Weekend Workshops
with Maureen Brouillette, SWS, TWS, ISEA

Experimental Collage Weekend - Feb 25 & 26

This intensive weekend workshop is designed to get you off to a flying start making experimental collage. I want you to work very small. We will start at least three pieces a day so that you will end the weekend with a minimum of six small collages.

Each day will include a brief lecture, a demo for technique, plenty of student painting time and individual guidance. The workshop will end with a group critique. All levels are welcome.

Highlights:

• A look at the work of several modern collage artists.
• Ideas for sourcing a variety of collage materials.
• Experimental tricks and techniques for collage.
• Composition ideas for strong visual impact.
• Learn to use color combinations that work.
• Working in a series and why the pros do it.
• Accurately assessing your own work.

Workshop Supplies

• Golden Acrylic Paint in tubes, jars, or fluids. Bring no more than a dozen of your favorite colors plus black and white
• Golden Matte Medium
• At least six, 8”x10” or 11”x14” canvases, canvas boards, panels or pieces of 140 lb. watercolor paper
• Your favorite brushes
• Scissors
• Palette
• Paper towels
• A few water based crayons in your favorite colors
• Stencils and stamps
• Black & white (not color) photocopies or laser prints (not inkjet) of your own photos. Bring a variety of sizes for design purposes. The subject matter can be travel, people, still life, landscape, cityscape, etc.
• Found papers -- tickets, receipts, letters, postcards, your own 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 and patterned papers. You should use a black & white photocopy of any photos. Not the original photos.

Fee: $120 for the weekend.

Fast & Loose Painting Weekend - March 31 & April 1

Bring the excitement back into your painting in this fun and fast paced workshop! Enjoy the thrill of pushing paint around to achieve a loose, painterly style. Learn to mix all the colors you need with just six colors of paint plus black and white. Learn to simplify your compositions for bolder, smarter design.

Stop fussing with details! Do what the pros do and learn to see the big picture. Plan to work quickly and finish several small paintings each day. We are not going to over think, over plan or especially not over work our art! Rather than aiming for perfection, we will be aiming for looseness, freshness and originality.

Each day will include a brief lecture, a demo for technique, plenty of student painting time and individual guidance. The workshop will end with a group critique. All levels are welcome.

Workshop Supplies

• Golden Acrylic paint in tubes or jars (fluids are too thin for this kind of painting) in these colors:
  • Ultramarine blue
  • Phthalo blue (green shade)
  • Quinacradone magenta
  • Cadmium red light
  • Hansa yellow light
  • Cadmium yellow medium
  • Titanium white
  • Mars black
• Bristle brushes - I usually use a 1” flat and a #12 round.
• Surfaces - six to eight, 8”x10” or 12”x12” canvases
• Other - a 12”x16” Strathmore disposable palette with coated pages
• Paper towels

Fee: $120 for the weekend.

Location & Registration

Time: 10 am to 4 pm. We will break for lunch at noon. There are several restaurants close by. A refrigerator and microwave are available if you want to bring your lunch.

Location: Workshops are held at the Artisan’s Studio Gallery at 2825 Valley View Lane, Suite 301, in Dallas. It is just West of Josey Lane and not visible from Valley View, but is located behind the Fruit Market and Auto Zone.

Host Hotel: We have special room rates available if you are coming in from out of town. Call for details.

To register or if you have any questions, please call Maureen at 214-340-6914 or e-mail Maureen. A $60 deposit holds your space. Deposits are non-refundable and non-transferable.