• Write Your Recipe
• Create Your Collage
  • Introduction
  • You will need
  • Step 1 - Recipe feelings
  • Step 2 - Colour and mood
  • Step 3 - Collage techniques
  • Step 4 - Create a mood board
  • Step 5 - Make your Recipe collage
  • Step 6 - Choose your background
  • Step 7 - How to illustrate your ingredients
  • Simple shapes
  • Sourcing or drawing your shapes
  • Drawing your shapes from scratch
  • Step 8 - Make your collage
  • Suggestion - What next?
• Create Your Own Collage Papers
• Create Your Animation

Introduction

 

Design and create a unique and personal collage inspired by your written Recipe For a Good Mood. 

Gain tips for how to illustrate feelings, how to visualize your ingredients, how to cut, tear and glue to your satisfaction.

You can follow these instructions online or print them off to do wherever you choose.

 

Have you written your recipe yet?

This fun exercise will take you step by step through the techniques of writing your Recipe for a Good Mood.
You need to do this first.

 

What is collage?

The name collage comes from the French word ‘to glue.’ A collage is a picture made by gluing down different materials including paper, fabric and other objects, such as buttons.

 

What might this exercise offer?

The ‘Recipe for a Good Mood’ collage exercise:

• Allows us to learn new techniques and to build upon existing ones

• Highlights the importance of colour in our lives and how it can have an uplifting effect on our mood

• Gives us an opportunity to practise creative thinking

• Encourages us to make decisions based on what we like

• Makes us aware of the importance of quality time for ourselves

• Reminds us what we enjoy

• Encourages us to connect to friends

 

Watch our ‘how to’ video on collage. This shows you a range of collage techniques in practice.

Have a look at our collage gallery above. Looking at other people’s work and seeing their ideas can give you inspiration. Notice the different techniques people use, and how they lay out their images in their design.

 

How long will the exercises take?

You can spend as long or little time as you like on each exercise.  This exercise is split into small stages.  Click through the steps to gauge how long you might want to spend on this exercise. Remember it’s a good idea when doing a creative exercise to have a break from it and come back to it with fresh eyes.

 

Step 1 – Recipe Feelings

Step 2 – Colour and mood

Step 3 – Collage techniques

Step 4 – Create a mood board
Step 5 – Make your Recipe collage

Step 6 - How to illustrate your ingredients
Step 7 – Choose your background

Step 8 – Make your collage