Mixed Media Painting A Creative Journey in Layered Narratives
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$138 ▪ 6-8pm ▪ Room 2311
Course #2201 ▪ Tue 1/27 – 3/24
No class on 2/17
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Mixed Media Painting:
A Creative Journey in Layered Narratives
Peter Dama, BFA, MFA Ages 18+
This course focuses on Acrylic Painting as the primary paint medium, combined with various drawing, collage, and textural elements. Course Goal: To equip students with the technical skills and conceptual approaches necessary to confidently combine various media (paint, drawing, collage, texture) to create cohesive and expressive mixed media paintings. Unleash the full expressive power of painting by learning to combine and layer diverse materials. This intensive eight-week studio course moves beyond single mediums to embrace mixed media techniques, allowing you to build rich, complex surfaces that tell a story. Using acrylic painting as our foundation, you’ll explore how to integrate collage, drawing, and texture to create works with profound depth and visual interest. We start by mastering surface preparation and foundational layering, then dive into specific techniques that will broaden your artistic vocabulary. By the end of this course, you’ll have developed your own signature approach to combining materials, culminating in a final, self-directed painting that showcases your unique creative voice.
What You Will Learn:
Surface & Collage: Prepare and texturize supports using gesso, matte medium, and various papers. Layering Techniques:
Employ transparent glazes and opaque paint to build visual depth and luminosity.
Mark-Making: Confidently integrate dry media like charcoal, graphite, and oil pastel into your painted surface.
Tactile Texture: Work with modeling pastes, gels, and found objects to create physical, low-relief texture.
Image Integration: Learn essential image transfer techniques to seamlessly blend photographic elements into your paintings.
Conceptual Development: Move from technical exercise to cohesive artwork by developing a personal concept for a final major project. Required Materials:
12”x12” stretched canvas, photos, charcoal, graphite, oil pastels, and collage materials,
Basic Sets of acrylic paints, polymer medium and bristle brushes, (2) plastic plates as palettes, 2-pint
water Solo cups.