Hi, I'm Molly, and welcome to art class.
Today, we are going to create a paint and pen collage using techniques like painting,
tearing, cutting, and pattern making.
Let's go!
For this project, you will need white watercolor paper (8.5 by 11 inches), a water-based paint
like acrylic or tempera, a soft-bristled paintbrush, water in a cup, a glue stick, scissors, black
cardstock (8.5 by 11 inches), and a white gel or paint pen.
Let's get started.
Hi, I'm Molly, I'm Olivia, and today we are going to show you how to make a cut and torn
paper collage using water-based paint and white pen.
And so, we have chosen acrylics as our water-based paint because it's really bright; and you
could use tempera as your water-based paint of choice.
Now that you gather the materials, let's get started.
We are going to show you a couple fun techniques.
You're going to create patterns, you're going to create a look of opaque and transparent
paint today; that'll give your collage a great sense of depth for the end product.
So I'm going to ask Olivia what three colors she's going to use in her collage.
You want to really start out with a limited palette because if you get too many colors,
it might lose a sense of interest, colors might turn brown, and so we want to just limit
that color choice.
So Olivia, what three colors are you gonna choose today?
Blue, yellow, and red.
Okay, and I'm gonna work with red, yellow, and purple.
And so, we have some fun techniques that you'll really enjoy.
The first one is, you can actually apply water where you want paint.
So, you can try that.
So my water's a little bit purple because I had some purple in it but I'm just gonna
really put a lot of water in this corner.
And then I'm gonna just take some purple and dab it and watch it move along that water.
So some parts look really opaque and some parts look really transparent.
It's really fun.
So you can play with that if you want.
Put a lot more dark paint corner, move it around.
Okay, another technique you might want to try is just making patterns.
So maybe you just wanna go across your paper with some patterns.
It's okay if your brush is a little wet but I'm just gonna make some patterns down here.
And notice, I'm still keeping some really opaque parts, really thick paint in places,
even though there is some transparent paint too.
So have fun, play with your paint, enjoy!
[Music plays]
Okay, now that we've let our paintings dry, we are going to do the next step which is
we are going to cut, we're going to tear, Olivia might try some circles and cut those
out, we're just going to have a lot of fun.
Now, how you tear paper is you pinch, put your thumbs together, and your pointer fingers
together, and you just tear.
So I'm going to tear off this corner of my painting.
Now, it didn't go exactly what I wanted but that's the cool thing about tearing, you can
just have fun with it and you'll get really unique edges and unique shapes.
So don't be afraid to tear.
[Music Plays]
Now you should have a good pile of pieces once you've kind of cut, and torn, and maybe
you trace some circles like we did, just with a paper cup.
We use the bottom of the cup.
Once you have all that, we're ready for step number three.
So, we are going to take a black piece of cardstock, and we're gonna arrange these pieces
on it how we want.
You may not use all of them.
You don't have to.
You might only choose your four most or five most favorite.
You can use just a glue stick, works great.
If you don't have that, you can just use clear liquid glue or white liquid glue.
So now we're gonna start arranging.
[Music Plays]
Okay, now that we've arranged everything, we are ready for step number four.
We have an oil paint pen, we have just some gel white pens, so we're going to use those
and we are going to create patterns.
If you want to create them on your collage pieces only, if you want to create them on
the black area, just feel free to play with those white pens.
So, and remember the term contrast, that with the white it will show up better on something
that is a lot different from it; so it'll show up really well on the black, maybe your
reds, and your purples, and your darker colors.
So let's get started with those white pens.
[Music Plays]
Okay, we are done creating our patterns.
So we really hope you enjoyed our torn and cut paper collage today.
Thank you so much for joining us.
Keep creating, keep making art, and we'll see you next time!