Marie Eve Gibbons
PICTURE THIS… from Collage to Clay
email: marie@mariegibbons.com
PICTURE THIS DESCRIPTION *8:30 - 1pm Participants should bring a completed collage to class (8x10 or smaller), we will use this collage as inspiration to create a bas relief clay tile. When creating your collage stay loose with your ideas and let things that you choose from magazines come together from more of an aesthetic motivation that a hard themed advance idea. My suggestion is to sit with a pile of magazines and tear out pages with imagery that catches your eye, after accumulating a nice pile of your likes start to play as if putting together a puzzle, one that you don’t KNOW what the end image will be. Allow yourself to play, have fun. Think of fantasy or dream like images such as using the head of a bird on the figure of a person etc. Also, don’t limit your collage by thinking about the clay piece, just create with the images, be free, have fun!!! We will begin by sharing our collages, and discussing approaches to creating similar imagery in bas relief clay, followed by the creation of our bas relief tiles.
POST FIRED FINISHES ON CLAY *1:30-3:00 Marie will discuss and demonstrate using post-fire finishes on bisque fired, low fire white clay. Participants will have textured bisque test tiles to experiment on and experience some the techniques discussed
WRAP UP DISCUSSION and Q & A *3-3:30
Limit of participants: 15
Participant Materials
Participants bring the following materials:
- Completed collage- 8 x 10 or smaller
- Acrylic Craft paints, variety of colors (2 oz bottles) and black (8oz bottle) brands: apple barrel, ceramacoat, anita’s, folk art — any brand will do
- Bucket or two for black washing
- Mr. clean type magic eraser sponges (can be store/generic brand)
- Green scrubby pads (both these and the magic eraser sponges can sometimes be found in the dollar store)
Claudia Roulier
Using Negative Space and a
Cliff Note Approach
collage/drawing/painting class
http://www.claudiaroulier.com/recent-work/index.html
Having a newish twist on something old is always fun and helps you see things differently. I love negative space and that’s what we will work with. In this class we will use collage and drawing to create a subject and use the paint to create our background instead of our subject matter. You will need a cradled board or something with a hard tough surface in a size you are comfortable using. I have Modge Podge or you can bring your own matte medium gel to use to glue your back ground. If you have old maps, those make good collage material or an old newspaper or phone book are also good. Use any acrylic paint you like plus brushes and water container, bring a variety of colors of your own choice. Then any drawing or mark making pencils that you usually use, along with dry pastel and/or charcoal, colored pencils and eraser. We will work from a reference photo, high contrast animal, black & white printed on a piece of 8x10 or so paper. Animals are good because they are something everyone recognizes, has some sort of emotional feeling about and tests your drawing skills. I want you to concentrate on the cliff notes of the animal outline keeping it simple but conveying shape and bulk without relying on a lot of lines and shading, so a simplified form with a presence.
Participant Materials
Artist will bring:
Participants bring the following materials:
- hairspray to fix pastel or charcoal
- cradle board (at Michaels or Hobby Lobby probably the cheapest) or Meiningers.
- acrylic paints, brushes, water container
- drawing pencil, eraser charcoal and/or chalk pastels, colored pencil if you like
- reference photo printed out in high contrast and black & white
- workable fixative if you already have it
- Maps, Tissue paper, Specialty papers for Collage
- High Contrast Black & White imagery/resource to use
- Matte Medium
Tony Ortega
Alternative Mark Making with Acrylics
https://www.facebook.com/artistsnetwork/videos/10157078150603298/
http://www.tonyortega.net/drawings.html
In this workshop students will experiment with alternative marking making in acrylic painting. Students will learn new techniques and ideas to enhance their current painting style. Alternative mark making applications can include the following: collage, crackle medium, laser toner transfer, spattering, dripping, stenciling, etc.
Participant Materials
Artist will bring:
I can bring a few tools for scraping the paint but I will not have enough for every student.
Participants bring the following materials:
- *two to three 14” x 18” masonite boards or panel boxes (Masonite can be purchased at Lowes or Home Depot)
- 2B pencil
- *Water container (small bucket)
- *12” x 16” disposable pallet paper or your own pallet
- Kneaded eraser and Gum eraser
- 1 roll of white artist tape or blue painters tape
- *Small bottle of Acrylic Matt medium
- *Small spray bottle Small sponge
- Scissors Strait edge or ruler
- paper towels
- small container of white gesso 8 to 16 oz.
- paint shirt or apron
- Sand paper (fine grit)
- Old tooth brush
- Exacto knife and blades
- Old plastic cards (expired credit cards),
- plastic scraper
- Old window squeegee
- *Variety of Brushes: bring lots of brushes! A few suggestions on sizes, # 6, #8, #10 filberts (hog hair or nylon hair) # 2, #4, #6 brights (hog hair or nylon hair) small house paint brush
- Acrylic Paint set or bring what you have such as primary and secondary color (For example: Titanium white, Yellow, Cadmium red light, Alizarin Crimson, Green, Blue, blue black, Purple Orange)
