Mixed Media Painting & Collage (After Dan Eldon) How to do it

1. Mixed Media Painting & Collage (After Dan Eldon) How to do it

2. 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

3. Dan Eldon • 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?

4. Dan Eldon • Black and white photocopies • Cool colors laid over warm colors and vise versa • Picture unified by color and shapes connecting other shapes and colors • Use of text and lettering as design and compositional elements • Layering to produce richness of surface and texture

5. Rauschenberg • Black and white photocopies • Cool colors laid over warm colors and vise versa • Picture unified by color and shapes connecting other shapes and colors • Layering to produce richness of surface and texture • Space between objects created by overlapping objects over others, and creating shadow detail around/under edges

6. Dan Eldon • 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 • Use of text and lettering as design and compositional elements • Layering to produce richness of surface and texture

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

8. A variety of related Photocopied images cut up like jig-saw pieces and reassembled as new images • Vibrant, bright colors

9. Dan Eldon • 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 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

10. Ramore Bearden • Overlapping, layering of images • Images created from cut colored and patterned shapes and assembled

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13. Dan Eldon • Overlapping, layering of images • Images created from cut colored and patterned shapes and assembled

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15. Dan Eldon • Use: • 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

16. Dan Eldon Enjoy! Please…….