Collage With Color: Create Unique, Expressive Collages in Vibrant Color

by Jane Davies, John Polak (Photographer)

• Popular craft with a fabulous new twist


• Color theory for crafters, plus appealing
projects glowing with color


Collage is a favorite with crafters at every level—it’s fun and easy. But sometimes the results can be a little…drab. No more! Collage with Color shows crafters how to create brilliantly colored collages by decorating papers with acrylics, watercolors, and watercolor dyes. Author Jane Davies explains color theory in clear, straightforward terms, then moves on to step-by-step demonstrations of such exciting techniques as spritzing and blotting, wet-in-wet, and free-form dripping. Then it’s time to create stunning collage projects packed with dynamic, exciting color, including scrapbook pages, cards, gift bags, journals, altered books, and more. Collage with Color will add color to every crafter’s life!

Genres: Art, Crafts, Nonfiction, Reference, Journaling

128 pages, Paperback

First published October 1, 2005

Reviews

[Chris · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very good explanation of creating your own painted papers with watercolor and acrylic, then using those papers in collage. I liked the instruction parts of the book, but not so much the finished products.

[Elizabeth Blake · Rating 5 out of 5]

If you love color, and like creating collages, this is a good book to inspire your art. This is my favorite book on collage.

[Kim]

This is a very nice introduction to the concept of collage. It also includes primers on pattern, color theory and composition. Nice tutorials on a variety of painting your own papers, a good compendium of materials and processes, and some templates for making boxes and other items.

[Mary · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great for teaching the properties of color. Also various techniques to apply paint to paper in various forms.

This book contains a table for printmaking and watercolor, paper weights, in other words, how to convert paperweights to grams per square meter. I have been looking for that.

[Karen Nash · Rating 5 out of 5]

Love this book.

[Cynthia · Rating 3 out of 5]

My library really really wants this book back....

Collage Journeys: A Practical Guide to Creating Personal Artwork remains my favorite Davies work and I’ve enjoyed her YouTube vids. She isn’t timid with color so I need the push there.

This one has a nice run down on various common techniques as well as materials and mediums. There are project ideas as well, but some look a bit dated. If you’re intermediate to advanced you probably know many of the techniques, so this has more to offer someone beginning to explore mixed media and collage.

[Helen Sanford · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book had a lot of good basic information--especially if one is just starting out in the collage or mixed media trend

[Kathy Parkin · Rating 4 out of 5]

I got a lot of different ideas for collage projects, as well as some fun and different ideas with paint and other mediums. Techniques are explained well, and good photos of projects help too.

[Lisa · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great review of techniques and collage art color theory. (I focused on various techniques and processes, rather than finished projects.)

I am planning on reading her other books, including: Adventures in Mixed Media: Collage, Stitch, Fuse, and Journaling.

[Sebah Al-Ali · Rating 4 out of 5]

wow!
فن.. ألوان، صور، ورق، .. متعة لا تنتهي. تجذبني كثيرا الكتب الملونة المليئة بالصور. تعلمت الكثير من الكتاب عن الفن نفسه و عن طرق التلوين المختلفة. أظن الكتاب يساعد ليس فقط على فهم فن الكولاج، إنما أيضا يساعد (المعترين) مثلي على فهم الألوان و طريقة التعامل معها، سواء يدويا أو الكترونيا.

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سأعمل على نقل بعض ما أعجبني من الطرق بالصور قريبا إن شاء الله، و أضيفه في هذه الصفحة. لكن من الكلام، اقتبست/ تعلمت التالي:


"A collage is an assemblage of papers or other materials glued onto a support to create a meaningful image or decorative composition."

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1. Complementray colors
-> "appear opposite to each other on the color wheel. Each consists of a primary color and the second color mixed from the remaining two primaries.."

-> "when a color is placed next to its complement, both colors tend to appear more intense, even to vibrate or clash."

-> mixing ant comp. color pair will produce dull/mud brown.


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2. Analogous colors:

-> near each other on the color wheel. ex: red and orange.

-> matter of degree.

[False · Rating 1 out of 5]

Not my taste at all. The type of art and projects (cards, earrings)that you find in some hip little hippie shop and they all look the same. Not really innovative at all.