Description
CREATIVE BACKGROUNDS! Workshop by Christina Erickson
August 11, 2025 / 10am – 2pm
Join us for a day of playful exploration of pattern and color! In this workshop, you’ll discover how to create multi-layered backgrounds. We’ll start by designing and cutting our own pattern-stencils and then use them to make complex backgrounds. Following that, the instructor will demo effective ways to paint the subject, in acrylics, on top of the backgrounds. Leave with unique artworks and a new set of skills. It’s really fun!
Artist Bio Christina was a high school art teacher for 28 years, teaching courses in Art Foundations, Advanced Art, Painting, Illustration, Visual Communications, and Fashion Illustration. With a degree in Art Ed, Christina taught in Boston, Athens (Greece), and Portland. She has participated in group shows, including at Blackfish Gallery, the Art Institute, and was juried into the LO Festival of the Arts. Her motto is: Creating art should be fun and it should be brain food. christinaericksona.wixsite.com/christinaerickson
SUPPLY LIST
- Please bring the following:
- Acrylic Paints 5 or 6 tubes of your favorite colors. Fluorescent colors work great.
- Brushes Bring an assortment of brushes for arylics. Size doesn’t have to be exact (anything from 8 to 14), and a 1” utility brush. If you have stencil brushes, bring them.
- Painting Surface You could work on either paper or canvas:
- Paper Bristol (smooth) is a fabulous paper! Orr any paper 100 lb. or more. I like working on 14” x 17,” but you could work smaller.
- Canvas Several stretched canvas, or you could even bring in a painting you don’t like and paint on top of it. You’ll have time to make more than one.
- X-acto knife with a nice sharp blade.
- Cutting board (or heavy cardboard to act as a cutting board).
- The usual: water container, paint palette, paper towels or rags.
- Optional: If you have white chalk, it works great for sketching onto dried acrylic paint.
