Art Courses for Mixed Media & Collage Techniques (2024)

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Virtual / Online Art Classes

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Media/Theme

Media:
• Acrylic Painting
• Fiber Arts
• Glass
• Oil Painting
• Pastels
• Photography/ Digital Art
• Printmaking
• Sculpture
• Other Media
• Theme:
• Youth Art Classes

• All Media/ All Themes

"Collage Therapy"
February 24-25, 2024

Relax and enjoy the process of simple creation with found and created imagery. Discover the easy way to start and you will never tire of all the possibilities right at your fingertips, so get ready to experiment! Students will be provided with information about products, content, design, color, composition, texture and techniques galore. It’s all about letting go and having a positive experience with art and expressing yourself through creating. Experiment with new techniques and tap into the freedom of your inner spirit. Learn to paint and design your own papers, carve your own stamps and add personalized items to your collection of collage choices.

Location: Key West, Florida
Instructor: Sharon DiGiulio
Cost: $250 / $225 for members
Sponsor: The Studios of Key West
Website, email, (305) 296-0458

"Monoprint Collage Workshop"
February 25, 2024

Learn to create exciting mixed media artwork in this energetic workshop with exhibiting artist Robert Reinhardt! Explore a non-traditional approach of making monoprints with found objects then combine the finished prints with collage materials. Step-by-step instruction will cover strategies for learning the printing process, exploring compositional options, quick color theory, and developing a finished work that speaks to your own creative expression.

Location: Philadelphia, PA, Pennsylvania
Instructor: Robert Reinhardt
Cost: $125
Sponsor: Cerulean Arts Gallery and Studio
Website, email, 267-514-8647

"Have Fun Learning Abstraction"
March 4-6, 2024

Join Pat and learn to THINK ABSTRACTLY!Pat will show the elements and principles of design in her work along with other artists’ work. Different ways of starting an abstract painting will be demonstrated and then you will start your own painting. Learn design by watching Pat solve her own failures, turning them into fabulous! Techniques used will be painting, cropping, spraying, tearing, pasting and collaging! Individual instruction and critiques will be provided. Some painting experience is recommended! Can’t wait to work with you!

Location: Web-delivered (Online)
Instructor: Pat Dews
Cost: $350
Sponsor: The New Studio For The Visual Arts
Website, email, 561-295-5712

"Washi Tape Collage"
March 5-7, 2024

Washi Tape is a not-very-sticky masking tape made from rice paper. It comes in rolls of solid colors, as well as patterns, and provides adherence to a variety of surfaces. This course is taught by local artist Joan Moreau McKeever, who is here to teach you how to create your very own realistic or abstract collages using washi tape! Students will learn the technique of creating with this new art form. Landscapes, Flowers, People, Abstracts.... No limit! Washi Tape is primarily used for crafting, but in this workshop, we are going to take it to a whole new level! No experience necessary!

Location: Hilton Head, South Carolina
Instructor: Joan Moreau McKeever
Cost: $150
Sponsor: Art League of Hilton Head
Website, email, (843) 842-5738

"Mixed Media Collage Painting"
March 7 - April 11, 2024

Explore your creativity, open your senses and sharpen your mind to new realms of art-making with noted artist Mikel Elam. Mikel will help you articulate your vision and bring it to concrete reality in the form of a finished work. Explore techniques new and old with paint, paper, found objects and ephemera to best express both representational and abstract perspectives. Channel ideas of progressive artists from the past and present including Henri Matisse, Romare Bearden, Cecily Brown, Joan Mitchell while finding your own voice.

Location: Philadelphia, PA, Pennsylvania
Instructor: Mikel Elam
Cost: $250
Sponsor: Cerulean Arts Gallery and Studio
Website, email, 267-514-8647

"Painterly Pets"
Thursdays, March 7 - April 11, 2024

Dogs, cats, and other pets have sneaked their way into master drawings and paintings throughout the centuries. They have proven themselves to be important painterly subjects on their own or as a part of still lifes, portraits, domestic scenes, and other genres. Learn to find inspiration in your own furry family members to make them a meaningful part of your painting practice. Rather than a pet portrait or animal anatomy course, this class will explore ways of realistically and expressively depicting your animal, including them into other subjects as formal or personal elements, or even making them a part of abstract compositions. Line, gesture, movement, textural/optical effects, and compositional principles will be addressed. Open to all drawing and painting media.

