 Workshops and Classes
*Workshops occur during consecutive days. Classes are weekly.
Paper Paintings: A Unique Figurative Collage Technique Workshop
with Elizabeth St.Hilaire Nelson
Fri.-Sun., July 16-18, 10am-4pm
All levels: Some drawing experience would be helpful, but not imperative.
Fee: $250 | Min.10/ Max. 18 | The Registration Deadline is May 26.
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In this intensive 3-day workshop students will learn the unique figurative collage technique. Working with photograph reference, students will explore drawing, composition, proportion, value, color, painting their own papers and collage application. Emphasis will be on creating your own papers for collage and then using them to develop form through light and shadow, just as with traditional painting techniques. No prior collage experience is necessary. Some painting would be helpful, but not imperative.
Instructor Bio
Richard Colvin of the Maitland Art Center had the confidence in St. Hilaire Nelson's work to offer her a solo exhibition in September of 2010, 35-40 collages in the theme of music.
Recent accomplishments include advancing to the finals (six artists,
nationwide) of the U.S. Olympic Committee Sport Art Competition in conjunction with the 2008 Bejing Olympics. In Orlando she was awarded Best of Show at the Women's Caucus for Arts Matriarchs and Madonnas exhibit at the University Club in Winter Park, FL in 2007.
After working for several years in advertising and marketing firms in Central Florida as a graphic designer, St. Hilaire Nelson decided that punching a clock was cramping her style! To resolve this, she co-founded Nelson Creative, Inc., a communication design firm in Longwood, FL in 1997 with her husband Doug.
Elizabeth St. Hilaire Nelson, born and raised in New England, has lived in Central Florida for the past 17 years. She holds a B.F.A. in advertising design from Syracuse University, in Syracuse, New York. She is a member of the National Collage Society and the Atlanta Collage Society.
When asked why she chose to become an artist, St. Hilaire Nelson states, "I have always been an artist. We have a painting hanging in our home that I?created in Kindergarten. I can still remember my excitement standing at the little easel with big fat brushes and my trash-bag smock - free to create anything I wanted..." she adds, "Painting takes me back to that freedom of being that child again."
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