Portland Art and Soul Workshops
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Kelly Rae Roberts

Wednesday

1292 - Transformative Letter Painting

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$ 145 Plus $5 materials fee  

Are you like me and have a habit of saving each and every meaningful card, letter, and postcard that arrives in your mailbox? Do you then throw them into one big pile or drawer that often grows larger by the month? Do you often  wonder how you can hold on to the meaning of these notes and letters without throwing them away? If so, you are going to love this class. For this project we'll use some of those meaningful cards and letters to create three wonderfully layered and textured patchwork collage paintings. After we use our old letters + cards to create a meaningful background, we'll apply paint and inks to give your collage a distressed but cohesive look. Then you'll learn how to use your fingers to paint faces with various mixed mediums - a fun technique that allows the beloved letters underneath to peek through the skin tones. We'll define our facial features and our collaged background with with pens, pencils, crayons, and more. In the end, you will have created three meaningful paintings that that pay tribute to those who give us the gift of family and community.

MATERIALS:
three canvas boards, size 8x10 (they don't have to be the expensive ones)
personal letters/postcards/cards - at least 15.
three original or Xeroxed letters that are large enough to be used for your entire facial areas on all three canvas'.
any other collage bits (stamps, stickers, etc) that you may want to add for interest.
palette paper (the disposable kind)
water cup
scissors
white gel pen
charcoal pencils (one HB and one 3B would work perfectly)
gel medium (i like to use golden's regular gel medium in 'gloss')
brayer
eraser
faber-castell PITT artist pens (i like the "brush" series in black, green, red, and skin tones)
foam brushes (a couple small and medium sized)
Tim Holtz™ Adirondack® Alcohol Inks, made by ranger - bring a couple of colors that appeal to you.
Tim Holtz™ Distress Ink Pads - also made by ranger. please bring the following colors: walnut, tattered rose, tea, brushed corduroy, and antique linen.
a variety of fluid acrylics - i like the small bottles by golden. be sure to include titanium white and a brown.
paper towel or two.
paint brushes - one small and one medium size will do.