I love collage

I give away my art as gifts all the time, thus why I only have two up right now, lol. I might ask to borrow my works again to scan and upload them, but some people I've given work to I just don't talk to anymore.

I grew up in a little bit of a horder house. It wasn't awful, but my family kept more things more often then they should've. One thing they kept a lot of, was magazines.
So when I got into art at a young age, and I couldn't make the people I drew look like people, I'd cut out girls from fashion magazines to make the characters I saw in my head (which looked as terrifying as you're imagining). In middle school, my mom gave me her collection of National Geographics, that she'd aquired in her childhood, from about 1982 to 1994. This really blast off my love of cutting out cool pictures and pasting them together. Even when I've not done phsyical art, I've made digital collages, via webbrowser editers and apps like polyvore (rip). I've gone through so many styles, including cutting my own drawings and putting them on canvas with gouache, poorly printed images with acrylic and lots of glitter, and various phases involving watercolor and puffy-paint.

The images to the right are handmade by me, in what I guess you could call my current style, which are much more simple and oddly more personal.

resources

here's everything that might help

do you wanna make collage? Just do it! All you need is siscors, paper, something to cut up, and something sticky! But, for fun, here's some extra junk:

Tips

I like the aesthetic of tape on top sometimes, but it's not necesssary at all

Yard sales, garage sales, vintage/thrift stores, old bookstores, estate sales, and church/rummage sales are all great places to look for old magazines. If you're not shy, you can even ask sellers if they have old magazines they want to get rid of for cheap.

If you don't have tweezers, long nails work fine, lol.

If you're brave, you can use old film negatives in your work, but I'm personally hesitant to use anything that might be historical or one of a kind.

If you want to scan your work, make sure you you're using a flatbed scanner and not a sheetfed one (sheetfed are likely to rip off pieces of your work and they'll get stuck in the machine. RIP my 70 dollar best buy printer) your local library might have one you can use for a few dollars, if not, look into print shops in your area.

basics

• good scissors
• the scissors i use
• modpodge
• an okay dupe (add a little bit of water)
• tweezers
• tape
• good backing paper
• okay backing paper
• brushes

extra funsies

• scrapbook paper
• exacto knife
• paper trimmer
• cutting mat
• faux film (printed acetate sheets)
• negatives printed on acetate
• printer
• photo paper (for printing your own stuff to cut out)