Collage: Dynamic vs. Random

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Summary: Dynamic and random collage approaches depend on the level of effort, time, skill and purpose of the piece. Distinguish between dynamic and random 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: Dynamic vs. Random

So I'm just going to discuss for a moment the nature of sort of random collaging as opposed to thinking about all of these very complex dynamics of highlights and shadows. Because there's a lot of thinking that gets involved in making that process happen. Whereas something like this piece which I did within, I don't know, maybe a half an hours time. I wasn't really thinking about that. I wanted to just be a little more random. I cut the pieces at random. I fit them at random a little more. Similarly as I did in a piece such as this. I wasn't really trying to consider shadow and highlights specifically. Some areas I made sure were darker than others. Some areas lighter than others to create dynamic. But because this was more of an abstract piece, because this was more of a just purely collaged random piece it wasn't necessary for me to think oh I need to have a highlight here and a shadow there. I was being a little more at random. A little more free to cut pieces out, place them as I will and see how they worked together that way.