Collaging in Minnesota

Today we did a mini-workshop on collaging techniques at Laurie Phillip‘s house with her friend Becky. Laurie is a graphic designer, coach, artist and co-inventor of Vision Cards. We started by listening to Jon Spayde read from Episodes by Pierre Delattre. These are exquisitely written 800 word pieces.

For the art, we took off from Claudine Hellmuth’s tips, using the caulking material to transfer images, and the watered-down paint and shape masking as techniques for creating interesting backgrounds. We also used Anna Corba’s painting techniques for making interesting papers to use later in collaging.

Here is Becky using the fan to dry paint on her piece.

Here I am – happy, smiling and doing art.

Laurie shows off her painted paper.

The cigar box interior and exterior we finished:

The small collage we did to showcase many of the techniques:

Tonight is BAD ART NIGHT. It will be fascinating to see what comes up for me here.