10 things I wish I knew as a collage art BEGINNER +free printable
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Back when I was beginning my collage art journey, I would have loved to hear some advice on creating art. Today I am sharing the 10 things I wish I would have known (with an extra bonus point at the end).
The free printable is some words of advice to help you remember why you are creating, and to help you not be too hard on yourself when you don't like your art.
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0:00 - Intro
0:26 - 1 Collage art isn't a talent
3:06 - 2 There isn't a "secret to success"
3:57 - 3 Don't let fear stop you from creating
5:14 - 4 Collage art is a skill that requires practice
6:15 - 5 Time is a component of collage
9:16 - 6 Cool art supplies won't make you better
10:19 - 7 You don't need a focal point
12:01 - 8 You don't need to work linearly
13:16 - 9 Your style will change
14:40 - 10 There's more joy in the making
16:51 - bonus - find a support community
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Hi Margarete, I just finished watching your video and it was very encouraging to me as a beginner to collage art. Your 10 points were things that I questioned myself about, and your answers were clear and concise. Thank you for taking the time to encourage others. My journey in to paper crafting is exciting and I look forward to encouragement from you and many of the other ladies as well. Thanx!!👏🏽👏🏽
Thanks so much for your comments and feedback, Freddie! I'm so glad you found it useful! 👍💙
In my opinion, collage art is a form of creativity. Creativity is from the spiritual aspect of ourselves. It is of great value and should not be dismissed.
This was SO good for me as a beginner!!! I'm almost 82, and have enjoyed crafting for years, but have just recently been watching people who do mixed media, journaling, etc, and am quite interested in collage (without the journals). Thank you for sharing this project with us ❤️
You are so welcome! I’m glad you found it useful 💙
I'm 64 and love this form of creativity that I can use to put in paper and pieces my memories and those of my family. Glad to see some of us older ladies here!
So happy to hear of another “almost 82” year old out there enjoying collage and mixed media! I turn 82 in August and have always been a lover of fiber in any form but now I am in love with paper! Am working on a mixed media collage with some geese I recently found on a brochure rack on a trip to Ireland.
Keep having joy with it - it keeps us young in spirit!
A lot of times when I am not so pleased with a collage, I find that when I flip through looking at past collages that I end up liking the ones I didn't like when I did them. This surprised me!
I've experienced that too, Sandy. Even the ones I don't like, I am glad to flip through older gluebooks and be pleased that I made the effort 👍
Yes! I agree…early on when learning to paint I was extremely judgmental of my work and threw so many away. When I began painting in a sketchbook and couldnt tear them out, when I went back looking thru the sketchbook I realized I wasnt as bad as I thought. And it inspired me to keep going and wait a few days or more before deciding how good or bad a piece turned out.
The same thing happens to me with photography.
This was so insightful. I use the joy of creating like therapy. I love when the real world falls away and it is just me at play with paper.My craft space is my happy place. When the Dr noticed my blood pressure was high she said go to your happy place and I will retake it. I went to my craft space in my mind and my blood pressure was normal. That is the power of creating.
What a smart thing for your doctor to say! Indeed, art heals!! 💜
Love this! "Don't let the fear of hating your results stop you from creating"
Exactly! 💙💜❤️
All ten things are great advice. The one that struck me the most was not having to have a focal point. Just that one piece of advice takes off so much of the pressure I had put on myself. Thank you so much for the informative video.
