Art of Repetition $65

Juliana Coles

Repetition is necessary to art making and creativity - it allows us to create and develop a series, it assists us with composition, and greatly aids our experimentation process, which is the basis of all art making.  This workshop will concentrate on setting up repeating black and white images for high impact, and learning how to work back into these black and white images for interesting affects that can be used with any other art form.   At the risk of repeating myself, I'll repeat myself:  The art of repetition is a creative device we will use to set up and develop  the pages of our visual journal.  We can start with one image, repeat it like a quilt, or shrink it down, make more copies, and create a border.  Or blow it up and expand on one single or central idea.  From one idea, from one possibility, we get many.  The art of repetition is like a birthing ground or a playing field and is soothing or Zen like in that we don't have to think about, or brainstorm what comes next, we just continue with our series and allow the potential to flow.  This gives our mind freedom to come up with new ways of picture making and story telling.  It's in these repetitive experiences that we have our aha! or eureka, I've found it! moments.  This is the perfect introductory workshop for those interested in discovering my style of working! No inner self-expression required! Process & experimentation is stressed as opposed to product.

Supply List:
Mixed Media Tool Kit:   Please bring:  A book for your Visual Journal any size or one you are currently working on
You will need your favorite supplies or your mixed media tool kit.
your favorite glue - I love big UHU glue sticks
scissors
some brushes for your paints
a rag or two
a jar for water. 

All Visual Journalists should have a set of rubber stamp letters.  And I highly recommend Staz-On stamp pads because we work so quickly.   The rest is up to you.  Just bring your favorite supplies (paints, rubber stamps, inks, crayons- whatever) in some of your favorite colors- or bring some new supplies you've been meaning to try and we'll work with them.

Collage:  Bring some collage items that appeal to you (bring copies of things that are precious to you.)

Repetition:  get to know your local copy center. Bring a bunch of interesting images - photos, patterns, even some of your own artwork or small sections of your artwork to your favorite copy center and play around with the self service machines.  Get to know them.  See what they can do.  Test out the different functions.  You may need a little help at first, and most copy stores are very happy to help answer all your copying questions.  Change the settings:  there are settings for just text, for just photo, and something in between.  Some settings will give your images shadings or tones of gray - we don't want that - we want the real black and white graphic images. Take your images and blow them up. Shrink them down. I love doing this and always have a good time seeing what happens.  Photos work really well. Make a series of repeating images - they can all be the same image or images that look similar.   We'll need two batches of different repeating images.  You'll need at least 10 of each - some repeating the same size and some in different sizes.  Bring these stacks of images to class and be ready to cut, paste, and go crazy with layering materials!

For any questions or concerns email Juliana Coles of Pete and Repeat at meandpete@msn.com Website: www.meandpete.com