Creative Collage
Do you have a collection of saved and interesting paper, tear outs, bits of fabric and general stuff you have been saving, have wanted to use but never have – for years? Take a journey into self-expression through creative layering and collage.
Open to all levels of creative experience, Denise will take you through the fundamentals of colour, design and composition to prepare you to fully immerse yourself in the creative collaging process. In abstract or realistic works, play with colour, texture, images and discarded ephemera, and combine them with patterned paper and paint.
Add drawn and stitched lines to create a completed two-dimensional image.
Be free to create, combining your life experiences with new skills.
AGE: Suitable for ages 18 to adult
SKILL LEVEL: Everyone - Suitable for a range of experience and skill. Tutors understand that there will be varying skill levels and will adapt to the needs and interests of all students.
SCHEDULE: Full Days - Monday 13 to Friday 17 January 2025 - 9:00 am to 4:00 pm
VENUE: Bellingen High School
STATUS: Places available
Do you have a collection of saved and interesting paper, tear outs, bits of fabric and general stuff you have been saving, have wanted to use but never have – for years? Take a journey into self-expression through creative layering and collage.
Open to all levels of creative experience, Denise will take you through the fundamentals of colour, design and composition to prepare you to fully immerse yourself in the creative collaging process. In abstract or realistic works, play with colour, texture, images and discarded ephemera, and combine them with patterned paper and paint.
Add drawn and stitched lines to create a completed two-dimensional image.
Be free to create, combining your life experiences with new skills.
AGE: Suitable for ages 18 to adult
SKILL LEVEL: Everyone - Suitable for a range of experience and skill. Tutors understand that there will be varying skill levels and will adapt to the needs and interests of all students.
SCHEDULE: Full Days - Monday 13 to Friday 17 January 2025 - 9:00 am to 4:00 pm
VENUE: Bellingen High School
STATUS: Places available
Do you have a collection of saved and interesting paper, tear outs, bits of fabric and general stuff you have been saving, have wanted to use but never have – for years? Take a journey into self-expression through creative layering and collage.
Open to all levels of creative experience, Denise will take you through the fundamentals of colour, design and composition to prepare you to fully immerse yourself in the creative collaging process. In abstract or realistic works, play with colour, texture, images and discarded ephemera, and combine them with patterned paper and paint.
Add drawn and stitched lines to create a completed two-dimensional image.
Be free to create, combining your life experiences with new skills.
AGE: Suitable for ages 18 to adult
SKILL LEVEL: Everyone - Suitable for a range of experience and skill. Tutors understand that there will be varying skill levels and will adapt to the needs and interests of all students.
SCHEDULE: Full Days - Monday 13 to Friday 17 January 2025 - 9:00 am to 4:00 pm
VENUE: Bellingen High School
STATUS: Places available
course info
Please read all course information below before purchasing tickets for this event.
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There will be demonstrations on creating the ground to work on, plus colouring more paper with colours and patterns you love.
When these are dry, they will be used to glue onto the surface and extend the collection of stuff you brought with you.
Students will learn how to cut, tear, and manipulate different papers and see what happens to the edges when you tear them in different directions.
You will learn to find those fragments of colour that you just might want to use that are in the middle of an illustration from an old magazine article. You will learn how to deal with glue and then how to add drawn and stitched lines to create a completed two-dimensional image.
Part of the demonstrations and discussions will be on how to go about designing your working surface and how to work with colours. Students will be able to choose an abstract or realistic way of working.
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Please bring the following on your first day of class:
PAINTING
Watercolour paints
Palette
Brushes large and small
If you prefer to work with acrylics, bring them with the appropriate brushes.
PAPER
A3 pad of 300gsm watercolour paper
A4 pad of 120gsm watercolour paper
Fifty sheets of A4 computer printing paper
Optional – small pieces of paper to work on, plus extra for trials. Bring as much as you think you will need for five-days, you can also be adventurous with the base you work on.
COLLAGE MATERIALS
Variety of interesting papers: (suggestions only) wallpaper, wrapping paper, handmade papers, coloured papers, fancy papers, old envelopes, old sheet music, old maps, old photos, old calendars, scrap drawings, scrap prints, newspaper, magazines with photos, tear outs, old books, tissue paper, foil chocolate wrappers, brown paper, corrugated cardboard
If you sew - threads in variety of colours as well as bits of fabric and fabric scissors, different size chenille needles for sewing through work surface
GENERAL SUPPLIES
Marking pens and pencils
Notebook and pen/pencil
Cover for the table: old sheet, plastic shower curtain, newspapers
PVA Aquadhere glue – available at hardware shops (If you have an allergy to the chemicals in Aquadhere glue, please bring an alternative. Paper glue that is neutral pH will work)
Variety of different sized cheap bristle brushes for gluing
Small towel and paper towels for working with watercolour paints
Rags for glue clean up, plastic bag for a wet rag
Old newspapers or an old telephone book for gluing, and to keep work surfaces clean
Two tall water jars – one for watercolour, one for glue brushes
Apron or old shirt
Paper scissors large and small
Needle nose tweezers
Cutting board (no larger than A3)
Retractable blade knife
Awl – a sharp implement available at haberdashery or fabric shops
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This is a fun and supportive course to open your creativity.
No prior experience is required.
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“Denise is an exceptional teacher. She created a warm and supportive classroom climate and encouraged us to experiment with various techniques and processes to create beautiful works of art. Denise is flexible enough to encourage students to choose their materials and develop their ideas while engaging in the artmaking process but is also very skilled in giving students positive and helpful feedback to create unique art.”
YOUR COURSE TUTOR
Denise Vanderlugt
Denise has lived in the Whitsundays, Queensland and has been working as a full-time artist since 1982.
Hobart is her new home in 2023, with changes in the environment, the colours, and the landscape. These are all a new adventure for the creative mind who brought her studio stash with her. Her images are of the natural world were largely inspired by her own large bush garden. Now, a new garden and mountains are ready to inspire, another adventure leaving the tropical bush for cold climate plant life.
She works in many mediums, with quilt making as her primary practice. Her other pursuits are painting and collage, coiled basketry, artists’ books and printmaking. All this combined knowledge goes into her own practice of collage with watercolour, which she developed from the desire to create her own personal palette of colours.
In 2007, Denise published her children’s book ‘WHERE RAINBOWS LIVE’, for which she received two international awards for self-publishing. It is now in it’s second edition.
In 2009, as one of Strand Ephemera Townsville sculptors, Denise hung 105 rainbow jellyfish in a big tree. These jellyfish were made from recycled materials with the coiled basketry technique. Her work has been featured in books and magazines in Australia and overseas.