Location: Web-delivered (Online)
Instructor: Michelle Oosterbaan
Cost: $250
Sponsor: Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
Website, email, 215-972-7632

"Mixed Media"
March 9-10, 2024

Internationally renowned artist Jean Pederson returns to offer her accessible approach to art-making. Students will explore various combinations of mixed media with an emphasis on water-soluble paints and mediums. During the workshop, students develop a variety of surfaces and grounds. These techniques can be applied to a variety of subject matter, to create a unique artistic statement. Pederson emphasizes design, personal style and beautiful surface quality using both abstract and referential subjects.

Location: Key West, Florida
Instructor: Jean Pederson
Cost: $270 / $230 for members
Sponsor: The Studios of Key West
Website, email, (305) 296-0458

"Collagraph: Printing the Collage"
Wednesdays, March 13 - April 24, 2024

This six-session workshop is designed for students who wish to explore the art of collagraph. Textured collages will be made, sealed, inked, and transformed into a printed image. No prior experience with collage or printing is necessary since this workshop is designed to meet the student at their level of experience. • Students will learn how to construct a textured collage which can be successfully printed.• Students will learn how to print their collages either as an intaglio print or a relief print.• Students will produce work that can form the basis for mixed media Images.• Students will learn how to enhance their initial printed collages through the addition of selected Monoprinting and Frottage techniques.

Location: Wayne, Pennsylvania
Instructor: Christine Stoughton
Cost: $280
Sponsor: Wayne Art Center
Website, email, 610-688-3553

"Oaxaca Art + Culture Workshop, a Deep Dive"
March 15-24, 2024

Hooked on art journals & want to play with paint & collage while traveling? Into watercolor, or want to learn the basics? Join Oaxacan artist Pedro Cruz Pacheco and Corrie McCluskey for an art + culture adventure. Experience a week-long immersion into art and culture of Oaxaca - a soulful art scene, indigenous culture, rich culinary and artisanal traditions. Includes field trips to a Sunday market, studio visits in a weaving village, women’s red clay collective, papermaking studio, and archaeological ruins. This workshop is a combination of watercolor exploration and creative/visual journaling with mixed media to develop your unique visual voice and mark making by playing with different materials. Complete beginners are welcome and encouraged to join us!

Location: Oaxaca, Mexico
Instructor: Pedro Cruz Pacheco + Corrie McCluskey
Cost: $2200 (lodging included)
Sponsor: Oaxaca Dreams / Talismán Oaxaca
Website, email, 707-575-6801

"Printmaking without a Press Workshop"
March 17, 2024

Learn to print without a press! Explore monoprints, the painterly approach to printmaking that combines the spontaneity of painting and drawing with the process of printmaking. Learn additive, subtractive, and trace monotype techniques using Plexiglass, Gelli printing plates and water-based inks with stencils and masks. The instructor will demonstrate all techniques and supply the materials. Experience the moment of magic and surprise when you pull a print and see the results of your effort!

Location: Philadelphia, PA, Pennsylvania
Instructor: Bill Brookover
Cost: $125
Sponsor: Cerulean Arts Gallery and Studio
Website, email, 267-514-8647

"Mixed Media: Incredible Dragonflies"
March 20, 2024

You'll create an amazing dragonfly painting choosing your own colors! We will be using torn papers, napkins, stencils, gesso, glue, paint, pastels, lace, glitter and a variety of other fun materials. By layering paint, papers, fabrics and stenciling, you’ll create two amazing 3-dimensional pieces of art! Students should bring $20 cash to pay instructor for materials, which will all be provided for you.

