Painterly Collage Speed Demo
Channel: Deborah Eater - Painterly Collage
Date: 2016-10-03

Pasting one of the final sections of an 18" x 12" collage (tentatively) titled "Birthing."

I'm using tiny clippings from magazines and clothing catalogs that were soaked in magnesium bicarbonate to de-acidify and buffer them. I sort them by color and then cut them into random shapes about 1/2" long (or smaller if necessary).

A piece this size uses 1500-2500 individual pieces of paper and takes approximately 60 hours to paste. I call it "painterly" collage, or "painting with paper," because each clipping has no identity by itself, but instead I treat as a brushstroke that I use to construct an image on a canvas.

I developed this technique on my own, although I was influenced by the work of many artists and by reading about art. I teach collage classes and give workshops on this technique in Langhorne, PA. You can see (and purchase) my collage at DeborahEater.com.