Wonderful! Thanks for your comments, Anna! I'm so glad that one was helpful 👍💙
Thank you for telling me that I don’t need a focal point! I have been collaging for a while now, and I’ve found my own style which I really enjoy. But I rarely have a focal point. All the other TH-camrs that I watch say that a collage must have a focal point. All this time I’ve been thinking that I’m doing something wrong. I’ve tried making focal points, but I’ve found it so limiting. I like the rule of threes, but somewhere I saw that a collage should also follow the rule of thirds!! The rule of threes works, but I find the rule of thirds way too limiting. You are so inspiring and so encouraging. I absolutely adore your style… it is very similar to mine but, of course, yours are far better than mine as I am relatively new to this. Thank you for your wonderful videos. Lots of love 🇬🇧❤
I'm so glad you've received that message about not needing a focal point. Your entire collage could be your focal point 😉💜👍🏻
Thank you for this video, I needed this so much. My family doesn't understand my paper hobby. They laugh about it, which doesn't help my self-confidence. But because I have a lot of time (due to circumstances), I enjoy collecting paper for my collages and journals and making nice pages here. So thank you for your words which are a source of inspiration for me. love from the Netherlands 💜
Don't let them take your enthusiasm from you. Collaging is as good as any other hobbies or sports. If your family doesn't understand why you like it, don't worry. If it's good for you, keep going ☺️
I have tons of papers and bits from my own art play/exploration and have been wanting to make collages with them but am having trouble beginning. This video was enormously helpful. Thank you!
Thank you. As soon as you said you don't need a focal point I sighed a massive amount of relief. Now I can create much more freely.
I'm so glad that piece of advice resonates with you 💜
You are so right about time. I have elements for collages I have been storing for more than a decade as I don't yet have the right place to use them. When I do find the right piece for the right place it's a thrill as if the Universe has finally aligned!
Agree with your suggestions. Collage is something I have to do- just like eating or sleeping- it’s become a part of me. So important to create. Good for us in so many ways. Necessary for our mental health and personal growth. Thanks for your videos. 💕
I totally agree, Susan 👍❣️
Thanks for doing these videos Margarete. All your information is so appreciated by me. I started a couple years ago with wanting to make junk journals. While I enjoy making them still, I have discovered along the way that collage is my passion. I love it. I discovered you thru a junk journaler doing your challenge. That was a lucky day for me. I agree so much with you that the making is the most enjoyable part for me. I have learned so much from you. Thanks again for sharing your creativeness.💐💐💐💐
Thanks so much, Jodi for your kind comments! I am like you in that I started with junk journals and then discovered collage from there 😉👍
This video is so inspirational. Thank you. I am a clinical hypnotherapist and the word that you were searching for to describe "getting lost in the moment, zen like, blocking out all else" is actually called a "flow state". :) A flow state occurs when you combine your consciousness with an action and thus losing oneself. Entering and being in a flow state is a balance between your conscious and subconscious where time actually seems to stand still. That is why it feels that time has not moved or has moved so quickly and this is where the term time flies comes from. Flow states are considered a deep level of trance also called hypnosis where you can block out almost anything. Thanks again.
Ahhh. I love it! Thanks so much for sharing that with me. I'll know the word now "flow-state". 👍🏻💜🙂
May the flow be with you ❤
dear Margarete...thank you! I saved this video under "this is how to live well"
...to me, the video applies not only to Art, but to living as well...
Youre gorgeous!
..and thank you for sharing! I loooove this vid so much!
Glad it was helpful, Henrietta ❣️
I felt like I could relate to every point. I had to chuckle because my own husband has said if I enjoy what I do, why does it matter how long I take? The joy of digging through my stash has been the best part about collage. Thank you Margarete for your time and encouragement!
Hello Margarete,
This year is my 30th year as an educator - no, not art - a special education teacher! But I can tell you are a great teacher; one who gives permission to others to be who and what they are. You inspire me. You encourage me. You educate me. Those are the hallmarks of a great teacher. I've watched your videos here and there. They don't seem to come up in my feed often, however, I turned 60 this year and my elderly parents, who I have taken care of for the last 12 years since my children grew up and moved out, have moved into a care facility at age 89. I'm now an empty-nester (even though I still teach full-time). I know I want to travel and though all my graduate work is in the field of education, my undergraduate work was in theatrical lighting, something very very creative, I was feeling a void. But after hearing you here again today I will use the medium of collage to explore and express many feelings long-suppressed by taking care of others. So, please forgive the verbosity. All this to say, "Thank you." I am grateful for your presence here.
