Collage artists, have you signed up for the Collage Scrap Exchange yet? It’s a fun, creative art contest where you can win awesome prizes! I’ve partnered with Papirmass to offer this.
The premise is simple: bundle some of your favorite scraps and send them to your partner — another collage artist. They’ll ship their scraps to you, and the two of you will have a whole new set of materials to experiment and play with! Then, make artwork that fuses both of your unique pieces. Learn more about prizes here! Anyone and anywhere is eligible to sign up and win.
So, what makes a good set of scraps to exchange? Here’s a collection of my own, diagramed:
- Magazine photographs (like these colorful flowers!)
- Hand-painted papers of pre-cut shapes (such as hands)
- Photographs of people you don’t know
- Scraps from your latest printmaking project
- Kraft paper (or other conventional papers)
- Airbrushed experiments
- Interesting shapes cut out from papers
- Patterned papers (like scrapbook pages)
- Hand-painted paper with ink lines on them
When you package your scraps, think about a variety of things to offer. Maybe it’s a bunch of multi-colored papers, or a lot of different textures. Either way, compile a collection that you’d like to receive and I’m sure your partner will appreciate it!