Experimental Mixed Media - Exploring acrylics with other media
5-week course
friday, april 24, May 1, 8, 15, & 22
from 10am - 12pm
In this five-week class students will experiment with acrylic paint and other media, such as, conte sticks, ink, pencils/crayons, paint pens and collage. Students will learn how each medium works on its own and experiment with using them with each other. We’ll work abstractly on watercolor and mixed media paper and in a sketchbook. This is a playful class great for anyone who needs to loosen up and have fun!
Note: This is a hands-on painting class, with both classwork and homework.
Week One: Mark Making and Charting Mediums
Week Two: Mixing It All Up
Week Three: Collage It
Week Four: Pulling It All Together
Week Five: Abstract Deconstruction
All experience levels welcome!
Students are responsible for most supplies!
Location: STAA Art House at 320 N. Columbia Street in Downtown Covington
meet RACHEL!
Rachel Crawford is a native of New Orleans that journeyed to the “country” and landed in the charming town of Covington, Louisiana, with her hubby of 30 years marriage.
She studied at the New Orleans Academy of Fine Arts where she discovered her love of color and gouache. Passionate about color, Rachel now teaches color theory & design classes in her home studio and at her local art association. Bookbinding is her second passion and Rachel loves to teach others how to create books by hand.
Rachel works in gouache, watercolor, acrylic, color pencil, paper collage and mixed media. Her art is bright, happy and energetic and encompasses colorful geometrics, expressive abstracts and paper-cut collages. Nature, primitive arts and mid-century design are her inspirations.
Her award winning art and hand-bound books have been shown and sold in galleries, group exhibitions and art festivals around the Gulf Coast Region and beyond. And Rachel’s bookbinding skills and work have been featured on HGTV.
In Rachel’s words, “I love teaching, because it’s planting creative seeds into others so they can discover, blossom and flourish in their God given creativity which will make the world a more beautiful place.”
When she is not drawing in her sketchbook, she feeds her creativity by crocheting, reading, writing poetry and exploring the great outdoors.