Description
Express yourself with abstract marks in this video download! Add intrigue and meaning to your collage with techniques from artist Crystal Neubauer in Expressive Collage Workshop: Abstract Mark Making. You’ll begin by creating an expressive collage of vintage or personal ephemera from start to finish. Then Crystal will show you, and student Amy Jones, a variety of ways to enhance your collage with mark making. Experiment with using graphite and charcoal as both dry and wet mediums. Add splashes of India ink and try your hand at asemic (or faux) writing to help unify the collage elements. Finally you’ll learn how to seal and frame your art to help it stand the test of time.
In this video download you’ll find
- 10+ techniques for collage and mark making.
- techniques to professionally frame your complete collage!
- tips for experimenting and sealing a variety of dry media.
Watch a preview of this video download 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
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Surface
- 140-lb. cold press watercolor paper
- 5″ x 7″ pad of printmaking paper
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Media
- Black India ink
- Cold wax
- Derwent Graphitone (optional)
- Derwent XL graphite blocks
- Golden Acrylic Glazing Fluid- satin
- Graphite pencil
- Liquid graphite (optional)
- Lyra water soluble graphite crayon (optional)
- Natural stick graphite- medium grade
- Powdered graphite (optional)
- Spray varnish for multi-media in matte finish
- White NuPastel by PrismaColor
- White paint marker
- White primer or gesso
- Yes! Stickflat glue
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Other Tools and Supplies
- 20-lb. bag of cat litter or uncooked rice
- Artist’s tape
- Baby wipes
- Brayer (optional)
- Chinese Ink brush
- D-ring hardware kit with nylon coated wire
- Disposable cup
- Disposable glove
- Dremel
- Ephemera and other collage papers
- Eraser
- Frame with mat
- Junk mail catalogue
- Needle-nose pliers with wire cutter
- Pipette or dropper (optional)
- Rubber bands
- Ruler
- Scissors
- Scrap of corrugated cardboard
- Scrap of foam core
- Screwdriver
- Small squeegee or painter’s spatula
- Soft bristle brush
- Stencil (optional)
- Stiff bristle brush
- Water container
- Water mister (optional)
- Wax paper or freezer paper
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