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Being Matisse
March 8-9, 2008
Color, Design & Collage
This class will strengthen your understanding of color, form and composition by studying the methods Matisse used in his cutouts. Done at the end of his life, he used his scissors to draw free form shapes and let them interact on the wall over his bed.
The goal is not to replicate Matisse, but to affirm our own visual language of shape and to explore the possibilities of negative and positive space. Using the simplest of tools and materials - scissors, paper, paint and glue - you will learn how to manipulate space and create dynamic compositions.
We'll begin as Matisse did, by painting papers with washes and textures. While the paint dries, we'll do some exercises investigating compositional space, producing sketches and maquettes for collages. After lunch we'll cut our painted papers into shapes by "drawing" with scissors, and making a number of finished collages.
Kit fee: $3
Materials Provided:
Bristol board for collage (18x24)
Black & White paper for exercises
Participants should bring:
• The basic art kit
• Paper suitable for water media - a pad 11x14 or larger
• Paints: acrylic or gouache - bring a range of colors you like
• Small containers for mixing paint and holding water
• Larger brushes for doing washes and large expanses of paint
(can be the inexpensive kind from the hardware store)
• Good scissors
• Glue stick
• PVA or any wet glue you like, such as Elmer's or Sobo
• Pencils & Sketchbook
• Combs, sponges, and other instruments for patterning and texturing paint
• Option: Specialty collage materials such as metallic, textured, and transparent papers
Two day class price: $425.00
Early Registration Discount: Register by February 8, 2008 and pay only $250.00
Payment via Paypal should be sent to: artfreakzine@yahoo.com
Payment via personal check can be sent to:
Carol Parks
4804 Laurel Canyon Bl. #294
Valley Village, CA 91607
Classes/workshops take place at Carol Parks' NoHo Studios. Location and directions will be provided upon registration. Catered meals can be ordered upon request.
Contact Carol for questions, lodging information, and seating availability prior to sending payments.
Artist Statement
Making art and feeling the force of language has been an irrepressible part of my life since childhood. I work in a variety of mediums and forms, including drawing, painting and stitching on paper and canvas—mixing media and incorporating language in my artwork.
Always it‘s the sensate experience of engaging with the materials to express ideas of beauty and memory, permanence and impermanence, the universal and the personal. The bare bones of drawing and words are the foundations I build on, as well as the unconventional use of materials such as gesso, shellac, charcoal and thread. Often my goal is discovery, to surprise myself by making something I’ve never seen before.
Learn more about Sas by visiting her website at
http://www.sascolby.com.
