Scroll Mates	9 - 4 Saturday and Sunday
	Michael deMeng and Andrea Matus deMeng	$290

Student Level: All
Type of Workshop: Process and Project
Prerequisite: None

This is a 2 day workshop.

One of the earliest known scrolls is an Egyptian wedding contract...not very interesting in the content...in which the groom agrees to pay “x” amount if he grows weary of his wife and finds another gal. What is truly fascinating about this is not the topic (albeit culturally telling), but rather the ancient device used long before the inventions of books. Like a book a scroll can be used to isolate certain bits of information, but unlike a book the entire story can be visible in one very long viewing. For visual artists, scrolls are nifty creations because they can display a very specific isolated scene or the entirety of the composition. So let’s get scrolling
In this class Andrea Matus deMeng and Michael deMeng are teaming up to explore this device. In Andrea’s portion of the class, she will guide students in making the rolled canvas creations. This will be done using a combination of painting, collage and drawing. Michael’s portion of the class will focus on the device used to hold/display these illustrious manuscripts. The base will be made from an everyday object, then, using the process of assemblage, students will modify this structure with various found objects into something rich and strange.

Materials Fee: $10 payable to Instructor at class time for canvas scroll and use of supplies and tools:
Canvas scroll – primed on one side
Paper towel
Collage tools for our large-scale work
Metallic paint
Portfolio Brand Pastels
Other mark making tools
Tools

Students should bring:
Something to build your shrine from. This could be a box, a small cabinet, an old music box, or a pneumatic bank tube…just about anything. Your seemingly insignificant thing. This could be one object or multiple items.
Variety of found objects that might be interesting additions. Items like, dolls, watch parts, gears, typewriter parts, milagros, bolts, pieces of old metal, straps of leather, dried out spaghetti…anything. Look for things that might seem “shrine-ish” in nature.
Paint Brushes (a couple small detail brushes, and some cheap brushes (1/2 inch to 1 inch in size)
Matte Medium – fluid
Aves Apoxy Clay
E6000 adhesive
Dap Kwik Seal Plus (white) small tube
Paint (acrylic…preferably Golden brand…either fluid or heavy body will work) small tubes will be fine.
Quinacridone Nickel Azo Gold
Black (Mars or Carbon)
Titanium White
Pthalo Green (blue shade)
Dioxazine Purple
Van Dyke Brown
Quinacridone Crimson
Pthalo Blue
Micaceous Iron Oxide
Images --lots: photos (vintage, family, magazines…..), as well as lots of symbolic images you like (butterflies, flowers, astrological, etc.)  **no inkjet printouts please, laser print, or photocopies only.Paper, ephemera and collage items (words, patterned papers, textured papers, stamps, etc.)
Paint Palette (a paper plate will suffice)
Water Container
Golden Matte Medium (large bottle, should sound syrupy when you shake it)
Golden Soft Gel (Gloss)  (small bottle)
Scissors

Optional: 
Heat gun
Fabric trimmings
Dremel

Questions? email Michael at assemblage@michaeldemeng.com
Website: michaeldemeng.com