Claudine Hellmuth’s Collage Discovery: Books Worth Exploring

Mini Sketchbook, Fly Girl Test, Encaustic Collage September 2005

While working towards my visual arts degree, I dabbled in many different art forms – in university I learned much about the history of collage and mixed media art and artists, as well as experimenting with various methods related to it. I […]

Getting to Know Collage Definition, History & Techniques

"Medici Princess", Joseph Cornell, 1948, Assemblage

When I started announcing my upcoming collage show in June, I got many strange looks from folks. Collaging – “What’s that?” they asked. I usually began with well… in French “colle” means “to glue”… . Long story short, collaging can be as simple as taking pieces paper […]