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Tissue Paper Collage: Working with Value and Composition
Stain tissue with acrylics, cut shapes, and collage with added marks—an easy, creative workshop for all skill levels.
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.
About your Instructor
Barbara Crow
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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All Silver Memberships and above receive 10% off the registration cost for any class purchase over $40.
Materials fees are not discounted.
Become a member today and find community, connection, and creativity.
Class FAQ
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 (minus the payment processing and services 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.
All credits must be used within 1 year.
You can view our full class policies and guidelines here.
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 [email protected] so that he can forward them to the relevant Program Director and Instructor.
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 [email protected] to request a late addition.
We are always looking for new instructors. You can fill out the form directly here.
Tissue Paper Collage: Working with Value and Composition
Stain tissue with acrylics, cut shapes, and collage with added marks—an easy, creative workshop for all skill levels.
Schedule
Saturday, April 4, 2026
10:00 AM – 2:00 PM
This Session
Saturday, April 4, 2026 from 10:00 am to 2:00 pm
Location
Experience Level
BeginningAge(s)
18-overRegistration Cost:
$75
Materials Fee:
$10
Total Registration Cost:
$85
