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Corrugated cardboard is an overlooked art material – it’s all around us and it’s free! You can create interesting patterns by peeling away the surface to reveal patterned ridges which can be colored and painted. Combine this with collage and found objects, and finish with glazes and shellac to create a layered work of depth and richness. All these techniques will be demonstrated. Suitable for all levels of experience.

Joy of Cardboard

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kit fee: $5        supply list

• Materials fee: $5
• Teacher’s Handout, gesso, shellac and/or glazes, denatured alcohol, string, Wire
  
  
• Participants should bring:
• Corrugated cardboard – can be a box you pick up on the sidewalk, does
• not have to be new
• Colored Pencils such as Prismacolor, acrylic paints, some irridescent
• paint
• Scissors and utility knife
• Straight Edge
• Containers for mixing paint
• Sketchbook – something to write in
• Adhesive – Elmer’s or Sobo, or any brand you like, a glue stick
• Small jar of heavy gel
• Brushes – the inexpensive kind from the hardware store, a half inch and a one inch brush
• Small found objects you want to build into your piece
• Collage materials, small bits of fabric
• Optional: any other tools you like to use

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Sas Colby has more than thirty years of experience making, exhibiting and teaching art. She is a pioneer in the field of artist’s books and her nontraditional art has been exhibited and collected nationally and internationally. An extensive teaching and lecturing schedule keeps her in touch with art developments nationwide and she has inspired many with her ability to make the creative process come alive. Sas divides her time between Taos, New Mexico and her home in Berkeley, California. You can see her art at www.sascolby.com