2024 Annual Juried Show
Saturday, October 5, 2024 | 10:00 AM 3:30 PM
Gloucester Arts on Main | 6580 Main Street Gloucester, VA 23061 United States (map)
Collage Technique using Paper to Render a Representational Image
Join Caroline Garrett Hardy on Saturday, October 5th from 10:00 AM - 3:30 PM for a Collage Workshop at Arts on Main!
This workshop will show you how to create a “Painting with Paper” using a collage technique for rendering a representational image. We will discuss the choice of subjects and an explanation of the process. First, you will trace your image onto our backing. The instructor provides your substrate. Then we discuss a color scheme, choosing your papers, and adhesives. There are many possibilities for creating the shapes you will use. e.g; cutting with scissors, tearing or ripping the paper, using an exact-o knife. A combination works well. During the first two-hour session of the workshop, we will lay out our projects and work with the underneath layers of the paper, then start building up. After lunch, we will continue layering papers and refining the work. Around 3pm, we will “show and tell” with advice and/or encouragement.
Students are asked to bring their own supplies. Please do not purchase supplies until you have received an email/call from Arts on Main confirming that the workshop is happening.
SUPPLY LIST:
- 8 x 10 inch reference photo of the pet, face, or scene you intend to represent
- A ball point pen
- Soft lead 6B - 9B or Ebony pencil (teacher will have some soft lead pencils to share as well)
- Elmer's Glue All, 4 oz. NOT Elmers School Glue (it is convenient to have your own small bottle of glue, although the instructor will have several types of adhesives to demonstrate and share with students).
- Student's choice: sketchbook, fun papers, magazines
For ages 15+
We will break for lunch from 12 noon - 12:45. Feel free to bring a lunch and eat in the gallery,
or try one of our local Gloucester restaurants within walking distance!
$90.00
About Your Instructor
Caroline Garrett Hardy has taught art at universities and academy of arts in California, New Mexico, North Carolina, Georgia, Virginia, and London, England. She studied printmaking and painting at VCU, Richmond Virginia, and illustration and design at The Academy of Art University in San Francisco and Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. She currently lives in Williamsburg, Virginia where she works as a full-time artist, teaches yoga, and lives with her husband, Trotter Hardy, a Professor of Law Emeritus and photographer. They exhibit their work both together and separately . Most recently they exhibited their work together at the Norfolk Botanical Gardens, in Norfolk, Virginia. Caroline and Trotter both have shown their work at Arts on Main. Caroline now works primarily in paper to create Kimonos and "paper paintings." A "paper painting" is a collage technique which lends itself to representational imagery. She enjoys sharing her tricks of the trade with those who are curious and eager!
