Scraps:

A Tiny Collage Practice

Build a creative habit you'll actually keep while using only the paper scraps you already have.

This course is for you if you're an artist, printmaker, or paper lover who has a pile of beautiful scraps

Scraps: A Tiny Collage Practice
$57.00
One time

You have offcuts from gelli plate sessions, torn magazine pages, old book fragments, and bits of tissue paper stuffed in a drawer or scattered across your worktable. They're too beautiful to throw away — but you're not sure what to do with them.

You sit down to make something, and suddenly an hour has disappeared into decision paralysis.

Or you make one piece, decide it's not good enough, and don't come back for two weeks.

It’s time to change this.

Introducing Scraps: A Tiny Collage Practice

This is a self-paced online course built around one simple idea: small work, done regularly, will change how you make art.

Using only the scraps you already have, a glue stick, and a small sketchbook, you'll build a collage practice that fits into your real life and quietly improves everything else you make.

What You’ll Get

A use for all those scraps. Stop accumulating beautiful paper out of guilt. Book pages, gelli plate offcuts, old maps, tissue paper — everything you've been saving now has a purpose.

Compositional skills learned through constraint. Working in one color family, one edge type, or one source material teaches you more about composition than unlimited choice ever will. The 20 guided challenges embed this directly into your practice.

Work that feeds your larger studio practice. Tiny collages function as compositional sketches. They test color relationships and structural ideas before you commit to larger pieces. Your larger work improves because you're actually using what you learn at small scale.

A real record of creative growth. Documentation turns a pile of small pieces into an actual body of work. Looking back at a year of collages shows you exactly how your eye has developed.

A community that gets it. A private Facebook group to share your work. A scrap exchange connects you with other students; their materials push you in directions you wouldn't discover alone.

Here's what changes when you work this way:

  • You'll stop waiting for the perfect moment to make art and start making it in the margins of your day

  • You'll use up your scraps instead of feeling guilty about them

  • You'll develop a sharper eye for composition, value, and color — because constraints teach what infinite choices never will

  • You'll have a growing body of small finished work — dated, titled, and documented — that shows you how far you've come

  • You'll discover that a collage made in a few minutes is often better than one you labored over for an hour

Frequently Asked Questions

  • Not at all. This course is beginner-friendly. If you do make gelli prints or use a letterpress, you'll have a built-in supply of beautiful offcuts to work with — but it's absolutely not required.

  • A sketchbook or small papers cut to size, a glue stick, scissors, a bone folder or old hotel key, and whatever paper scraps you have on hand. Full list included with the course.

  • Fully self-paced. You can start today and work on your own schedule.

  • I’ll tell you exactly where to find them — your own studio floor, estate sales, used bookstores, and family papers. There are always enough scraps. Gelli plate prints, materials from your recycling bin, and commercial papers will work for these lessons.

  • I want you to be happy, so if you don't love the class, let me know within the first week after you sign up, and I'll refund the full purchase price.

  • Use the login option at the top of this page.

  • There is a private Facebook class so we can build a community for feedback, questions, and support. A place to organize scrap exchanges and post collage challenges.

  • There are 1.5 hours of video lessons, and 20 collage challenges for you to complete at your own pace.

Why I Teach This

I've been making collages and teaching art for years.

I started this tiny collage practice because I needed a way to keep making work during the messy, interrupted, non-ideal days. For those days when I was too tired to start something big but not too tired to cut and glue.

The practice I'm teaching you is the one I actually use. The travel kit I'll show you has been in my bag for years. The back-of-the-piece documentation habit has given me a record of creative work I'm genuinely proud of.

I built this course because the barrier to starting it is so low — and the return is so high.

One more thing

There will always be a reason to wait. More scraps, more time, more inspiration.

But the whole point of this practice is that it doesn't need any of those things.

Paper, glue stick, and begin.

$57.00
One time

Scraps: A Tiny Collage Practice

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