Mixed Media Painting

Romare Bearden – Patchwork Quilt - cut- and-pasted cloth and paper with synthetic polymer paint on composition board, 1970

Romare Bearden – The Calabash, Collage

Rhea Carmi – Reaching Out – Earth Music Box – 2009 – mixed media, box spring, tar paper, twine, and paint

Rhea Carmi – Humanity’s Struggles – 2008 – Mixed Media on Canvas

Jim Dine – “Study for this Sovereign Life” – 1985 – oil and sand

Jim Dine – Silent Sister – 2001 – oil, enamel, charcoal, bondo and found objects on two wood panels

Jim Dine – Rosecrucian Interior Scene, with Lemons – 2010 – acrylic, charcoal, sand and wood on linen

Paul Klee – Flower Myth – 1918 – watercolor on pastel foundation on fabric and newsprint mounted on board

Paul Klee – Red Balloon – 1922 – Oil on muslin primed with chalk

Paul Klee – Tale a la Hoffmann – 1921 – watercolor, ink, and pencil on paper

Robert Rauschenberg – Untitled – 1963 – oil, silkscreened ink, metal, and plastic on canvas

Robert Rauschenberg – Canyon – 1959 – oil, house paint, pencil, paper, fabric, metal, button, nails, cardboard, printed paper, photographs, wood, paint tubes, mirror string, pillow and bald eagle on canvas

Tom Wesselmann – Still Life #20 – Mixed Media

Your assignment: Create a mixed media painting on the watercolor paper provided or canvas bought by you or any media you want as a base. Maximum 18x24. Choose a word from a page torn out of a dictionary you are provided. This word mist be visible in your project. The project is based on this word. You can use any media provided – sharpie, pen, graphite, charcoal, watercolor, acrylic, oil, or other media you choose to bring You must sketch our your idea an have teacher approval with a list a materials to be used; you get one day to sketch your idea; grade will be taken on this! It must be a good composition. Be creative!!!