The day we were abstract with our masking tape

For this session we had collected some old used canvases from charity shops and given them a quick whitewash with acrylic so that some of the old picture shoed through. Then we used masking tape to create shapes and lines at random, painting over them with different coloured acrylic. We found it best to pull off the acrylicbefore the paint dries.

When the first layer dried we then used making tape again over the top of what we had done and created another layer. Then another after that. You can keep going as long as you want until you are happy with the result. Warning- have a large bin bag to hand as the masking tape soon mounts up and is covered in paint!

As can be seen above some people also added pieces of fabric too. You could build up additional layers with material or paper, scraps from magazines or anything you fancied. Yoe end up with an abstract mish mash!

The day we had a ripping time

In this session we attacked a huge variety of magazines looking for shapes and colours that we could do portraits with. We assembled collages to make the faces, placing some odd images to create the features of peoples faces. Some used loads of different hair to make up the hair of a head nad one individual used only camera related images to make their face. Simply hand ripped out of the magazine to give random edges and glued down with good old PVA, it proved very effective.