Creating 7 mixed media collages in 2 different collage art journals

 

In this video, I show how I created my new daily collages. This time I created in two different collage art journals – 5” square and approximately 7”x10” repurposed encyclopedia. This is a long video! I provided timestamps below if you want to skip around. 

Side note: collage 5 is a hot mess! I decided to keep the footage to share that not every collage works out the way I had planned. I can’t say enough that working in an art journal or sketchbook is so helpful for my creative practice. By the way, the collage was inspired by artist Pat Steir. If you’re interested in seeing how this style is done properly - http://www.artnet.com/artists/pat-steir/ 

Timestamps:
00:00 collage 1
05:02 collage 2
07:52 collage 3
10:36 collage 4
15:07 collage 5
19:51 collage 6
23:14 collage 7

Music:
"Geneassist" Copyright 07/2020
"Suddenly Spontaneous" Copyright 05/2021
"Big Ideas" and "Sudden Inspiration" Copyright 02/2022
Written & Arranged by Gene Brown
Special permission of use granted to
Mia Bloom Designs by the artist.
http://drawn2themusic.net/

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Creating 1 collage a day for 7 days plus benefits of small art journal/sketchbook

In this video, I talk about the benefits of creating in a small art journal and/or sketchbook. Then I show you the process of creating one collage a day for 7 days in my 5" square collage art journal. 

In the timestamps below, I put the actual time it took to create each collage before making edits for this video. I took out things such as pulling collage materials, deciding on composition, drying the paint. Each collage was made under 20 minutes. 

Thanks for watching! 

Timestamps:

00:00 intro and benefits of a small art journal and/or sketchbook

01:54 Day 1 collage - real time 10:22mins

03:36 Day 2 collage - real time 14:40mins

05:34 Day 3 collage - real time 9:17mins

07:41 Day 4 collage - real time 11:50mins 

10:07 Day 5 collage - real time 12:04mins

14:12 Day 6 collage - real time 19:42mins 

17:56 Day 7 collage - real time 8:49mins

15:38 flip through of all 7 collages

Music: 

"Geneassist" Copyright 07/2020

"Suddenly Spontaneous" Copyright 05/2021 

"Big Ideas" and "Sudden Inspiration" Copyright 02/2022

Written & Arranged by Gene Brown 

Special permission of use granted to 

Mia Bloom Designs by the artist  

http://drawn2themusic.net/

Creating four collages with same composition but different collage papers

The concept for this video is to use the collage composition from Collage with Me #24 to create four collages with different collage materials. It's a good exercise to become more familiar with composition and to explore "What If". What if I use bright colored papers? What if I use altered bleeding tissue paper to give the collage a transparent look? You can explore different collage materials without the extra step on creating a new composition each time. 

Have you created multiple collages using the same composition but different collage materials? If you have, I’m curious to hear what you experienced. I hope you enjoyed this video. Let me know if you have any questions.

Thanks for watching! 

 

Link to Collage with Me #24: https://youtu.be/axnjpadFsas

Timestamps:

00:00 inspiration collage

00:09 collage 1 - similar collage papers as Collage with Me #24

04:52 collage 2 - bright, colorful collage papers

07:07 collage 3 - altered bleeding tissue papers

12:04 collage 4 - magazine images

Music: 

"Geneassist" 

Copyright 07/2020

Written & Arranged by Gene Brown 

Special permission of use granted to 

Mia Bloom Designs by the artist  

http://drawn2themusic.net/

Creating three mixed media collages: acrylic paint and magazine pages

I have another longer format video. In this video, three collages will be created in different styles using acrylic paint and magazine pages as ephemera in my new sketchbook art journal. 

The collaging sections are a bit sped up to reduce the length of this video.

Thanks for watching! 

