what magazines, papers, etc do you use for your collages? can never find what i’m going for with my current materials.
where i get things:
- secondhand book / craft stores will often have bags of stuff you can take home and use, including old photographs, magazines, books nobody wants, we got a ton of national geographics from the early 70s that way!
- asking old people for their hoards of ancient specific magazines they haven't thrown out
- garage sales will often have old stamps or magazines or books - i ask my friends for their old books/materials
- old textbooks nobody wants - bulk listings on ebay can be a cool way to get random new stuff that costs literal pennies
- art collective books
- books i've read a lot and don't want to hoard untouched
if you mean what i use specifically for a variety of tone/sources of inspo, here's a list of what i have right now, starred is what i get the most mileage from:
for images:
- alphonse mucha masterworks*
- gustav klimt art nouveau & the vienna secessionists
- 20th century photography museum ludwig cologne
- the moana artbook
- the dishonored 2 artbook*
- the dragon age inquisition artbook*
- a photography book from some university
for text:
- two english literature anthology textbooks
- euripides
- out of our minds (learning to be creative)
- good omens
- self comes to mind
- old music sheets
- some old social worker textbooks
for both text and images:
- scientific american
- national geographic*
- we'moon* 2013 and 2016 i believe
- different old tarot decks
- stamps from the early 1900s
- old batman comics*
- old marvel and indie comics
- batman: hush/batman: zero year/batman: the long halloween
- the best of lewis carroll (complete alice in wonderland collection)*
- the resurrectionist
- many moons: the myth and magic, fact and fantasy of our nearest heavenly body*
- a medical textbook from the early 70's*
- america on film: representing race, class, gender, and sexuality in movies
- old newspapers
- smithsonian*
- astronomy*
- discovery*
- lesbian connection
- the new yorker
- mysteries of the unknown* (these ones are AWESOME for weird/dark/oddity stuff) !!!
