Mixed Media Collagé with Jean Haefele
January 28-29, 2012 - 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Description: Two-day intensive workshop on mixed media collage
Cost: $200 per person
Supply Fee: $20 (paid to instructor on first day of class)
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Express your vision and develop your own artistic style with the limitless possibilities of mixed media. Combine and alter, everday paper and objects, natural aterials, and paint to create unique, one of a kind, representational and abstract artwork. We will discuss getting ideas, the selection and use of materials, color, texture, and patterns, composition and how to bring these elements together in a coherent way. We will view several artists work to illustrate the varied and individual results.
The class will offer hands-on learning and exersises on preparing backgrounds, composition layout, several "magic" techniques for altering everday papers, applying the materials, combining paint and, lastly, some toning and finishing methods to unify and complete a work. Individual attention will be given wherever possible and the student should be able to complete several pieces.
Supply List
- Surfaces: 4-6 total. Canvas board, illustration board, heavy watercolor paper (your choice or a combination) Suggested sizes; 6x9, 9x12, 12x12.
- A few practice sheets for experimentation.
- Brushes: A 1" flat and a few of your favorites
- Paint: 2 oz. or larger Golden or Liquitex Fluid Acrylics, include Titanium White or Titan Buff, Black, and a few others in transparent hues.
- A small selection of craft acrylics (good for more opaque colors)
- Additional: Matte medium, gesso, soft gel
- 3 or 4 Caran d'Ache Neocolor II water color soluble crayons (I love light blue, orange, red 7500.070 and black)
- Paint palette, water bucket, Viva paper towels, at least a 12" ruler, pencil, scissors, old credit card
- 4 or 5 sheets of tracing paper
- White tissue paper
- An assortment of rice, handmade textured papers, and used dried tea bags
- Enlarged photo copies of your favorite photo image (eg. I photocopied my image of African women to use along with handblocked fabric
scraps found on the ground in Ghana to use in a 12 x 12 piece...Images were enlarged to about 8 1/2" in order to fill the space nicely) - National Geographics, 1990's work best
- Visual ideas to work with: birds, animals, people, flowers, leaves,etc....whatever interests you.
- Miscellaneous Stash: Found papers, rusted metals, ephemera, magazines, old books, foreign text, old postage stamps, print origami paper, foreign paper money,
old letters. This list can go on and on. You'll find that the more you work in mixed media, the more you accumulate.
"road ditch " finds are already weathered and have a patina hard to achieve...corrugated cardboard, wrappers, genuine rubble. One can always
throw it out later.
About the Instructor: Jean Haefele
Jean Haefele is a mixed media/watercolor artist living in Chaska, Minnesota. Her work has been displayed at shows and galleries throughout the midwest. Many of her images have been licensed over the years for use on greeting cards, clothing, promo material and other products.
She was recently named "Artisan 2011" in the mixed media/collage and assemblage category by Cloth, Paper, Scissors magazine.
Jean is a scavenger and is able to incorporate most anything she finds from found objects and rejects to natural materials into her work. All pieces visually encourage the viewer in for a closer look.
The work is refreshingly varied. Jean is as comfortable working abstractly as representationally. Her watercolors are generally more realistic .
Visit Jean Haefele's website at www.jeanhaefele.com