Collage Ideas for Making a Calendar

A dive into the world of collage, the perfect medium for calendar-making.

Seek to Make is an exploration of creativity and making. Each month, I share a monthly theme around making, showcase inspiring makers, share tips, tools and encouragement. Together let's get curious and immerse ourselves in the art of making!

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December: CALENDARS

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Hello makers,

Have you got ideas bubbling up for making your own calendar? If not, today’s inspiration is all about using collage to create beautiful, interesting, and creative images for your calendar.

I’ve never really explored collage techniques, other than helping my kids make this hot-air balloon picture for my Mum’s 65th birthday:

There was something quite freeing in cutting out lovely bright pictures from old magazines. And it’s great because you don’t need specialist materials, you can get old magazines and books from secondhand stores.

Getting Started With Collage:

I found this great image by @missingpearson that gives an outline of some general collaging techniques you might want to have a go at.

@missingpearson

Otherwise, here is a selection of work from some very talented collage artists to get you inspired:

Erwan Soyer:

Hollie Chastain:

Ben Lewis Giles:

Danielle Krysa:

From left: "she was balancing the shit outa this.", "everyones thinking it.", "they could go in circles debating 'stroke vs blob' or they could shut up and just enjoy the f'n view."

Martin O’Neill:

Lizzie Buckmaster Dove:

I’m running out of room but just wanted to share these final ones for a pop of colour:

From left: @josielewisart, @maryjohoffman, www.tiffmanuell.com

So many ideas right there for making cool collage calendars! I hope you found this useful and if you want to share your work or that of other makers, send me a message or leave a comment below. I always love hearing from you.

Happy making,

Esta