SELF-PORTRAIT COLLAGE

If YOU Made A Self-Portrait Collage —

What wild, wonderful, or totally weird visual story would you paste your head onto?

Want a Convenient, Inexpensive, Creative Opportunity

To Be the YOU of Your Imagination ?

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col – lage:
a picture you make by cutting out and sticking together different pieces — like photos, magazine pictures, paper, fabric, or drawings — to create a new image or story.

"I'm awkward and slow at drawing, but I love to design and place things -- like on a film set, when you compose all the elements (i.e. actors, set, props, lighting etc.) for the 'sweet spot' shot that tells a whole story in a single frame. Collage lets me create visual pictures using my strengths. It also helps me develop those instincts further in a casual, fun, and convenient way.

I love the artist Frida Kahlo’s self portraits . Her Self Portraits often portray the very real physical pain she experienced throughout her live, as well as -- and more important to me -- her strength in persisting and being wildly creative. I've had enough with life difficulties, and I want to feel more than being blessed just that I survive. In my Collage Self Portraits I get to put my 'Head' into fun and adventurous worlds !"

- Trayce, One Black Woman StoryTelling

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Download 'Create Your Own Collage Self-Portrait Lesson' pdf

(which include active links)

EXPLORING COLLAGE AS A DIFFERENT KIND

OF VISUAL STORYTELLING

StoryTelling is not just words or situations and outcomes. It is also following your intuition, creative expression, learning how to puzzle together different pieces into a coherent whole, and communicating emotions to others.

Making a picture collage allows you to exercise these qualities in a fun, freeing way. When you create a collage, you don’t have to use words or be good at drawing. The story you create can even be abstract and impressionistic and still speak to a viewer — in an emotional and thought-provoking way.

If you're working on a creative project (like a written story or script or choreographing a dance) and get stuck -- step away and make a collage expressing the elements you are having trouble untangling. It can be therapeutic and fun !

Incorporate your own photo into a Collage to create your own personal mythology ! Or make a fun collage portrait of someone you love as a gift. Don't worry and judge, just do.

Here are YouTube videos for more ideas and instruction: