Take a Concept: Collage It!

5 days - All Levels

Collage is a Road Map to create, test Design Ideas in small Paper/Cloth projects; explore colors, values shapes and visual textures by tearing, altering, gluing and/or fusing for an alternative to our usual work in fabric, with no expected end results! Small exploratory studies will serve for working into fabric quilts."Collage helps work with gutsy colors when I get too predictable and to simplify busy areas," says Carol Barnes,AWS watercolor friend. Nenri maisse said his "cutting process is like drawing with scissors."

We will find composition ideas with "cut out" windows and magazines pages, doing value studies, in paper collages… plus creating added values with fused net overlays, tissue papers, colored pencils and/or oil pastels.We will experiment and focus on Design Elements are great tools and clues to unique & fun personal art work. Collage is trial and error composing, with no expectants; working for fun and exploration.

Taught by: Patty Hawkins

Supplies Needed:

• PVC pipes to elevate your table
• Bring YOUR Visual journals of art clippings; drawings; photos, PLUS favorite artist postcard enlarged B/W copy
• Family member photo close ups in B & W copies of various sizes, for a collage

• Colored pencils
• Sharpener
• Black markers
• Small amount newsprint paper

Optional:
• color pastels and/or oil pastel stick
• Caran D`Arche sticks
• Small brush
• Yogurt cup for water

• Rotary cutter & mat
• Scissors
• pins
• Hand needles & thread
• For gluing use Wonder Under on paper, or Glue Sticks, or Rubber Cement w/Brush
• Rubber Cement small bottle w/brush and/or Glue Sticks
• Wonder Under for fusing: 10 – 20 yds. (as only 16" wide)+ towel for ironing pad

• Your scrap bag fabrics are the BEST TOOLS for fabric collage OR possible SMALL fragments of quilt tops you COULD cut up. Sheer fabrics i.e. netting, polyester sheers; & DENIM scraps
• Black Felt and Artist Canvas approx. 14” to 16” for two foundations each
• 3 Values in at least TWO COLORS fabrics you love + ugly ones, & prints(1/2yds! Not a trunkful)

• 2 yards (squarish) Hobbs Heirloom Fusible cotton or Quilters Dream 100% cotton great for fusing

• Anything Goes!!! Magazine pages will be your most important tool!
• 3 Black Poster Boards, CUT ½ for 6 foundations; or 14” to 16” CEREAL BOXES are fine.
• Colored scraps of all sorts, wrapping papers, junk mail papers, old photos, letters, newsprint text & ads, maps, paper bags, foils, colored cellophanes, tissue colored papers