Dream Bubbles, Scrappy Blablahs & More!
Thank you for signing up for our new mixed-media collage class with Julie Liger-Belair!
This is now a self-study class, so you have access to all of the lessons right now.
Our class forums:
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Padlet: https://padlet.com/Carla_Sonheim/scrappy-blahblahs-more-with-julie-liger-belair-estmj304kqz4nvm1
(You can (optionally) share your work with Julie via email or via the class Facebook page. Since this is now a self-study class, you will need to let Julie know if you upload work, as she doesn’t check the class forums as regularly.
Have fun!
Carla
P.S. Here is a PDF of images that Julie has prepared for you to print (if desired!)
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Dream Bubbles, Scrappy Blablahs & More
Mixed-Media Collage with Julie Liger-Belair
In this class we’ll be exploring collage on paper and wood using different techniques. Once we’ve sourced and created our collage papers, we’ll begin with “Scrappy Blablahs” — fun little characters made from the scraps in your studio and great creative warm-ups. From there we will move on to “Dream Bubbles” where we add more sophistication, story and paint!
Finally we’ll spend the last week building large “spirit house” paintings on a cradled wood panels, exploring the layering of painted and collaged elements to create a piece both visually rich and symbolically charged.
I love houses and they appear often in my work. They can symbolize the place where we are most comfortable, most ourselves… a place of warmth and protection. But houses can just as easily symbolize a place where we feel trapped; they can be sometimes a place of refuge, sometimes a like a prison and sometimes as both. These paintings are a way to explore some of these ideas for yourself and have fun with symbols using all our media.
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Supply List
General supplies:
• Collage materials; from magazines or books. A really good online resource is www.moma.co.uk/public-domain-images/#collections. Also, patterned papers, handmade paper, scraps
• 300gsm watercolor paper: two sheets of 8″x 10″ and two sheets of 9″x 12″(any size within those sizes work). Mixed media paper works well too.
• Colored pencils (I like Prismacolor)
• Gel pens (I like Sakura Moonlight pens)
• Glue stick (I use one from Lepage)
• Rubber block (for stamp carving)
• Carving tool
• Scissors
• Archival ink pad
• Rice paper
• Acrylic paint and acrylic gouache paint
• Various sizes of paint brushes suitable for acrylic paint
• One cradled wood panel, 12” x 16” is a nice size. You can also use a plywood panel or any hard board panel for that matter. (Note: I will be demonstrating on two pieces… if you choose, you can also make two.)
• Acrylic matte medium or gel medium, the thicker the better for gluing paper onto wood.
• Tracing paper
• a patterned stencil