Portland Art and Soul Workshops
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Ann Baldwin
9-4:30
Thursday

1216 - Free Yourself Up with Abstract Collage

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$ 135 Plus $20 materials fee  

Using the most important elements of composition – color, shape, line, and texture – you will learn to create exciting abstract collages from painted and found papers. We will explore a variety of techniques for embellishing ordinary found papers with layered, stamped, and imprinted acrylics. Different approaches to composition will be discussed. Your final project will incorporate some or all of these techniques. Previous experience with paint not essential.

Supply List:
--Color magazine to tear and cut up
--selection of found (not expensive!) abstract or plain papers - abstract-patterned wrapping paper, notepaper
--1” flat nylon brush
--1” flat bristle brush
--one or two rubber ‘shapers’ (like a pen with a rubber tip for scraping into paint)
--bottle Golden or Liquitex matte medium
--pad Strathmore 9 x 12 in. 140lb cold press watercolor paper
--one sheet cold press watercolor paper, 11x15 up to 18x24 (your choice)
--objects to make marks with: cardboard tube, cork, patterned rubber stamps, piece of bubble wrap
--small pot salt
--heavy-duty paper towels (Costco or Target)

Optional items:
--Hairdryer
--any acrylic paints you already own

Instructor will provide:
--1oz Golden fluid and heavy body acrylics in 5 colors for each student
--Golden Soft Gel medium & Heavy Gel Matte for each student
--rice paper
--Saran wrap
--decorative stencils
--rubbing alcohol
--waterpots
--hairdryers to share