In the children's book "Grant, the Eco-Friendly Artist," a young child is hyperfocused on tearing paper. The book says that Grant "would draw, paint, and tear paper for hours and hours, over and over!

Tearing paper into shreds is a lot more precise - and colorful - than it sounds. Artist Wanda Edwards, in her basement studio, tears up pages and scraps of paper and then glues them to a canvas, thick ...

It all began my last year of college, when I lived alone for the first time, off campus, on the top floor of an old clapboard house in Yellow Springs, Ohio. I was writing my bachelor’s thesis on ...

1 Crumple and scrunch pieces of paper grocery bags or kraft packing paper, then tear them into pieces a little bigger than a business card. Avoid any areas on the bags that are heavily printed, as ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Jennie Summerall admits that her studio is a bit of a mess when she’s in “collage mode.” Boxes ...