Painted Paper Art Workshop: Easy and Colorful Collage Paintings

by Elizabeth St. Hilaire

Overview

This is where painting meets collage!

You can create beautiful art with amazing depth and texture, using easy collage techniques and paper you paint yourself. Popular workshop instructor Elizabeth St. Hilaire makes it fun and simple no matter what your skill level!

Start with materials you probably already have—fluid acrylics, stencils, a few household items and paper—and hand-paint your personalized paper palette using basic techniques anyone can do.

Then move through each step of composing your own work of art. You'll find beautiful, meaningful examples of the how and why on every page. You'll learn how to: develop your composition, how to work with simple shapes, important lessons on value and much more.


   • More than 30 techniques for painting your own decorative papers
   • Step-by-step instructions for creating your own painted paper collage–from underpainting and directional ripping and tearing to auditioning your papers and combining collage with mixed media
   • A spectacular gallery of paper paintings to inspire and dazzle—still lifes, figures, animals and landscapes

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781440343117
Publisher:	Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date:	08/31/2016
Pages:	128
Sales rank:	237,273
Product dimensions:	8.30(w) x 10.80(h) x 0.40(d)

Table of Contents

Materials Used in This Book 4

Foreword 6

Introduction 8

Part 1 Getting Started 10

Paints, Papers, Other Materials and Supplies, and Storage and Organization

Part 2 Techniques for Hand-painting Paper 20

Additive, Subtractive, Resist and Gelli Plate

Printing Techniques

Part 3 Creating Collage: The Process 64

Substrates and Priming, Glues and Varnishes, Composition, Sketching. Underpaying, Collage Process, Finishing Touches, Next Level Collage

Part 4 Creating Collage: Putting It All Together 100

The Apple Exercise

Part 5 Gallery: Art and Inspiration 112

Index 125

About the Author 127