Travel Collage
Cut and stick the story of your own journey
The Set Up
Lay out a generous collage table. Old travel magazines. National Geographic style nature spreads. Monochrome photos. Photocopies of old family holiday snapshots. Fold out road maps, torn Melways pages if you are in Melbourne. Tickets, boarding passes, brochures, tiny printed symbols from favourite places. Ripped painted paper in bold colour. Paint swatches. Alphabet letters. Cut up straws for little line markers. Thicker card or sturdy paper is wonderful for the base.
Place glue sticks and PVA in shallow trays with broad brushes. Add scissors.
The Making
Invite each artist to build their own journey map. It can be a real trip or a dream place.
Artist Study: David Hockney
David Hockney paints places he loves. He’s known for bright, flat blocks of colour, bold outlines, and almost impossible blues and greens. A swimming pool might be pure turquoise with a single white ripple. A hillside might be orange and pink and violet instead of “grass green.” He isn’t trying to copy what a place looks like. He’s trying to show how it feels to stand there and look.
Later in his career he spent a lot of time painting the English countryside. Hedgerows, roads curving through fields, rows of trees on rolling hills. Instead of painting them in dull browns and greys, he pushed the colours loud and clear. Purples in the shadows and neon greens in new growth and hot reds in the dirt. It all feels so alive and personal!
You can share this idea with your artists. Colour doesn’t have to be realistic to be true. What colours belong to your place. What shapes tell the story of where you’ve been or where you want to go. Could your street be orange. Could your favourite swimming spot be magenta around the edges. That is very Hockney.
If you can, print or show a couple of David Hockney’s landscape works. As with all art experieneces that are inspired by the works of others, the idea is not to copy his style. The idea is to ask what colours belong to your place.
Variations
Turn finished collages into postcards. Fold, write a message, deliver!
Materials
Materials
Old maps, brochures, photocopied photos, tickets
Magazines and painted paper scraps
Paint swatches, alphabet letters, cut straws or yarn
Thick card or sturdy paper as the base
Glue sticks and shallow trays of PVA with brushes
Scissors
Optional reference images of David Hockney landscapes for colour conversation
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Travel Collage
Cut and stick the story of your own journey
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Collage
The Set Up
Lay out a generous collage table. Old travel magazines. National Geographic style nature spreads. Monochrome photos. Photocopies of old family holiday snapshots. Fold out road maps, torn Melways pages if you are in Melbourne. Tickets, boarding passes, brochures, tiny printed symbols from favourite places. Ripped painted paper in bold colour. Paint swatches. Alphabet letters. Cut up straws for little line markers. Thicker card or sturdy paper is wonderful for the base.
Place glue sticks and PVA in shallow trays with broad brushes. Add scissors.
The Making
Invite each artist to build their own journey map. It can be a real trip or a dream place.
Artist Study: David Hockney
David Hockney paints places he loves. He’s known for bright, flat blocks of colour, bold outlines, and almost impossible blues and greens. A swimming pool might be pure turquoise with a single white ripple. A hillside might be orange and pink and violet instead of “grass green.” He isn’t trying to copy what a place looks like. He’s trying to show how it feels to stand there and look.
Later in his career he spent a lot of time painting the English countryside. Hedgerows, roads curving through fields, rows of trees on rolling hills. Instead of painting them in dull browns and greys, he pushed the colours loud and clear. Purples in the shadows and neon greens in new growth and hot reds in the dirt. It all feels so alive and personal!
You can share this idea with your artists. Colour doesn’t have to be realistic to be true. What colours belong to your place. What shapes tell the story of where you’ve been or where you want to go. Could your street be orange. Could your favourite swimming spot be magenta around the edges. That is very Hockney.
If you can, print or show a couple of David Hockney’s landscape works. As with all art experieneces that are inspired by the works of others, the idea is not to copy his style. The idea is to ask what colours belong to your place.
Variations
Turn finished collages into postcards. Fold, write a message, deliver!
Materials
Materials
Old maps, brochures, photocopied photos, tickets
Magazines and painted paper scraps
Paint swatches, alphabet letters, cut straws or yarn
Thick card or sturdy paper as the base
Glue sticks and shallow trays of PVA with brushes
Scissors
Optional reference images of David Hockney landscapes for colour conversation
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Thoughts?
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