Collage and Papercutting
Adult Class | This program is completed
Delve into the versatile and expressive art form of collage and papercutting. Working only with paper, acrylic colors, gold or silver leaf and an X-Acto knife, you will gain new skills while learning the fundamentals of art and design. Explore color theory and gain an understanding of compositional balance through cutting up and reassembling your artwork into new creations. By the end of this workshop, you will have created a small collection of works on paper composed and structured with a new vision.
We suggest you have some prior drawing experience in order to participate in and enjoy this workshop.
What you will learn:
1. You will make a figurative and abstract composition using cut out forms.
2. Learn how to paint with acrylics to be used in cutting and assemblage of a new composition.
3. Learn how to create specific drawings for cutting and reassembly.
4. Learn the process of applying gold and silver leaf.
5. Learn the process of cutting up drawings with X-Acto knives in order to reassemble and understand the compositional balance.
6. Learn how to use different materials and objects to make a composition.
• X-Acto knife # 1
• Strathmore water color paper, cold press, 140 lb ( 300g/m2 )
• Acid free glue
• One sheet of foam board, ( ¼ width)
• A variety of paintbrush sizes for acrylic paint
• Acrylic color (yellow, blue, red, white, black)
• Cutting mat
• Metal ruler (24 “)
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Henry Bermudez
Henry Bermudez is an American contemporary artist born in Venezuela who immigrated to the United States in 2003 amid political upheaval. His work is shaped by formative experiences in Afro-Caribbean and Indigenous communities, particularly time spent in a coastal Venezuelan village and travels through the Amazon, where music, myth, and landscape left a lasting imprint. Later years in Mexico helped solidify his visual language and deepened his interest in mythology, religion, and the legacy of colonialism. Drawing from pre-Hispanic, Judeo-Christian, and Afro-Caribbean traditions, Bermudez works across diverse materials to create hybrid forms that transcend geography and time, reflecting an autobiographical vision rooted beyond Western conventions.
https://www.henrybermudezart.com/