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Home > Arts and Crafts Projects > Collages > Overlapping Forms in Space to Create 3-D Illusions
Do you want to learn how to make collages that create the illusion of depth and create a 3-dimensional illusion? Find out how to make 3-D illusions with these cool collage creation ideas. This is a great way for children to learn about depth and illusions of space and distance.
Many people feel that that the illusions of space and distance are unimportant to teach to children and that it shouldn't be forced upon them by adults who are more conscious of space. For those children who express a desire to gain an illusion of depth and for those teachers who insist that children need some knowledge of depth illusions, here are some ideas to teach it to them.
1. Drawing paper
2. Drawing or painting medium (pencil, ink, crayon, tempera, or watercolor)
3. Scissors
4. Paste or glue
1. Plan the subject matter of your picture or design. Decide what is to be in the picture--people, trees, cows, chickens, etc.
2. Draw or paint the subjects or objects you have chosen.
3. Cut out the objects you have drawn.
4. Try arranging the objects on the paper background so that they overlap each other. Small objects (which tend to appear more distant) will appear farther away if overlapped by larger objects. Place background objects higher on the paper and foreground objects lower on the paper. When a satisfying arrangement has been found, paste or glue the pieces in place.
5. Do not hesitate to draw and add new things which may be needed but were not anticipated.
STILT PICTURES for 3-D ILLUSIONS
Stilt-pictures create an illusion of the third dimension
1. Heavy drawing paper
2. Drawing medium
3. Scissors
4. Paste or blue
5. Cardboard or stiff paper
The method is as outlined for Overlapping Forms in Space except that in addition to, or instead of overlapping the objects, they are glued to paper or cardboard stilts so that they project out from the picture plane. (A strong stilt can be made out of a strip of paper or cardboard which is folded into a square shape. If additional strength is needed, a triangular shape can be inserted into the square stilt. You can also use photo mounting tape because it has depth to it.)
1. Black or other dark paper or drawing or painting medium
2. Scissors
3. White paper
4. Tissue paper, onion skin paper or translucent tracing paper (not carbon)
5. Paste, glue or rubber cement
1. Using the white paper as a background, draw, paint or cut out and paste the silhouettes of your most distant objects upon it.
2. Now cover the background paper and silhouettes with a piece of translucent paper. Paste it down at the four corners or along the edges.
3. Onto this paper, draw, paint or paste the silhouettes of objects which are to appear closer to you.
4. Cover with a second piece of translucent paper and add the third silhouette (or group of silhouettes) which is to appear closest to you.
NOTE: This procedure can be continued as long as the first silhouette is still visible through the layers of translucent paper.The silhouettes may be any subject desired, but each one should differ from the one underneath it, and each one should occupy a different position on the page. The silhouettes may, of course, overlap. For example, the silhouette of a building might appear behind the silhouette of a lamp post, auto, etc.