Instructor: Jen Cushman

In this workshop, we’ll explore how to get your inspirational pictures out of your smart phone and onto collages in a way that looks like Monet himself might have took his hand to them. We will begin by deconstructing the photo emulsion from modern-day pictures and then explore mark making on the images with sgraffito and other scratching techniques to build interest and new textures. Then we will reconstruct the photos into new images with hand colorization techniques to impart a painterly quality to your deconstructed/reconstructed images. Once we finish with the first layer, we’ll build even more imagery onto our photos by gluing bits of paper, hand doodling and even more scratching. Once we’ve completed a delightful little pile of painterly pics, we’ll move onto choosing your favorite image of the bunch and create a collage on a 10×10 pre-stretched canvas by adding even more layers of vintage ephemera, paint, color, mark making, imagery and words. At the end of the day, we’ll finish our collage with a thin layer of fused beeswax to create a cohesive collage. They’re so many lovely techniques in this workshop that will get the wheels of your creative brain spinning. At the end of the workshop you’ll leave with one completed 10″ x 10″ collage and a little pile of Painterly Pix to use in your art journals or to continue your college making exploration using all the techniques you learned.

Saturday, January 18, 2020

$180

Materials/Kit Fee: $15