Creative Collage: Telling Stories in Layers

Make visual narratives inspired by everyday scenarios, combining photography, painting, and digital tools

• Introduction
• Theory and Pre-Production
• Creating Your Collage
• Finalizing Your Work
• Final project

As a design tool, collage provides the freedom to move forms, mix different elements, and essentially play. Author and illustrator Ellen Weinstein uses it to tell stories inspired by the streets of her hometown, New York. As well as writing and illustrating books, she has created illustrations for clients including The New York Times, The Washington Post, and Time Magazine.

In this course, Ellen guides you through telling stories of your own through the medium of collage. Learn to combine painting, photography, and digital tools to build layered images that captivate viewers.

• About Me
• Influences
• Art Materials
• Animals as Stand-Ins
• Gathering Source Material
• Establishing Your Setting
• Incorporating Your Object
• Adding Text Elements
• Including Your Animal
• Arranging Your Elements
• Adding Embellishments 1
• Adding Embellishments 2
• Sample Collage Review
• Creative Collage: Telling Stories in Layers