Category / Collage / Mixed Media / Painting
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Holiday Planning
Sorry if you’re not ready to read this, but I’ve been invited to participate in a private Christmas sale so I’m already in the head-space for “the season”. I’m creating six 6″ x 6″ collages all about food. Since food seems to be the on the mind of many of us when we celebrate together,…
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Ta da!
Hello world! If you read my last entry on my Blogger site, you will recall that I promised a new website was in the works for kathrynlissack.com. This is it! My wonderful hubby took over my cause and put this together for me. I am deeply grateful for his time, talent and support. Please take…
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It’s been a while…
Yikes time flies! How have I not shared with you for so many months? I have been very busy since we last visited. I have submitted a book proposal on the subject of collage and mixed media surface treatments. I won’t give it all away now, but I promise to keep you posted on the…
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Oh the wonderful work of Tilleke Schwarz
I was in my element two weeks ago when I joined Tilleke and 13 other talented artists in an embroidery workshop hosted by the Maiwa School of textiles in their beautiful loft studio on Granville Island. Together we spent three creative days stitching, sharing and collaging wonderful nothings on cloth and with paper. I say…
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Gala Painting : Final
Here's the final painting that came out of my time with Ecole Pauline Johnston. What a great group of kids to work with! Kudos to their teacher, Laura Delasalle, for enthusiastically supporting this project and for accommodating my schedule. This piece really supports the work the school has done in adding to their existing playground…![]()
Gala Painting : Day 2
This past Monday the fantastic students at Ecole Pauline Johnston’s gr. 6/7 class and I worked together again on their mixed media collage for the school’s gala fundraiser. Since I’d left the painting at the school last week, but needed to prepare for this next session, I decided to make a quick mock-up to help…
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Gala Painting : Day 1
Yesterday the Gr. 6-7 class at Ecole Pauline Johnston did an amazing job creating the base texture for their gala painting submission! This 30″x 24″ deep wooden cradled panel from Opus is the perfect substrate. It provided enough room for everyone to collage at least 3 pieces of found paper and begin to layer on some…
