Jane Cornish Smith's 1-Day Cold Wax Cool Collage Workshop

To Be Announced

Click here to see images from past cold wax collage workshops.

Join in on a new Collage and Cold Wax experience! Whether in-person or via Zoom, learn about the immersive process of collage making with the adhesive and satiny qualities of cold wax medium and oil paint. Combining a variety of thin papers, tissue paper photographs, threads, and fabric, participants will build layers of meaning and media that reveal rich individualized histories with visual appeal. Overlapping, proportion, composition, color and contrast will be addressed, along with line, shape, texture, additive and subtractive mark making, dimension and depth. This versatile medium yields beautiful and varied surfaces. Develop your own expressive creations! All experience levels welcome.

Pics from our Cold Wax and Collage workshops with Jane Cornish Smith.

Additionally, Jane will be providing several videos and PDFs to participants in preparation for the workshop and for future reference. She will also print out participants’ emailed photos onto tissue paper before the workshop to use for collage for in-person participants, send video on how to print photos for Zoomers. Attendees may like to add to older or unfinished pieces if they wish.

Schedule:

Introductions and demo on taping paper, how to copy photos onto tissue paper, setting up media.

Participants tape their Arches Oil Paper and organize space during a brief discussion on the characteristics of cold wax medium and suitable materials that can be used and prepared for collaging.

Slide show on inspiring artists of today and from yesteryear that incorporate collage, looking at their individual approaches utilizing art elements and principles of design to connect with viewers!

Demo: staining and marking papers, reviewing value scale, color, and composition. Demo on how to assemble and photograph works for reference.

Participants begin collages. One-on-one instruction and feedback.

Break for lunch

Demo on mixing color palettes with CWM and oil paint, applying to Arches Oil Paper in layers along with collage materials and mark making. Older or unfinished work on paper or panel can be used as well. One-on-one instruction and feedback.

Sharing of one-of-a-kind artworks and final questions!

Supplies for In-Person Participants

Provided:

• Arches Oil Paper, 6 pieces
• Gamblin Cold Wax Medium
• Bowl scrapers
• Brayers
• Various mark-making tools
• Freezer paper for palette
• Odorless mineral spirits
• Charcoal and pencils
• Alcohol Inks
• PanPastels
• R&F Pigment Sticks. If you’d like to purchase additional, The Bonny Studio and Encaustic Center carries R&F pigment sticks at a 20% discount here.
• Thin papers and other materials for collaging, such as newspaper, tissue paper, sketches, threads and thin fabrics such as gauze, organza, etc. Two tissue paper photos per person will be printed out if emailed to Jane beforehand.
• Newsprint paper
• Nitrile gloves
• Paper towels

In person participants: 

Please Bring:

• Oil paint - this can be a variety of your favorite colors but be sure to at least have basic yellow, blue, red, and plenty of white. Any color can be mixed from the three primaries! To get a variety of cool, warm, opaque, and transparent colors, I usually use Cadmium Yellow Light, Indian Yellow, Ultramarine Blue, Cobalt Blue, Cadmium Red Medium, Alizarin Crimson, Mars Black, Titanium White. Any brand will do.
• Natural bristle brushes, variety of sizes. Here’s a link for Utrecht natural bristle brush set.
• Palette knife - any medium metal diamond shaped type
• Additional thin papers for collaging, such as old letters or other lightweight materials you’d like to include.
• Tape - blue or green, one 1” roll
• Optional- A smock or apron - CWM can get messy
• Optional- Sketchbook or paper for taking notes. Or making thumbnail sketches

Supplies to have on hand for Zoomers: (order asap as deliveries are slower these days): 

• Arches Oil Paper, one 9 x 12” pad containing 12 sheets, available here
• Newsprint paper, Newsprint 12 sheets 12 x 18”, or you can use pieces of newspaper
• Bowl scrapers: here's the link: Bowl Scraper
• You can also substitute 2 x 3” 1 x 2” etc pieces of cardboard or mat board or use a palette knife.
• One Brayer: here's the Inovart link
• or Speedball brayer here
• Various mark-making tools for Incising, texturizing, stenciling, and scraping: you can use various ceramic tools, or toothpicks, bamboo skewers, palette knife, paper clips, scrunched up wax paper or plastic wrap, bubble wrap— anything goes! Ceramic tools: here
• Natural bristle brushes you may have, various sizes. Here’s a link for Utrecht natural bristle brush set: here
• Wax paper or freezer paper from the grocery store that you can tape to a table to mix paint.
• Odorless mineral spirits or odorless Turpentine and a jar. Gamsol: here or Mona Lisa here.
• Cold wax medium: 16 ounces of cold wax medium, Gamblin- here's a link or Dorlands.
• Charcoal and pencil- any type
• Oil paint - this can be a variety of your favorite colors but be sure to at least have basic yellow, blue, red, and plenty of white. Any color can be mixed from the three primaries! To get a variety of cool, warm, opaque, and transparent colors, I usually use Cadmium Yellow Light, Indian Yellow, Ultramarine Blue, Cobalt Blue, Cadmium Red Medium, Alizarin Crimson, Mars Black, Titanium White. Any brand will do.
• Thin papers for collaging, such as newspaper, tissue paper, old letters, tissue paper photos, sketches, thread and thin fabrics such as gauze, silk or organza, etc. Jane will send Zoomers instructions on optional printing on tissue. 
• Glass jar
• Paper towels - one roll
• Tape - blue or green, one 1” roll
• Optional- Alcohol Inks: you can buy here: Jane's favorites: Adirondack rust/stonewash/pitch black. As a substitute, you can use oil paint and mineral spirits mixed together.
• Optional- PanPastels your choice of colors, but here’s a link for metallics if you’d like here or dry pastels, other possibilities are charcoal powder, marble powder, ash, fine dirt, paprika, etc. Wear mask if used.
• Optional- R&F Pigment Sticks. Also The Bonny Studio and Encaustic Center carries R&F pigment sticks at a 20% discount here.
• Optional- Sketchbook or paper for taking notes and making thumbnail sketches.
• Optional- A smock or apron - CWM can get messy
• Optional- Gloves- nitrile or latex to protect hands from absorbing oil paint and mineral spirits, and for easy clean up.

Payment and Registration info:

To Be Announced