Location: Hilton Head Island, South Carolina
Instructor: Julie Schroeder
Cost: $60
Sponsor: Art League of Hilton Head
Website, email, (843) 842-5738

"Live Online: Urban Sketching with Ink and Watercolor"
March 23-24, 2024

In this engaging workshop, Vlad will not only demonstrate but also guide participants in honing their skills to craft captivating color sketches using waterproof ink pens and watercolors. Our emphasis will be on achieving immediacy in presentation, mastering composition, and, most importantly, channeling focused creativity to produce vibrant and impactful images that captivate the viewer's attention.•Every day Lessons•Demonstrations and step-by-step painting•Video on drawing: you will receive a free copy of video workshop "Basic Drawing for Outdoor Painter" •Recording: video recording of the class will be available to replay and practice for 30 days of your choice.•Digital high resolution photo References •Membership in our private FB group exclusively available to Yeliseyev's students

Location: Web-delivered (Online)
Instructor: Vladislav Yeliseyev
Cost: $250
Sponsor: Renaissance School of Art
Website, email, 1-941-330-6865

"Creative Collage"
March 26, 2024

Join 25+ year professional educator and Art League Academy instructor, Debi West, for this exciting half-day workshop! All levels of students will enjoy this workshop where participants will learn the art of collage, which you will love! Debi will help students create a collage by focusing on composition, color, value, lines, shape and negative space! You do not want to miss this awesome class! This workshop is appropriate for students of all levels.

Location: Hilton Head Island, South Carolina
Instructor: Debi West
Cost: $40
Sponsor: Art League of Hilton Head
Website, email, (843) 842-5738

"Encaustic Collage"
March 30, 2024

Combine curation with creation in a class that offers hands-on exploration with hot wax. In addition, there will be oil sticks, crayons, stamps, and markers to use for drawing onto the encaustic collage. This class is the third in a progressive series, but may also be taken as a stand-alone workshop.

Location: Key West, Florida
Instructor: Pamela Kostmayer
Cost: $185 / $155 for members
Sponsor: The Studios of Key West
Website, email, (305) 296-0458

"Encaustic Photography"
April 6, 2024

Add a layer to your photography with the luminosity of encaustics. This workshop offers tips on prepping your image with apps beforehand plus guided exercises to help you discover photo transfer and inlay techniques, mark-making methods, and color, texture and embellishment possibilities. Cricket Desmarais is a local visual and performing artist who has taught workshops to all levels and ages.

Location: Key West, Florida
Instructor: Cricket Desmarais
Cost: $195 / $175 for members
Sponsor: The Studios of Key West
Website, email, (305) 296-0458

"Mixed Media Magic"
April 9, 2024

Join Debi as she walks you through dry and wet media and the joy that comes when those media come together! If you're looking to add some wow factors to your own body of work, taking it to that next level, or, if you want to learn a few new techniques, this is the perfect class for you! In addition to the registration cost, students should bring $15 cash to pay the instructor directly for materials you will need that will be provided for you. This workshop is appropriate for students of all levels.

Location: Hilton Head Island, South Carolina
Instructor: Debi West
Cost: $40
Sponsor: Art League of Hilton Head
Website, email, (843) 842-5738

"Making Cyanotypes"
April 9-10, 2024

Cyanotypes exist at the intersection of photography and printmaking – perfect for Florida sunshine. Join Timothy in a fun, easy and informative workshop and leave with a few cyanotypes and newfound knowledge of the medium. With a background in printmaking and alternative photographic processes, Timothy has innovated the historical cyanotype process into a larger format using photographic negatives as a base. His time spent with graffiti artists across the country has led him to expand upon the uses of the traditional wheat-paste process to create beautiful and unique pieces. Timothy has a passion for altering spaces through the creation of massive wall pieces that are impactful, boundary-pushing, and completely unique.

Location: Key West, Florida
Instructor: Timothy Goldkin
Cost: $125 / $100 for members
Sponsor: The Studios of Key West
Website, email, (305) 296-0458

"Painting Holidays: Mixed Media Workshop with Ali Hargreaves"
May 4-11, 2024

During this fun painting holiday in South West France, Ali will introduce a variety of additional media to watercolours including the exploration of interesting surfaces such as tissue paper, gesso and watercolour ground. She will encourage you to experiment and then guide you through planning and executing paintings. Ali is extremely innovative and will introduce you to interesting techniques with collage, acrylic inks and pen work that may be incorporated in to your work. Her lessons are always fun and her paintings and demonstrations are full of colour and texture. You will be painting and sketching “En plein air” as well as in the studio. Artists of all abilities are welcome and will be given plenty of one-to-one tuition.

