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MIXED MEDIA COLLAGE: NARRATIVES OF VIRTUE & VICE

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Instructor: Andrea Matus

Contact: Michele Lindslsey 602-619-7723 / mlindsley@yahoo.com

Dates: Thursday, September 11 through Sunday, September 14, 2025
Time: 9:00 AM - 4:30 PM

This is a 4 day workshop, 6 hours of instructions each day with 90 minute lunch break.

Experience Level: Beginners welcome, no experience necessary. This class is designed to be beginner friendly but contains sufficient technique to help more experienced students to further develop their skills.

Class fee for $550 ASA members $570 non members - Limited space available.

Deadline for registration: July 25, 2025

Minimum number of registrations: 10
Maximum number of registrations: 16

In this workshop, you'll discover how to bring your art to life through mixed media techniques—layering collage, paint, and texture to create rich, symbolic pieces. Inspired by the duality of human nature. We’ll explore virtues and vices, learning how to express these themes with modern materials while paying homage to classical artists like Paolo Veronese.
This hands-on class will guide you step-by-step as you build your own visual stories. From selecting and arranging imagery to layering meaning with every brushstroke, you'll develop both your technique and narrative style. By the end, you’ll have a stunning series of artworks that reflect your personal take on virtue and vice.
Join me for this creative journey and leave with frame-worthy art that speaks to timeless themes, blending the past with contemporary expression.

Materials provided by student

4 - 6 Stretched Canvases or Cradled Wood Boards. Any size between 6”X8” up to 12"x12

Paper, ephemera and collage items: faces, figures, animals, shapes, patterns, textures and symbols. **NO inkjet prints. Photocopies or laser only.

Paint – Golden Acrylics fluid or heavy body (white, black, and any blue, red, and yellow, plus a couple more of your favorites)

Paintbrushes– bring just a few in different sizes (make sure you have at least one larger (about 1” and at least one better quality detail brush) plus a few more.

Palette & Water Container

Paper towel & baby wipes

Golden Matte medium –16 oz. (when you shake the bottle it should sound like it has the consistency of syrup, not mayonnaise)

Scissors

Ruler

Your usual marking making tools pencils, markers, etc.

If you are having any difficulty at all with any of the items on the supply list, please email me – I’m happy to help!!

Materials provided by instructor

Package of Collage Material and ephemera
Specialty papers for textural techniques
Materials for image transfer technique
Portfolio Brand Pastels, NeoColour II Watercolor Crayons, Other mark making tools & specialty paints
An assortment of stencils, t0ols for explorations, smoothing tool, sanders & sponges
Specialty Mediums Gloss gel, Glazing Medium, Mica Flakes, coarse molding paste, light molding paste

Each student will each receive their own individual package of materials of collage, ephemera, image transfer materials, and specialty papers in addition to having full use of all of the shared supplies listed.

Mixed Media Collage material list
Click to view and download a pdf of the materials list.

Andrea Matus is a Vancouver-based mixed media artist and educator whose artwork defies easy categorization. She merges painting, collage, assemblage, and sculpture in ways that challenge conventional distinctions between these forms and creates work that is both beautiful and conceptually rich.
Click Andrea's logo for more information.