Saturday, March 13th - 1 PM to 4 PM - $145 - All materials included, but see below for additional suggestions!

You don’t always need a canvas…you can just grab some cardboard! If it’s good enough for Picasso and Robert Rauschenberg, it’s good enough for us!  Edvard Munch even used oil, tempera, pastel, and crayon on cardboard to make “The Scream.”

We’ll be using housepaint, cardboard, grocery bags, and junk mail to go loose, expressive, and abstract in our mixed media paintings. Each student will get a collage pack full of paper wrappers, old security envelopes, and a lot of surprises! 

We’ll spend the first part of the class altering our found papers with primer, ink, watercolor, stencils, housepaint, sandpaper, foam rollers, and IPD’s - improvised printing devices. We’ll spend half the time altering our papers, and half the time putting together our mixed media collage paintings. 

If you’re the kind of person who sees the creative potential in every bit of discarded paper (or just wish you were) then this is the class for you!

-

This class seats 10 students.  Cancellation and transfer policies can be found at the link in the navigation bar. Please call (828) 776 2716 or email gallery@310art.com for any questions concerning classes. 

Bridget Benton is  the lead instructor in Encaustic Methods,  Nature Print, ecoprint and collage methods at 310 ART. In addition to local teaching, Bridget is a faculty member  of the international encaustic online encaustic masterclass, Painting with Fire, as well as the author of the award-winning “The Creative Conversation: ArtMaking as Playful Prayer”. Teaching credentials include the Creative Problem Solving Institute in Buffalo, NY; the Newport Visual Arts Center in Newport, OR; Art Unraveled in Phoenix, AZ; and Collage in Portland, OR. as well as the Nature Printing Society’s Annual Workshop where she served for several years as the event’s Educational Coordinator.