Next round of workshops and classes

3 Day Workshop at Mount Dora Center for the Arts
Painting and Drawing with Mixed Media Collage

October 18-20, 2012
Time: 10:00 am to 3:00 pm (One hour lunch)

Mount Dora Center for the Arts’ featured artist in August-Sept 2012 will share the joys of combining mixed media collage, drawing and painting.  Students are encouraged to incorporate some of their own prior art work into new pieces. The materials used will be the choice of each student.  The workshop will address working with collage with papers, fabrics, found objects, and that past art work, pencil and charcoal drawing, and acrylic painting.  The objective of the work shop is to explore new mixed media techniques, entertain the idea of 
re-purposing prior work and excavate each student’s authentic voice in their art.

Contact the art center or Christine for a list of recommended supplies.

Members $195                        Non-members $225


Mixed Media Collage at Mount Dora Center for the Arts

6 Tuesday Classes
Time: 10:00 am to 12:00 pm
Session IV: 10.23.2012 - 12.4.2012

Mount Dora Center for the Arts’ featured artist in August-Sept 2012 will share the joys of mixed media collage. Students are encouraged to incorporate some of their own prior art work into new pieces. The materials used will be the choice of each student.  The workshop will address working with collage with papers, fabrics, found objects, and that past art work.  The objective of the work shop is to explore new mixed media techniques, entertain the idea of repurposing prior work and excavate each student’s authentic voice in their art.

Contact the art center or Christine for a list of recommended supplies.

Members $195                        Non-members $225

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Story Seen in the Picture

Another new face. I'm on a roll!  Settling into the kids being in school full time is definitely helping my creative spirit. All these pieces of myself, my reflective side, my superstitious side, my joyous side, are all making it into the art. Good. That is the way it's supposed to be.

In this piece, I used Ikea fabric, retro pillow case pieces, Chinese papers, floral tea towels and paper napkins. I love how dark and shadowy her face came out. This piece is titled from a lesson plan on a children's text book page in the collage on another painting! I had to use the words. Love them! Enjoy.

Story Seen in the Picture

Superstitions

One of the ideas I address in my mixed media class, is the idea of re-purposing older art work into a new work. In this piece, I used a wood block print made in my printing class in college 23 years ago. I liked it but it was never quite right. Now I love it. 

I also gave my students information on how to print on fabric. The square to the right of the wood block print is a linen handkerchief printed with some antique text about "Superstitions in Common Use." The list states important pieces of information such as "looking into a window brings bad luck, while entering a church with the right foot brings good." Classic! Listening to your critics in college, bad luck. Holding onto an idea until its ready to be reborn, good. 

Superstitions.

Come Early and See

This painting started as a demo in my Mixed Media class at Mount Dora Center for the Arts. The collage has old school book lessons, play money, a card of Sputnik and a Reduced Price Circus Ticket from which its title comes from. Its got quotes about energy creating energy, nothing being too small and the definition of naught. Another artist asked me if it has a theme since the ticket was the only reference to the circus. I said simply, "Come Early and See."