About
**This class has been postponed.**
We will combine practical skills with design and composition by creating small collage pieces in a short period of time. Evaluation of these pieces will help you recognize the types of imagery, color, forms or compositions that comprise your unique repertoire. You will be able to use these methods to develop your own compositions more intuitively and spontaneously.
This collage class is designed to teach you composition and assembly skills, including:
- how to make your own Japanese wheat paste (glue)
- how to combine altered magazine images with a variety of paper types and weights
- how to flatten and stabilize assembled images
- how to energize the collage process and how to recognize the unique qualities of your work
You will also learn how black and white photographs taken on your smart phone can bring clarity to colors and their values.
As time permits, we will work on larger pieces and incorporate further practical skills.
This class will be primarily hands-on, but it will include a brief instructional segment of how collage fits in the continuum of art history, along with a demonstration of handy techniques.
Details:
- This class is open to all skill levels.
- Feel free to bring a lunch. BARN has a refrigerator and a microwave for your use.
- Tuition assistance is available. Click here to apply.
Instructor Biography:
Meg Hartwell is a local artist who currently shows at The Island Gallery on Bainbridge Island and has lived on Bainbridge Island for the last six years. She earned her MFA from Otis Parsons School of Art and Design in Los Angeles. She has lived throughout the United States, mostly in Phoenix, Arizona. Her travels have taken her to South America, Asia and Europe and she has spent considerable time in Mexico. She is a painter, woodworker, printmaker and collage mixed media artist who has shown her work in California, Arizona, Mexico, Washington and New York.
Meg’s work is a process of using monoprints and mixed media on paper or wood boxes. She hunts for inspiring images and uses music to invigorate her process, working more intuitively than analytically. Her images are inspired by innumerable photographs, ideas, everyday objects, shapes, patterns, color combinations, unusual perspectives and studying a broad range of art. Meg says that oftentimes the best part about making art is the surprise at the end.
Website: meghartwellart.com
