Collage your Life — Book review

Book — Collage Your Life

Author — Melanie Mowinski

Genre — Non-Fiction, Craft and Hobbies

Format — ebook

I got this e-ARC from Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.

Goodreads Blurb:

Requiring minimal equipment-just scissors, glue, paper, and pens-collage is an accessible craft that offers limitless creative possibilities. Like meditation or journaling, making collages can be an avenue for self-reflection and artistic exploration.

In Collage Your Life, artist and teacher Melanie Mowinski teaches a variety of core techniques including lettering, stamping, stencilling, transfers, and adhesive methods, and provides dozens of prompts to jumpstart the creative process and encourage crafters to explore the versatility of collage, such as make a self-portrait; disrupt your routine instincts; incorporate text; assemble mementos from a trip; process anger or anxiety; collage with others; or try creating block-out poetry with pages from a magazine.

Inspiring examples of the author’s work along with that of other collage artists are featured throughout. Crafters, journaling fans, scrapbookers, and artists alike will find guidance and support for developing their own distinctive collage style, whether the goal is to create a visual record of daily experiences and special occasions or to expand a creative journaling practice.

My Review of this Book:

Collage your life is a book made for the creative minds out there who want some point in beginning their journaling journey. It is filled with ideas of art and craft and simple ways to nudge your inner artists. It is filled with detailed information regarding the things you would need to v=begin your journal. It begins from basic things such as the paper on which you want to journal, types of tools and equipment to keep, their alternatives, the scraps that you can find around your house but are generally ignored and go into the dustbin.

Now, let’s talk about the amazing cover plus the amazing snaps from the journals of other people that have been put on display in this beautiful book. It is characterized by their names under each piece. The range of journals and types included in this book is amusing and terribly vast. It feels like the whole world of journaling has been reduced down to those 224 pages of this Collage book. After explaining the basics of art and composition, the author moves ahead to give us some prompts that would assist us in beginning our journaling if we decide to work upon them. However, the author insists to keep our mind broad and always attentive because inspiration can come in any form and get expressed in journals in any form too.

The prompts in themselves are of variety. Some of them are open-ended and make you want to think, and some are pushes you right towards your page with a purpose and aim. The variety is something that will help you if you are having a difficult day or can’t think of anything. Apart from those prompts, there are multiple examples from the given prompts that you can see and gather inspiration from. The beauty of the book is in the reality of the words written there. All those prompts and actions are doable and the examples shown are so beautiful that they make you want to pick up a brush right away.

Conclusion and Recommendations:

Overall, I liked this book. I will highly recommend this book to those art enthusiasts who want to begin their journaling journey but are not sure where or how to begin. This book covers the basics as well as advanced levels of journaling. It also includes several tips and tricks that you can use while journaling. I hope this works for you, happy journaling along with the author as the instructions tell you.

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Originally published at http://wrapthefury.wordpress.com on December 9, 2021.