Collecting Memories

with Guest Artist & Teacher

Nicolet Groen

Immediate Access

Regular Price $62.00

(This class has been pre-recorded. You will have lifetime access, and all videos are downloadable)

Course Details

In this class, I bring together all my beautiful memories, from early childhood vacations, working in the deep south of Italy as a pizza baker in my early twenties, to my many travels throughout Italy with my family. Italy has and will always have a significant influence on both my life and work.

I will show you how I translate those recollections into abstract landscapes, a monoprint assemblage, and a layered visual collage with my own photography.

The memories I've based this course on are, of course, mine. As you go through these lessons, give yourself the time and space to think about yours; I encourage you to create art from your own reminiscences.

Take a look inside Collecting Memories in the preview video below.

Techniques Taught In This Course

• Develop a beautiful color palette for a cohesive look throughout your work

• Explore working in a series

• Create movement in your art through mark-making

• Making collage papers

• Layered collage

• Use your own photographs in unique ways

• Combine acrylics, pastels, and Pencils to build beautiful textures in abstract

  landscapes

• Learn to make monoprints with text transfers, botanical transfers, and coffee and

  build exciting layers

The Lessons

You can find a list of suggested art supplies at the bottom of this page.

Lesson 1 | Ricordi, A Box Full of Memories

I filled a box with many things that remind me of many times I have spent in Italy and added vintage ephemera and my own photos to it as a source of inspiration to use when I am in a creative rut. Collect your souvenirs, elements of nature, vintage ephemera, and photos to create a box full of memories as a source of inspiration for your art.

Make small collages on colored cards to add to the box as your palette. You will use these colors to create a cohesive body of work throughout the class.

Lesson 2 | Creating Collage Papers

Create repetitive marks with different tools and mediums on vintage book pages to add to your art throughout the class.

Lesson 3 | The Italian Collage

Turn your collage papers, vintage ephemera, and your photography into a collage with many layers, depth, and memories. Included are downloadable photos that I made in Italy for you to use, but I encourage you to use your own images.

Lesson 4 | Abstract Landscapes On Paper

Move freely and create abstract landscapes with a minimal palette of acrylic paint, layers of pastels, mark-making, and collage materials in your journal and translate that painting to two works on beautiful handmade papers.

Lesson 5 | Tipografia Italiana, Assemblage Of Mono Printed Papers

My love of typography and Italy seep through in my mono-printing approach and show you how I created beautiful sheets to use in collage work and this assembled art piece. You will use vintage book pages to create text transfers, make botanical and coffee prints, create layers and layers with colors, marks, and stamps.

Supply List

It is not our intention that you purchase all the supplies on the list. Please feel free to substitute brands, and colors with your favorites. We always suggest watching the lesson first before purchasing a specific art supply.

Paper

Art Journal

• Handmade deckle edge paper 20 x 20cm | 8 x 8 inch

• 300 grams/140 lb handmade cotton rag paper a5 300 grams/140 lb

• Handmade cotton rag paper business card size (I use Khadi handmade papers)

• Printer paper 90 grams | 24lb

• 2 large sheets of 640 grams | 300lb hot-pressed watercolor paper

• Small mat approximately 24 x 30cm

• Sheet of foam board or thick cardboard

• Vintage ephemera (www.printsandpapers.com)

• Vintage book pages (www.printsandpapers.com)

• Large vintage book cover

• Photos of your memories laser printed in black and white

• Optional: 8mm film strip

Paints & Mediums

Acrylic Paints | Any brand, and any color

Colors I am using:

• Arctic by Lukas Cryl Studio

• Mineral White

• Pebble by Schmincke Academy.

• Titanium White

• Olive green

• Payne's Grey

• English oxide red

• Burned Umber

• Indigo.

• White pencil or marker

• Stabilo - Black

• Pastels in your color palette (I use Unison, Gallery, and Rembrandt)

• Liquitex Gel Medium

• Liquitex Clear Gesso

• Liquitex Matte Medium

• Yes Paste

• India ink

• Fixative spray

• Instant Coffee (Powder Form)

Tools

• A selection of brushes

• Color shaper

• Shoe brush by Zara Home or another brittle square brush

• Pottery tool or skewer for mark-making

• Gel printing plate

• Brayer

• Fiskars Circle punch

• Linen thread or Embroidery Thread

• Needle (I use a bookbinders needle)

• Low Tack Artists Tape

• Exacto knife or scissors

• Number stamps + ink pad

• Speedball speedy carve pad or eraser - optional

• Lino cutters - optional

• 2 Box frames, Hovsta by Ikea 40x50 cm / 15,75 x 19,70 inch

• 2 Box frames Sanahead by Ikea 25 x 25 cm, 10 x 10 inch

  
  

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