Mixed Media
Tutor: Amy Alderson
This exciting Mixed Media course starts with the humble pen on paper ‘doodle’ and progresses through a variety of techniques and media including pencil, charcoal, paint, ink, pastel and collage. We will look to combine the unique and the everyday, the raw and the specialist and explore new avenues for textural play, creativity and experimentation.
Image: Amy Alderson
About the tutor
Carli is a multi-skilled visual and performance artist. After graduating from Brighton University in Dance and Visual Practice, she toured Europe, Scandinavia and Asia. She has exhibited widely and has true passion for encouraging and inspiring budding artists.
Amy trained at Camden School of Art, St Martins, and Brighton University in Visual & Performing Arts. She works as a freelance artist – exhibitions include the ICA – and in 2010, she worked as the key artist on two film productions.
Materials List
Mostly the materials for this course are already in your home!
If you need to buy any materials, you can get a 10% discount at Clarkes Stationers in Bond Street if you show them your course acknowledgement.
Any flowing ink pens....even simple biro in black/blue.
Any pencils, paintbrushes, coloured pencils, charcoal - anything you have that makes marks!
Any pastel, oil pastel, bottles of coloured ink and old or new paints.
Any kind of paper, colour, size, texture.
Old toothbrushes, sponges, rags, newspapers, tissue paper, old wrapping paper, bits of fabric.
The materials below are very useful and inexpensive:
PVA glue, glue spreader, scissors, knife and cutting board for collage work.
At least one small bottle of ink would be very useful, any colours you want!
The following materials will not be required for the first session, but please begin salvaging and collecting bits and bobs that strike you as interesting for collage/ sculptural work: fabrics and things you have held onto but not found the time to make something of them!!
Some of the following will also be useful as the course progresses: binding materials such as needle and thread, wire, polyfilla, glue gun, hammer and nails.