Paper Painting Workshop by Elizabeth St. Hilaire Nelson

"Elephant" by Elizabeth Nelson

I have just signed up for a Paper Painting Workshop by Elizabeth St. Hilaire Nelson, and I am so excited about it! My husband, Brad, and my two boys are going on a Boy Scout trip the same weekend, so the timing is just perfect. I had some other tentative plans for that weekend, but when I came across this workshop description, it just seemed like it was meant to be:-) It will be so much fun to immerse myself in painting with a group of people for two 6.5 hour days. And, Elizabeth's paintings are so gorgeous!!!

Of course, I already work with a type of collage to create the textured backgrounds for my newest acrylic paintings, but Elizabeth's technique is quite different. In Elizabeth's paintings, as well as many other collage/mixed media artists', you still see some of the original media (newspapers, etc.) in the finished painting. I have only done this to a limited extent in some of my paintings, such as "A Cow in Paris" to the right, but haven't really delved into the process of multiple layers of both collage and paint, or in using collage elements to contour the shape of an image. I don't know if I will incorporate any of this process in to my future paintings, but to learn the techniques will be so much fun.

I can't wait to share with you what I create in this workshop! Check back in early May for the photos.

Please view my paintings at http://JenniferFerrisArt.com/