Memory and Nostalgia: Collage and Mixed-Media Painting

Memory and Nostalgia: Collage and Mixed-Media Painting

Adult Course | Registration opens 1/7/2025 7:00 AM MST

200 Grant Street Denver, CO 80203 United States
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2/22/2025 (one day)
9:00 AM-4:00 PM MST on Sat
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$129.50
$110.07

Memory and Nostalgia: Collage and Mixed-Media Painting

Adult Course | Registration opens 1/7/2025 7:00 AM MST

In this 1 day workshop, we will explore the power of memory and nostalgia through the vehicle of collage and water-based paints (acrylic, watercolor, and gouache). We will begin the class with the idea of memories whether from childhood, adulthood or dreams, and what that means to you while looking through magazines, books, newspapers, catalogs, and printed materials. Using water-based paints, we will create a base or background color(s) that will connect the collected images around a memory, or a place of nostalgia. Compositions can be referential, abstract, or surreal. Instruction will be given on how to adhere collage on panel along with finishing touches and best framing practices.

  • Previous painting experience recommended.

    There will be a lunch break.

  • Supply list: SUPPLIES Substrate (please bring one of your choice):

    • Gesso board or wood panel 8x12" or 9x12" (no larger)

    • Mixed media/watercolor paper (sketchbook style or loose sheets, 9x12")

    • Water-based paints (choose favorite, or combination of any): Acrylic, Watercolor, Goache, Ink. Please bring a selection of the primary colors (red, yellow, blue), white and black. Additional colors are optional
    • Scissors
    • Pencil (no darker than HB or No. 2 pencil. 3H, 4H or 6H preferable)
    • White eraser
    • Folder or large manila envelope (hold cut-out pieces)
    • Round or flat brushes: one large, and one or two small detail brushes Flat brush (3/4 or 1”) for glue (old brush, or one you don’t mind gunking up) Palette paper for paint
    • Wet-based glue Mod Podge (Matte or Gloss),
    • 8oz bottle Plastic card (old credit card is great) for pressing glue
    • Collage materials you like to work with, i.e.:
    • -Photographs
      -Stamps
      -Magazines (old or new)
      -Catalogs (color images are best)
      -Books (old ones you don’t mind cutting up or repurposing)
      -Printed articles, online images, etc  

Robin Whatley

www.robinwhatley.com


ARTIST STATEMENT
My work is a reflection and reinterpretation of pop culture from the 50's, 60's, and 70's combined with a reimagined culture of today. For my mixed media paintings, I integrate magazine cut-outs with water-based paints to create 'other worldly' landscapes. For my collage series, I combine vintage magazine cut-outs on paper to create surreal, dreamy vignettes. These works are meant to reveal a deeper underlying psychological theme, feeling, or political statement that transcends time.

 

ARTIST BIO

As a Denver based artist with a background in arts administration, Robin has worked for the last 18 years as a freelance professional artist. After receiving a BFA with a concentration in painting from Colorado State University, she relocated to Denver in 2003 to further grow her art career. Robin’s work has been included in numerous group and solo exhibitions around the US including Arizona, California, Colorado, Rhode Island, Florida and Washington.  Today, Robin continues to push her artistic boundaries and explore new creative processes from her at home studio in Denver.