Stickin it to Collage

This is my attempt to make lemonade out of the total lemon effort my collage classes turned out to be. I do apologise for dropping the ball on spreading the word for these sessions and not getting them happening but I lost steam after the third week of hideous sleeplessness courtesy of 3 snotty sick kids.

Anyway..................I'd love to know if anyone feels inspired to do something collage-like with their kids after reading this, and if you were to forward some pics for my Gallery of Awesomeness - that would be totally stunning! It would certainly help make me look less of a lazy lady, so help me if you can!

Collage is......An artistic composition of materials and objects pasted over a surface, often with unifying lines and colour // A work, such as a literary piece, composed of both borrowed and original material. // An assemblage of diverse elements............... blah blah blah

Did you know that Picasso loved Collage? Eric Carle's Hungry Caterpillar = collage, Charlie & Lola, Bottletop Bill & his best friend Corky....collage (yes I watch a lot of children's TV).

Basically you'll be keeping good company by giving it a go and I can vouch for the fun factor my daughter & I had shredding the ridiculous waste of money that was our 2012 subscription to NZ Gardener Magazine.

I'm a fan of instant gratification so for a laugh we took some of the free printable files of famous artworks available online as our basis for our collage....I selected one of my favourite paintings Van Gogh's Starry Night, but I was equally drawn to that famous Mondrian work with the grid design with primary colour squares etc etc....

Here's the link to the files for your own interest.....  http://www.supercoloring.com/pages/category/artsculture/famous-paintings/

so here goes....

 

Good fun sticky stuff......and now it also feels good to have gotten this post off my chest so I can now move on to the next Crafty challenge with a free heart!!

PS. a few other ideas....
- use just text/ font....i.e. drawing the outline of your initials (big bold so lots of space for sticking within) then filling these letters in using cut out words and text that have meaning to you and describe your likes, wants, quirks etc....(could be an awesome confidence building project for a kid who is starting to read and recognise words etc...or a great Fathers Day gift?)
- younger kids could do this project but use cut out pics of things they love and which represent them instead of text.....end result will still be a lovely personalised piece.