Acadia Workshop Center
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Workshops run 5 days, M-F, unless noted otherwise.
Mary Alice Braukman
MIXED WATER MEDIA & COLLAGE WORKSHOP –
“WHAT IF”
June 18 - 22, 2012
“A painter’s work is their journal.” -- Mary Alice Braukman
My workshops are adventures in risk-taking and personal growth of visual self expression. As we explore new ideas and methods in mixed water media, photo transfers and collage, each painter is encouraged to push as far as they dare in order to further define his or her unique, personal direction. We will experiment with various mediums and gels that offer different levels of transparency and textures and on various surfaces such as canvas and paper. As you can see from the supply list below, much of these materials will be waiting for you at your worktable.
Our class is experimental and fun, but we are always striving for strong and effective design, whether working realistically or non-representationally. I have found collage can be very beneficial in developing a strong sense of design and color. There will be individual critiques daily as needed and always a class critique at the end of the week.
For Intermediate - Advanced students
Max # of students: 15
Student fee: $595
Artist website: www.mabraukman.com
SUPPLY LIST:
Many of the following materials are found around your home. Some of your materials used in this class are SUPPLIED at no charge by several commercial art companies. Do bring any unresolved paintings that you do not mind cutting, tearing and painting over.
Fluid Acrylics and Gouache are supplied by Golden Acrylics and M. Graham.
Watercolor Boards. You will not need to purchase any papers. All papers are supplied courtesy of Crescent Paper Company.
*Gator Board: for support while building your collage. These may be purchased form Cheap Joe’s Art Stuff. Yes, you do need a base that you can tack/pin into and support your wet pieces on and one that is light in weight and that will not curl or warp with moisture.
Canvas Art Alternative supplies each student with one or two Gallery Wrapped 2” thick in sizes 8 X 10”, 10 X 10”, 5 X 5 X 5” - - - - nothing larger than 12 X 12”.
Do not buy - if you have any of these bring them. Construction paper, parchment paper, art tissue, rice papers off white or white but no colored, metallic papers, & foils, wallpaper.
Freezer paper to be use under an articles when applying glue and is used as a pallet.
Finds: Good quality magazines: Smithsonian, Art & Antiques, fashion magazines and some catalogs have excellent paper (Chico’s, Talbot’s, and Cold Creek etc.) newspapers, calendar pages, old theater tickets & programs, etc. Laces, burlap, cheesecloth, fibers, broken pieces of mirrors, yarn or embroidery thread, cords, bark from fibrous trees, stones, twigs, straight pins
Release papers - impregnated and coated with silicone. Release papers are your computer mailing label backing.
*Media: crayons, colored pencils, pastels Do not purchase but bring what you have.
*Adhesives: matte medium, gels, (Golden and M. Graham will supply you with some gel mediums, gesso and polymer gloss medium. I prefer working with the Golden or M. Graham Mediums BUT you may need more than supplied.
We will use Liquitex Gesso in White and Black. This is the thickest gesso and we use it for texture. If you know of a heavier or thicker one bring it. I do NOT SUPPLY. the Liquitex.
*Brushes: A few of your own (flats) and then pick up some inexpensive ones for gluing (disposable ones.) & sponge brushes..
*Cutting tools: scissors, single edge razor blade or any cutting tool which allows you to do control cutting and cut cardboard.
*Windex and Murphy’s Oil Soap: This cleans your brushes like new.
*Water container: 2 good spray bottles – one that sprays regularly the other with a “fine” spray.
*BRING AN OPEN MIND & BE PREPARED TO EXPLORE YOUR GOALS IN ART. Most of the above you have around your home. If not – just come with your brush, water-container, spray bottle, watercolor pencils, pastels and a BIG IMAGINATION!
