Stickin' Ideas Together

This past Monday the fantastic students at Ecole Pauline Johnston’s gr. 6/7 class and I worked together again on their mixed media collage for the school’s gala fundraiser. Since I’d left the painting at the school last week, but needed to prepare for this next session, I decided to make a quick mock-up to help guide the process. I started by bringing a photo of the work-in-progress painting into InDesign. Then I tested out colour schemes and layered various elements to give a sense of what the final may look like. By then a strong idea of the final was beginning to form in my mind. On the second photo posted here you can see the mock-up at the bottom of the frame — the paper with the word PLAY printed on it in yellow. With that printout in front of us as a loose guide, we spent the afternoon adding on a few more magazine clippings (including words such a SPRING, GROW and J’ADORE), splattering and dripping a tinted acrylic glaze and transferring some photocopied imag

Yesterday the Gr. 6-7 class at Ecole Pauline Johnston did an amazing job creating the base texture for their gala painting submission! This 30"x 24" deep wooden cradled panel from Opus is the perfect substrate. It provided enough room for everyone to collage at least 3 pieces of found paper and begin to layer on some acrylic paint too while taking the expected abuse from so many enthusiastic hands. Next week we'll add another layer of imagery and textures.  The kids seemed to enjoy themselves -- or at least enjoyed a change of pace from the 3 Rs : ). I'm really looking forward to seeing how we progress this together. Check back to see how it goes!