FROM A PHOTOMONTAGE​​

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Thursday 6th August

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Tutor: Alison Ward has been a teacher of art throughout her career, teaching up to A level in a wide variety of secondary schools and colleges and has delivered workshops in Scotland. She teaches all aspects of drawing, painting and printmaking, helping people of all ages and abilities to develop the confidence to enjoy being creative,
teaching them the skills needed to express themselves visually, in a non-judgemental, relaxed atmosphere.

Photomontage (sometimes referred to as photocollage) is a technique that blends multiple photographs of the same landscape, object, or person viewed from different perspectives, to create a new, layered image. Originating in the mid 1800’s, the technique was popularised again by David Hockney in his photocollages of the Grand Canyon and Los Angeles in the early 1980’s. Today you will initially create a photomontage, which will then form the basis of your own chalk pastel artwork.

 

You will need to print out and bring with you 2 colour photographs, no smaller than A5, of the same subject matter, taken from different angles. For example: a photo of an interesting building taken at eye level, plus another looking up at it (a worm’s eye view). a simple landscape with a clear horizon line, viewed at ground level, plus one looking at it from a much higher vantage point (a bird’s eye view).

NB: Please bring an apron or old shirt to protect your clothing; plus a pencil, eraser, ruler, glue stick and a pair of sharp scissors to create your photomontage.

 

Please also bring £5 payable to the tutor on the day towards the cost of paper and chalk
pastels.