The Ultimate Collage Ideas Course

This collage composition strategy will force you to realise the relationships images can have when montaged next to each other.

This quick collage tactic will force you to reconsider orientation as a collage strategy.

This composition strategy explores montage as a collage tactic that can create a narrative and help build artistic awareness and ability.

This activity demonstrates that collage works can have connections and relationships through theme and imagery.

This activity places a creative constraint by forcing you to go monochromatic and consider your use of contrast, value and tone.

This technique can force some unity in your work through hand-made expressive marks or through a solid band or block of colour that can add a new dimension to your work in a striking way.

This activity forces you to consider your use of colour to create a collage.

This activity will build your awareness of colour schemes and implementing them to create harmony in your work.

This activity forces you to consider and examine your source material in new ways whilst developing your awareness on composition through the principle of pattern.

This collage activity involves manipulating your source material as a textural technique for artistic effect and helps you to re-examine the use and possibilities of materials.

This useful technique will force you to pay attention to negative space and how it can be used a collage technique.

With part of an image being cut and moved, this technique will force you to utilise negative space and create a sense of mystery or humour.

This collage activity allows you to experiment with space and implementing a torn or cut paper technique. Each have their own personality and texture.

This activity will help you develop a strategy on how to layer or stack your work using squares or rectangles instead of accurately cutting individual images.

This activity develops the simple compositional strategy of using a grid, giving your work structure. At times, repetition can also be incorporated.

This activity allows you to create and experiment with cutting strips and altering their position for artistic effect.

For artistic effect, this activity builds on the previous exercise by subtly morphing two images into one through cut strips.

This activity demonstrates how to build a collage using only one image and how to repurpose it through a rearranged grid or mosaic approach.

This activity allows you to use cuts as a creative strategy and decorative technique.

This activity allows you to repurpose an image and use your cuts as a creative strategy and decorative technique. You can also alter the orientation for artistic effect.

This activity forces you to re-examine identity and negative space as a creative strategy.

This playful activity transforms an image into a mysterious masked figure.

This activity utilises mashing and is a reminder to have a sense of humour. Not everything has to be so serious all the time.

This technique forces you to pay attention to symmetry, negative space and possibly repetition as a design tactic.

This activity demonstrates gestalt, which allows a viewer to see a whole, though only certain parts are visible.

This activity asks you to reconsider elements of your collage through substitution and pattern.

The creative strategies of eliminating, hiding and substituting can help build techniques to recontexualise existing images.

This activity forces you to apply design elements and principles whilst reconsidering your use of forms and layout.

This activity forces you to apply design elements and principles whilst reconsidering your forms and layout.

This activity demonstrates that ephemera can be an interesting textural technique that can communicate the passage of time.

This activity allows you to focus on specific content (source material) and to independently consider ways to structure your layout and composition.

This activity frees you from the worry of precision and instead, offers a playful illustrative approach.

This simple tactic allows you to create an anchor point or visual focus in your work through a hand motif.

This activity mixes real world with fantasy in a playful manner by substituting and juxtaposing chosen elements.

This activity asks you to consider how scale can be used as a creative strategy and demonstrates that juxtaposition can be used to play with viewer expectations. This activity is also connected to the following “Surrealism” activity.

This activity asks you to reconsider the context of particular objects and settings, and to use them in surreal and creative ways.

This activity asks you to recontextualise objects and settings in a creative, strange or playful way.

This activity rearranges images into geometric forms, either individually or through a combination of two images for artistic effect.

This activity asks you to consider forms (and possibly locations) within architectural elements to create a collage.

This activity asks you to consider a compositional arrangement for still life objects, either through cutting actual object images, or creating objects through coloured paper.

This activity asks you to carefully consider composition by utilising the rule of thirds or asymmetry to develop negative space in your work.

This activity asks you to reconsider your use of space and how your images can relate or interact within the frame.

This activity mixes elements of popular culture. With it, you could also make social or political statements.

This activity recontextualises images to create new stories or narratives through the combination of various images.

This activity allows you to simplify figures and reconsider how you use colour, shape and incorporate design principles within your work

This activity focuses on a specific image motif and repeats it across the entire frame.

This activity demonstrates that collages can be created from any type of source material and it is in fact the artist that creates the beauty in the work through design elements.

This activity demonstrates a technique to access and create a portrait process without worrying about measurements.

This activity demonstrates that compositions can be created abstractly, or through narrative approaches using only organic shapes.

This activity asks you to create abstract compositions through the use of sharp angular cut shapes.

This activity shows that historical art and design movements can be sources of inspiration.

This activity forces you to utilise balance within your collage composition with no overlapping parts, considering your use of space, shape and colour.

This activity involves creating an abstract collage with emphasis on developing a composition strategy and the use of space.

This activity forces you to reconsider your source material and compositional strategies to create an abstract collage relying on colour, shape and texture of packaging materials.

Inspired by graffiti, this activity utilises layers of texture, images and mark making, asking you to carefully consider compositional balance within your work.

This activity will allow you to implement the various strategies and techniques previously covered to create your own fully developed and elaborated collage.

This activity demonstrates and reminds us that facial elements can be created through the act of tearing, layering, and disregarding proportions.

Create stylised facial elements through design and the use of positive and negative space.

This activity transforms and recontextualises an image through different doodles with hand-drawn media.

This activity acts as a conclusion and tests your creativity by creating a collage utilising all your left over scrap pieces from your previous collage works.

A summary of the collage prompts and strategies used to expand our ideas, knowledge and skill.