10th April - Creative Collage with Clare Wasserman

We had a fun afternoon with Clare making  creative collages.

Clare started the afternoon with a talk on collage. She explained its use in Surrealism, Pop Art and making political statements.

The word collage comes from the French word coller, to stick.

She showed us examples of work by many artists who used collage in their work including Lee Krasner, Wangechi Mutu, James Castle and John Piper.

We were then sent off to find three items to create a still life. We used magazine paper, painted papers , paper napkins etc and cut these freely into the shapes of the three items.

Here are some of our still life creations

The second half of the session was to create a self portrait using the same technique to show our personality.

This was also great fun and here are some of our branch!!!

    
                             

                                                                                                

Thank you Clare for a great afternoon