Wednesday, May 4, 2011

Wooden Collage

 

According to the dictionary, collage art is “an artistic composition made of various materials (as paper, cloth or wood) glued on a surface.” The word comes from the French word “coller,” meaning to glue or to paste. You may use any material or found objects; glue them down to produce art. It is sometimes combined with painting and other medium in a single work of art. They are also called other names: montage, assemblage, and decoupage.

 

It is very simple!

 

Using a combination of wood, glass gems, beads, crushed shells, wood shavings, and glue, the children began their artistic journey. Our wood collage art, are considerably smaller in scale, framed as a painting would be. The children were able to explore depth, color and texture.

 

 

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6 comments:

  1. This looks very pretty, but is it a regular school glue? Is it able to hold stones and glass pieces provided that there is enough of it?

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  2. Beautiful! @Raising a Happy Child - we use child's PVC glue for collages like this one.

    We did a wood collage recently as well:

    http://progressiveearlychildhoodeducation.blogspot.com/2011/05/creativity-in-preschool-years.html

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  3. This also looks like a candidate for using the glue gun. I've been looking for another reason to use it.

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  4. @ Scott, Nothing like squeezing the trigger and watching hot glue squirt out.

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