Torn Paper Collage

 

 

Class: Torn Paper Collage

Note: Class Full - Wait list is available

Instructor: Wendy Wilson

Medium: paper, matte gel medium

Date(s): Monday and Tuesday, February 9, 10, 2026

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

Cost: $115

 

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 in the colors that you’re using. I will teach you how to easily put your artwork vision on your canvas, and application techniques. You will acquire paper tearing styles, color and value ideas. This year, I’m going to demonstrate several techniques for tearing and applying your papers to the canvas. Students will create a piece of their own choice using handmade papers and quality papers supplied by myself. I will also be supplying all 12 x 12 canvases, and 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. Each year, I tweak the class to be a bit different than the previous one. Change is always exciting! All levels welcome, why not give it a try?

 

Instructor Biography:

Hi, I’m Wendy and I love tearing paper and fitting little pieces of paper close together. I learned to quilt when I was ten and torn paper collage is very similar. It’s like fitting puzzle pieces together 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! 🎨. If you’ve taken my class before, try a more advanced piece and join me again! 😃

 

Cancellation:

Full refund up to one week prior.

 

Supply List:

SUPPLIES STUDENTS SHOULD BRING:

*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 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.

Please check email that Wendy sends you 🎨

 

Class Sizes:

Minimum Class Size: 5

Maximum Class Size: 15