Oh my goodness, what kind words! Yes! I really hope you experiment with collage and that it continues to feed your curiosity and enthusiasm. It can be frustrating from time to time, when you feel like things are not coming together. But practice does wonders.
Good luck to you, my friend. You are beginning on a new adventure 😉💜👍🏻.
Collage is a collections of items that are not arranged. If you distract yourself from 'arranging' it helps. If it is too uniform you need to make it so it isn't uniform. If you are gluing papers so they are straight up and down or stamping a word so it is level, try turning the papers and turn the stamp at an angle and see if this helps. Do things in odd numbers also helps.
I totally agree with you in using things in odd numbers. That really does help! 💙
I always look forward to your videos, because you fill them with your experience and thoughtfulness regarding collage. Thank you for the encouragement. It is appreciated.
You are so welcome, Carolyn. I'm glad it was helpful 💙
Another great aspect of using what you have is that you are challenged to make your art out of what is on hand instead of what you see everyone else using. Meeting that challenge can be very rewarding!
Exactly, Karen!! This is an important thing to realize, I think. We all have the ability to create unique things based on the things we find around us. 😉💜
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Such inspirational truths. I agree. Am going to put some of these words down on paper & put them in a journal. Then can be applied to so many things! Thank u, thank u, thank u. ❤🤍💙
I’m going to do the same - I need to remember these points
A large part of the success of a piece is often down to clever contrasts, balance of shapes, use of size and scale and the subtle repeating of marks/colours/ types/ images.
GREAT advice, Annabelle❣️ 👍 Thank you.
@@MargareteMiller Well, we can see it in your work!
I love collage, and also do quite a bit of assemblage.
that's exactly how I feel about collaging. I think it's a great form of art. but at the end of the day it is like getting dressed. it's easy but some are just great dressers than others :) it's also a great a way to get your brain to warmup or get out of a rut or keeping yourself busy
It really is! 💙 Very often I feel like it's a warm up for something, or perhaps for even more collaging. 😉
I feel that your wisdom extends beyond paper crafting & was a message I needed to hear! Thank you!
Arranging things in a way that pleases you is a good way to explain it
Thanks for a well presented post. I am a beginner and I took notes.
You're very welcome! I'm so glad it was helpful 💜
I just discovered collage-but i use my own paintings for the underpainting, and i also use my paintings cut into pieces for the pasted on parts. i am also going for a style like Cecily Browns abstract impressionism with figural included. Having a lot of fun with it. Thanks for the video!
What a great idea to use your paintings as the basis! Your collages are going to be so unique to you, which is perfect. 👍🏻
I enjoy collage-making because it's a hands-on process. I can bring what may seem unrelated together into a new whole.
You are right. You can take a bunch of seemingly random things and create something new with them. 👍🏻
I love shifting materials around. Shifting materials around creates a playful Flow. How my brain works!!
Thank you so much Margaret. I appreciate your help , as I am learning. You answered many questions. 😊
Glad it was helpful!
Awesome video! This addressed many of my own questions with collaging! Very encouraging message!
Glad it was helpful, Susan! 💙
Margarete, I am so glad I watched this video. I am not happy with my attempts at collage even though I love the process. I am a quilter and quilt teacher of many years now trading fabric for paper. I find myself using all straight edges in collage and just can’t seem to tear randomly to add a different look. So, some of your comments hit home with me. Thanks so much and Blessings from Betty in Ohio.
I'm so glad, Betty! It comes with time. You'll get there with being happy with your work! 💜
Oh my gosh. I needed that. Thank you so much.
Glad it was helpful! 💜
This was like a therapy session for me I feel healed🤣
I'm so glad!! 💙
Thank you, Margarete. Great suggestions.
