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Tissue Paper Collage: Working with Value and Composition

January 11, 2025 @ 10:00 am 2:00 pm

$85 Per Registration

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.

Please share any special considerations (medical, physical, learning) that will help your instructor make your class accessible and accommodating for you. You can share these consideratio


The Sonoma Community Center is committed to creating an accessible learning environment. If you require any special considerations(medical, physical, learning) please share them with Sean Baskin, Program Associate, by emailing him at sean@sonomacommunitycenter.org so that he can forward them to the relevant Program Director and Instructor.ns when register or by emailing Sean at sean@sonomacommunitycenter.org.

The Sonoma Community Center (the Center) strives to create an inclusive, safe community where everyone is treated with dignity and respect. The Center is committed to creating such an environment because it brings out the fullest potential in each of us, which, in turn, contributes directly to creating a community of belonging. In order to ensure a positive, safe, and welcoming experience for everyone, all program participants are asked to abide by the following policies, community agreements, and restorative safety protocol.

About the instructor

Barbara Crow

Instructor / Artist

I have been studying and making art my whole life. I received a B.A. in Art History
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

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