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Enjoyable -
I am new to collage and this book was inspiring. I felt it delivered what I needed to get started and provided wonderful examples of what can be done with this fun medium.

Would highly recommend this book! -
This book is for anyone starting out in collage, and/or those, (myself included) who have been indulging in the art form for years and looking for new ideas and other ways to be inspired. She offers a variety of exercises with well written instructions (I'm looking forward to trying all of them!), and she has filled the book with examples of her original pieces (I'm now a big fan!) as well as those of other artists. My copy is bound to become dog-eared and worn from repeated referencing!

Love it! -
This book is very different from Jane Davies' other book on collage. In COLLAGE WITH COLOR, she presented her whimsical and child like side. In COLLAGE JOURNEYS, she presents a more artistic and Avant-garde side. I guess it would be like Eric Carle vs. Pablo Picasso. As a BFA and graphic artist, I appreciate and love them both! In this current book, she challenges the reader to reach into his inner-self and create from the heart. There are no 1+1=2 projects, they are all explorations. It is a marvelous book to inspire you, challenge you, and help you continue to develop your style as an artist. Although it may be intimidating to the novice artist, I highly recommend this book.

Collage Journeys -
For a beginner or intermediate collage artist this book is short on technical steps to achieve and long on showcasing artists products.

My favorite collage book -
Jane's book shows how to collage and paint beautiful backgrounds. She shows how to use tissue paper in collage and how to collage JUST with tissue paper. Missing from this book is the usual reliance on prepared ephemera prevalent in so many mixed media books and magazines. Jane shows lovely techniques to make painted and collaged backgrounds. She suggests making large "paint playgrounds" and dissecting them to find backgrounds. She describes manipulating a collage by digitally enlarging a small section of a completed collage to find a whole new piece.

One thing that I wish there was in more books was present here. A variation on a ideas, here with a paper collage trio she shows examples of collaging the same shape (a palm tree)with three very different types of papers. Each is lovely in its own way and this is something that has influenced my thinking as I choose papers for collage.