Glad it was helpful! 💙
I really like your channel and your style and approach. I only recently started an art journal. On the first page I wrote down a quote from John Cleese. 'Creativity is not a talent. It is a way of operating.' I took of from there and haven't stopped 😊
Ooooh! I love that quote. Thanks for sharing! 💜
Ty so much! Just recently decided I want to start a glue book & I found you couple days ago and have watched a few of your videos & they're awesome! You will be my glue book guru from now on & I will always come back to you for info. Inspiration & motivation. TY so much!
How kind of you to say! Post any questions you have. I'd be happy to answer them 👍🏻😉💜
Thank you for your encouragement. And I am learning that I don't need supplies and trying to use what I have. Lol
Yes, exactly! 👍🏻😉
Thank you so much Margarete. Love your 9 & 10 advices 🥰 happy to hear that 😉
I am soooo glad you are sharing this, Margarete. Thank you so much! This gives me confidence.
You are so welcome! I'm glad it was useful 👍🙂💜
Beautifully said. Thank you.
Thank you so much. With your experience and explaining and setting us up for success. Good on ya!😊😊😊
That reminder is perfect
This was a great discussion, Margarete. Thank you.
Your videos are so inspiring and your message is beautiful. Thank you for all that you do for all of us! 👍😊
Thank you for your informative video. I enjoyed the beautiful work your community creates. I know everyone has a different art style and I have been timid about jumping in. I have a better understanding of the process now and feel more comfortable with it. ❤
Good! I’m so glad to hear it 👍🏼💜🙂
Great advice, I’m new to this and loving the journey. Learning so much from various TH-camrs. Thank You!
Great tips thanks for sharing! Love the one about using what you have!!!
Thank you Margarete for this encouraging video! I appreciate how your share your experience with us! And thank you for the download, it's a great reminder that I don't do what I do for anyone else, I am doing it for myself.
This is really "freeing" message. Thank you so much, Margarete!
Great advice! Thank you! I usually disappoint myself and constantly want to go back and do something over or touch it up.
Merci beaucoup - thank you very much for this video. Especially No. 10 - I think, this one of the most important things one should keep remembering.
„The journey is the destination“!
I've always loved collage. Now I can create my own. This was very encouraging. Thank you.
I'm so glad! Thanks for watching 💙
This was extremely helpful. I am a beginner and needed to hear several of these to keep from getting discouraged. Thanks.
Wonderful! Print out the the page I mentioned and hopefully you'll find that useful, too. 💜
Thank you for sharing this beautiful video.. I've been doing collage art for a few years,years, well as writing a novel.. Many of my collage art pieces revolve around scenes from my writing.. This gave me more encouragement listening to you in your video.. Thank you so much,much, God bless.. I apologize for the errors in my typing this as my cell phone sometimes acts up.n
I'm so glad you enjoyed it and the message resonated with you! 💙
The wisdom shared in this video is applicable to all creatives. Thank you so much for sharing this ver potent medicine Margarete.🙏🏽😊💖✨💐
Such good advise, thank you for sharing.
I loved your information , I wish I had known that when I first started making collages 14 years ago . 7 years ago I lost one of my 5 children , he died by suicide ( it needs to be told ). After this I abandoned our studio and only recently i I began to do some art . Mixed media & collage are what I love .
Thanks for your great video . I signed up to newsletter but at this time I cannot sign to the classes , at 72 maybe is too late to change what is in my plate, financially or in other aspects. C’est La Vie , as my French teacher used to say . I greatly appreciate your teaching .
Thanks so much for sharing your thoughts. My deepest condolences on the loss of your son. I hope that art and creativity can be something you lean on to help you find enjoyment and peace of mind for as long as you need it to. 💜
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Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge and insight. I feel validated with what I create now, whatever it is! ❤
You are so welcome! I'm so glad it was helpful! ❤️
Thank you for sharing this information!
Thank you Margarete. I really needed to hear your words. Eye opening!!
