Online COURSE: Collage Illustrations: Creative Art with Pre-Painted Papers

Collage Illustrations

This course embraces the beauty of collage art using pre-painted paper pieces. It's perfect for artists and enthusiasts looking to explore new textures and compositions, while crafting personal and evocative illustrations. This approach is not only about creating beautiful art but also about understanding how different colours and shapes work together to tell a story.

Why Collaging?

Using collage to create illustrations is a fantasic way to create a bold and colourful illustrations style for various reasons: 

1. We will not sketch- you can join in and create beautiful art with very limited drawing skills which means collaging is great for beginners!
2. By cutting and tearing your paper you will create bold shapes that stand out imidiately! it gives a specific clear look to your artwork that is hard to archive when painting and drawing directly.
3. before gluing your collage you can move your papers around and try a variety of compositions. This really helps visualising your final piece. 

Course set up: 

The course will be a mix of pre-recorded classes and as I usually do there will be a number of live sessions on zoom for those first participants of the course and these will be added to the course as bonus sessions. 

In the course we will 

prepare a selection of collage papers by painting them in various colours. We will create texture and abstract shapes

we will then tear and cut these papers into smaller shapes

With these collage papers we will create a selection of artworks. 

• first we will create floral shapes
• in the second part of the curse we will create animal illustrations
• finaly we will create a landscape illustration

3 live zoom sessions:

• Zoom session 1: 5 June at 6pm BST/ 7PM european summer time / 1PM EST. 
• Zoom session 2: 12 June at 6pm BST/ 7PM european summer time / 1PM EST
• Zoom session 3: 19 June at 6pm BST/ 7PM european summer time / 1PM EST

Zoom session 1:

we will prepare our collage papers - paint papers in various colours and styles to use for our collages in session 2 and 3. 

zoom session 2:

We will use our collage papers to create floral and animals illustrations

zoom session 3:

we will use our collage papers to create floral shapes and a landscape artwork. 

Materials:

• a selection of papers, a variety of different thicknesses is fine.
• paint (watercolour, gouache or acrylic paint)
• Brushes, water, a palette and cloth
• paper - to use as a base for our artwork. this can be a sketchbook or loose paper.
• glue - a glue stick or paper glue for crafting
• scissors
• a craft knife and cutting board (are useful but optional)