Often we are excited and intimidated by a large blank surface to create on, and in this workshop we will go through a fun way to approach two larger pieces simultaneously, exploring various building blocks and techniques and tools to take full advantage of expressing ourselves on large surfaces and creating work that makes a big impact.

Especially if you are also taking the Working Small in Mixed Media Workshop, the instructor will show you all the tools that work best in “scaling up” to larger work, including larger brushes, rollers, spreaders, knives, and bigger collage papers, image transfers, and papers for printing, along with compositional considerations and principles of value, color and loud and quiet conversations within a painting.

There will be a demonstration of putting these tools and techniques to practice, and guidance from start to finish, along with plenty of working time for exploration and experimenting.

Jackie will provide collage papers, and most of the large tools for you to try, and there is a list of basic supplies for each participant to bring. 

Instructor: Jackie Lakely

Capacity: 10 students

Registration and Fees

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• Members: $75.00; after 1/29/2020: $85.00

• Non-Members: $105.00; after 1/29/2020 $115.00

• Registration Required.

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MATERIAL LIST

• Paint - bring all the colors you want, but be sure to have basics such as Titanium White, Black, and primary colors. Particularly nice and also inexpensive for mixed media is Blick Matte Acrylic paint in bottles.

• Brushes - up to 1.5” in flat, round, bright or whatever variety you have and want to bring, and a liner brush for detail. 

• Spray bottle

• Pencils, Micron pens, crayons, oil pastels, and any other drawing implements you want to bring

• favorite collage papers, magazines or newspapers (Jackie will supply a bunch of these so if you don’t have any it’s okay)

• Palette

• Painting knives, flat rubber spreader if you have one

• Alcohol inks if you have them (Jackie will supply these too, so if you don’t have any it’s okay)

• Matte, satin or gloss medium, either Golden GAC-100 or 200, or Liquitex medium in a bottle - not gel.