Description
Paper Paintings: Birds and Blooms
with Elizabeth St. Hilaire
November 21-23, 2025 | Friday-Sunday
- Friday: 10 am – 5 pm | Sat & Sun: 9 am – 4 pm
- Experience Level: All levels of experience are welcome.
- Medium: Watercolor, Mixed Media
- Registration: Each student must register individually. Click the Cancellation Policy tab above for more info.
- Location: Sedona Arts Center, Theatre Studio
Everyone loves birds! Simple shapes and bold colors are what we focus on when learning how to collage songbirds and blooms. I will teach you how to transfer a sketch from your reference photo, create a comprehensive underpainting with shading and a background, how to gel print your own papers, and how to apply collage! At the end of this three day workshop, you will have the skills and confidence to create your own Paper Painting!
This workshop is a comprehensive class in which students are taught a unique figurative collage technique. Emphasis will be on developing form using light, shadow, and directional ripping– very similar to traditional painting techniques. No prior collage experience is necessary. Some painting experience would be helpful, but not imperative.
We Will Cover:
- Transferring your chosen reference image to your substrate as a sketch.
- How to paint your sketch with a full range of colors and shading.
- Gel printing your own collage papers
- Ripping and gluing and applying your papers in a painterly manner over the top of your underpainting.
- How to tear with and without white edges, how to keep your pieces perfectly flat without cockling, and how to vary your paper brush marks in size and shape.
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