You'll love playing dress-up with your art as you learn how to sketch fashion figures, create collaged dresses from patterned papers and construct cute and sophisticated gifts all with Collage Couture. The techniques in this book are simple enough for beginners, yet the theme of the pieces - featuring pretty figures in fashionable poses - offer something new to the mixed-media artist as well. In addition to instruction for combining simple materials- scrapbook and handmade papers, old maps, newspapers and love letters, with paint, paper, ink, stamping and journaling to create collage pieces in a feminine and fashionable format- you will receive the bonus of simple and easy sketching techniques for creating figures, facial features, hairdos and accessories.