Collage Issues: Shadows & Highlights

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Summary: Shadows and highlights in collage are effects achieved in a similar manner as they are in drawing. Employ shadows and highlights for collage with tips from a professional artist in this free video on visual arts.

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Justine Crosby Justine Crosby is an artist from Cape Cod, MA who has taught classes, workshops, and mentorships in the visual arts since 2000. Crosby attended Savannah Colle... read more

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Collage Issues: Shadows & Highlights

So, again, I'll say this through and through, but when you're trying to establish a piece that has a specific intention, a specific design, such as something like a human body or a tree, or an apple, you want to be really paying attention to the details that you would create such as if you were drawing them. If that's the effect that you're going for, which is certainly the effect I'm going for. So, again, in the example of this piece it was very important to me that the face have a specific position, a specific turn, that the light source is coming from a specific area. So in thinking of those things while I'm working, those are the choices in paper that I'm making, when I'm trying to establish my shadows and my highlights. So it is very important that if you want to achieve this sort of popping out effect, this very realistic effect, you want to make sure that the value tones, and the highlight tones, are conducive to what they would be if you were to paint or draw this piece to make it look more like a photograph or realistic.