Collage Joy Taster

 I've been participating in a 10 day online collage class given by Catherine Rains (catherinerains.com). I took a shorter collage class with her before and really enjoyed it. She gives this class once a year and it includes recorded lessons as well as live Q&A sessions. She is very good.

We started off making an assortment of different kinds of collage papers made from different types of papers and different weights. I used copy paper, tissue paper, deli paper, watercolor paper, and rice paper. She taught us various methods to turn them into colored collage papers. We used crayon resists, bubbles, marbles, scraping, and water resists to design our papers. Some were more successful than others. Here are some of the papers I made.  We worked with 2 primary colored paints plus black and white paint. The last time I used blue and yellow, so this time I tried red and yellow. The colors are not ones I would normally pick, but I wanted to challenge myself.

These are mostly crayon resists.

Here are my water resist papers.

Our first collages were made with geometric pieces in assorted sizes and shapes.

The following day we did two collages. The assignment was to pick our favorite paper and use a piece of it in each collage. It needed to be a different size and orientation on each collage base. These are 3 x 3 inches. As you can see I used the same papers in both collages.

I was happy with both collages. I am planning to do a few more collages in this color scheme and will post them when they are done.

My thanks to Cat for a really good collage class!