Collage: Finish the picture - using your imagination

Aim: To use part images to encourage creativity and imaginative thinking and finish the picture
Learning Objectives:


  • Develop creativity
  • Develop imagination
  • Explore themes through the images provided
  • Part finished images allows freedom and risk taking
By naming the image or giving it a title the image can be talked about with other people.
Alternative idea: use headlines from newspapers and ask participants to respond in words.
Materials: paper, part images, colouring pencils, markers and paint.

Artist Link:Jesse Treece
Using vintage magazines and books, Jesse Treece creates surreal and simple works, often using images of space and children to create an inimitable perspective on everyday life.
 http://www.saatchiart.com/account/artworks/298750

Artist link:  JOHN STEZAKER
John Stezaker’s work re-examines the various relationships to the photographic image: as documentation of truth, purveyor of memory, and symbol of modern culture. In his collages, Stezaker appropriates images found in books, magazines, and postcards and uses them as ‘readymades’. Through his elegant juxtapositions, Stezaker adopts the content and contexts of the original images to convey his own witty and poignant meanings. 
Link: http://www.saatchigallery.com/artists/john_stezaker.htm

The Benefits of Collage Therapy: https://intuitivecreativity.typepad.com/expressiveartinspirations/2017/02/the-benefits-of-collage-therapy.html















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