Buderim Craft Cottage

What to expect 

This workshop will include: 

• Examining processes for professionally including drawings in collage on canvas. You will work on two gessoed canvases, one smaller, (about 10 by 12 inches, or 11 by 14 inches, or thereabouts) and one larger, at least 24 x 30 inches.  

• Briefly covering basic design and drawing principles. 

• Looking at preparation of drawings for collage. 

• Collaging and texturing the surfaces; printing, stamping, and stencilling. 

•  Completing the works with paint and/or dry drawing media. Bring along any drawings you’d like to use. 

 

About your tutor 

Tricia Reust is a visual artist working in most media who has lived with her family on the Redcliffe Peninsula for the past 30 years.  She is well-known at the Buderim Craft Cottage for her innovative approaches to art, as well as her energetic teaching. 

 

Tricia is an active member of several art societies. Her many awards include the National Mortimore Prize in 2012 and Second Prize and Honourable Mention in the 10th International Drawing Biennale.  

 

She has recorded three episodes on “Colour in Your Life”, published two books, and has recorded several instructional videos. 

 

What will I need to bring? 

Morning tea and lunch are included in fee! 

 

Materials List: 

Tricia asks that you not be overwhelmed by this list.  You have many choices on what to bring along, and you are welcome to bring the barest minimum of supplies.  Optionals are clearly marked. 

• Surface: two gessoed canvases (the canvases usually come already gessoed if purchased from art stores), one no larger than 11 by 14 inches, and one at least 24 by 30 inches.   

• Visual diary and pencil/s for taking notes, and for making a paper stencil; a water-fast black ink pen (for drawing on white tissue paper). I use Pigma Micron. 

• Drawings from home to use in collage. Charcoal, conte, pastel etc for drawing on canvas. 

• Acrylic paint (not Jo Sonja).  Your regular supply, plus some good transparent acrylics for example, Red Gold, Phthalo Turquoise, Quinacridone Magenta, Ultramarine Blue, Dioxazine Purple, Paynes Grey, Transparent Yellow and any of the Siennas and Umbers.  White gesso. Optional: white and black Atelier Free Flow for final details. 

• Containers for water (EG: old ice-cream tubs); Brayer (optional);  Scissors. 

• Brushes: your regular acrylic brushes and at least one flat quarter inch Taklon and a Taklon liner brush; cheap wide bristle brush for medium application; sponge; sponge roller is essential (we use this to roll out our glazes and for certain effects on the canvas). 

• Palette:  must be large and flat, not watercolour palette with recesses; palette knife; combs and/or other tools with which to create textured lines. 

• Paper towels essential and rags (I use an old towel to cover my surface); cling wrap; masking tape. 

• Mediums: Essential Binder Medium; Clear Painting Medium or Middle Painting Medium; Matt Spray (this is NOT fixative); impasto gel (also called heavy gel gloss) and/or Texture medium (also called modelling compound); Spray varnish (I use Satin).  

• Optional: Art Spectrum clear Pastel primer (used to restore tooth if you are going to be drawing on canvas with charcoal/pastel etc). 

• Collage materials: (I will have some to share).  Any thick and thin papers and fabrics.  

• Tissue paper (at least one sheet of white essential). 

• Optional:  Stamps and stencils, (I will have some to share. NOTE:  We make a paper stencil; we can stamp
  and print just one object, e.g., a leaf, so anything else is optional). 

• Optional:  Reference photos:  landscape, birds, flowers, figures, etc., any motifs you want to explore in
  drawing on the canvas.