National Geographic Collage

Join me in the studio as I show you how to dissolve National Geographic pages with Citra Solv. This fascinating and experimental process creates beautiful collage papers for you to use in your art projects. A comprehensive guide for how to dissolve National Geographic magazine pages to make beautiful and unique collage paper.

Then we'll continue with this week's theme of bridges as we create 100. Ilene Gold creates collages using only National Geographic magazines. Cutting thousands of pieces of paper and assembling them into a new image.

The collage idea started by recreating famous paintings made entirely from National Geographic magazines. As this medium evolved, a new collection started with the recreation of Ilene Gold's award winning photographs, still using only National. Dreaming of You, mixed media collage, original painting (photo by author) This mixed media collage has been created using a National Geographic page dissolved with Citra Solve.

Who hasn't made a collage like David Lachapelle? I spent the greater part of my childhood lost in the alternate dream-life National Geographic allotted me. 1954, 1975,1993, 1995, the years went whizzing by as briskly as the countries and species. Find and save ideas about national geographic collage art on Pinterest.

Here's a cool looking cut and paste collage by sjef.nu, made from a vintage issue of National Geographic. You can also download a PDF of this as a high. In this video I go over step.

Here you can download my FREE collage papers from dissolving the National Geographic pages. I know you will love to add these papers to your mixed media artworks, art journals and collages. Beautifully dissolved National Geographic pages without all the mess and smell!.

From my own creative experimentation using the citrasolve product, to create these fabulous organic colours and textures.