Creative Collage for Illustration (Workshop)
Course Overview
From painted papers to illustrative art, this workshop is designed to introduce participants to a variety of collage mediums to explore creatively and experimentally.
Learn to create painted and patterned papers and use a variety of other papers (photographic, text-based, plain colours etc) to create an illustrative image. It is designed to develop perceptual, imaginative and technical skills.
Explore, discover and experiment with all the demonstrated mediums.
In the first half of the workshop, be guided by Nettie through a series of fun, creative, visual exercises exploring the techniques of creating coloured patterned papers using acrylic mono printing, scraping, sponging etc. In the second half of the workshop, Nettie will work individually with each participant, providing demonstrations on how to create an artwork using the coloured papers you've made. This part of the workshop is tailored to your individual ideas and projects, ensuring that you have the opportunity to explore your creativity and produce unique and meaningful artwork.
Materials List
- Watercolours
- Acrylics (basic, inexpensive paints are fine)
- HB pencil
- Eraser
- A3 cartridge paper sketch book
- Glue stick
- Paint brushes (watercolour brush No: 4, acrylic brush – round head, not flat)
- Scissors
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About the tutor
Nettie Lodge
Nettie Lodge is an Australian artist. She has a Bachelor of Fine Art from Curtin University, WA, and a Post Graduate in Painting from The Banff Centre of Fine Art, Canada. She exhibits regularly in Sydney, where she has had numerous solo shows since 1995. Her recent solo exhibition was a conceptual interpretation of the poem THE RIME OF THE ANCIENT MARINER at the Manly Art Gallery and Museum. This involved over 40 works on paper and a narrative installation of a ghost ship.
For the past 20 years, she has been writing and illustrating children’s books, for which she won a CBCA Notable Book Award for her picture book BIRD.
Her most recent picture books have been TELL TAILS, which she wrote and illustrated, published by Green, Olive Press in 2021 and THE WORLD’S GREATEST TACKLE, which she illustrated, written by Bruce Walker and published by Wooddslane Press in 2023.
She works as a freelance illustrator from her studio on Scotland Island where she lives and lectures part time at Torrens University.
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