Location: Pau, France
Instructor: Ali Hargreaves
Cost: 1595€ to 2695€ for accommodation + £300 tuition fee
Sponsor: Atelier Clos Mirabel
Website, email, +33.6.79.59.04.91

"Acrylic Painting Workshop with Arnhild Kart"
May 11-18, 2024

Join Arnhild Kart for this acrylic painting course and learn techniques that will lead you to more experimental work in landscape paintings and cityscapes. The instructor supports you in taking your painting process beyond reality, surrendering more and more to the painterly process and the expression of colour. With a broad brush or palette knife, mood and geometry, as well as light and shadow are captured. Here the art of omission is called for in order to direct the view to the essential. We will work with acrylic colours as well as with ink, charcoal, pastels or oil crayons - offering great opportunities for experimentation.

Location: Assisi, Italy
Instructor: Arnhild Kart
Cost: 2600 €
Sponsor: Schola Artis Pro Vobis
Website, email

"Creating Layers, Creating Stories: Mixed Media Coptic Bound Art Journals"
May 17-19, 2024

Create keepsake journals with beautiful, handmade pages and covers in this engaging retreat. These all-inclusive 3 day retreats feature intimate group instruction (max 8 participants), serene Flint Hills setting, balanced schedule with instruction, work time, family style meals, free time and social gathering. Lessons will include cyanotype printing, block carving and printing, paper marbling, botanical printing, collage, collating and composition, and Coptic bookbinding.

Location: Manhattan, Kansas
Instructor: Hollie Blakeney
Cost: $595.00
Sponsor: Flint Hills Arts & Happiness
Website, email, 785-840-7940

"Make Your Mark: Oaxaca Art + Culture Workshop: mixed media, collage"
May 24 - June 2, 2024

Love to create texture and imagery using bits and pieces of ephemera, old magazines, maps? Hooked on art journals...want to play with mixed media and collage? Want to discover your own personal repertoire of marks? Join Oaxacan artist Pedro Cruz Pacheco and Corrie McCluskey for an art + culture adventure. Experience a week-long immersion into the art and culture of Oaxaca, with its soulful art scene, indigenous culture, and rich culinary and artisanal traditions. Includes Sunday market, studio visits with Oaxacan painters, master weaving family, papermaking studio, gorgeous ecological art center, and guided street art walk – all mixed in with art instruction and creative play time. This workshop is for art makers & art lovers.

Location: Oaxaca, Mexico
Instructor: Pedro Cruz Pacheco + Corrie McCluskey
Cost: $2300 (includes lodging)
Sponsor: Oaxaca Dreams / Talismán Oaxaca
Website, email, 707-327-2747

"Acrylic Painting Workshop with Arnhild Kart"
June 29 - July 6, 2024

Join Arnhild Kart for this acrylic painting course and learn techniques that will lead you to more experimental work in landscape paintings and cityscapes. The instructor supports you in taking your painting process beyond reality, surrendering more and more to the painterly process and the expression of colour. With a broad brush or palette knife, mood and geometry, as well as light and shadow are captured. Here the art of omission is called for in order to direct the view to the essential. We will work with acrylic colours as well as with ink, charcoal, pastels or oil crayons - offering great opportunities for experimentation.

Location: Assisi, Italy
Instructor: Arnhild Kart
Cost: 2600 €
Sponsor: Schola Artis Pro Vobis
Website, email

"Acrylic Painting Workshop with Arnhild Kart"
July 6-13, 2024

Join Arnhild Kart for this acrylic painting course and learn techniques that will lead you to more experimental work in landscape paintings and cityscapes. The instructor supports you in taking your painting process beyond reality, surrendering more and more to the painterly process and the expression of colour. With a broad brush or palette knife, mood and geometry, as well as light and shadow are captured. Here the art of omission is called for in order to direct the view to the essential. We will work with acrylic colours as well as with ink, charcoal, pastels or oil crayons - offering great opportunities for experimentation.

