Jacqueline Sullivan

On September 20 I will be teaching a class at the Capac Historical Museum in Capac, MI. This is my Transparent Collage class which involves painting tissue paper and then building it up on layers on a canvas. It’s one of my favorite classes to teach – so much fun to make all of the painted papers and then see how layering them builds the depth in the collage. Here is a photo of one of the pieces that I did with this method. E-mail me (jacquelinesullivan@mac.com) for more info on the class!

In August I taught at Art Unraveled in Phoenix. I have been at this venue since the very first one. Every year it just gets better and better. The students this year seemed to do especially good work and I left feeling like the proud parent. The book on the left is a photo of a journal from my Textured Journal Class. The book was made by Susan Madden. I love the fact that she “did her own thing”. Her journal (the blue one on the left) is very different in style from my class sample (green,brown,copper book on the right) I always feel I have done a good job of teaching when the student’s work looks different from mine!

These are photos of my students’ work from the Experimental Watercolor Collage Class at The International Calligraphy Conference in Naperville, Ill. in July

I want to let you know about some upcoming classes that I have in Michigan. They are at Art in the Loft in Alpena, Michigan. The workshops are April 25, 26 and 27. The 25th will be a short workshop on Simple Metal Etching. The 26 and 27 is the Acrylic Textures, Layers and Metallics. This workshop will feature the techniques that are presented on my DVD of the same name. For more info see the link above or call The Art in the Loft at 989-356-4877. Alpena is a beautiful little place and I am sure that we will have fun! Come and join us!

I have been working for some time on class proposals for the various art retreats next year. It is so hard to come up with something new! I really like teaching process classes – but finding new processes all of the time is a real challenge! So, mostly I have been trying to work with my usual processes but in a different way.

My fascination with Molding Paste continues! I just love stencilling with the stuff! In this collage, which I have proposed to Art Unraveled in Phoenix for next year, I have used the molding paste around vintage images. It is always a little “tricky” to make the molding paste and the photo look like they are unified, but I think that they really do merge well in this collage. And, while I usually do not work much with vintage images, I am rather fond of this piece- the layers stand out nicely over the canvas and the colors and images are working well!