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Fave Collage & Art Journal Resources

Kelly Lianne March 8, 2019

When I first started dabbling I’m digital collage and art journal spreads I had no idea where to source my images and how copyright could affect the work. I would use any images I found on Google Search or Pinterest that happened to be visually appealing to me and not consider the responsibility for using “found images”.

In collage work copyright can be a bit of a murky thing since we are taking the work of others and then cutting or manipulating it into the piece we’re creating. I am certainly not an expert on the subject and I’m not focusing on this aspect of collage and journal art in today’s post, but for more information on how (UK) copyright laws work with collage art then I would recommend reading this factsheet written by The Design and Artists Copyright Society.

All of these questions led to me doing some research which then led me to discover some of my favourite image resources. The following resources use their own licenses or supply public domain images, their Terms of Use and Copyright info will be linked if available.

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Digital Collages

Kelly Lianne February 28, 2019

If you have read my last post on what’s been inspiring me lately (and if you haven’t then you can read it here), then you would know that I’ve been feeling super inspired by collage artists lately. I particularly love anything with a minimalist style, and especially love ones with playful colour schemes and contrasting textures! 

I’ve found them that extra bit inspiring to me because I’ve been playing around with my own collages in my spare time. I create them digitally on my iPad Pro in Procreate and mostly use royalty-free photos, blocks of colour, and photos I’ve taken. The reason I make them digitally is mostly down to two main reasons, the first being that I prefer the flexibility of making them digitally over the traditional way, and the second being that I am spending a lot of time flitting between staying in my own home in Wiltshire and living with my parents in Cornwall this year. As there is a three hour drive between the two it is a lot easier to keep my work digital to cut down on all the things that I need to haul between.

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Inspiration Notes #1

Kelly Lianne February 23, 2019

These are the artists I have been loving a lot this week! I have been feeling especially drawn to collage artists since I’ve been experimenting with that too (I’ll share more on that in a new post soon), I really love collage art that has a minimalist style but also has a bold colour palette or interesting textures. This is something I have also been trying to incorporate into my own collages and so the artists that I am featuring today have been hugely influential and inspiring towards my work. I hope you enjoy their art just as much as I do!

Here are the artists I’ve been loving this week!

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