Newport Paper & Book Arts Festival
Lexicon of Collage
Create a deck of 25 mat board collage cards using a variety of techniques, timed challenges, experimentation, and materials. We will make our own painted papers, use collage materials such as vintage wallpaper, ephemera, book parts, and collected papers. We will discuss design elements, compositions (including grids, strata, and asymmetrical layouts), add interest by creating differences through using color, texture, busy against calm, etc., and create collages that cause a gasp of delight.
Students should bring: Golden Semi-Gloss Soft Gel (8 ounces), paper cutting scissors, brayer (can be soft or hard), 3/4″ or 1″ brush, X-acto knife with fresh blade, water container, a magazine or catalog to use as “glue” paper, a roll of paper towels.
Optional Supplies: Cutting mat, a small stack of your own collage papers (bring things you have; instructor will also bring papers to share), stencils, fine-tipped black and white Posca pens, mark-making pencils, markers, etc.
Two-Day Workshop
Thursday, April 10 & Friday, April 11
9am to 4:30pm (lunch break 12-1pm)
Port of Newport Offices, South Beach [MAP]
For adults and youth ages 16+ (accompanied by an adult)
Dayna Collins’ fiery red hair sets the tone for how she makes her art and lives her life. She is an energetic, intuitive, abstract painter working in oil and cold wax, and a collagist working with scavenged book scraps, faded fragments of ephemera, and contemporary hand-painted papers. Dayna teaches throughout the Pacific Northwest, including annually at Sitka Center for Art and Ecology on the Oregon coast, and has taught through the Creative Arts Community at Menucha Conference and Retreat Center in the Columbia Gorge. Dayna shows her art at Guardino Gallery in Portland and RiverSea Gallery in Astoria, and her work can be viewed at two regional boutique hotels, The Independence and The Dundee. Her work can be seen in several published books, including “Art for Everyone,” “Wabi-Sabi Painting with Oil and Cold Wax,” “Art Abandonment,” “The Mixed-Media Artist,” and “Cold Wax Medium.” She splits her time between Salem and Astoria, where her house has been dubbed “The House of Color.”
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