This past Saturday an artist friend and I enjoyed a one-day workshop with Laura-lein Svencner and 8 other artists. Laura makes beautiful abstract collages that include handmade papers, thread, beads, and organic matter. But the focus for this workshop was abstract landscape collage. It was so wonderfully organized! All we brought was our lunch! Laura had all the supplies for making our own papers and then designing our landscapes from them and heat-tacking them together on watercolor paper.
We each received a large zip-lock bag that held all the papers we would transform with paint, templates and polymer, each picking our own palette and two pieces of watercolor paper to attach our landscapes to. We had taped the edges so that when we removed the tape we had a wonderfully clean white mat effect.
Below are my two finished abstract landscape collages.
I am linking with Paint Party Friday. Have a great week.~gloria
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this sounds like it was extremely fun and your abstracts turned out great! Visiting from PPF. Have a lovely upcoming weekend.
ReplyDeleteGorgeous, sounds like an awesome workshop! Love your pallette of course!
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Fantastic work, and that sounds like a workshop I would have liked to attend. The cats painting on my blog is from Franz Marc. Happy PPF, Hugs, Valerie
ReplyDeleteOh how lovely to be able to attend such a workshop. Your works are really thrilling to see. I love all the colours chosen and each collage is superb.
ReplyDeleteWow, I would love to do a workshop like this! Your two pieces are great, love the colour combinations and the choice of papers in both of them... I am now wondering what "heat-tacking" is .... :-)
ReplyDeleteThese are gorgeous Gloria!!! I would have loved to attend that workshop. I hope to see more of these-you have a great eye for color and composition. Happy PPF!
ReplyDeleteImpressive paintings. They both are very well done.
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What beautiful and inspirational ideas you have created...gorgeous!!!
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Jan
Wow, these are beautiful! I think you made some wonderful abstract artwork! Gorgeous!
ReplyDeletewonderful abstracts and a fun workshop Gloria!
ReplyDeleteOhhhh what a wonderful class. These are fabulous Gloria. It is nice to go to a class where all you need is your lunch. Have a very nice weekend.
ReplyDeleteThese a beautiful and it sounds like an interesting technique. Also sounds like you had fun! Happy PPF!
ReplyDeletewow this sounds like so much fun and I love your creations!
ReplyDeleteThese are great!
ReplyDeleteI love handmade papers. I'm sure you had a very creative day, cool pics!
ReplyDeleteOh, wow! I love all the textures and interesting patterns in your abstract landscape compositions. Blessings!
ReplyDeleteVery interesting
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What a fun idea! The results are charming.
ReplyDeleteThese are wonderful!
ReplyDeleteWow Gloria - what fun! I love them both
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