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Collage Explorations 1

  • Introduction-Intermediate
  • Mixed Media

This fun and challenging course will introduce the fundamentals of transforming papers through paper cutting and a range of collage and mixed media processes. We will work with a variety of intriguing papers and collage materials such as photo-based imagery, vintage maps and other paper ephemera, to fine washi and patterned papers. We will transform this material through elaborate cutting strategies and re-assemblage with glues and mediums, as well as in combination with painting and drawing.

We will explore both image-based works and abstraction through compositions using pattern and repetition, layering and transparency, as well as negative and positive cut out shapes. Collage Explorations 1 offers all students an opportunity to expand their thinking about
composition, process and materials. 

 

Summer 2021 5 Weeks: Base Tuition: $264 + Materials Fee: $15 = Total: $279

PLEASE NOTE: Due to COVID 19, special policies and regulations will apply. Students must be in agreement with these health and safety regulations and TSA's policies in order to enrol.

 

Notes: Due to ongoing COVID 19 safety protocols, students will be responsible for sourcing and purchasing most of their own collage and mixed media materials.
* This course is not currently open for registration

What you will learn

  • Strategies for elaborate cutting and layering papers
  • Compositional strategies for additive and subtractive collage
  • Exposure to a wide range of of materials and processes
  • Collage in combination with drawing and painting
  • Thinking about concept and content; making choices of imagery and materials
  • Exposure to both historical and contemporary artists working in paper cutting and collage today

Materials to Bring

Please keep your receipts to all purchases in case you need to return any materials.

Part 1 Materials

  • Matte or satin medium (medium size)
  • Glue stick
  • Scissors (fine point such as Fiskars)
  • Straight-edge knife with extra blades (for fine cutting)
  • A few inexpensive brushes (for gluing) 
  • Cutting grid (optional)
  • A pad of Bristol vellum smooth drawing paper 14x17” 100 lb. or equivalent

Part 2 Materials

  • Matte or satin medium (medium size)
  • Glue stick
  • Scissors (fine point such as Fiskars)
  • Straight-edge knife with extra blades (for fine cutting)
  • A few inexpensive brushes (for gluing)
  • A few better quality brushes 
  • Cutting grid (optional)
  • 2 sheets or 1 pad of Watercolour paper (140 lb. cold pressed)
  • 2 small stretched canvases (optional)

We will go over the materials in detail on the first day of class if students want to wait to make their purchases.