(click to enlarge)Collage Workshop by Jacqueline Smith
April 12 & 13
The Old School House Arts Center
Qualicum Beach
This is going to be one of the most exciting workshops you have taken. The reason for this is you cannot do anything wrong.
You are hopefully going to feel a freedom that this process gave me.
All those “almost” great paintings under your bed or thrown in the drawer will become a part of something much more than they were.
I was starting to feel like I wasn’t enjoying painting like I did initially and I was being very critical of myself and my work. There was always a mistake, or muddiness, or something ugly in a part of the painting but I saved them because there were the “treasures” in each as well, and I thought some day I will pull them out and suddenly magically be able to complete them and they will be beautiful. Little did I realize that in destroying them they would have a new life. In this process even the “ugly” parts will be needed and a valuable part of your new creation. But first we must destroy the original, tear it up and then we will recreate!
You are hopefully going to feel a freedom that this process gave me.
All those “almost” great paintings under your bed or thrown in the drawer will become a part of something much more than they were.
I was starting to feel like I wasn’t enjoying painting like I did initially and I was being very critical of myself and my work. There was always a mistake, or muddiness, or something ugly in a part of the painting but I saved them because there were the “treasures” in each as well, and I thought some day I will pull them out and suddenly magically be able to complete them and they will be beautiful. Little did I realize that in destroying them they would have a new life. In this process even the “ugly” parts will be needed and a valuable part of your new creation. But first we must destroy the original, tear it up and then we will recreate!
