mixed media painting & collage (after dan eldon) how to do it

Mixed Media Painting & Collage(After Dan Eldon)

How to do it

• Photocopied images pasted and worked over with paint, charcoal, pencil, etc

• Overlapping and layering of elements

• Edges obscured and scrubbed with drybrush paint

• Objects connecting the edges of the frame

• Transparency and semi-transparency

• Black and white photocopies

• What images have meaning for the artist (you). Why are they selected?

• What ideas are they used to convey, or represent?

Dan Eldon

Dan Eldon

• Use of text and lettering as design and compositional elements

• Layering to produce richness of surface and texture

• Black and white photocopies• Cool colors laid over warm colors

and vise versa• Picture unified by color and

shapes connecting other shapes and colors

Rauschenberg

• Layering to produce richness of surface and texture

• Space between objects created by overlapping objects over others, and creating shadow detail around/under edges

• Black and white photocopies• Cool colors laid over warm colors

and vise versa• Picture unified by color and

shapes connecting other shapes and colors

Dan Eldon

• Use of text and lettering as design and compositional elements

• Layering to produce richness of surface and texture

• Black and white photocopies colored with washes

• Cool colors laid over warm colors and vise versa

• Picture unified by color and shapes connecting other shapes and colors

Rauschenberg• Images mirrored and or flipped• Sand, salt added as a textural

element

• A variety of related Photocopied images cut up like jig-saw pieces and reassembled as new images

• Vibrant, bright colors

Dan Eldon

• Overlapping of objects, apertures (holes) cut where doors or windows might be, so other objects are seen behind

• Unifying color of earthy reds are right throughout the composition as background

• Color images cut from glossy magazines and glued down

• Images move across the canvas connecting other images therefore unifying the composition

• Picture unified by color and shapes connecting other shapes and colors

• Overlapping, layering of images

• Images created from cut colored and patterned shapes and assembled

Ramore Bearden

Dan Eldon

Dan Eldon

• Overlapping, layering of images

• Images created from cut colored and patterned shapes and assembled

Dan Eldon

Rahul

Dan EldonUse:• Symbols: e.g.

Statue of Liberty; Flags; Medallions; signs; etc

• Documents: e.g. photocopies of passport pages; receipts; tickets; invoices; lists; ads; etc

• Hand-written slogans; quotes; proverbs; etc

• Drawings

Arrange:: Principles of Design• Overlapping• Connecting• Intersecting• Movement towards

a focal point• Large object

balanced by a small object

• Rhythm• Pattern• Color

Dan Eldon

Enjoy! Please…….