{"id":727,"date":"2010-06-10T09:06:20","date_gmt":"2010-06-10T08:06:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bookleteer.com\/blog\/?p=727"},"modified":"2010-06-04T12:33:33","modified_gmt":"2010-06-04T11:33:33","slug":"the-collages-of-eric-carle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bookleteer.org\/blog\/2010\/06\/the-collages-of-eric-carle\/","title":{"rendered":"The Collages of Eric Carle"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle<\/em><\/p>\n

I expect you have seen The Very Hungry Caterpillar<\/em> by Eric Carle before. It is the children’s book where a tiny caterpillar spends one week eating his way through a variety of foods before making a cocoon and finally emerging as a beautiful butterfly. As a kid I loved the holes in the pages which showed where the caterpillar had been. But it was only recently that I found out how Eric Carle makes the fabulous coloured illustrations for this book and the many others he has written.<\/p>\n

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The technique uses a combination of paint, tissue paper and cut out. First he paints onto sheets of tissue paper building up layers of colour and patterns. There is a slideshow on the Eric Carle website<\/a> showing how this is done. The outline of the caterpillar (or whatever the collage is to show) is then drawn onto tracing paper and this is used as a guide for cutting out the tissue paper shapes and arranging these onto the final page. Another slideshow on the Eric Carle website<\/a> shows this process.<\/p>\n

What I love about this technique is the depth of colour that it’s possible to get. For me, the subtle variations in tone on a simple shape of a pear, for example, give the cut-out shape the quality of a drawn illustration. And as a person who is not good at drawing, I’m delighted that it’s an eye for colour rather than the ability to control a line that is needed when trying to imitate this approach. I’m planning on using this technique to create the illustrations for my pop-up eBook<\/a>. Of course, I’ll show you the results (good or bad!) here…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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