So glad it was helpful! 💜
It's a talent and sense of taste to combine things and make a collage ❤️
Thank you for this video and the great advice. I struggle with finding good vintage papers to use but it’s fun searching 😊
All your points are something that all crafters need to hear at some point in time. Great video. Thank you so much.
I'm so glad you enjoyed it and that the message spoke to you. 💜💚💙
Thank you for another inspiring talk. I fell into many of the things on ur list. I can see a change in my style and much more satisfied with my projects. Please keep doing your talks. It’s really helpful and pertains to other kinds of projects as well.
Thanks so much for your encouraging words, Mary-Ann 👍💙
Skill and Talent: It's important to recognize that art often involves a combination of skill and talent. While some artists may have a natural inclination towards creativity, they still need to develop technical skills and knowledge to express their ideas effectively. Conversely, individuals with less apparent talent can still become skilled artists through dedication and practice.
In conclusion, the relationship between skill and talent in art is complex and multifaceted. While some aspects of artistic expression may come more naturally to certain individuals, the development of proficiency in art generally requires a combination of innate ability, hard work, and education. Ultimately, both skill and talent play important roles in the creation of meaningful and impactful works of art.
A serious collage artist can make just as much as a painter. I think you are confusing skill and talent with real art and crafts. There are famous collage artists to say they don’t have talent or it’s just a skill is wrong. It takes both.
Thanks for your comments and appreciate you sharing your opinion. 👍🏻
This is so helpful! I am just getting started and am feeling stifled before I even begin. Thank you for the encouragement!
I'm so glad it was helpful 💙
This is an excellent list. Thank you.
You're very welcome! Thanks for stopping by 💙
All your "things" are bang on Margarete! I have been doing collage for awhile now and have definitely noticed how much my style has changed (grown!) over the years. I recently started a destash of all my papers and am surprised how many I have "let go" because they no longer spoke to me with direction I am now going. As always you've done a lovely job with your examples and explanation.... 😊
Yep, I totally agree with you on letting things go that no longer work with your evolving style. We all should do a little more purging more often, right?! At least I do!
Thank you loved the honesty and common-sense this applies to art in general too ..... great.
Glad you enjoyed it, Valerie❣️
I'm just starting to get into collage art so this video is so helpful in peeling back the process! Thanks for all the useful tips!
Glad it was helpful! 💜
Thanks for making such a great video, Margarete!! Thanks for the eye opening pep talk and for the reminders on certain points I had forgotten... 🤗💕
Glad it was helpful, Nathalie 💜
Thanks. This really helps!.
You've made so many wonderful observations about creating! My favorite point that you made was to enjoy the process. The final products are the bonus of your creative process.
Glad you enjoyed it, Anne! 💜
Thank you so much for this video and inspiration. I agree with you that the important part is the process and that we enjoy what we're doing. I have learned so much from you and appreciate your willingness to share your knowledge and skills. I'm doing your weekly planner this year and really enjoying it. Thanks again!! ❤️
Thanks for watching, Michele. I'm so glad you found it useful ❣️ 🙂
Thanks for the great video you showed. Im a beginner, and it's good to know more about collage. ❤❤❤❤
Glad it was helpful! 💙
This was wonderful. I do love making art and sometimes I give it away when it’s done to people I barely know. It’s the creating that I love.
How lovely that you share your art with others ❣️
Great advice. I just started collaging (on cards) and am having the time of my life. I'm enjoying your videos. :)
I think this is one of my very favourite Margarete videos. I felt like we were in the same room having a chat and a cuppa! Love your work.
What a kind thing to say, Katie❣️ Thank you 😘
Thank you for this! Very encouraging and all of your points are welcome advice! I find some of my attempts disappointing and occasionally discouraging, but I've now given myself permission to recycle/cut up/toss out, and that has been a relief!
Bravo, Mia❣️ 👍
Wonderful advice…I’m saving this, and printing out the awesome words! Thank you for sharing! 🌸🦋🌺 Playing with paper definitely puts me in my Zen!
