Collage: Learning Takes Shape

Older Students

Older students with plenty of experience begin using collage in ways that convey their own growing perceptions of the world. While their relationship with collage materials retains the same sense of discovery as a younger artist, it becomes much richer and more complex. They begin to see texture, shape, color, and composition as powerful expressive tools.

These experienced collage artists can make complicated compositions with lots of details, often using different techniques in the same artwork. They select their textures, colors, shapes, and arrangements with ever more confidence and with a greater sense of the possibilities of each. They gain creative freedom and confidence in finding that collage can be representative without the difficulty of drawing realistically. Through observations of other artwork, they are led to try a variety of styles, to push the limits of collage, or to make the transition to other kinds of artworks. In all these ways, skilled artists use collage to show the world how they see, think, and feel about life.

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