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Lenna's Samples for class
Finished collages and samples on canvas paper |
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Ricki and Elner in class 5/15/05
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Mary & Karen in class
This class was good for exploring and experimenting! |
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Elner's plastic wrap and baking soda on canvas
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Elner working with rubbing alcohol
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One of Elner's finished peices
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rubbing alcohol creates this effect!
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some of Karen's backgrounds
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Karen's peice using masking tape
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After Karen added more!
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Karens background/canvas work
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Lenna's background #1
done with rubbing alcohol wet paint and salt |
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Lenna - 2
I added more gold paint through the middle. and watercolor crayons top & bottom. |
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Lenna - 3
-tissue paper, ARTchix Studio images (round), old text, mulberry paper & scrapbook paper with gel medium. |
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Lenna - 4
Velvet leaves and tan netting were added (artchix studio)
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Lenna's - finished!
added a 14K gold pen border, a metal piece & splashes of gold ink, plus some stamping of text with blue StazOn ink.
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Lenna's background samples
Cling wrap, rubbing alcohol, baking soda, tissue paper, masking tape, and salt |
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mary's test canvas papers
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One of Mary's canvases
Rubbing alchohol makes the white circles . . . |
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How Mary added to her canvas to complete it
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Mary's collages 1 & 2
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Ricki's backgrounds
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Ricki - Baking Soda, Masking Tape & salt
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Ricki - her start on this canvas
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How Ricki added to it!
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ANother of Ricki's canvas backgrounds - cool!
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So cool!
Hope to see you again soon! |
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I
learned many of the background techniques that I teach in my collage on canvas
class from a workshop I attended in 2003 with nationally known collage artist,
Claudine Hellmuth.
Her web site is full of information and ideas, and her two books are well worth
the read! I love Claudine's idea of covering a blank white canvas with
some color just to get started and take away that fear of facing the blank
canvas. In class I have students combine acrylic paints with a variety of
household products that create wonderful backgrounds on canvas. We use
masking tape, tissue paper, rubbing alcohol, baking soda and plastic wrap! Then
we create a collage or two using ARTchix Studio vintage images and charms one or
more of the canvas backgrounds they created. You can see my students and my work
below, and some of my finished collages to your right. 
