Create It Collage It

With Lisa Agaran

Now Available as a Self-Pace Online Course
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What makes your mixed media artwork 100% original and unique is creating your own collage materials. This approach moves you beyond pre-designed stencils or patterns that have been duplicated by other mixed media artists. Each of us has our own artistic preferences when it comes to color schemes, certain patterns and designs. This influences our unique artistic style. Therefore, when you create your own collage materials, they are infused with decisions and choices that you made during the creative process. This is uniquely your own. Having a nice collection of your own custom collage materials provides a wider selection to choose from when you’re working on your mixed media projects.

In this course we’ll utilize Gelli plate printing, mark-making, and creating your very own stamp designs with a hot glue gun, cut-out foam shapes and more. Then we’ll pull it all together to create an artistic collage piece.

New to Gelli Printing? This is the perfect introduction to gelli printing. Warning: You will get addicted to this process and discover how hours of creativity fly by! Adults 18+

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Materials You Will Need:

  • Hot Glue Gun & Sticks (8-10 sticks, with some color to make it easier to see)
  • Mini Craft Iron, Clover Mini Iron  OR  Regular Iron
  • Backing for Stamps – Trimmed roughly to sizes 3 x 3, 4 x 6, 5 x 7 inches. They don’t have to be these exact sizes, these are just suggested sizes. Any of the following suggestions will work:
  • (1) 2mm thick foam sheet (not to be mistaken with foam board) 8 1/2 x 11 inches
  • String OR Twine
  • Gelli Plate (8 x 10 in.) OR if you have a smaller size you can work on smaller sheets of paper.
  • Brayer
  • 70 lb. (or less) Drawing Paper OR Printer Paper 24 lb.
  • (3-4) 40 lb. watercolor paper, trimmed to 6 x 6 inch squares. This will be used as a substrate for your collage pieces.
  • (10) 8 1/2 x 11 inches sheets of brown paper bag OR thin Kraft Paper
  • 1 Sheet of Tracing Paper (9 x 12 inches)
  • Parchment paper (specifically for baking)
  • Variety of handmade, mulberry, washi,  papers, etc. (optional)
  • Variety of mark-making tools (string, yarn, variety of different paint brushes, old worn paint brush, sea sponges, feathers, makeup sponges, etc.)
  • Acrylic paints (a variety of colors)
  • Matte medium, Decoupage OR Mod Podge
  • Aleene’s Quick Dry Tacky Glue
  • Putty spreader OR old plastic gift card, OR Bone folder tool
  • 1” Silicone paint brush OR any other brush for applying matte medium
  • Cup & small bowl for water
  • Sponge & paper towels
  • Scissors OR Xacto Knife + cutting mat
  • Straight edge (Ruler or Triangle)
  • Awl (Optional)
  • Hairdryer