Victoria Kwasinski  - "Mixed Media Workshop" -- Saturday, January 4, 2020 
In this exciting one day workshop, we incorporated various mixed media to release our inner creative artist.  Using drawing, painting, and scraping tools encourages you to create different textures, marks and shapes, than working with paint and brush alone.  Through a process of working intuitively and expressively, then working with editing in and out, we worked towards expressive abstract/semi-abstract work that has good color, value, and a strong composition.
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Supply List:
  • an easel (tabletop or stand alone)
  • acrylic paints (bring whatever colors you have)
  • small bottle 1oz bottle of Golden high flow acrylics carbon black
  • Liquitex regular gesso and clear gesso
  • Cretacolor soft compressed charcoal stick (NOT vine charcoal)
  • soft pastels, if you have some (I have plenty to share if needed)
  • caran d'ache water soluble crayons
  • palette or styrofoam plates
  • water containers
  • spray bottles
  • brushes (including a few 'hardware store chip brushes' 1", 2")
  • palette knives
  • small cut/torn branches from your yard (used as a drawing tool)
  • 18" x 24" pad of drawing/sketch paper (NO newsprint)
  • 1 full sheet of Arches 300lb rough watercolor paper 
  • 2 boards to tape 1/2 sheet of paper onto --  cardboard/foamcore/masonite, etc.
  • masking tape
  • rags and paper towels
  • photo reference