Collage Art Basics

Learn collage with your own special gluebook.

After 10 collage-centric lessons, you’ll have lots of hands-on practice, and a gluebook filled with art.

Overcoming self-doubt

It's hard in the beginning when you are assailed with worries. Doubt can stop you from creating, even before you've started. Through guided lessons and hands-on practice, you'll get past all of these roadblocks.

  • Where do I begin?

  • What project do I choose?

  • Which papers should I grab?

  • What if I’m no good at this?

  • Are there rules I need to know about?

  • What kind of gluebook do I choose?

When I started out,
I was in the same place.

The concept of collage seems easy: Choose papers, cut them down to size, and then glue them on a page, right? So then why didn't it look right when I did that? Why do some combinations work and others don't? How do you get it to look balanced? Can I combine different kinds of papers?

  • How to collage with leaving white space on your page

  • Why it's important not to leave any paper elements "floating"

  • How positioning determines prominence of one piece over another

  • How to create a collage with a focal point, and one with no focal point

  • How to use rubber stamping in 3 different ways, to add layers to your work

  • How to take a collage from an artist you admire and deconstruct it to make your own

You can get past those fears that hold you back.

Following the lessons and creating your own gluebook will boost your confidence in your own collage projects.
Here are some of the things you'll learn:

The materials are there to support your success

It's like collaging with training wheels!

Deciding where to create your collection of collages can be challenging. In this course, the guess work of choosing a gluebook is taken away by providing you with an easy-to-use template that you will print and cut out. The video instructions will help you assemble it, and then you're ready to begin filling it with collages you create in the following lessons!

Included is a library of vintage images

To use while following along

You get access to more than 10 pages of printables to cut or tear out and use in your collage work. You can use the pieces exactly as they are placed in the lessons, or you can switch them up, or use your own.

Come and learn with Collage Art Basics

Can you imagine how thrilled you'll be when you're holding your finished gluebook?