So glad to hear this, Melody! 👍💜
Great video! Thank you for all of your advice!
Thank you! And thank you for the printable! Wise words to create by!🌞🌻
You are so welcome!
you are so good. such a good point about how some of us do art for how it makes us feel regardless of how what we make looks, i had lost my motivation for decades then this day i started as a voluntary arts and crafts tutor at local community centre, and it was whilst looking for ideas about collage for that i found your channel and now i am excited to be getting back to doing art in my own time not just as teacher preparing materials, with this non stressful attitude of 'how it makes us feel while we do art' . so many thanks Ms Miller i look forward to checking out your other videos.
My goodness, what lovely and inspiring comments! I'm so glad you've uncovered some new motivation to work on things. I think of it as "casual creating" 😉. I love when it's relaxed and low key. ❣️👍🏻
Hi Margarete i love College art! It's a refuge into another dimension... ❤
It really is! 💙
Wonderful words...
Great video, Margarete! Such important points. I would say your 10 things apply to art in general as a well as collage art. The very best thing about your weekly prompts is that it does inspire practice…and stretches us out of things we would normally gravitate to in our work. Thank you for your sharing and inspiration! I’ve enjoyed my MM Challenge so much these last couple of years. I really appreciate you! ❤️
Thanks so much for your kind comments, Gayle❣️ Practice makes all the difference in the world. Thanks for encouraging others to make, through your wonderful videos, too! ❤️
Thank you for the time you take to make these kinds of videos. I liked what you had to say about finding a supportive community. I have a small friendship group of mainly quilt makers, but I often find myself trying to explain why I am making collages, doing your Planner project of anything else that I am interested in, that is not quiltmaking. This was a great video to basically remind me its ok to march to a different drum beat. Thank you.
Wonderful! I'm so glad my message spoke to you, Sharon 👍💙.
Loved this! Thank you for putting these messages out there! There is no wrong way to create!
Thank you, Jill! 💜
Then are you saying Picasso had no talent? Collage used to be just about paper, scissors and glue but it has grown into a serious Fine Art. I do thank you for some of your good insights. 😊
Thanks for the great advice.
Great advice, thanks!
I'm learning to relax, breathe & love each piece I use for my collage. And stop beating myself up for imperfection.
Great! I'm so glad to hear that, Mable ❤️
This is awesome i think we all put too much stress on ourselves and compare ourselves to other artists, we don’t all have the same style, mediums or even like the same things and we all started off as beginners, it’s about having fun and not putting things in our heads that we’re not good enough, i just posted my first video of my journal and it took me so long because i kept comparing myself, but i finally realised that although not everyone will find my journal good it’s my journal and i’m learning and growing every day, and i hope others will take your advice hun to just relax and have fun , Thanks hun xx
I totally agree with you, Lottie. It's so easy to compare yourself to others. All of us do things at different intervals, however, so we don't do things exactly the same. I think I take a lot longer that many to work on collage, but I'm ok with the longer working time 😉👍.
Agree with you totally; well said.
Wow! Number 6 really spoke to my heart. You described me to a T. My goal is to start using the things that I have. I have so many things tucked away in the back of a cupboard or in a box that I could be using, even for a glue book.
So inspirational & insightful...TYFS!! 💖🤗🦋
This was such a calming watch after an emotional day. This feels like such a nice little bubble of joy, thank you!
I'm so glad! 😘
All great advice! Hugs and blessings, 🤗❤️🇨🇦
This was so helpful thank you for all the advice 💞💖🌹
I think ,y style would be vintage stuff. I love old looking books and papers. I just love how pages yellow over time. I love things with old hand writing on it.
Me too. I love when paper starts to change color with age 💜
I love your easygoing, non-pretentious style. This is a talk that I needed!
I'm so glad to hear it, Gaye 🙂💜⭐️