MASTER WORKSHOP: Ken Kewley - A Thousand Collages and the Landscape

A Thousand Collages and the Landscape

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Instructor: Ken Kewley

This workshop is an exploration of pure abstraction and abstraction in landscape through collage. We will draw and paint by means of collage. The statements, ‘You cannot make it up’ and ‘You must make it up’ are both true; we must let both guide us. What we put down on our paper are real things that we can adjust, just as we move through the landscape looking for something to paint. It is this abstraction that we must adjust if we are working purely abstractly or if we are working from life. We will make hundreds of abstract collages. Then we will travel back to kindergarten when we did not need to set up our easels in front of our houses in order to draw our world. Next, we will move into the third dimension and make a world from corrugated cardboard. This will become our model. We will work from it and, with our rediscovered freedom, without it. All along, we will share a path away from copying and rendering toward a more exciting and, ultimately, a more real picture of what we find beautiful in the world.

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