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You will receive early access information about Lucky Star Art Camp 2024
Mixed Media Collage Portraits
With Yasmin Youssef
Class Information
- Experience Level: All Levels Welcome
- Pre-Requisite: None
- Kit Fee: $0
- Supply Fee: $0
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Class Descripton
In this mixed media class, we will use paint, collage, and mark-making to create a richly layered portrait of a woman with flowers in her hair. Students will walk away with a finished portrait and techniques for building up and scraping back foundation layers, creating and using a mark-making library, playing with paint, adding meaningful symbolism, and exploring the power of collage composition.
This class will not focus on drawing or painting a portrait. Instead, we will be using images from magazines or photocopied pictures of a strong woman in your life. These could be images of yourself, your daughter, sister, mother, best friend, or inspirational role model. See the collage material section for specifications on image size.
Materials to Bring
- Bring 2-3 images of a person directly facing the camera or in ¾ profile (see examples in collage above). This picture can be of a stranger in a magazine, be a copy of a photograph of yourself or a favorite family member or inspirational figure. Bring a b/w AND color laser photocopy of each image. IMPORTANT: Ideally, the head and neck would print out to be 3-4 inches wide and 6-7 inches tall
- Pre-cut flowers, birds, plants, or any other symbolic collage images or graphics you’d like to include in your portrait
- Inspirational quote or meditation
- Vintage ephemera for background layers (sheet music, handmade paper, maps, etc)
- Scissors, 2 magazines, mechanical pencil with eraser, old credit card or hotel key, ruler, an apron, heat gun or hair dryer (if you can easily bring it) if not, we will share.
- 11×14 gessoed Wood panel OR watercolor paper. The wood panel can be any depth that you like. For traveling purposes, here are examples of wood panels with short depth from DickBlick
- Gel Matte Medium. I use this one from Golden
- Acrylic paint: white, 4-6 of your favorite colors in any brand. (Since this is an experimental workshop, you don’t need expensive paint. Here’s a link to inexpensive sets from DickBlick Jerry’s Artarama also has inexpensive starter sets. Craft stores like JoAnn & Michaels also have paint. Go with your gut & pick a handful of your favorite colors but don’t forget white!)
- Clear gesso
- Paint brushes (I’m including a link for a set, but if you have 2-3 wide flat brushes and some round ones, you’ll be fine.
- White posca pen, x-fine tip
- Black stabilo marks all pencil
- Water mister/spray bottle. Here’s a travel size bottle from DickBlick.
- Optional- Masking or washi tape in your favorite design/color.