The Artisan’s workshop series has addressed several specific topics in the watercolor arena. One theme that has not been addressed as a theme is the use of collage in a watercolor painting. Collage requires an eye for spotting artistic potential in everyday materials, and for envisioning how their colors, textures, and shapes might be woven together into a pleasing design. Collage more often than not incorporates one or several other mediums. Watercolor and gouache, for instance, can be used to create some extraordinary spatial effects; imagine juxtaposing soft, stainy transparent washes with crisp-edged scraps of paper and accenting these ingredients with strokes and spots of opaque paint. The starting point for this kind of work is an intuitive sense of color, for it is what enables one to bring these diverse materials together to create harmonious abstraction.

1. PAINT In addition to traditional transparent watercolors; acrylics, gouache, inks and are certainly within the bounds of watercolor. Rob will be demonstrating with a variety of these materials.
   
   
2. PAPER I ALWAYS LIKE TO START WITH AN OLD PAINTING OR PARTS OF AN OLD WATERCOLOR PAINTNG. A TRADITIONAL PURE PIECE OF WHITE PAPER, MAY NOT BE YOUR FOUNDATION SUPPORT. One may use purchased papers, various types of drawing can colored papers; found papers, prepared papers, altered papers, recycled papers, Xeroxed papers, photographic images, graphic type images and surfaces. These are some of possibilities.
   
   
3. OTHER MATERIALS Fabrics, metallic surfaces, altered fabrics, textural 3-D objects, items from nature, ANYTHING else that can be attached to a surface.
   
   
4. SUPPORTS Cardboard, Masonite, Foam-Core, stretched canvas, illustration and matboards, and other lighter-weight papers can be used for the painting support.
   
   
5. DRAWING MIXED-MEDIA MATERIALS Open to all mixed-media drawing supplies.
   OTHER IMPORTANT SUPPLIES Adhesives: matte medium, pastes, glues, dry-mount tissues, wallpaper paste, clear lacquer, masking tape, etc.
   
   
6. OTHER STUDIO SUPPLIES Brushes, water container, palette, paper towels, spray finishes & anything else you are accustomed to using and not!
   
   
7. SLIDES OR A PAINTING Bring one or two slides of your own work for discussion and critique for Tuesday. Rob will make comments concerning the visual feedback and strategy entering watercolor shows.