YOU CAN MAKE A COLLAGE
By Eric Carle
Klutz, 1998
Category: Specialty book
This “book” consists of a collection of brightly painted tissue papers, created by the one-and-only Eric Carle, and instructions on how to use them to create collage. It is not a book you read, but a book you do. I bought it at the Gift Shop of the Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art two years ago and we have been saving it for a special occasion. The last Tuesday of summer, a dreary and blustery day of confinement (my littlest is still recovering), seemed a good day to explore the art of tissue collage.
It is not as easy as Eric Carle makes it look! But the results are stunning, don’t you think?
This image was created by the little patient; she calls it “Flower and Caterpillar”.
This image was created by me; I call it “Clue to Subject of My Next Book”.