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!

                             

Ukraine Museum & Sketchbook Revival

 On Saturday the NYC Urban Sketchers showed their support and concern to the people of Ukraine through "Sketch Ukraine." We were honored to have two young women from the Ukraine speak to us about what they have been going through. One is still presently in the country and the other has left to go to safety with her family. A woman from the Ukraine Museum in NYC also joined us. My thoughts and prayers are with the people suffering and fighting for their homeland.

I sketched the National Museum of Ukrainian Architecture located in Kyiv. Since this was done from a reference photo this cannot be considered an urban sketch.

I have watched a lot of the lessons for Sketchbook Revival but haven't had much time to do the sketch activities. I finally worked on this mixed media collage from the lesson "Messy Recipes" with Caylee Grey.