Many of my own collages are created through thinking about a specific event or feeling I’ve had recently, and developing a visual story for them. Though the connection between my experience and my collage may not be obvious to anyone but myself, it makes for…
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Where to get free fonts for digital art (and how to upload fonts to Canva)
Normally collages are pretty image-heavy, and don’t have a whole heap of text. But if you’ve started making digital art journal pages (like me), then you’re suddenly including a lot of text in your collages! And obviously you need to use a font that goes…
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Digital Art Journal – December 1
This December I’m working on a new project: creating a daily digital art journal page! Art journals are a great way to incorporate collage and text; they’re fun to make and look back through once they’re done. The process of making art and writing a…
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How to make a digital collage: Finding a subject
Collages are an excellent way to tell a story or show your perspective on something. While it’s fun to just slap images onto a background and see what happens, it can be even more satisfying to create something that expresses a specific idea. For instance,…
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How to fix blurry and pixelated collages in Canva
Sometimes when I create a collage in Canva it looks perfect in the preview but comes out blurry when I download it. Or sometimes MOST of the collage looks fine, but one image element is badly pixelated. I couldn’t figure out what was wrong for…
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How to make a digital collage: Focus image
Depending on your collage style, you may or may not want to have a “focus image.” I come from the world of mixed media art journals, where usually there’s a specific photo or drawing that the rest of the page is centered around. Having a…
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5 easy steps to decluttering a paper ephemera collection
I’m planning on moving out of California within the next year or so, and I don’t particularly want to move 6+ boxes of craft paper, ephemera, old magazines and book pages. That means I need to downsize! And this fits in perfectly with switching to…
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