Art Journal Class Part 1

Saturday, I took an art collage class from a local art store that hosts a variety of artists and media classes. The class was called Tapestry Collaging the Seasons.  It was a mixed media collage class that included fabrics so I thought this might be helpful instruction as I study and work on fiber arts.  It turns out that it was really more of an art journaling type of class.  It was super fun with lots of techniques and skills that I can use to make my own inspirational art journals which is something I have  been wanting to do not only as a foundation of art for myself but as a portfolio for the children.

Setting up - a nice big table space and class materials

We got a bag of papers, quotes, beads, leaves, metal, and fabrics.

Love this turtle!

I brought my own materials of feathers, wool, stones, yarn, shells, and some leftover pieces of supplies that I have used in felting.



Pan Pastels - these are dreamy!

Art collage samples and the above piece is bleach painting on dark paper.

Prints and magazine scraps.

Fabric and embroidery.

Beads and buttons and bobs.

Weaving.

More weaving.

Paper layers and a focal point rusty metal button (I think).

Sample mixed media pages:



Getting started:
1.  First we used watercolor paper and covered it with pastels (then hairspray as a fixative).
2.  We added watercolor, gesso, and silk scraps to make a base sheet.
3.  While the base sheets were drying we learned different techniques such as watercolor and ink blots on rice paper, painting bleach on dark paper, stitching, and weaving.
4.  Then it came time to assemble the base sheets with embellishments - layering the materials made from technique work, papers, computer print outs, metal, mica tiles, beads, dried leaves...and probably other things I am forgetting.  The possibilities are endless here any found item, any kind of paper and fabric, anything from nature, anything sketched or drawn.  
5.  We didn't get to a final product but most people were able to get rivets put into their pieces to display them together.  I suppose also writing and detail painting would be added at this point as well.

I got the initial base sheets photographed and some pictures of the drying but we moved fast throughout the technique stage of the class so I didn't do much photographing beyond that.






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