July 26-28 – This workshop will focus on elements of composition, especially shape, color, and texture. By nature, collage is a playful process, and can lead to more original and expressive ideas. Paper collage is a wonderful way to re-think design and color, to generate new ideas, experiment and take risks within a small format, produce quick studies for larger works – and the collages are genuine art works in their own right! 

We will look at the work of well-known collage artists in a slide presentation. There will be demonstrations of each step of the process, and students learn to use the collage process in innovative ways to generate original ideas. This workshop is suitable for artists whose work is any medium, abstract to realism. We will be making small size collages that can convey large scale, with hand-painted papers using acrylic gouache, matte acrylics, and watercolor. On the first day, students will paint a full spectrum of papers to be used as their palette. This is a perfect workshop for anyone who wants to explore new composition and color ideas.

Tuition: Member $300, Non-member $330, Materials $15.