Location: Assisi, Italy
Instructor: Arnhild Kart
Cost: 2600 €
Sponsor: Schola Artis Pro Vobis
Website, email

"Developing Personal Visual Archetypes"
July 8-9, 2024

Often, Southern folklife is represented visually as a whole in redundant cliches. The repainted tropes strip away all meaning, beauty and dignity, and unfortunately, result in a loss of interest and respect, with the real danger of having no societal contribution. Nonney shares new visual archetypes that are based on specifics – regional folklife, folklore and indigenous flora and fauna, but with an added personal twist. These twists reclaim individuality, and use modernism coupled with tradition to create a new depiction of Southern Art. Create your own new archetypes influenced by her presentation.

Location: Key West, Florida
Instructor: Nonney Oddlokken
Cost: $80 / $65 for members
Sponsor: The Studios of Key West
Website, email, (305) 296-0458

"Storytelling Through Mixed Media Collage"
July 29-30, 2024

The workshop includes a short lecture and presentation highlighting storytelling through mixed media collage with the use of historical imagery. Participants will observe a demonstration and view artwork made by the artist instructor. A hands-on session follows, covering the use of mixed media collage including examples of methods and projects as well as reference materials for the classroom. Lavett Ballard is a female mixed media visual artist, art historian, curator and author. She holds a dual Bachelor’s in Studio Art and Art History with a minor in Museum Studies from Rutgers University- Camden and an MFA in Studio Art from the University of the Arts in Philadelphia. Ballard’s art has been commissioned twice as a cover for Time Magazine.

Location: Key West, Florida
Instructor: Lavett Ballard
Cost: $100 / $75 for members
Sponsor: The Studios of Key West
Website, email, (305) 296-0458

"Art on the Water"
August 24 - September 1, 2024

Special Interest 9 day Plein Air Painting/Sketching Workshop in Grand Canyon National Park*Painting White Water, Side Canyons and Botany* Managing artwork in the wilderness, Setting up quick compositions*Talks on Art History in Grand Canyon*Workshops on sketching, limiting colors and quick composition

Location: Grand Canyon, Arizona
Instructor: Ani Eastwood with Grand Canyon Expeditions
Sponsor: Grand Canyon Expeditions Company
Website, email, 1-800-544-2691

"Acrylic Painting Workshop with Arnhild Kart"
September 21-28, 2024

Join Arnhild Kart for this acrylic painting course and learn techniques that will lead you to more experimental work in landscape paintings and cityscapes. The instructor supports you in taking your painting process beyond reality, surrendering more and more to the painterly process and the expression of colour. With a broad brush or palette knife, mood and geometry, as well as light and shadow are captured. Here the art of omission is called for in order to direct the view to the essential. We will work with acrylic colours as well as with ink, charcoal, pastels or oil crayons - offering great opportunities for experimentation.

Location: Assisi, Italy
Instructor: Arnhild Kart
Cost: 2600 €
Sponsor: Schola Artis Pro Vobis
Website, email

"Painting Holidays: Discover the Joys of Mixed Media with Jenny Muncaster"
September 21-28, 2024

Join Jenny Muncaster for a fun week of inspiration and discovery. Jenny is committed to making creativity available to everyone, during this week-long painting holiday she will introduce you to different techniques using a whole range of wonderful art materials. Combining traditional & non-traditional methods & tools for exploring line, painting, print, texture & collage in your work. Using these new skills, capture & interpret your subject matter to create totally original artwork inspired by the beautiful surroundings of Clos Mirabel in the French Pyrenees. At the end of the workshop, you will have gained a tool kit of creative skills & techniques, a new artistic energy, and a portfolio of paintings to be proud of!

