BEAUTY: Collage--Raintree Chan

The artful collage work of Raintree Chan is intricate and fascinating and seemingly effortless. His Collage Lesson series in which he offers different methods and tutorial techniques fro collage making starts off legitimately enough, but just like collage itself, soon devolves into a delightful, fractured story with a surrealist bent that makes sense only out of the corner of your eye.


I have done a lot of pictures, the style is a little small, but the collage method and vision are a lot of things I have never used and are not sure about. This photo album, I tried to practice with various cutting techniques.

Lesson-1 - arbitrarily cut, then don't imagine the space first.

Lesson-2 - Triangular cut, then find the object from the main body to copy and extend.

Lesson-3 - Cut out the cut, then try to fill and insert as dramatic as possible.

Lesson-4 - Overlap the cut and then dig out some details.

Lesson-5 - Lazy cut, then find a way to tell the story with the picture.

Lesson-6 - Flash cut, then give your character life like a sorcerer.

Lesson-7 - Uncluttered cutting, giving each object an independent and distinct appearance, and then arbitrarily and unconstrained configuration.

Lesson-8 - Making a mountain cut, a bit like the way of fooling the mountains, stacking the cut objects into the desired picture, is a casual and free collage.

Lesson-9 - Color cutting, find two favorite colors, and then follow the color feeling.

Lesson-10 - When the collage content is confusing to the absence of the subject, just add a cute style of the map, you can combine these original irrelevant collages.

Lesson-11 - Big head cutting, as long as the face is dug into the situational picture, the storyline begins.

Lesson-12 - Back to the collage, just like painting, the first collage of objects will always think for a long time, or where to start.... So I have a way to choose a picture with a feeling from a corner Shun (or reverse) hour hand is usually turned back like a snail shell, and then it is a bit like Zen Buddhism in the process. It is magical (or intuitive) to know which object to spell next, and can slowly spell out the taste of a picture.

Lesson-13 - Replacement cutting collage, it is very suitable for the original image together, after the entire zipper like the bag, the meaning of the image can be reversed.

Lesson-14 - Paper edge cutting, originally cut and shredded shredded paper edge, will have a special charm after a long time, just like the role of the movie may be just a servant, after a period of time you look back at him, it turns out that he is your favorite.

Lesson-15 - If you have a good mind to go out on the road, imagination will be especially hard.

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