Mixed Media Collage Workshop
with Maureen Brouillette

Dallas Mixed Media Workshop

I'm teaching a Mixed Media Collage workshop in Dallas at Artists' Showplace September 27, 28 and 29th. The time is 10 am to 3 pm and the cost is $150. Artists' Showplace is located at 15615 Coit Road at Arapaho in Dallas. Class size is limited, to reserve you spot, call me at 214-340-6914.

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 one painting 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. You may also use your old paintings as collage elements.Using your own photos and paintings 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. 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 to use 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.

Sufaces - Five 9" x 12" or 12" x 12" canvases, canvas boards or sheets of 140 lb. watercolor paper,

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
• Optional: stencils or rubber stamps

Collage material

• Black & white (not color) photocopies or laser prints (not inkjet) of your own photos. Bring a variety of sizes for design purposes.
• 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 - 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.