Portland Art and Soul Workshops

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Karen Michel 9-4:30 Wednesday	1002 - Altered Imagery: The Mixed-Media Portrait	[back to quicklinks] $ 130
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The mixed media portrait is a fun and inspiring way of reinterpreting the portrait regardless of your drawing skills. Using magazine images, color laser copies and/or black & white copies of your own photos, we will alter these images in a painterly way using paints and pens. Portrait will be mounted on canvas board. Supply List: --a variety of large (about 8 1/2 x 11), bold portraits (about 5 or 6) - can be magazine images, xeroxes or color laser copies of photographs. You may even want to bring a fashion or cultural magazine with you so you have a variety of images available. --three 11x13 Canvas Boards (if you have a preference for a different size or surface, that is fine) --a selection of acrylic paints, including white (other colors are up to you) --acrylic gel medium (your choice of gloss or matte) --set of gelly roll glaze pens- be sure there is a black pen in the set --a small, medum and large paint brush (small for painting detail, medium for filling backgrounds and large for applying gel medium to the canvas and paper) --pencil (any type of pencil will work, i like to work with 6B & 8B) Optional: a selection of collage paper scraps, gel markers- galaxy markers & foohy gel markers work well, other embellishments...

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