Check out this video for an exclusive studio visit as I chat through my collage process. I love to combine colorful little bits of paper to create stunning face collages.

Here's the face I made in the video:

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Are you ready to learn how to make your own stunning face collage?  Visit this link to take my Collage Face class and start making your own amazing pieces!

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Julie Fei-Fan Balzer

Based outside of Boston, Julie Fei-Fan Balzer is a painter, printmaker, and collage artist who constructs vibrant compositions. Her artwork investigates the interplay of identity and perception, inviting viewers to take a longer look. Julie works in layers, both physically and metaphorically, exploring what is visible and what is concealed. Passionate about connecting with and inspiring other artists, she shares her expertise through in-person workshops and her online classroom at MyArtPractice.com. Julie's achievements include high-profile clients, multiple publications - including her book, “Carve Stamp Play” - and exhibits in New York City and throughout Massachusetts. She is a graduate of Brown University.

7 thoughts on “Studio Visit #3: Face Collage

  • I loved the video! I really like all the Studio Visit videos, b/c it helps me see the reality of making art, not the idealized, “Oh, she had a vision — then realized it in its first draft!”
    I’d love to see more of how you use sketchbooks to explore a theme. How do you come up with the questions you might explore in the sketchbook? Then how do you come up with the exercises that will help you enter in to that exploration? AND, how do you do it in batches, or 15 minutes at a time, for example? it seems I’m just getting into the making when 15 min. are up, but sometimes that’s all the time I can carve out. How do you remember the insights that were just coming up to surface? Most of us don’t have hours and hours to follow through in our explorations. . . Along with that, how you take books on artists and then come up with exercises to understand the artist better, and incorporate into your own style what you can learn from that particular artist. Thanks Julie. I so appreciate how much excellent content you offer, almost all of it for free or low cost! (I am a Maker Member of your site.) You are a gifted teacher.

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  • I loved the video! I really like all the Studio Visit videos, b/c it helps me see the reality of making art, not the idealized, “Oh, she had a vision — then realized it in its first draft!”
    I’d love to see more of how you use sketchbooks to explore a theme. How do you come up with the questions you might explore in the sketchbook? Then how do you come up with the exercises that will help you enter in to that exploration? AND, how do you do it in batches, or 15 minutes at a time, for example? it seems I’m just getting into the making when 15 min. are up, but sometimes that’s all the time I can carve out. How do you remember the insights that were just coming up to surface? Most of us don’t have hours and hours to follow through in our explorations. . . Along with that, how you take books on artists and then come up with exercises to understand the artist better, and incorporate into your own style what you can learn from that particular artist. Thanks Julie. I so appreciate how much excellent content you offer, almost all of it for free or low cost! (I am a Maker Member of your site.) You are a gifted teacher.

    Reply
  • I loved the video! I really like all the Studio Visit videos, b/c it helps me see the reality of making art, not the idealized, “Oh, she had a vision — then realized it in its first draft!”
    I’d love to see more of how you use sketchbooks to explore a theme. How do you come up with the questions you might explore in the sketchbook? Then how do you come up with the exercises that will help you enter in to that exploration? AND, how do you do it in batches, or 15 minutes at a time, for example? it seems I’m just getting into the making when 15 min. are up, but sometimes that’s all the time I can carve out. How do you remember the insights that were just coming up to surface? Most of us don’t have hours and hours to follow through in our explorations. . . Along with that, how you take books on artists and then come up with exercises to understand the artist better, and incorporate into your own style what you can learn from that particular artist. Thanks Julie. I so appreciate how much excellent content you offer, almost all of it for free or low cost! (I am a Maker Member of your site.) You are a gifted teacher.

    Reply
  • I loved the video! I really like all the Studio Visit videos, b/c it helps me see the reality of making art, not the idealized, “Oh, she had a vision — then realized it in its first draft!”
    I’d love to see more of how you use sketchbooks to explore a theme. How do you come up with the questions you might explore in the sketchbook? Then how do you come up with the exercises that will help you enter in to that exploration? AND, how do you do it in batches, or 15 minutes at a time, for example? it seems I’m just getting into the making when 15 min. are up, but sometimes that’s all the time I can carve out. How do you remember the insights that were just coming up to surface? Most of us don’t have hours and hours to follow through in our explorations. . . Along with that, how you take books on artists and then come up with exercises to understand the artist better, and incorporate into your own style what you can learn from that particular artist. Thanks Julie. I so appreciate how much excellent content you offer, almost all of it for free or low cost! (I am a Maker Member of your site.) You are a gifted teacher.

    Reply
  • I loved the video! I really like all the Studio Visit videos, b/c it helps me see the reality of making art, not the idealized, “Oh, she had a vision — then realized it in its first draft!”
    I’d love to see more of how you use sketchbooks to explore a theme. How do you come up with the questions you might explore in the sketchbook? Then how do you come up with the exercises that will help you enter in to that exploration? AND, how do you do it in batches, or 15 minutes at a time, for example? it seems I’m just getting into the making when 15 min. are up, but sometimes that’s all the time I can carve out. How do you remember the insights that were just coming up to surface? Most of us don’t have hours and hours to follow through in our explorations. . . Along with that, how you take books on artists and then come up with exercises to understand the artist better, and incorporate into your own style what you can learn from that particular artist. Thanks Julie. I so appreciate how much excellent content you offer, almost all of it for free or low cost! (I am a Maker Member of your site.) You are a gifted teacher.

    Reply
  • I loved the video! I really like all the Studio Visit videos, b/c it helps me see the reality of making art, not the idealized, “Oh, she had a vision — then realized it in its first draft!”
    I’d love to see more of how you use sketchbooks to explore a theme. How do you come up with the questions you might explore in the sketchbook? Then how do you come up with the exercises that will help you enter in to that exploration? AND, how do you do it in batches, or 15 minutes at a time, for example? it seems I’m just getting into the making when 15 min. are up, but sometimes that’s all the time I can carve out. How do you remember the insights that were just coming up to surface? Most of us don’t have hours and hours to follow through in our explorations. . . Along with that, how you take books on artists and then come up with exercises to understand the artist better, and incorporate into your own style what you can learn from that particular artist. Thanks Julie. I so appreciate how much excellent content you offer, almost all of it for free or low cost! (I am a Maker Member of your site.) You are a gifted teacher.

    Reply
  • I loved the video! I really like all the Studio Visit videos, b/c it helps me see the reality of making art, not the idealized, “Oh, she had a vision — then realized it in its first draft!”
    I’d love to see more of how you use sketchbooks to explore a theme. How do you come up with the questions you might explore in the sketchbook? Then how do you come up with the exercises that will help you enter in to that exploration? AND, how do you do it in batches, or 15 minutes at a time, for example? it seems I’m just getting into the making when 15 min. are up, but sometimes that’s all the time I can carve out. How do you remember the insights that were just coming up to surface? Most of us don’t have hours and hours to follow through in our explorations. . . Along with that, how you take books on artists and then come up with exercises to understand the artist better, and incorporate into your own style what you can learn from that particular artist. Thanks Julie. I so appreciate how much excellent content you offer, almost all of it for free or low cost! (I am a Maker Member of your site.) You are a gifted teacher.

    Reply

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