This full-day workshop is structured to give students a solid technical foundation in how to make a variety of marbled paper patterns, while also encouraging and inspiring students to work creatively within the medium.
After an introduction to marbling history and materials, students will learn how to mix acrylic paint for marbling and create a basic “back and forth” combed pattern, before going on to learn how to make a stone pattern. In the second half of class, students will use marbling combs to learn how to make a variety of traditional patterns including the nonpareil and chevron. We will cover a lot of ground in one day! Come prepared to learn, work, and have fun.
All materials provided.
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Sheryl Oppenheim was raised in Orlando, Florida and currently lives and works in New York City. She is a painter who began to learn the craft of marbling after encountering marbled papers at her first job in New York, at a bookbinding supply house. Her books of marbled paper are in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Watson Library, the New York Public Library, the Walker Art Center, the Kohler Art Library and the Brooklyn Museum. Her work has recently been exhibited at the Cranbrook Museum of Art, the Brooklyn Academy of Music and Small Editions, as well as galleries ...
Sheryl Oppenheim was raised in Orlando, Florida and currently lives and works in New York City. She is a painter who began to learn the craft of marbling after encountering marbled papers at her first job in New York, at a bookbinding supply house. Her books of marbled paper are in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Watson Library, the New York Public Library, the Walker Art Center, the Kohler Art Library and the Brooklyn Museum. Her work has recently been exhibited at the Cranbrook Museum of Art, the Brooklyn Academy of Music and Small Editions, as well as galleries in New York, Los Angeles, Oakland and Paris. She received a BA from Brandeis University and an MFA from Temple University's Tyler School of Art.
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