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Acrylic Explorations: Image Transfers

6 Week Class ONLINE | Available

Adult: Intermediate - Advanced

May 6, 2024-June 17, 2024

10:00 AM-12:30 PM on Mon

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$355.00 CAD

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As producers and consumers in today’s vast image economy, contemporary artists freely adopt and adapt materials from many sources, re-purposing photographic images culled from the internet, magazines, newspapers, advertisements, television, films, personal and public archives, studio walls, and from other works of art. These are all fair game. This course will focus on exploring various methods of using acrylic pigments and acrylic mediums to transfer images to paper, canvas, wood panels as well as transparent and painted acrylic skins. Students will consider various contemporary compositional strategies and finishing techniques, as well as looking at artists who use transfers in their work.

Notes:
- A comfortable level of understanding in painting and drawing is recommended.
- There will be no class on May 20th (Victoria Day).

Base Tuition: $340 + Material Fee: $15 = $355 Total
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  • What You Will Learn:
    - Using Acrylic Mediums to ‘transfer’ Xerox images and magazine images to paper, canvas or wood panel
    - Integrating the transferred image with various painting techniques and styles
    - Introduce various contemporary artists who use image transfers in their work
  • Material List for Acrylic Explorations: Image Transfers:

    FOR THE FIRST CLASS PLEASE HAVE:
    - 1 Sheet of 140lb Cold Press, 100% Rag or Cotton Watercolour Paper
    - Graphite Pencils HB, 2B, 4B

    IMAGES for FIRST CLASS:
    - We will be using Xeroxed Images, Magazine Images, Laser Printed images & possibly Ink Jet printed images. You can also use personal photographs that have been photocopied. Please bring a few choices of Xeroxed images. Please print them on multipurpose copy paper
    - THIS IS THE CHEAP, PLAINEST PAPER WITH NO COATINGS - NOT Photo Paper! Print them at the lightest settings.

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Tina has been an instructor at the Toronto School of Art since 1993. Poplawski has exhibited in solo and group exhibitions in Ontario, Quebec and New York. Two galleries in Toronto, the V. MacDonnell Gallery and Lehmann Leskiw Fine Art, have represented Poplawski. Her work is found in North American and European collections both corporate and private. She is the recipient of many awards, including numerous Ontario Art Council Grants. Her work focuses on textured paintings, sculptural objects and paper works arranged into multi-faceted installations. Her art practice focuses on the contrasting concerns of destruction and re-creation, violent upheaval and spiritual renewal. Her work is driven by themes of loss, returning to the earth's embrace and patterns in nature.