Location: Pau, France
Instructor: Jenny Muncaster
Cost: 1595€ to 2695€ for accommodation + 350€ tuition fee
Sponsor: Atelier Clos Mirabel
Website, email, +33.6.79.59.04.91

"Makers' Retreats: An Embroidered Journey with Sam Hunter"
October 19-26, 2024

Sam Hunter leads this bespoke tour, designed to allow you to enjoy the beauty of place, the harmony of a small group, and to discover the little-known treasures of South West France including the Pyrenees Atlantiques and the Béarn. The week includes tuition, creative instruction and collaboration with Sam as she helps you design and stitch the cover of a journal, taking inspiration from the week of activities. Throughout the week you will develop your journal content using writings, drawings, photos and ephemera that will serve as a cherished memento of your trip. Embroidery starter kits will be supplied, as well as a selection of gorgeous threads from our thread sponsors. Suitable for all levels. No prior artistic experience necessary.

Location: Pau, France
Instructor: Sam Hunter
Cost: 1595€ to 2695€ for accommodation + 750€ Tour + $997 tuition fee
Sponsor: Atelier Clos Mirabel
Website, email, +33.6.79.59.04.91

"Painting Holidays: Exploring Mixed Media with Jenny Muncaster"
September 20-27, 2025

Join Jenny Muncaster for a fun week of inspiration and discovery. Jenny is committed to making creativity available to everyone, during this week-long painting holiday she will introduce you to different techniques using a whole range of wonderful art materials. Combining traditional & non-traditional methods & tools for exploring line, painting, print, texture & collage in your work. Using these new skills, capture & interpret your subject matter to create totally original artwork inspired by the beautiful surroundings of Clos Mirabel in the French Pyrenees. At the end of the workshop, you will have gained a tool kit of creative skills & techniques, a new artistic energy, and a portfolio of paintings to be proud of!

Location: Pau, France
Instructor: Jenny Muncaster
Cost: 1595€ to 2695€ for accommodation + tuition fee
Sponsor: Atelier Clos Mirabel
Website, email, +33.6.79.59.04.91

"Makers' Retreats: From Photo to Embroidery with Sam Hunter"
September 27 - October 4, 2025

Sam Hunter leads this bespoke tour, designed to allow you to enjoy the beauty of place, the harmony of a small group, and to discover the little-known treasures of South West France including the Pyrenees Atlantiques and the Béarn. The week includes tuition, creative instruction and collaboration with Sam as she helps you design and stitch the cover of a journal, taking inspiration from the week of activities. Throughout the week you will develop your journal content using writings, drawings, photos and ephemera that will serve as a cherished memento of your trip. Embroidery starter kits will be supplied, as well as a selection of gorgeous threads from our thread sponsors. Suitable for all levels. No prior artistic experience necessary.

Location: Pau, France
Instructor: Sam Hunter
Cost: 1595€ to 2695€ for accommodation + 750€ Tour + $997 tuition fee
Sponsor: Atelier Clos Mirabel
Website, email, +33.6.79.59.04.91

"Story Painting"
Ongoing classes

Storytelling versus Story Painting? Or maybe not versus? Let’s tell your story in a painting. In this class, we will learn how to tell your story, convey atmosphere, and feel, and understand colors, lines, focal-point, framing, and depth. You can add (or deduct) from the painting that will tell your story! Let us hear your tale!an ongoing class and instructions. From the prehistoric images in the caves to Edward Hopper...from the bible in pictures to the most modern painters of our times...We will set our subjects in 4 meetings. If you miss a class there will be a recording available.

Location: Web-delivered (Online)
Instructor: Tali Farchi
Cost: $125 for 4 meetings
Sponsor: Artist Table
Website, email, 0031624903316

"Painting Music Online"
Every Thursday

“Painting Music” is an intuitive painting and drawing, open session for everyone.No painting or drawing skills are needed. Move your paint as the music tells you...on a canvas or in your sketchbook. I create a one-hour playlist of the different subjects each week. You may paint one painting or 10 or as much as you want. No rules. You may interpret the music as figurative or abstract, anything goes!The camera of your device will be pointed to the working area, so we can also see the progress, and be inspired. After the session, we look at each other's artwork and talk about the process.

Location: Web-delivered (Online)
Instructor: Tali Farchi
Cost: $10 per session
Sponsor: Artist Table
Website, email, 0031624903316