BUILDING ART UP & OUT—Collage, Assemblage, Construction
Instructor: Genie Kell, BFA, MA
E-mail: [email protected] or phone 239-592-5028
2014-15 Supply List
KINDLY NOTE: This class encourages artists to use a broad range of materials—some are not found in art supply
stores. When you look for non-traditional materials at home, look in your collections of mementos, gift wrapping,
shells, fabrics, old greeting cards…look in your photo albums and your crafts desk…look among things stored in the
garage or in the pantry.
This is an opportunity to risk and explore while using combinations of traditional and non-traditional art materials.
By gathering a rich variety of objects and materials, you meet one of the most exciting challenges posed to artists:
making art with high impact.
Here are the specific supplies needed for the first 2 lessons. For Lessons 3, 4 & 5, you will be using mostly found
objects. We will discuss these supplies in class.
Lesson 1:
3 poster boards (two white & one of any color you choose) measuring 20”x20”.
Three different kinds of paper: a.) Papers of as many different bright, flat colors as you want (you may paint these
papers yourself using acrylic paints on using butcher paper, tracing paper, rice papers, old paintings); b.) Patterned
papers (wrapping papers, colored rice papers from art supply store, old greeting cards); c.) Unpatterned papers
that come in a variety of ‘neutral’ colors like whites, beiges, browns, grays or blacks.
Elmer’s glue, scissors &/or Exacto knife
Lesson 2:
3 poster boards of any color, measuring any size larger than 20”x20”.
Fabrics of any color, pattern, texture & papers of any kind, including foils.
Elmer’s glue, scissors &/or Exacto knife
Here is a list of items that you may find around your house that will be useful for this class:
old paintings on paper or canvas or canvas board
white craft glue, hot glue gun, caulking in tubes (transparent silicon is good) or other fast drying permanent glue
for use with wood--a tack hammer and nails
paints of any kind
all kinds of papers—various thickness, textures, weights, colors (rice, tissue, watercolor, wrapping, brown, butcher,
typing)
beads, glitter, sequins, thread, string, ribbon, fabric, feathers, shells—objects of any kind
found objects that have symbolic meaning for you—for instance, photos, an old watch, a glove, a love letter, a
violin
any objects that provide pattern or texture such as corrugated cardboard, lace, doilies, sandpaper, gaskets, etc.
any objects you find around the garage like nuts, bolts, nails, washers, wire, tacks, brass or plastic plumbing fittings
broken glass or china, beach glass, stones, pebbles, twigs, pine cones, pine needles, raffia, grains, dried pasta or
beans, rice, wheat
Styrofoam, aluminum foil, metallic leaf, plastics—clear and/or colored—anything!
SUPPLIERS:
Koenig’s Art Emporium, 985 Central Ave., Naples, 34102, 649-6484.
Cheap Joe’s Art Supplies, NC, ph. 1-800-227-2788 or on-line
Daniel Smith, WA, ph. 1-800-426-6740 or on-line