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Tissue Paper Collage: Working with Value and Composition
January 11, 2025 @ 10:00 am – 2:00 pm
Date: Saturday, January 11, 2025
Time: 10:00 AM – 2:00 PM
This class meets once
Instructor: Barbara Crow
Location: Room 208
Ages: Adults
Skill Level: Beginning
Registration Fee: $75
Materials Fee: $10
About the class
You’ll begin this workshop by staining art tissue using a limited palette of transparent acrylic paint, focusing on creating a range of values from very light to very dark. Through experimentation with three different colors you’ll create interesting, subtle textures. Next, shapes will be cut from the tissue, followed by working with the pieces to develop composition and collage. For the final layer you’ll add marks with paint, pens (Micron), inks, and stamps, adding texture and interesting effects. You will have extra sheets of tissue to take home that you can use later in your collages or paintings. No prior artmaking experience required. This is a fun, easy, step-by-step process. All materials are provided. Feel free to bring snacks or a bag lunch to eat while you work.
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About the instructor
Barbara Crow
Instructor / Artist
from George Washington University. A career in graphic arts management gave me a
strong sense of color and design. Taking workshops and classes focused me more as
an artist and I began working seriously as an artist after attending Santa Rosa Jr.
College where I studied painting.
As a painter and collage artist, I work in multiple mediums. I am drawn to texture,
color and patterns using paint, paper and mixed media. Sometimes I work from
remembered scenes or images, suggestions of where I’ve been and I’m intrigued by
weathered and age-worn surfaces. As I build layers, the piece pulls me along, and I’m
responding to the juxtaposition of shapes and marks until a cohesive composition
develops.
My work has been juried into the Marin Museum of Contemporary Art, Falkirk Cultural Center,
The Arts Guild of Sonoma, O’Hanlon Center for the Arts, Santa Rosa Arts Council. I have
participated in private group and solo shows at The Sonoma Library, Marin Open Studios, Bump
Cellars, Sunflower Café, Guide Dogs for the Blind and others.
www.barbaracrowart.com
Questions and Answers
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We ask that you notify us at least 10 days in advance of a class if you need to cancel your registration. You may cancel by phone or email and we will gladly offer you a refund or credit toward a future class. If you cancel with less than 10 days’ notice, we will not be able to provide refunds, due to our contractual obligations and material purchases for each class.
Sometimes, the Sonoma Community Center has to cancel a class due to low enrollment or unforeseen circumstances, such as a natural disaster or health emergency. If this happens and we do not offer a reschedule date, you will be refunded 100% of your registration fee, or credit towards a future class. If we are able to offer a reschedule date but you are unable to make the new date, we will gladly offer credit towards a future class.
Late additions to any program, class, or workshop that has already begun will be allowed on a per-case basis depending upon the Program Director & instructors approval. Late additions will have to pay the full registration cost of the class, along with any materials fees, and will not be prorated for the time missed. You may reach out to the program directors directly, or the Program Associate Sean Baskin at sean@sonomacommunitycenter.org to request a late addition.
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