application of rhythm or repetition, such as the repeated motif in a wallpaper or textile design.

Biomorphic shapes: Irregular, curvilinear shapes resembling living organisms.

Geometric shapes: Triangle, rectangle, circle, or composites thereof.

Texture: the surface quality or “feel” of an object, its smoothness, roughness, softness, etc. Textures can be actual or simulated. Actual textures can be felt with the fingers, while simulated textures are visually suggested by an artist when drawing things like drapery, metal, rocks, hair, etc.

Surface: the outside part or uppermost layer of something (often used when describing its texture, form, or extent)

Installation:  the way art is installed: the way it alters the way a space is experienced, as a gallery; an exhibition of such artworks: An art installation means taking a large interior and loading it with disparate items that evoke complex and multiple associations and thoughts, longings, and moods.

Media: materials used to make the work- the ground and the mark making materials

2D: having the dimensions of height and width only: shape

Shape: the external form or appearance characteristic of someone or something; the outline of an area or figure.

3D: having, or seeming to have, the dimension of depth as well as width and height. Form

Form: at its most basic, a form is a three-dimensional geometrical figure (i.e.: sphere, cube, cylinder, cone, etc.), as opposed to ashape, which is two-dimensional, or flat.

Formal: form refers to the visible elements of a piece, independent of their meaning. For example, when viewing Leonardo'sMona Lisa, the formal elements therein are: color, dimension, lines, mass, shape, etc

Focal Point: Area of highest visual interest in a composition. Composition lines lead the viewer’s eye toward the focal point. It usually consists of a shape with the greatest meaning, greatest or smallest size, greatest controlled central position.

Subjective: existing in the mind; belonging to the thinking subject rather than to the object of thought (opposed to objective ).

Objective: Existing independent of or external to the mind; actual or real: objective reality. Based on observable phenomena; empirical: Uninfluenced by emotions or personal prejudices

Abstract: simplification and alteration of forms to present the essence of objects, people, or places

Analogous Colors: colors that are side by side on the color wheel and have a common hue

Color Scheme: plan for organizing colors (monochromatic, analogous, complementary, triad, split complementary, warm, and cool)

Color Wash or Glaze: to apply a thin second color on top of a first, allowing the undercoat to show through

Color Wheel: radial diagram of colors in which primary and secondary, and sometimes intermediate colors are displayed as an aid to color identification, choosing, and mixing

Complements: colors opposite each other on the color wheel

Composition: the organization or arrangement of a work of art

Cool colors: violets, blue-greens and blues (colors that recede)

Earth colors: colors including yellow ochre, burnt umber, raw sienna, and burnt sienna

Focal point: portion of an artwork's composition on which interest or attention centers

Gesso: white mixture of chalky pigment combined with glue used to prepare a canvas for painting

Hard Edge: edges of shapes are crisp and sharp, not blurred

Impasto: thick textured build up of a picture's surface which is created through the repeated applications of paint

Intensity: brightness or dullness of a color

Intermediate color: color made by mixing a primary color with a secondary color (ie: red orange) tertiary colors

Juxtaposition: in painting, the close placement of colors on forms side by side, often oppositional

Limited Palette: a palette of just three paints such as blue, yellow and an earth color

Local Color: Natural color of a subject

Luminocity: exceptional brightness and clarity

Matte: Lacking highlights or gloss

Monochromatic: consisting of one color and it’s tints and shades

Neutral Colors: Neutral colors include browns, blacks, grays, and whites. A color can be neutralized by adding some of its complement to it.

Opaque: opposite of transparent. Pigment does not allow underneath colors to show through

Primary Colors: (blue, red, yellow) cannot be made from mixtures of other colors 

Prime: to prepare a canvas, usually with gesso

Saturation: intensity of a color

Secondary Colors: colors obtained by mixing equal amounts of two primary colors

Solvent: liquid that controls the thickness, or thinness of paint

Medium: Material you mix with paint to extend the paint and make it easier to work with, thicker or thinner

Split complements: one color and the colors on each side of its complement on the color wheel (ie: red, yellow green and blue green)

Subjective color: colors that have no connection with object reality

Tertiary colors: colors made by mixing a primary color with its adjacent secondary color (ie: red and orange = red orange)

Tint: light value of a color, made by mixing the color with white 
Triad: three colors equally spaced on the color wheel (red, yellow and blue form a triad) do (orange, green and violet form a triad)

Trompe L’oiel: to paint a subject on a wall or furniture so realistically it “fools the eye” 

Warm Colors: (red, orange, and yellow) warm colors seems to move toward the viewer 

Stretcher: wooden strips of varying lengths fitted together to make a support frame for canvas

Critique: reflection or discussion when dealing with works of art

Dyptic: a work of art in two sections or parts

Craftsmanship: quality of what a person does 

Acrylic Paint Option

I went to Artisans today looking for acrylic paint and I ended up getting Abstract Innovative Acrylic. It is really inexpensive for the variety of colors they offer and also the quality. It runs about $6 per color. Just an idea for the second and third project if you are looking for materials.