Mixed Media Painting Workshops
with Maureen Brouillette

Workshop Description

This intensive workshop is designed to get you off to a flying start using collage, acrylic paint and drawing to make a creative, mixed media painting. We will work small so that we can finish at least two paintings a day. I suggest using 9" x 12" or 12" x 12" canvases, or 140 lb. watercolor paper in similar sizes. I also recommend bringing enlarged black & white (NOT color) photocopies of your favorite photographs as images to use in your art. You can hand tint them with color in class. Using photos that you have taken, will make your finished work more personal and original to you.

We will use matte medium for adhesive, your favorite acrylic paints for color, plus anything you like to draw with, such as pencil, ink, charcoal, color pencils, and water soluble crayons. You will also need collage material that works as a theme with your main black & white photocopied images. This might include letters, postcards, tickets, receipts, old paintings and drawings, rice and tissue papers, candy wrappers, maps, gold foil, patterned paper, labels, graph paper, ledgers, vintage books, engravings, stamps. Bring anything you are interested in that works with your theme.

Highlights

• A brief history of collage, and a look at work by mixed media artists of the 20th and 21st centuries.
• Working in a series - taking your work to the next level.
• Collage sources - found materials, painted papers, public domain images and more.
• Copyright and collage - can you use it?
• Copiers - bigger is better, blow it up!
• Cameras and computers - shoot, print and paste!
• Design - Learn the elements and principles of design as the building blocks that will enable you to build a better painting.
• Pulling it together - tweaking the color, value and design, for a unified image that works!
• Critique - assessment of your work.

Workshop Supplies

Brushes - Your favorite brushes, or

• 1" flat brush
• #12 round brush

Paint - 2 oz or larger Golden or Liquitex acrylics in your favorite colors.

Additional

• 16 oz jar gesso
• 16 oz jar of matte medium
• At least 6 Caran d'Ache Neo Color II water soluble color crayons in your favorite colors.
• Roll of 1" masking tape
• Roll of paper towels
• Scissors
• Large Strathmore disposable palette pad
• Five 9" x 12" or 12" x 12" canvas or canvas board or watercolor paper in similar sizes
• Optional: stencils or rubber stamps

Collage material

• black & white (not color!) photocopies of your own photos
• Found papers -- tickets, receipts, letters, postcards, old paintings and drawings, rice and tissue paper, candy wrappers, gold foil, maps, patterned paper, wallpaper, craft paper, marblized paper, newspapers, labels, envelopes, graphs, lettering, postage, old books, calendar pages, theatre tickets, caligraphy, matchbook covers, foreign printed material, documents, engravings, magazines, money, games, Dover Clip Art books - anything you find interesting! You can use a black & white photocopy if you don't want to paste down the original material.

For more collage ideas, go to www.CollageCollege.com.