Creating with existing images can lower our inhibitions (which is great for those who want to be creative but don’t consider themselves 'artists') providing a playful experience of creating with curiousity and openness to the unexpected…just for fun!
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We will use existing images, scissors, gluesticks and our imagination to complete several projects, both independently and collaboratively. All levels welcome and all materials supplied.
Collage is an art as old as paper…which is coming up on 2000 years. Collage is a great ‘gateway' creative activity - it doesn’t require any technical proficiency beyond using a glue stick…the word collage comes from the french word ‘coller' - (Koo-Lay) - to glue.
Some of you have created scrapbooks or dream boards, most commonly made by cutting out magazine images and then gluing them to a backing. This workshop uses those same techniques in a collaborative and playful way.
We will make three different collage projects. The first will be a collaborative collage poem, using words. This will become the inspiration for our second project, an individual (and perhaps a little surreal!) landscape. Our final project is called Exquisite Corpse, a collaborative art technique created by the surrealist artists in the 1920’s, where participants add to the composition without seeing the previous contributions. The combined result is often delightful, humorous and unexpected.
Unglued is just for fun, having some creative time with other people, and learning a few techniques that you can use either by yourself, or with your friends and family.
I will have all the materials required, just bring your enthusiasm.