Paper Collage Workshop

Create collages from your own photographs using color swatches torn from magazines. This workshop covers foundational collage techniques along with intermediate projects, and it introduces an analog-grid method: a color-based approach that artist Samuel Price has built up over the past 20 years. Readers of any age or skill level can use the method to bring more focus and accuracy to their work.

The projects are arranged by difficulty so that each one builds on the skills from the last. Early lessons focus on color, then on form and line, before moving on to landscapes, abstract compositions, and pet subjects. Finished pieces are designed to be framed and displayed at home.

The author presents color collage as a mindfulness practice. Like an adult coloring book, the process is meant to be meditative, quieting and concentrating the mind. It can be practiced in short sessions or in longer stretches, whichever suits you.