Welcome 2nd Semester Mixed Media Students!

We are going to begin the semester looking at space and how it is used to convey idea and meaning.

We will work in the studio on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday.
On WEDNESDAYS we will work on blogs or have the mobile computer lab in the room.
We will spend a lot of time looking at other artists work from around the world. We will look at how our enviroment and culture influences the work we make.

Our first exercise will involve creating a strong focal point. We will experiment with a variety of media (fabric, wool, paper, wallpaper, plastic, wax, and found objects)

Our next exercise will explore the variety of ways in which we can transfer images onto a variety of surfaces.

Then we will expore the elements of composition. We will use wax as a medium and combine what you have learned from the previous exercises in order to create a quality composition.

Then we will move onto bookbinding- you will get to choose the medium you most enjoyed as your emphasis.

After bookbinding we are going to move into the anatomy of the facial structure. We will explore this in clay- but we will also combine what you have learned about wax, fabric, compostion, image transfer, etc... into our compositions.

We will have to see how quickly we move through these projects- I have quite a few other projects planned- mixed media mosaic on found objects with embroidery, found object jewelry with cold connections, etc...

Welcome to Mixed Media- it is a lot of fun!

Lisa Rogers