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Live Demo: Paper & Mixed Media Magic: Layer, Print, Embellish, & More!
Thursday, May 22nd
5-7pm MDT
7-9pm EDT
12pm–2am BST (Friday)
9am-11am AEST (Friday)
Mentor: Catherine Nash
$19.00
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Live Demo: Paper & Mixed Media Magic
Layer, Print, Embellish, & More!
Explore the playful power of improvisation with an experimental approach to combining a wide variety of both wet and dry medias, both black, white, and color on a variety of sized and unsized papers.
The surfaces of papers made with different fibers that are beaten, formed, and dried differently offer unique interaction with drawing media and a rich diversity of visual effects.
In this LIVE DEMO, Mastrius Mentor Catherine Nash will both demo and present finished artworks to explain the adapted painting techniques from her studies of Japanese woodblock printing. By layering textures and mark-making, paper treatment and surface embellishment, you can expand and enrich your drawing surface!
What we’ll explore:
- A brief intro to Japanese and European hand papermaking
- Paper types explained: fiber, weight, and absorbency
- Testing brushstrokes across different papers
- Adjusting absorbency with external sizing
- Using thinned acrylics and hake brushes, adapted to watercolor
- Media comparisons: wet vs dry (ink, watercolor, wax, pastels, graphite, more)
- Techniques: resists, stenciling, masking, brayer printing
- Final layers: metalpoint, graphite, colored pencil, pen & ink.
Watch the process unfold in real-time and gain expert insights that will elevate your paintings. Join us for this inspiring session and bring new energy to your creative practice!
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Meet Catherine Nash
Assemblage Art | Drawing | Encaustic | Fibre | Mixed Media | Sculpture | Watercolor
A long time resident of Tucson, Arizona, Catherine Nash is an artist who freely mixes media in her work to express her ideas. Nash’s love of travel and different cultures has inspired her to live, research and teach on four continents over the course of 40+ years. Perhaps most inspiring were two self-designed research trips to Japan, where she studied the techniques of Japanese woodblock printing and papermaking, and was inspired by Japanese culture and aesthetics.
She received a B.F.A. in Printmaking and Drawing from the University of New Hampshire and an M.F.A. in Mixed Media from the University of Arizona. Nash has been a faculty member teaching drawing and watecolor painting at the “Arizona Sonora Desert Museum Art Institute” since 2003. In addition, she has taught advanced workshops in drawing, encaustic painting, Western/Japanese handmade paper, sculptural paper casting and sculptural artist books across the U.S., as well as in professional studios in eight European countries, Canada, Japan and Australia. Her work has been included by invitation into numerous national and international exhibitions.
Nash was, and is still, greatly honored to have received the “Lumies Artist” award for southern Arizona, “awarded to an individual artist that has demonstrated excellence, originality and ingenuity in the local arts and culture sector.” She was also awarded two 3 week long artist residencies at “The Lake” near Eureka, California in the studio of the late painter Morris Graves.
Experiences with her relatives in Ireland, explorations of the aesthetics and cultures of Japan, the rich gradations and spaciousness of Scandinavian summer night skies, and time spent within the wilderness of the southwestern desert, influence and inform Nash’s artwork. With a life long dedication and consistency in her studio practice, Nash creates mixed media paintings, sculptures, and installations that respond to nature and reflect a spiritual and philosophical relationship with the environment: the poetics of landscape.