The Art of Collage Portraiture
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Luis (above) and Ric (below) working on their Collage Portraits.
The Syllabus
A Collage Portrait is a very powerful way to tell a story of someone's life, going beyond the surface, expressing in a single composition what is, or was, most meaningful and significant to the portrait subject. In this workshop you will learn first hand my techniques and strategies for creating personal, powerful, beautiful evocative, magnificent Collage Portraits. The techniques taught in this master level workshop include my post-print application of traditional acrylic paint and other media to the printed canvas.
My collage portraits cross the digital and traditional divide, combining digital tools with the application of traditional media onto my printed canvases. In this special one week workshop I will lead a small group of students, four or less, through the entire process of researching, acquiring and organizing source material, composing the collage, using different techniques in Painter to apply imagery to the collage, and finishing with physical paint media on a 30 inch by 40 inch canvas print. You will end up with a beautiful physical canvas artwork to take home with you.
Barbara and I stand next to the portrait of Barbara's daughter that she created in class.
Barbara watching with excitement as her collage emerges from the printer!
Preparation
This class is aimed at intermediate to advanced students who have already studied with me (see Painter Creativity Workshop). Preparation for the class includes reading chapter 8 of Painter 11 Creativity: Digital Artist's Handbook, and reviewing The Art of Collage Portraiture DVD set. The book and DVD set are included with the course fee.
You'll need to bring your own computer with the most recent version of Corel Painter and a Wacom tablet (Intuos4 M or bigger recommended).
You will need to bring with you a folder of selected digitized source imagery to work from. Include potential foundation (primary) images that should be about 4000 pixels in the maximum dimension, and secondary images at least 2000 pixels in the maximum dimension for use in the background. Secondary images can include hand-writing, documents (can be any form of document, from scanned travel documents, certificates, awards, etc), musical scores (your subject's favorite music), digital photos, pictures of significant people, places, animals, objects,etc. Save your source files as flat TIFFs (in Adobe Photoshop you can verify Image > Mode > RGB Color and 8 Bits / Channel). Before attending the workshop please make sure all your source files can be opened in Corel Painter 11.
If possible get your subject, if a living person, involved with selecting what is important to them. Ask what they'd like to see reflected in the collage. Ask them to write down (by hand) words they'd like to share.
Start a folder for collecting your source images. Name each source image file with a meaningful name so you can identify what it is. Aim to have at least ten but no more than thirty source images in total. Avoid being overwhelmed with hundreds of images! PLEASE DO THE SELECTING, RENAMING AND, IF NEEDED, RESIZING, OF ALL YOUR SOURCE IMAGES BEFORE COMING TO CLASS.
Please prepare well ahead of the class. The acquisition of material for collage takes time. Jeremy sometimes spend months collecting material. The time you invest ahead of class will pay off in what you can learn and achieve in class. Thanks for your understanding and for taking the time to fully prepare yourself for this workshop.
Barbara working on her digital collage.
Class Hours
9:30am - 5pm
Class Fee
The course fee is $2,500. This includes all tuition, a 30 inch by 40 inch courtesy canvas print, Course Notes in three ring binder, the book Painter 11 Creativity: Digital Artist's Handbook, The Art of Collage Portraiture DVD set, all physical media and materials, a framed Certificate of Achievement and any field trip art exhibition entrance fees. PaintboxJ Premium Members get a $100 discount off the class fee. Students are responsible for their own travel, lodgings and meals. To register, complete and send in the Registration Form.
Class Size
This class is limited to a maximum of four students. It is a master class in which each student receives one-on-one instruction and constructive critique.
Experimental Courtesy Print
The course fee includes one courtesy experimental canvas print (approximately 30 inches by 40 inches) of an image created during class, plus art materials used on the canvas print. The courtesy print, which is a print of the collage created during the workshop, is only intended to provide a practice surface for experimentation and is not a substitute for a professionally proofed and color corrected image. No guarantees are provided regarding the quality of the courtesy print. No proof prints or reprints will be made and no prints will be printed after the class is over.
Barbara applying acrylic paint to her print, with use of a palette knife.
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