Mixed Media Collage with Paint and an Open Heart

Mixed Media and Collage

Glenn Hirsch

What have we done so far?

Weeks 1 and 2

acrylic, ink and pastel

1. Painting with transparent wash wet-in-wet2. Drawing with a pen3. Painting with pastel4. Painting with opaque paint

Week 3: Collageedit and embrace

change

Jessica

light creates mystery

Aishlin

think about color

Jessica

rhythm through

pattern and repetition

DeAnna

Helen

Rhythm through positive and negative

shapes

Helen

silhouette sil·hou·ette \ˌsi-lə-ˈwet\

: a dark shape in front of a light background or the reverse : the shape or outline of something

Liz

Philippe

think of a BIG shape

overlap shapes of similar colors

Philippe

Alisha

Liz

collage with paint

Week 4texture is pleasure

Aaron Dowell

Lyndsay Erickson

Elinor Cheung

Elinor Cheung detail

Rocco Grassano

Rocco Grassano

Lyndsay Gardner

Pam Pitt

Pam Pitt

Pam Pitt

35Peggy Millar

36Peggy Millar with in process

37Peggy Millar with in process

38Peggy Millar detail

Start with a background first

Hirsch

Hirsch

(1) draw (2) add collage (3) paint (4) Draw again

Use paint to create larger shapes, simplify the composition, make It stronger, less busy

Use paint to create larger shapes, simplify the composition, make It stronger, less busy

exotic materialsenigmatic text

exotic materials

sand added to paint

enigmatic text

xerox transparency with words

Hirsch

enigmatic text

painted over with semi-opaque paint so it can

still be seen

It ‘whispers’ rather than ‘shouts’

exotic materials

shiny ‘joss paper" used as "gold foil”

Hirsch

try editing

you don’t have to use the whole thing

Laying strips

Clear medium

Ink glazing

Opaque gesso

Semi-opaque gesso

Decoupage textured surface

Acetate

Joss paper