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    Collage, Paint, Draw: Explore Mixed Media Techniques and Materials
    Collage, Paint, Draw: Explore Mixed Media Techniques and Materials
    Collage, Paint, Draw: Explore Mixed Media Techniques and Materials
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    Collage, Paint, Draw: Explore Mixed Media Techniques and Materials

    By Sue Pelletier

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    Collage, paint and draw to explore a new side of mixed-media art and go off the beaten path!

    Celebrate the day-to-day journey of life as you create imaginative mixed-media projects. In Collage, Paint Draw, you will learn how to use heart-felt images as a starting point to jump into the world of mixed-media art, materials and techniques. Using symbols such as the heart, the home, a child's toy, and a vintage dress, you'll learn to try something (everything!) new. You'll learn how to use tools and materials in both traditional and creative ways and to make art that comes from the heart.

    Paint what you love & love what you paint!

       • More than 30 techniques including drawing, painting, adding texture and more
       • More than 40 diverse materials featured, from the everyday (pencils, paint, gel and texture mediums) to the unique (hardware store tapes and texture additive for paint, twine, wire and more)
       • More than 30 mixed-media projects with simple, meaningful motifs
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Publishing Group
    Release dateApr 15, 2015
    ISBN9781440337147
    Collage, Paint, Draw: Explore Mixed Media Techniques and Materials

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      Collage, Paint, Draw - Sue Pelletier

      INTRODUCTION

      I have come to realize as an artist that whatever I paint has to come from my soul, which is why my imagery is often similar: the house, a bird, a childhood dress, a Mary Jane shoe, numbers, chairs, ladders. They’re all images that I hold near and dear to myself and to the day-to-day journey of life. These images remind me of my own childhood and my role as a mother, artist and teacher. You paint what you love, and love what you paint.

      My artwork is full of layers: fabric, paint and mediums to build up surfaces with rich texture. I like to create the unexpected. My life is full of layers, too: my children, my home, humor and creating art. In art and life there is more than just what’s on the surface. I am drawn to painterly, rich textural surfaces created with paints, mediums or collage materials and am blissfully happy when I can combine any of those in creating a piece of art. My work has a colorful, playful vibe to it. However, often there is a grittiness mixed in to a part of the painting. For instance, the way I outline something or go back into a piece with a pencil and scribble on paint or raw canvas. I love the juxtaposition of working like this, sweet but often with an edge. Shake things up with your artwork; don’t always do what feels totally comfortable. Try to push yourself in new directions while remaining comfortable and true to yourself as an artist.

      I totally believe in the aha moment, when you see something in a different way or different light. Perhaps some of this goes hand and hand with the fact that I have been teaching elementary school art for twenty-five years. Children are continually coming up with new ways to do things. I believe adults can, too. I believe it has not all been done before, so it’s valuable to play, experiment and play some more. The spontaneity and expression in children’s art has always been a source of inspiration. Self-discovery and play are vital to my work.

      I am fascinated by 3-D and 2-D work. I love to work with plaster, mediums, wax, etc. and combine these surfaces with paint, wire, nails and fabric. My go-to art supplies are heavy matte gel medium and modeling paste. Give me both of those materials and a kindergarten pencil, and I am pretty much all set for the day! Getting messy is blissful to me. Large hardware stores hold a plethora of ideas for combining materials. Wander the aisles and look for nontraditional art materials.

      I hope you will look at the techniques in this book as a starting point for your own work. You can also pick bits and pieces from projects and combine them in a fresh way that works for you. The imagery in this book and the words I use in my art are a huge part of who I am. Maybe some of this imagery will ring true to you. Perhaps it will get you thinking about what to paint, which I believe is more important than knowing how to paint. I believe you should paint what you love. If you do, the sincerity will come through loud and clear.

      I do a lot of writing, and in my work I use words that are often humorous or quirky. I’ll think of a saying or a word and use that as a starting off point for a new painting.

      Freeing yourself up when you are painting is very important. In this book some projects are smack-dab in your face, and others are subtle. I feel that all of these projects will push you in new directions and hopefully inspire new projects as well. Let yourself play and experiment while you create. Part of the magic happens when you discover new ways to use materials. If something does not work, it’s OK. Move on and try something new.

      Breathe, laugh out loud, play and create from your heart.

      –Sue Pelletier

      1

      DRAWING WITH A SPLASH OF COLOR

      Think of your drawing as the blueprint for your mixed-media pieces. It is the start, where you begin. However, it does not need to be overwhelming. Keep things loose. Keep things gestural. Keep it simple. Everything you draw can be broken down into simple shapes. As an artist you need to put those shapes together so they make sense to you. Drawing may be your first step in creating a piece of mixed-media art; however, the beautiful thing about mixed media is that there are always ways to layer and change your images as you work. When you begin a piece and you have that first mark-making experience, don’t overthink it. Just get your mark making on.

      I believe in happy accidents and the process of drawing, just as much as the completed piece. Often when I draw, I try to use materials and tools that will purposely prevent me from having total control over what I am drawing. If you draw using ink and an ink dropper, you will end up with a very gestural drawing because you don’t have total control over the materials. A drop of ink may puddle and drip. Leave it. If you are using a graphite pencil or crayon to draw and the urge to scribble an outline on your drawing suddenly comes over you, go for it! Among my favorite drawing tools are the chunky soft-lead pencils children use in kindergarten. They allow me the freedom to draw, stress-free, because they are the same tools a five-year-old child uses. It is hard to overthink drawing with a kindergarten pencil.

      BIRDCAGE DRAWING

      Birds show up in my work often. I believe it has to do with not only the pleasing shape of a bird, but also the words that come to mind when I think of a bird: fly, soar, spread your wings. They’re all mantras I tend to use daily in my life. The birds in my paintings are usually just a simple contour line drawing of a bird that I go into with graphite, pencil or other mediums to build up the mark making. I usually keep the shape simple and make the bird interesting by creating visual texture.

      MATERIALS LIST

      acrylic paints and brushes

      bird stencil

      black ink

      canvas panel

      heavy matte gel medium

      metallic permanent marker

      modeling paste

      pattern paper

      pencil

      pipette

      unprimed canvas strip

      vintage letter tiles

      water-soluble oil pastels

      Create the Background Adhere an unprimed canvas strip to a canvas panel. Paint a background with watered-down acrylic. Let dry. For a splash of color and texture, adhere a piece of pattern paper to the canvas with gel medium.

      Sketch out the birdcage loosely with a pencil. Use a stencil and modeling paste to create birds. Then add lines into the modeling paste with a pencil.

      Draw the Cage Using a pipette, define the birdcage with black ink. The pipette helps keep the lines loose. After the

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