Family Paintover

Lisa Bebi

In this workshop, students will use copies of family members as the main players in their interesting funky fun collage-y fine art painting. I will encourage the artists to see that the people (or pets) in their own family photocopies could really be staging a story. Maybe a photo of - an aunts and uncles touring in their 1950's convertible will turn into a rocket ship to Mars....a boring photo of a small a boy running across a front lawn becomes a boy running through Paris tugging at a tag like the Big Red Balloon while fish swim in the sky. Perhaps, a stiff family Olan Mills type group photo can become a funky car ride from 1950's on a wildly turning road, as the baby of the family becomes the driver.

We will be taking photocopies, sticking them to a support and painting right on top of them...We will also add embellishments and other bits, as the mood strikes us.

Students may finish 1 - 3 pieces, depending on their work speed.

Supply List:

• up to 8 photocopies of family members from their family album - or adopted family album on cheap 20 lb. paper.  don't use photo quality paper because it is too stiff and thick.  these images may be black and white or color.
• 6 colors of acrylic paint (small bottles, i.e. plaid craft paint) 3 sizes of paintbrushes decent quality, 3 8" x 10" supports, like canvas boards, water can matte medium (small bottle), paper towels small amount of aluminum foil to use as palette, post-its for masking, some small stamps, any fun paper elements/ images, a bit of ribbon/string,  scraps of anything as long as the surface of the piece remains 2-d, and mostly, a sense of humor.