Making collages from magazines and new sketchbook class.... 

Fabulous video! It's just great when you click with someone's creativity, personality and style. Thank you Helen❤

Absolutely love this, now I know why I have piles of old magazines, thank you Helen, you are wonderful.

I really like the combination of collage on a background of paint strokes. It's unexpected but/and it really works. 👍

Thank you for a great video. Never occurred to me to change the shape of an object!

I've not done collage since college, literally eons ago now, and your tutorial brought the joy of this art form rushing back. thank you for a most enjoyable video.

So inspiring Helen! Didn't hear any cars but enjoyed the seagulls! 😊❤💕🎉

I love making magazine collages soo much! always sparks so many new and interesting ideas :)

Looking forward to another of your classes to build my art practice. Thank you for making the price affordable Helen. I really appreciate it because I've been able to take all of them thanks to your earlybird prices. They keep opening up new ways to think about and create using materials I already have. Looking forward to sinking into this class tonight. Rachelle, Australia 🎨🖌️❤️🤍💚💙🖤🩶🩵🩷🧡💛🎀🌺🌿🌸🌱

Very inspiring. Thanks for sharing Helen 💖💖💖

Fantastic, thank you! I used magazines and did a patchwork to cover the chimney breast up stairs in my house 😊

The shapes came alive on the darker background! I'm getting out the magazines! I will sign up for your new class Helen but will have to wait until the end of September. Enjoy your week! 😊

Love this! Thank you so much! 🙏🏼💕

Hi Helen,I love doing collages too...but it hadn't occured to me how to change it up a bit...like you have done. Thanks for your refreshing take! Ness x

Abstract art isn’t as easy as people think, so much thought does go into it. Will try this exercise to spark new creative ideas. Thank you. 🙋🏼‍♀️🌻🇨🇦

Brilliant! I love the creative challenge of your process. So grateful for your generosity in sharing. When I’m able to, I definitely will take a class of yours! Stay well, beautiful ❤

Perfect timing. Am having my sister over for a long weekend of art and plan to start with magazine collage. You have given me a couple of new ideas with it. Thankyou so much for sharing once again.

Thank you for sharing your process with us. This is a validation for a type of collage I enjoy but haven't done for a long time. I can go back to it now and delight in it again.

Interesting video showing your process. Was startled to see how different the pieces look on the more dramatic background. Great reminder to keep playing and experimenting. Thank you for so much good, practical advice in your videos.

Thanks, Helen, another good video. I love experimenting with collage like this and as you have shown, choice of background makes all the difference to how well it works. I don't know if it would work for everyone but I store all my papers, by colour, in filing pockets in a couple of big ring binders. They are easy to access and help to keep my desk tidy! It also reminds me when it may be time to stop saving anything new! Time to go and make some collage art now!

I signed up for the new class! I look forward to markmaking. Loved the collage ideas, thanks.

Your videos always make my day 😊

I forgot how much I loved collage when I was young… thank you so so much for sparking my interest again ❤….. so happy I found you

I love your book. Soo inspirational. ❤

Love your page as well as your technique above. I will definitely try it :) thank you

Found from Pinterest , now your famous. But looked on Instagram you all ready kind of are! Lovely work ❤

Thank you for your inspiring videos! I discovered your work on Pinterest and have been sharing it with my students❤

Dear Helen ❤ Just love this video. I get stuck at the first stage of pulling the patterns and colours out of the magazines but then just stick them in my scrap book. Never done an actual collage with the bits. Thankyou so much for sharing your thought process too. This is incredibly helpful. Much love.🇦🇺❤📚

I just signed up! I’m so excited to learn more from you and move me along the path of developing my own ideas. Thank you.

Hi dearest Helen ! What a joy it is finding you here once again with your magical inspiration ! At the moment I am obsessed with collage and have always loved cutting up papers ! I have just finished making 200 little collages with abstract figures …. Yes ! 200 ! I usually exhaust an idea and see what happens ! Now you have planted another little seed of vital inspiration and will see where that takes me ! You are a marvel dear Helen and for that I am ever so grateful to you !! Your courses have made many stepping stones in my head to help me create new things and you inspire me to experiment with different materials ! Sending you warm hugs and once again a sincere Thank You sweet Helen ! ….. Lorraine 🥰❤️🤗

I have been thinking of doing this with so many magazines I have, but not know where to start, thank you for this teaching 😍

I have just discovered your videos on you tube and Instagram 2 days ago, and already I must have seen 20. You are so unique and inspiring and incredibly generous with your knowledge. Thank you.

This was fabulous 😊 I love collage and you have given me some great ideas and inspiration 😀 ❤thank you😊

What a wonderful and happy start to my day Helen thanks to you once again. Love all the great ideas you come up with. Isabel

An absolutely delightful whimsical idea! My collages are quite 'heady'... surreal, for sure... and most are very complicated, with 'messages'. To be able to stop, breathe, and so something like what you have shown, would be like a breath of fresh air. I'm going to give it a go... a relaxation of sorts... a pause. I have all these gel plate prints and roll-off pages from the brayer... they would make excellent backgrounds, as you have shown. Plus, there are SOOOOO many images, colors, patterns, shapes in the THOUSANDS of magazines and books that I've accrued that are just sitting there with no useful purpose. You have shown Me a purpose for so much more... no waste... I keep EVERY mag. & book after I've cut them up. LOL Thank you SO much for this idea and have a LOVELY day! (:

What a different approach to collaging. So very calm and relaxed. Not surreal and not representational, I have actually been doing some pieces like this recently. Mine are busier and fully covering the paper, but like yours, they are more based on color and texture and overall feeling than anything else. This was really very helpful. Thank you so much. I can’t wait to check out mote of your videos.

❤❤❤Magically inspiring! Thank you!

Great video thanks Helen. I too love collage and incorporate them into my abstract art too. Fiddling around takes time in collage to get it to feel right. Happy creativity one and all. Karen 😂

Simply lovely 😍

Oooh! How relaxing this video felt! With the seagulls, music, and subject matter. I went through a whole collage mood last year and loved it! I did get a bit overwhelmed with bits of paper though, so I need to be a bit more organised, haha! I popped over to sign up for the class, and didn't realise you had a book out. I bought that, forgetting to sign up altogether so I will go and do that now! :) P.S I like the contrasty collage on the right, with the purple background...just saying! x

Love the collage idea and can't wait to explore the new sketchbook class. What is the name of the song and artist playing in the background, would love to listen to the whole song.

I have been having so much fun with magazine collages, I still need to try with copies of my own marks

Welcome Back Helen!! I LOVE what you're doing with the magazine collages! I have tons of magazines that I've collected over the years, but I always seem to get wrinkles when I've tried to glue them down. What kind of adhesive do you use?

I love this exercise Helen! I also love how you create unusual shapes with each cut out! Collage was never my strong point (especially when expected to come up with ideas in art classes! It is a slow process that cannot be hurried!) However, I experimented with collage recently and enjoyed it more this time round. (Question for you Helen: are you classes on-going or seasonal?)

This video really speaks to me. I have saved lots of images (torn out pages) from magazines which I haven’t used in quite some time so as I played your video I opened my cabinet and pulled out some pages. It’s interesting because your images were very much like mine but what happened is that I got overwhelmed because I have sooo much. I used to make cards with collage and envelopes I’d mail the card in. I know I need to categorize these which would make this easier but how do I keep from getting overwhelmed?

Do you realize both compositions are off set circles with dark centers.