Abstract Collage and the Creative Process 2025
Saturday, March 15, 2025; 11am-3pm
$105 + $10 materials fee
Ages 16 and up
Join French-American artist Catherine Cruz as she demonstrates her technique and explains what makes her layered collages so unique. Collage, from the French word coller meaning "to glue," is all about combining different materials to tell a visual story. In her art practice she has found paper and paint to be both simple and complex materials that can be manipulated in many ways. Her abstract collage pieces have multiple layers that are fused together to reveal texture and imagery. In this class you will learn which papers to select, how to combine them and how to apply them to a wood panel. She will guide you in creating a compelling abstract composition that tells your story.
What you’ll get from this workshop: Methods for sourcing interesting collage papers, Techniques for creating rich layered collages, Creative ways to loosen up & trust yourself, Strategies for refining your composition
Supplies provided: Wood panels, collage papers, brushes, acrylic medium.
You are highly encouraged to bring your own papers to personalize your artwork like ephemera, prints, old letters, books, decorative papers, tissue paper, etc. Note: glossy paper and magazines will not work well in this process and if you want to use photographs it’s best to make laser copies of them.
About the instructor: Catherine Cruz is a French-American artist, whose work is informed by textures and patterns created by the passing of time and the effects of the natural elements on the built environment. She has taught collage and mixed media workshops in the Bay Area and France since 2019, and this is her fourth year at the Sebastopol Center for the Arts. Her background is in interior design and green building certification. She works from her home studio in Sebastopol, and participates in Art Trails Open Studios. You may contact Catherine Cruz at beyouartstudio@gmail.com Check out Catherine's other classes here: https://www.sebarts.org/visual-arts-classes
Saturday, March 15, 2025; 11am-3pm
$105 + $10 materials fee
Ages 16 and up
Join French-American artist Catherine Cruz as she demonstrates her technique and explains what makes her layered collages so unique. Collage, from the French word coller meaning "to glue," is all about combining different materials to tell a visual story. In her art practice she has found paper and paint to be both simple and complex materials that can be manipulated in many ways. Her abstract collage pieces have multiple layers that are fused together to reveal texture and imagery. In this class you will learn which papers to select, how to combine them and how to apply them to a wood panel. She will guide you in creating a compelling abstract composition that tells your story.
What you’ll get from this workshop: Methods for sourcing interesting collage papers, Techniques for creating rich layered collages, Creative ways to loosen up & trust yourself, Strategies for refining your composition
Supplies provided: Wood panels, collage papers, brushes, acrylic medium.
You are highly encouraged to bring your own papers to personalize your artwork like ephemera, prints, old letters, books, decorative papers, tissue paper, etc. Note: glossy paper and magazines will not work well in this process and if you want to use photographs it’s best to make laser copies of them.
About the instructor: Catherine Cruz is a French-American artist, whose work is informed by textures and patterns created by the passing of time and the effects of the natural elements on the built environment. She has taught collage and mixed media workshops in the Bay Area and France since 2019, and this is her fourth year at the Sebastopol Center for the Arts. Her background is in interior design and green building certification. She works from her home studio in Sebastopol, and participates in Art Trails Open Studios. You may contact Catherine Cruz at beyouartstudio@gmail.com Check out Catherine's other classes here: https://www.sebarts.org/visual-arts-classes
Saturday, March 15, 2025; 11am-3pm
$105 + $10 materials fee
Ages 16 and up
Join French-American artist Catherine Cruz as she demonstrates her technique and explains what makes her layered collages so unique. Collage, from the French word coller meaning "to glue," is all about combining different materials to tell a visual story. In her art practice she has found paper and paint to be both simple and complex materials that can be manipulated in many ways. Her abstract collage pieces have multiple layers that are fused together to reveal texture and imagery. In this class you will learn which papers to select, how to combine them and how to apply them to a wood panel. She will guide you in creating a compelling abstract composition that tells your story.
What you’ll get from this workshop: Methods for sourcing interesting collage papers, Techniques for creating rich layered collages, Creative ways to loosen up & trust yourself, Strategies for refining your composition
Supplies provided: Wood panels, collage papers, brushes, acrylic medium.
You are highly encouraged to bring your own papers to personalize your artwork like ephemera, prints, old letters, books, decorative papers, tissue paper, etc. Note: glossy paper and magazines will not work well in this process and if you want to use photographs it’s best to make laser copies of them.
About the instructor: Catherine Cruz is a French-American artist, whose work is informed by textures and patterns created by the passing of time and the effects of the natural elements on the built environment. She has taught collage and mixed media workshops in the Bay Area and France since 2019, and this is her fourth year at the Sebastopol Center for the Arts. Her background is in interior design and green building certification. She works from her home studio in Sebastopol, and participates in Art Trails Open Studios. You may contact Catherine Cruz at beyouartstudio@gmail.com Check out Catherine's other classes here: https://www.sebarts.org/visual-arts-classes