Nancy and I with our collage wall.
My Collage Wall
My friend and mentor, Nancy and I were asked to be artists of the month at our local art league. She taught me the heat sealed (John Talbot) method of collage and then we taught it to interested students. The most fun of the class is not that the collages are heat sealed but in all the different ways that we make our own collage papers. We use a lot of old National Geographic magazines because of the quality of the ink and paper. We hit these colorful photos with various chemicals, sandpaper, paint, ink, whatever we can find. We also paint our own papers from craft tissue, paper bags, maps, book pages, music, wrapping paper, etc so that each collage is unique and can't be copied. Our students become so free and creative we learn from them too.
Our work will be hanging in the studio for the month of April.
Vongratulations,that's a very nice showing of work!
ReplyDeleteJan, well this post doesn't surprise me one bit. You are so creative and talented with medium and then on top of it all you are constantly exploring new methods... I think it's wonderful. Wish I lived closer to come see.
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