Timestamps:

00:00 intro

00:56 collage 1

07:13 collage 2

17:35 collage 3

Music: 

"Big Ideas" and "Sudden Inspiration"

Written & Arranged by Gene Brown 

Copyright 02/2022

Special permission of use granted to 

Mia Bloom Designs by the artist  

http://drawn2themusic.net/

Short Collage Process Video #28

I'm continuing to create in my 4"x6" art journal. Only a few pages left! I found this scrap of paper on my walk and challenged myself to use it in a collage.

 

Music:

"Big Ideas"

Written & Arranged by Gene Brown

Copyright 02/2022

Special permission of use granted to

Mia Bloom Designs by the artist.

http://drawn2themusic.net/ 

Short Collage Process Video #25

A new mixed media collage in my 6"x6" art journal using a limited color palette - black, white and grays. Most of my art is colorful so it's good to change it up occasionally to challenge myself. I kept some of the footage that shows more of my decision making process.

Music: 

"Sudden Inspiration" 

Written & Arranged by Gene Brown

Copyright 02/2022

Special permission of use granted

to Mia Bloom Designs by the artist. 

http://drawn2themusic.net/ 

 

Thanks for checking out my blog!

 

Short Collage Process Video #24

A new mixed media collage in my 6"x6" art journal. I kept some of the footage that shows more of my decision making process.

Music: 

"Sudden Inspiration" 

Written & Arranged by Gene Brown

Copyright 02/2022

Special permission of use granted

to Mia Bloom Designs by the artist. 

http://drawn2themusic.net/ 

 

Thanks for checking out my blog!

Short Collage Process Video #23

A new mixed media collage in my 6"x6" art journal. I kept some of the footage that shows more of my decision making process.

Music: "Geneassist" Written & Arranged by Gene Brown

Copyright 07/2020 

Special permission of use granted

to Mia Bloom Designs by the artist. 

http://drawn2themusic.net/ 

 

Thanks for checking out my blog!

Short Collage Process Video #22

A new mixed media collage in my 6"x6" handmade art journal.

Music: "Geneassist" Written & Arranged by Gene Brown

Copyright 07/2020 

Special permission of use granted

to Mia Bloom Designs by the artist. 

http://drawn2themusic.net/ 

 

Thanks for checking out my blog!

Short Collage Process Video #21

I decided to switch things up a bit. I brought out this s new 6"x6" art journal to use. I usually don't work in a square format. It was fun to make this art journal and to create this mixed media collage in it.

Music: "Geneassist" Written & Arranged by Gene Brown

Copyright 07/2020 

Special permission of use granted

to Mia Bloom Designs by the artist. 

http://drawn2themusic.net/ 

 

Thanks for checking out my blog!

Short Collage Process Video #20

4"x6' collage using muted colors. 

 

Music: "Geneassist" Written & Arranged by Gene Brown

Copyright 07/2020 

Special permission of use granted

to Mia Bloom Designs by the artist. 

http://drawn2themusic.net/ 

 

Thanks for checking out my blog!

Short Collage Process Video #19

 

New 4"x6' mixed media collage. 

 

Music: "Geneassist" Written & Arranged by Gene Brown

Copyright 07/2020 

Special permission of use granted

to Mia Bloom Designs by the artist. 

http://drawn2themusic.net/ 

 

Thanks for checking out my blog!

Short Collage Process Video #18

 

This video shows the start to finish of a new 4"x6" collage on a busy ground. From creating the busy ground to the finish collage. 

 

Music: "Geneassist" Written & Arranged by Gene Brown

Copyright 07/2020 

Special permission of use granted

to Mia Bloom Designs by the artist. 

http://drawn2themusic.net/ 

 

Thanks for checking out my blog!

Short Collage Process Video #17

The ground colors are not ones that I gravitate to use in my art. It was a challenge to create a 4"x6" collage on top of it.

Music: "Geneassist" Written & Arranged by Gene Brown

Copyright 07/2020 

Special permission of use granted

to Mia Bloom Designs by the artist. 

http://drawn2themusic.net/ 

 

Thanks for checking out my blog!