Mary Evans Tissue Paper Painting Workshop

Description:

Join artist Mary Evans for this tissue paper painting workshop. Using PVA glue and an assortment of coloured tissue paper, you will learn to create scenes that reference traditional landscape paintings. Through her experimentation with composition and the layering of tissue paper, Mary shows you how to create new colours and add depth. Finally, see how to elevate your artwork by painting a doily to resemble a gold gilded frame!

Materials used:

Materials:
• Thick paper
• Tissue paper
• PVA glue
• Brushes
• Pot of water
• Marker pens
• A Doily (optional)
• Acrylic Paint (optional)

Mary Evans

Mary Evans (born 1963) is an international artist known for her silhouetted representations of the human form. Mary’s practice explores the social, political, geographical, and historical frameworks of diaspora, migration, and global exchange. Working primarily with brown kraft paper and other disposable materials, she creates large-scale, research-led installations that interrogate sites, stories, and questions of place and belonging. Her work examines the power relationships between Africa and Europe, moving between the real and imagined to map the ephemeral and the unmappable. Drawing on the silhouette, a familiar European visual device, she renders the Black body visible as a site for narratives of resilience, mobility, geography, and memory.

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