What makes your mixed media artwork 100% original and unique is creating your own collage materials. This approach moves you beyond pre-designed stencils or patterns that have been duplicated by other mixed media artists.
Each of us has our own artistic preferences when it comes to color schemes, certain patterns and designs. This influences our unique artistic style.
Therefore, when you create your own collage materials, they are infused with decisions and choices that you made during the creative process. This is uniquely your own. Having a nice collection of your own custom collage materials provides a wider selection to choose from when you’re working on your mixed media projects.
In this course you'll utilize Gelli plate printing, mark-making, and creating your very own stamp designs with a hot glue gun, cut-out foam shapes and more. Then we’ll pull it all together to create an artistic collage piece incorporating composition for cohesiveness and balance.
New to Gelli Printing? This is the perfect introduction to gelli printing. Warning: You will get addicted to this process and discover how hours of creativity fly by!
Take a peek into the course
Mark Making Collage Papers
Learn how to make organic & unique collage papers using mark making techniques.
Hot Glue Gun Stamps
Create your own unique and original stamps designs using a hot glue gun.
Collaging Using Composition
Learn how to apply easy composition styles to create collage pieces that feel cohesive and balanced.
Foam Shape Stamps
Learn how to make fun custom designs using foam shapes.
String Stamps
Stamps using string can create unusual patterns and designs in your Gelli prints.
Develop Your Own Collection
By the time you complete this course you will have a nice rich collection of collage materials to pull from for your projects.
Course Lessons
Also Included!
Fabric Paper
Altered Nat Geo Pages
Meet Your Instructor
Lisa Agaran is a mixed media artist, instructor and Creative Spirit Mentor. Her work has been published in Incite, Dreams Realized: The Best of Mixed Media and Incite 3: The Art of Storytelling (North Light Books). She has shown her work through both solo and group shows throughout Southern California.
Lisa has a BFA from Art Center College of Design in Pasadena and a Masters in Psychology. Prior to her art career she worked as a licensed psychotherapist (Inactive), Creativity Coach and Graphic Designer. Lisa also taught one of the core certification courses (Building the Coaching Relationship with Creative Clients) at Creativity Coaching Association where she also trained under renown Creativity Coach Eric Maisel.
Integrating both her artistic and psychology background Lisa’s worked with artists and creative professionals on their careers and creative process.
From her own personal experience working in the studio and facing typical challenges with the creative process, Lisa understands first hand the struggles and blocks that keeps us from accessing our True Creativity Within.
She believes everyone is born an artist. It’s how you stay connected to that innate desire to be creative as we become adults. Lisa believes when we connect to our creativity without judgment, expectations and the need for our art to be perfect or a master piece, we draw from a deep resource and connect to our creative intuition.
Taking time to honor your creative spirit is just as essential as a good night’s rest, exercise and eating right. It provides benefits both spiritually and mentally. Lisa believes any sort of creative practice, whether it’s writing, dancing or crafts, can be meditative and stress-reducing. It’s an activity that can ground us in our daily life. Therefore, Lisa encourages others to do something creative on a regular bases and not deprive oneself from access Creative Spirit. This can lead to a sense of inner wholeness and wellbeing.
Lisa has been teaching both in-person and virtual workshops for the last 9 years. She also host and leads her signature retreat “Awaken the Invisible Power of Your Creativity” annually. For more information about Lisa and to view her artwork visit ArtbyLisaAgaran.com