Glenn Hirsch, Instructor www.glennhirsch.com

1. Mixed Media and Collage
Glenn Hirsch

2. Why collage?

3. recycle your art
and your ideas

4. bring order to chaos
overlap shapes
of similar colors
to create
BIG shapes

6. layers of meaning
clear or mysterious

7. pieces are
selected
for color
create a
seamless
flow

9. rhythm
through
pattern and repetition

10. Rhythm =
repetition of
shape

11. Rhythm = repetition of shape

12. Rhythm
through
positive and negative
shapes,
silhouettes

13. Silhouettes
also make
great
shapes or
stencils

14. Silhouette
and negative
shape
HANNAH
HOCH 1933

16. texture is pleasure

17. Torn edges
mimic natural
shapes

18. Texture is the
"subtext"

19. Paper
towels
soaked in
paint as
paper
mache

20. “Light” unites things
Gives them drama

24. subvert a magazine
change the story

27. think about color

28. clips selected
for color

29. pastel
collage
Joel Weiss

30. collage with paint

31. Start with a
background first

32. (1) draw
(2) add collage
(3) paint
(4) Draw again

33. Using paint to adjust
magazine clips to
larger sizes

34. Create a
"big shape"
with paint

35. exotic materials

36. Exotic materials
Image, text, paint
and sand

37. Exotic papers
Shiny ‘joss paper"
used as "gold foil”

38. edit and embrace
change

39. When
viewing
a large
collage
...
try
editing
it

40. magazine
collage by
Heide
Sisnerose