Last weekend was the Experimental Mixed Media Painting Workshop: PATINA that I taught at the Sebastopol Center for the Arts. Maybe I always feel this way when I spend a whole weekend with people who are excited to be painting and enjoying each others company, but this was a wonderful group that “geled” almost immediately. It was fun to hang out and create with them. The fact that it was a whole weekend made it possible for out of town folks to attend and enjoy our town as well!
We started out with acrylic textures on paper and heavy duty foil, then applied acrylic paints wetly to take advantage of the the textural imprints. With the emphasis on patina blends we explored mixes of iridescent pigments with transparent pigments.
I think my favorite blend of the day was Titan Buff, Micaceous iron Oxide, and Iridescent Bright Gold (Golden fluid acrylics).
My Demo: acrylic patina mixes on textured paper with textured foil and screen collage
the “share” table with stencils, rollers, scrapers, foils, screen, punchanella, color mixes and more.
The students’ work was relaxed and free!
We all love shiny things and the light was sparkling off the paper!
Forest like textures. . .
and vibrant designs. And an invitation to everyone to “steal” ideas from from each other. I always do!
If you wanted to come and weren’t able to, I hope you will make it next time! I’m planning another mixed media workshop at Sebastopol Center for the Arts November 11 and 12th and hope to see some of last weekend’s students back!
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Fabulous!
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