Big & Little: An Intuitive Collage Workshop

The concept for my newest workshop “Big and Little” came to me while working out the designs for a show. Posting my work in progress on social media, never fails to bring comments from other collage artists marveling at the scale. In my own journey as an artist, I found increasing the scale of my work to be challenging. The designs I found satisfying on a 4” or 10” scale, did not necessarily translate well to 30 or 40 inches. But there are elements in those smaller designs that I can capture when creating large. It took some time to begin to feel like I was getting it, but suddenly there were breakthroughs, and insights, and more frequent successes. This is what I want to impart to my students when they come to the table. You have everything you need to create satisfying work inside of you. I’ll guide you through the steps I took to tap in to that wellspring of creativity.

Whether you are an experienced artist or a novice, this workshop will dare you to let go of expectations and ignore the rules, beginning with a series of collage exercises designed to infuse freedom into your creativity and help you tap in to that intuitive voice as your personal guide.

Using these little works as small studies, we will turn our focus to a more intentional placement of elements, coming from that place of freedom and trusting what our eye and intuition knows is good, while learning tips, tricks, and techniques from a professional point of view, to translate what we see into a series of completed works on paper incrementally increasing the scale as we go.

Supply List:

• Personal collection of ephemera and found/collected papers
• 1 junk mail catalog or old magazine – (will not be used as collage material)
• Baby Wipes
• 9″ x 12″ or larger- spiral bound pad of 140# Cold Press Watercolor paper
• Small container of Yes! Stickflat Adhesive
• Roll of wax paper
• Any mark-making media desired (optional)
• One large stretched canvas your choice of the following sizes: 24” x 24”; 24 x 30; 30” x 30” or 30” x 40”
• OR 4 canvases of equal sizes – choose from the following: 12” x 12” or 15” x 15” Note: This option is for students who are flying and wish to be able to more easily transport their work home.

All other supplies provided by instructor.