Personal Collage Icons all weekend long

Welcome everyone! I just wanted to share my new class with you. This weekend I will be teaching Personal Collage Icons both days. This class has three goals: 1. To give students a chance to use their own images and decide why those images are symbolic for them. 2. To experiment with embossed and textured papers. 3. Practice using color and texture to recreate emotions or feelings. You can see my new example above. It shows different views of one of the many angel statues at a local cemetary. I love the angel statues there. They are great pieces of a virtually lost art. They are majestic and glorious. Every time I visit this cemetary I feel as if I am being watched over by one of these beautiful guardians. They have become a symbol for me. Hence an Icon. I wanted to showcase this lost art with different aspects of my favorite statue. I show closeups of her face, wing and arm pointing the way to heavenly paradise. This angel is on a high pedestal and was surrounded by blue sky. I intesified the blue to represent the blue colors on the stained glass windows in all the mausoleums in the cemetary. When the sun shines through the stained glass each mausoleum is bathed in colored light. I added yellow to represent this glow and to warm up this collage. It makes the angel even more dramatic.

Below you can find examples of the first series of collages that I created in Icon style. They are all scenes from one of my favorite places: The Carmel Mission.

If you are interested in this class here are the details for this weekend. I will also be teaching this class again on March 5th at C.Andrews studio.

Saturday February 19th Class: Personal Collage Icons Where: Art Max in Seaside Description: Icon: 1. An Image: representation, a simile or symbol. 2. A representation or picture of a sacred Christian personage that is traditional to the Eastern Churches. In this intermediate collage class we will be creating our own personal icons on a 10 x10 canvas. What images have deep meaning for you? Is it a person? A place? Or maybe an Object? Even the ordinary can become sacred or symbolic of some deeper personal meaning. To accomplish this we will be creating our icons using collage images and small found objects carefully boxed into compartments using embossed and corrugated papers and texture mediums. To help create a unified piece we will then apply paint washes and finally a glossy topcoat. Items to bring: A variety of paintbrushes, scissors, 5 of your favorite acrylic paint colors and 3 to 5 related images. Please make sure that one of the images is large enough to become your focal point. The images must be color copied or printed on a permanent ink jet printer. Please also bring any special found object you would like to add to your canvas as well. Time: 11:00am to 4:00pm-Lunch break at 1:00 Fee: $55.00 To sign up for this class please email Connie at: connie@isbjorn.com. Class Limit: 6 people Sunday Feb 20th Where: C.Andrews studio Class: Personal Collage Icons Description: Icon: 1. An Image: representation, a simile or symbol. 2. A representation or picture of a sacred Christian personage that is traditional to the Eastern Churches. In this intermediate collage class we will be creating our own personal icons on a 10 x10 canvas. What images have deep meaning for you? Is it a person? A place? Or maybe an Object? Even the ordinary can become sacred or symbolic of some deeper personal meaning. To accomplish this we will be creating our icons using collage images and small found objects carefully boxed into compartments using embossed and corrugated papers and texture mediums. To help create a unified piece we will then apply paint washes and finally a glossy topcoat. Items to bring: A variety of paintbrushes, scissors, 5 of your favorite acrylic paint colors and 3 to 5 related images. Please make sure that one of the images is large enough to become your focal point. The images must be color copied or printed on a permanent ink jet printer. Please also bring any special found object you would like to add to your canvas as well. Time: 10:00am to 4:00pm- Lunch break at 12:30 Fee: $55.00 To sign up for this class please email Connie at: connie@isbjorn.com.

See you in class!