Mixed Media
About the Course
This is an all levels mixed media workshop focussing on fearless creative exploration and resolution strategies. Working with a variety of materials and techniques, this workshop will help you gain confidence in the creative process. Discover the playful child, the rebellious teenager, and the ‘mature’ adult phases of creative expression and learn to harness these as your bring your work towards completion.
Banish your harsh inner critic and learn how an awareness of core principles can help to guide your process. We will learn about the importance of establishing a strong composition using contrast as a guiding principle. We will play with expressive elements of line, colour and texture and explore a fun approach to colour mixing. As your process becomes more familiar and your choices more intuitive, you will gradually learn to trust your inner voice. We often move into and out of intuitive and analytical phases as we work. It is during the latter when our inner critic becomes loudest and we can become ‘stuck’. As you learn to recognise ‘where you are in your head’ and make choices based on what ‘is’, rather than what you ‘expect should be’, on your page, you will learn to work through and with these more challenging moments.
We will be working on paper and wood panels, using collage, stencils, printmaking, painting and drawing techniques, while the beautiful boreal forest setting offers you endless inspiration.
Banish your harsh inner critic and learn how an awareness of core principles can help to guide your process. We will learn about the importance of establishing a strong composition using contrast as a guiding principle. We will play with expressive elements of line, colour and texture and explore a fun approach to colour mixing. As your process becomes more familiar and your choices more intuitive, you will gradually learn to trust your inner voice. We often move into and out of intuitive and analytical phases as we work. It is during the latter when our inner critic becomes loudest and we can become ‘stuck’. As you learn to recognise ‘where you are in your head’ and make choices based on what ‘is’, rather than what you ‘expect should be’, on your page, you will learn to work through and with these more challenging moments.
We will be working on paper and wood panels, using collage, stencils, printmaking, painting and drawing techniques, while the beautiful boreal forest setting offers you endless inspiration.
Your Instructors:
Miranda Jones
Miranda has been making art all her life, however, a move to Canada from Australia enabled her to transition into more consistent creative employment and learning opportunities. She completed her MFA at the University of Saskatchewan in 1989 and has been creating, exhibiting and teaching art ever since. Known for her signature use of vibrant colour and metallic leaf, Miranda’s inspiration comes primarily from nature and the outdoors. Her love of Nordic skiing, cycling and swimming offers wonderful opportunities to immerse herself in nature.
Teaching has also become an important part of her creative process. Not only does she believe that creative learning is vital to our health and well being, she has found teaching can often be as rewarding and inspiring as making her own work. Miranda works out of the Studio on 20th artist collective in Saskatoon and exhibits in Saskatchewan and abroad. She is represented by Nouveau Gallery in Regina and Black Spruce Gallery in Saskatoon and north. Her work can be found in many public, corporate and private collections around the world.
Teaching has also become an important part of her creative process. Not only does she believe that creative learning is vital to our health and well being, she has found teaching can often be as rewarding and inspiring as making her own work. Miranda works out of the Studio on 20th artist collective in Saskatoon and exhibits in Saskatchewan and abroad. She is represented by Nouveau Gallery in Regina and Black Spruce Gallery in Saskatoon and north. Her work can be found in many public, corporate and private collections around the world.
Course Requirements
Materials Cost - $60 per student
*in addition to registration
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