Expressive Collage Workshop: Working with Color Video Download

Description

Learn to create collages with exciting pops of color in the video download Expressive Collage Workshop: Working with Color. Artist Crystal Neubauer demonstrates her techniques for using found and vintage ephemera to create vibrant yet elegant collages with color. Work alongside Crystal, and student Cherie Haas, through the development of a large 2D collage, including a discussion about using one-of-a-kind personal documents. Then, Crystal will share her secrets for attaching the collage to a cradled panel and carrying the color around to the deep sides, giving the illusion of a continuous image. Finish the dimensional collage with subtle mark making using graphite and charcoal for a cohesive look.

In this video download you will

• Create colorful collage from start to finish, including adding hanging hardware.
• Get tips for carrying color to the sides of the canvas.
• Learn to successfully incorporate vintage ephemera.

Watch a preview of this video here!

About the Artist

Crystal Neubauer has been working as an artist for over a decade. She has dabbled in many mediums over the years, but always comes back to her first love, collage. She is drawn to the found, cast-off and well-worn materials of the past, seeing these items as a metaphor for our lives. She is the author of The Art of Expressive Collage: Techniques for Using Paper and Glue (North Light, 2015). She teaches workshops nationally and in her own studio in Racine, Wisconsin. Visit her website at CrystalNeubauer.com and at her blog, OtherPeoplesFlowers.blogspot.com.

Materials List

Surface
• Gallery wrapped canvas with deep sides- size of your choosing
• 140-lb. cold press watercolor paper

Media
• Black acrylic paint or latex house paint- eggshell or satin finish
• Golden Acrylic Glazing Liquid- satin
• Golden molding paste
• Spray varnish for multi-media with matte finish
• Variety of acrylic paints in colors similar to your collage, plus white
• Yes! Stickflat glue

Other Tools and Supplies
• 20-lb. bag of cat litter or rice
• Baby wipes
• Brayer
• Charcoal or graphite- crayons, blocks, pencils
• D-ring hanging hardware
• Dremel
• Ephemera and collage papers, some with color
• Junk mail catalogue
• Needle-nose pliers with wire cutter
• Nylon coated picture wire
• Paintbrush- medium size with stiff bristles
• Painter’s spatula
• Palette paper
• Paper cutter or scissors
• Pencil
• PrismaColor NuPastel color sticks
• Ruler
• Screwdriver
• Variety of stiff bristle brushes
• Wax paper
• White paint marker-water-based