Torn Paper Collage

 

 

Class: Torn Paper Collage

Note: Class Full - Wait list is available

Instructor: Wendy Wilson

Medium: paper, matte gel medium

Date(s): Wednesday and Thursday, February 12, 13, 2025

Time: 9am - 4pm, 9am - 12pm

Cost: $120

 

Class Description:

Let’s dive into learning torn paper collage on canvas. It’s relaxing, creative and enjoyable. Our day will include prepping our handmade papers, learning how to easily put your artwork vision on your canvas, and application techniques. We will acquire paper tearing styles, color and value ideas. Students will create a piece of their own choice using handmade papers and quality papers supplied by myself. I will also be supplying all the paint used for our handmade papers. I’ve extended the class this year to being a day and an half which gives everyone the opportunity to leave things set up overnight so we can continue and finish the following day. All levels welcome so why not give it a try?

 

Instructor Biography:

Hi, I’m Wendy and I was born and raised in northern Ontario, Canada. I was a music teacher for twenty-five years for students in third to eighth grade. I am a National Mountain Bike Coach and teach and lead rides in our McDowell Sonoran Preserve. We started coming to Arizona ten years ago as Snowbirds and I fell in love with many styles of art. My torn paper collage has collectors in Canada and the U.S. Come and take a class with me so I can share my love of tearing paper with you! 🎨

 

Cancellation:

Other

 

Supply List:

SUPPLIED BY THE TEACHER:
*Your own personal ‘surprise’ package 🌼
*Papers we will be creating on
*Paper snippets
*Acrylic paint
*rubber stamps
*Beginning assignment supplies 🤐 top secret!
*Paper Towels
*Gloves

SUPPLIES STUDENTS SHOULD BRING:
I am suggesting quality supplies that I have had good luck with.
*Please bring a substrate (which is a type of canvas). Suggestions for size would be 12x12, 11x14, or 12x16.
*Types of canvas:
Gallery Wrapped Canvas (Michaels has a level 3 Gallery Wrapped Heavy Duty Canvas by Artist Loft that stands up to paper collage) (Hobby Lobby also have some)
*Liquatex Matte Gel (see photo so you get the right one)
*Two sizes of cheap paint brushes approximately 1/2 inch
*Pencil and eraser
* rubber stamps you might already have. Don’t buy any if you don’t.
*Color picture printed off of what you’d like to create
* start looking for papers you like: old stamps, paper doilies, tea bags emptied and washed, sewing patterns, tickets from a show, papers that have flexibility, lace
* optional: specialty papers from ‘Paper Source’ located at Kierland on the east side of Scottsdale rd. OR Mulberry Papers and More store or online.

* I have not used wallpaper paper as I find it too thick. I very rarely use magazines because the paper is thin and wrinkles but in very tiny pieces, it is okay.

 

Class Sizes:

Minimum Class Size: 5

Maximum Class Size: 15