Rising Sun Collage Workshop 2012

Last weekend's New Creative Collage Techniques workshop at Rising Sun, Indiana, was fantastic. Here's one example. Go to the workshop page to see more of what these artists did in only two days. Many did more than two pieces. The variety of subject matter and approach is fantastic. In addition to paper collage, I had the class prepare a background with acrylic paints and then collage into it. One student worked mostly with fabrics. Most hadn't done much collage, if any, so you can see why I was impressed with the results. FYI, Rising Sun Art has more workshops through November. It's only 1 1/2 hours from Dayton, closer to Cincinnati, not far from Indianapolis--just a hop and a skip for a fun, productive two-days.

Fabric collage

Julia R. Berkley, fabric collage artist, paints landscapes with fabric. Unlike the watercolor-quilt style using small bits of fabric to assemble an image, Julia glues larger shapes onto canvas board, incorporating them into colorful fantasy landscapes. They remind me of Henri Rousseau's nature paintings. She captures the sense of landscape and underseas environments with printed fabric colors and textures.