Dream Bubbles, Scrappy Blablahs & More!

Dream Bubbles, Scrappy Blablahs & More

Carla Sonheim Presents: Julie Liger-Belair

Dream Bubbles, Scrappy Blablahs & More
Media Collage with Julie Liger-Belair

Julie describes collage as “soothing and mediative and a chance to delve into story,” and in this class she shares three wonderfully inventive and fun collage projects. So gather your scraps and prepare to take your mixed-media work into undiscovered lands!

In this class we’ll be exploring collage on paper and wood using different techniques. Once we’ve sourced and created our collage papers, we’ll begin with “Scrappy Blablahs” — fun little characters made from the scraps in your studio and great creative warm-ups. From there we will move on to “Dream Bubbles” where we add more sophistication, story and paint!

Finally we’ll spend the last week building large “spirit house” paintings on a cradled wood panels, exploring the layering of painted and collaged elements to create a piece both visually rich and symbolically charge. I love houses and they appear often in my work. They can symbolize the place where we are most comfortable, most ourselves… a place of warmth and protection or sometimes a place where we might feel trapped. These paintings are a way to explore some of these ideas for yourself and have fun with symbols using all our media.

I hope you will join me!

Julie

P.S. We added an optional Zoom “work session” with Carla where we worked on Julie’s assignments together; the recording is part of this class, too.

This class includes:

• 6 video lessons;
• Unlimited access to all the teaching materials of this class;
• The ability to watch the class at your pace, at the time you choose, as often as you want. You can watch it from your computer, but also from your tablet or phone. So you can also take this course while on holiday!
• Access to the class forum
• Forever access; Lessons are prerecorded and are available immediately upon signup.

This class is only available for customers
outside United States & Canada

If you live in The United States or Canada, please visit www.carlasonheim.com to purchase this class.

Price:
USD 72 (Outside EU)
EUR 79,50 (EU, 21% VAT incl.)

Class Itinerary

Lessons are prerecorded and are available upon signup:

Lesson 1 – Making Papers!

We will source and prepare our papers and make hand-decorated elements. We’ll be painting some larger papers, but also using up all the paper scraps we may have laying about to make some floral/botanical elements for use in our collage projects. I will also be introducing stamp carving and printing as another way to make patterned paper.

Lesson 2 – Scrappy Blablahs

Our first collage project will be to make a ‘scrappy blablah’. This is a really fun, smaller collage project that has fewer elements to combine so one can just play around with different possibilities. I really love this project as a warm up in the morning to get my creative juices flowing. Here are some of mine:

Lesson 3 – Dream Bubbles

We’ll be making some ‘dream bubble’ collages. This is a more complex project than the blablahs as we will be using up almost the whole surface of the page to create a sort of dream/surreal world. We’ll be using paints as well as collage for this lesson.

Lesson 4 – Starting Your Spirit House

In this lesson we will be starting our ‘spirit house’ collage/paintings. We will be preparing the wood, considering the imagery we want to use and starting our backgrounds. We will explore the use of stencils to add yet more pattern to our pieces.

Lesson 5 – Spirit House Cont.

We will be continuing our pieces by adding more details around our houses using some of the floral/botanical collage elements we made in the first lesson. I’ll be discussing the different ways we can add layers and details.

Lesson 6 – Spirit House Finish

This lesson is all about how to finish our ‘spirit house’ pieces. I’ll talk about the media I like to use on top of the paint and paper to add finer details and patterns to make our pieces visually rich.

Zoom Session

We added an optional Zoom “work session” with Carla where we worked on Julie’s assignments together; the recording is part of this class, too.

Supplies

For a full list of the supplies you will need, see the tab titled “Materials” located at the top of this page.

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