Workshop Structure

Paint personality

Explore and experiment with different consistencies of acrylic paint learning how it behaves when painted over a variety of surfaces.  Students will learn how to create textures using a variety of materials such as acrylics, emulsion, glues, collage, inks, while using techniques such as layering, sgraffito, and additive/subtractive paint application to create stunning looking mixed-media textures.

Focus on relief textures

Texture is a key component of composition, along with colour, tone, shape, etc. and needs to be used in a considered way to be effective.  Students will work on creating their own textured artwork on paper, with inspiration from a variety of contemporary artists.   

3D relief textures

Learn techniques to create high relief 3D texture techniques using cardboard, moulds, and print methods.

Personally expressive textures

Explore using the techniques learnt over the workshop to create a mixed-media artwork in a style of their own choice. Students have time to explore the use of textures within imaginative landscape, still life or figurative themes.

By the end of the workshop…

Students will go home with a wealth of ideas and techniques, and the skills to add texture into their mixed-media artwork no matter what style they work in at home – abstract or realist, or somewhere in between.