Mixed Media and Collage
Shared Interest Group
Our Shared Interest Group, “Mixed Media and Collage,” meets every two months on Friday afternoons (1:00pm-2:30pm), alternating with the “Fiber Fridays” group. This group begins each session with a short project or a discussion of collage and mixed media issues. Then we share works we have been creating and discuss the mixed media processes we all use. It is all very casual and newcomers are welcome.
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Our next meeting, Friday October 29, will be an in-person workshop with a limited number of spaces.
Our last meeting was AUGUST 27th
We discussed the odd history of paper dolls and the possibilities of paper dolls as a mixed media form.
Paper dolls have been a form of both child and adult play for more than 200 years. They were an inexpensive way to experiment with fashion ideas and also enact scenes from popular newspaper comic strips in the early part of the 20th century.
For more ideas search "Paper Dolls" on Pinterest.
Here is the lecture given by Louise about paper dolls. Click the file to download it:
We discussed the odd history of paper dolls and the possibilities of paper dolls as a mixed media form.
Paper dolls have been a form of both child and adult play for more than 200 years. They were an inexpensive way to experiment with fashion ideas and also enact scenes from popular newspaper comic strips in the early part of the 20th century.
For more ideas search "Paper Dolls" on Pinterest.
Here is the lecture given by Louise about paper dolls. Click the file to download it:
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Paper Dolls to cut out: download and print on letter size paper. Cardstock is best but regular printer paper is fine.
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For our first in-person meeting for this group, we did an experiment in collage. We applied different techniques to the same collage which started off with some wallpaper samples, old magazines, and a scan&cut machine, then we added some stitching and some text from old greeting cards. Some of us shared works we had done during the COVID lockdown. Check out some of our results in the slide show below.
