Whale of a Decoupage Collage or Altered Art?
I love to collage and then decoupage. Although, I don’t get to do it much anymore. There is just something about going through pages of magazines, book, and photos that really calms me. I made this collage about 15 years ago. I guess if I was to do this now it would be considered Altered Art instead of just a decoupaged collage. There have been examples on this blog of “altered art”.
Altered Art is anytime you change the surface of something by painting, collaging (is that a word?), covering with paper, and so on. Even changing the original purpose of something. Hence: Altering. Examples would be turning an altoids tin into a mini journal, a cigar box into a purse, and a book into an album.
Wilkipedia says this about collage and decoupage: “Collage (From the French: coller, to stick) is regarded as a work of visual arts made from an assemblage of different forms, thus creating a new whole. Use of this technique made its dramatic appearance among oil paintings in the early 20th century as an art form of groundbreaking novelty. An artistic collage work may include newspaper clippings, ribbons, and bits of colored or hand-made papers, portions of other artwork, photographs, and such, glued to a solid support or canvas.
Decoupage (or découpage) is the art of decorating an object by gluing colored paper cut outs onto it in combination with special paint effects, gold leaf, etc.”
Since this was originally a wine bottle that I decoupaged a collage over and can now be used as a vase. I guess it is actually “Altered Art”. What do you think? What it really is is something I had a wonderful time making but have since not had a place for. Any ideas on that?
I guess I really should say if I have to use mod podge or school glue/water mixture then I don’t really have time these days. If I can use double sided tape, glue stick, or other easy adhesive then I do it all the time!
April 18th, 2007 at 9:48 am
very neat idea.
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