Spend the day exploring color, texture, and creativity as we create a collection of vibrant hand-painted papers to use in a layered floral collage. Choose your favorite flower as inspiration, then cut, arrange, and compose your own unique still life using your custom-painted papers.
Once your collage is complete, we'll bring the piece together using a negative painting technique, painting around the shapes to "carve out" and define the final composition. This process adds depth, contrast, and a beautiful painterly finish to your artwork.
Designed for artists of all experience levels, this workshop is all about experimentation, play, and discovering new techniques in a relaxed, supportive environment. There is no pressure to create a perfect piece—just an opportunity to enjoy the creative process, embrace happy accidents, and leave with a colorful work of art that's uniquely your own.
Materials List: I will provide a 9 x 12 canvas board substrate to work on. If you would like to work on More than one painting, feel free to bring canvas boards or a cradled panel no smaller than 9 × 12.
- Mark making tools; crayons, colored pencils, pastels, markers. Whatever you enjoy using.
- Scissors
- Adhesive - Matte medium or satin medium
- Papers to paint on; copy paper, flyers, deli paper, whatever you have on hand really. Anything but magazine pages.
- Paint; Any kind of acrylic paint that you like. Primary colors plus black and white. Also any other colors that you like.
- Silicone wedge scraper or spatula to adhere papers.
- Paint brushes of various sizes.They don't have to be expensive.
Tracy Allegro is a mixed media artist from Quincy, Ma.
I love to focus my work on plants, flowers and occasionally people and dogs. I love color, shape and whimsy. I’ve taken many art courses over the years from the Art Institute of Boston and The Museum of Fine Arts School. I graduated with a minor in Art from UMass/Boston. I’m happiest when I’m creating.
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