Most people who come to Thursday club for the first time sit down, look at the pile of paper and freeze. Here is what we tell them.
Rule one: cut before you think
Take one magazine and cut out anything you like the colour of. Do not ask what it is for. Ten minutes of cutting gives you a pile of shapes, and the pile is where the picture comes from.
Rule two: one big thing
Choose the biggest piece and put it down first, a little off the middle. Everything else is there to answer it. A collage of twenty small things the same size never settles.
If it looks too neat, tear something. Torn edges forgive everything.
Rule three: stick it down before you like it
Glue makes decisions for you. Once a piece is down you stop moving it about and start building on it. You can always cover it later, which is the whole joy of collage.
Then stop
Twenty minutes, one magazine, one picture. Put it on the fridge. Next Thursday, do another.
