ONLINE: Mail Art - Expressive Collage

ONLINE: Mail Art - Expressive Collage

Class | This program is completed

All levels

7/22/2020-8/26/2020

1:00 PM-4:00 PM EDT on Wed

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$163.00

$143.00

Mail art is small handmade art sent through the mail to your friends and family. Mail art is a great way to discover the creative, expressive art of collage. Using a wide range of materials you probably already have around your home or can easily make, we'll work together to incorporate texture, color, shape, and pattern into your collage works. The major focus during the course will be to create mailable pieces, postcards and envelopes. Then taking these same concepts, we'll explore making larger collage works of art. Join us online for a fun, creative time and make art to share with your family and friends!

  • Due to Covid-19, this class will begin as online sessions on GoToMeeting. All you need is a computer or ipad with a webcamera.
  • - Scissors, plus optional cutting tools (X-Acto knife, utility knife, etc.)
  • - Adhesive (Glue stick, Elmer's X-Treme Glue Stick is best but not always easy to find)
  • - Paper Substrates (4"x6" or 5"x7" postcard. It can be heavy paper, old postcards, heavy watercolor paper, file folder stock, card stock, etc. I actually cut my "postcards" out of cereal and cracker boxes which give me a nice, sturdy postcard.)
  • - Miscellaneous collage material (Junk mail, magazines, catalogs, take out menus, old greeting cards, sheet music, wrapping paper, old books, used postage stamps, maps, food packaging, etc.)
  • - Miscellaneous acrylic paints (whatever you might already have, no need to buy if you don't have already)
  • - Hand towel or paper towels and a damp cloth to clean glue from your fingers while you work
  • - Cutting mat (optional)
  • - 4" plastic drywall knife or wide palette knife*(See Note Below)
  • - 8"x10", 12"x12" or 11"x14" or similar-sized wood substrate (For example, DaVinci Pro Birch Wood Painting Panels, Ampersand Value Series Artist Panels - Unprimed Basswood, American Easel Wood Painting Panels, etc.) Be sure your panel is at least 1/4" thick. The panel can be flat or cradled. Just as long as it's a hard surface made of wood or MDF.*
  • - Acrylic gesso or GOLDEN Gloss Medium*
  • - GOLDEN Soft Gel Gloss (8 oz. jar)*
  • *NOTE: These materials will not be needed until Week 4 class. So we'll discuss these materials and options during class prior to purchasing them.

Hlas is a mixed media artist living and working in Norfolk, CT, who works primarily in acrylics and collage. He is a certified GOLDEN Artist Educator. He was born and raised near a small town in Iowa and his experiences and memories of rural Iowa, and now rural Connecticut, have had a large impact on his work. Hlas has exhibited his work extensively in the Connecticut/New York/Philadelphia area. tomhlas.com