Mixed Media image Transfers with Miranda Forrester

Description:

Join artist Miranda Forrester for this mixed media image transfer workshop, inspired by the techniques she uses in her own paintings. You’ll explore the creative possibilities of combining observational drawing, tracing, and printed images to produce vibrant, layered artworks. Using plants as your subject matter; Miranda will guide you through the image transfer process, helping you experiment with materials and methods to create your own dynamic pieces that echo Miranda’s painterly approach.

Materials used:

• Paper
• PVA Glue
•Tracing paper
• Brushes
• Colouring pencils
• Printed images
• Pencils
• Marker pens

Miranda Forrester

Miranda Forrester is a figurative painter living and working in London. Exploring the significance of domestic environments for queer people, Miranda’s paintings capture intimate, insular moments of warmth and tenderness and animate large expanses of emptiness with vibrant, fluid and assertive lines.

Miranda’s work has been featured in several exhibitions at key galleries and museums, such as the Saatchi Gallery and Tiwani Contemporary.

Download the easy-to-follow workshop flash sheet to follow along with written instructions.

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