As T.S. Eliot said, “genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.” Transform words into a visual illustration combining imagery, color, and mark making as you manipulate the materials to draw out the emotion you feel.
Sketch birds and nature, then combine your drawings with paper and paint, adding textures to create mixed-media art.
If you like the idea of using images from magazines to create collages that tell a story, then this class is for you. Take this opportunity to walk down the path of surrealism, political commentary, or any other subjects of your choosing to create your own photomontage.
The teacher introduces students to works of Matisse, Bearden, Braque, and other masters of collage. Learn a variety of techniques that help you on your way to creating inspired collage art.
Discover a variety of methods for making and using image transfers and expanding your creative horizons with photo alteration. Both techniques offer new dimensions and interest to your artwork.
Revamp your gel plate prints into new art projects. Make simple books, journals, print organizers, or boxes using bookmaking and other construction techniques.
Create your own story as you learn to upcycle book pages as surfaces for drawing, painting, and collage using gelatin plate prints, textures, photo transfers, drawing, painting, and text redaction.
Students are introduced to the materials, tools, and technologies used in collage and assemblage, finding inspiration in artists who worked in collage, including Joseph Cornell, Romare Bearden, and Gertrude Greene.
Explore the basis of abstraction by studying color, line, and shape as they relate to composition. Learn to create exciting, innovative works of art, using a series of drawing and painting exercises designed to examine nontraditional ways of handling traditional materials and subject matter.
For the heartwarming occasion of Mother’s Day, create an elegant handmade pop-up card for your mom or other beloved women in your life. Learn how to craft and construct different types of 3D pop-up cards.
