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Requiring minimal equipment--just scissors, glue, paper, and pens--collage is an accessible craft that offers limitless creative possibilities. Like meditation or journaling, making collage can be an avenue for self-reflection and artistic exploration. In Collage Your Life, artist and teacher Melanie Mowinski teaches a variety of core techniques including lettering, stamping, stenciling, transfers, and adhesive methods, and provides dozens of prompts to jumpstart the creative process and encourage crafters to explore the versatility of collage, such as: make a self-portrait; disrupt your routine instincts; incorporate text; assemble mementos from a trip; process anger or anxiety; collage with others; or try creating block-out poetry with pages from a magazine. Inspiring examples of the author's work along with that of other collage artists are featured throughout. Crafters, journaling fans, scrapbookers, and artists alike will find guidance and support for developing their own distinctive collage style, whether the goal is to create a visual record of daily experiences and special occasions or to expand a creative journaling practice.

Melanie Mowinski is a professor of art at Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts and founder of PRESS: Letterpress as a Public Art Project. She has maintained a daily practice of collage and creating with paper for more than 10 years. Her artist books are part of special collections at the American Library at the Smithsonian, Haas Arts Library at Yale University, and the Tate Modern Museum of Art in London. She lives in Williamstown, MA.

Contents

What Do You Love?

Chapter 1: Build Your Materials

General Tools
Materials
Building Blocks of Design
Composition

Chapter 2: Develop Your Techniques

Collage Building
Other Techniques
Low-Tech Printmaking
Text
Fabric, Feathers, and Found Objects

Chapter 3: Make Collage a Practice

Begin, Again
Find Your Voice
Translation
Patience
What Holds You Back
Go BIG
One Size Does Not Fit All
How to Change Your Mind
Who or What Guides You?
ASK
Disrupt
Play with Memory
Find Your Antlers
Use Your Hands
There’s Never a Perfect Time
I Know, I’m Ready, I Can
Self-Portrait as Mirror
Let Your Light Shine
It Is Solved by Walking
What Yes Comes from No?
Get Comfortable with Being Uncomfortable
Envision
Embrace Fluidity
What Passes through Your Hands?
Find Forgiveness
Revise or Censor?
Useless Anxiety
Wander
I Don’t Have to Do This, I Get to Do This
Deliberate Practice
Join a Challenge
Strength Is Subtle
Collage with Others
Face It
Open for Fun
Walk the Line
Build Slowly
Accept Solitude
Wait without Thought
Only Connect
Wilderness Mindset
Send Some Mail
Find Kindness
Make the Most of Boredom
Come Alive
Tap the Power of Enthusiasm
Focus on What Is Right
Love Everything that Gets in Your Way
Delve into Your Dark Nights of the Soul
Reframe Negativity
Show Up and Get to Work
Let the Light Shift
Follow Your Intuition
Work Expands to Fill the Time
Create Accountability

Chapter 4: Create the Container

Making Your Own Collage Books

Reading List
Resources
Materials and Inspiration
Contributors
Acknowledgments
Index

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