Scaling Up Mixed Media Collage

Scaling up paintings is challenging—it can seem like it would be simple, but then you get into the middle of it and sometimes it can be hard to figure out why it’s not working the way it did on the smaller scale. There are a number of things to consider, but in this video I focused on the challenge of getting my focal points to be the proper size for the bigger surface area.

If you find scaling up a challenge, I hope this video gives you a few new tools for your tool belt and also reminds you that it’s actually not easy. But keep trying and working with it—if it doesn’t turn out right the first or second attempt, that sounds normal to my experience! Keep going, you’ll figure it out.


Video Chapters:
0:00 Introduction to my scaling up project on my layered botanical mixed media collage
0:31 Starting with an 11x14 sheet of blank mixed media paper, I layer papers
2:53 Moving from the generative stage to finding where I want my focal points to be
4:43 Entering the evaluative stage and deciding where focal points are, which things will you bring forward and which will you pull back
9:30 Figuring out how to scale up your focal points to the correct size relation to the surface


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