HELLO
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Hollie Chastain is a mixed media artist and illustrator working in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Coming from both a graphic design and studio art background, her aesthetic has a story-telling quality, mixing found material, strong graphic elements and modern palettes that she has applied to a wide range of illustration and editorial work. As well as teaching workshops across the country, she maintains a home studio producing both client commissions and internationally collected personal pieces.
Select Clients : Warner/Atlantic Records, Smithsonian Magazine, Pantheon, The Baffler, Spirituality and Health, The Oxford American, Süddeutsche Zeitung Magazin, Pantheon, AQUILA, Quarto Publishing, IO Donna, Resurgence & Ecologist, Omni Hotel, Rizzoli Publishing, Wellcome Collection, Gestalten Books, CreativeMorning
Press: Colossal, My Modern Met, The Jealous Curator, Create Magazine, Toombes
I wrote a book!
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If You Can Cut, You Can Collage is specially designed for people who feel like they can't make art. Want to know a secret? You can! You just need a little inspiration, instruction, and confidence.
Collage is a wonderful creative outlet, particularly for people who want to make art, but don’t feel they have the skills or confidence for other endeavors. You can still explore and experiment with color, composition, and various themes and end up with exciting and often unexpected results.
If you Can Cut, You Can Collage takes some of the mystery out of collage through easy illustrated pages that show you the basic techniques of collecting and cutting imagery, composing and adhering compositions, and then provides a wealth of exercises that get readers going on their own creative projects.
We’ll get you started with simple, focused, projects like making a collage with only circles, where you’ll learn important concepts like how to create a focal point, how to use repetition successfully, how to achieve contrast, balance, symmetry, and more. You’ll be incorporating vintage ephemera, typography and lettering, and even urban and found materials in no time!
Book Press:
Collage is much more than paper and glue, and artist Hollie Chastain is the perfect person to assist readers in their collage adventures. Peppered with her colorful art, this book offers plenty of guidance. Chastain encourages a practice of collecting interesting scraps everywhere you go, saying it may be the key to success on a day when inspiration eludes you. Stretch your creative muscles with 18 engaging exercises, and learn to mix elements and play with color, texture, repetition, style, and more.
- Cloth, Paper, Scissors
As how-to books go, this one is pretty good. With a hundred airy pages of instructions and delightful, thoughtful illustrations, If You Can Cut, You Can Collage by Hollie Chastain is an efficient and economical course in the basics of collage…Chastain’s explanations of concepts like scale, rhythm, depth, which she acknowledges are straight out of art school, remind us that these attributes are useful to viewing collage critically.
- Kolaj Magazine
American collage artist Hollie Chastain wrote AND illustrated a book! Oh my word, this is who you want to learn your ‘collage how-tos’ from. It’s filled cover to cover with mixed media techniques, step-by-step instructions, inspirational bits ‘n pieces, AND a whole bunch of lovely paper at the back to get you started.
- The Jealous Curator