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Join Laura as she works on her mixed media landscape paintings. She’s using a base of collage and experimenting with using white to make a photographic collage more painterly. See how she uses different media, including digital painting, acrylic painting and coloured pencils to achieve the effects she’s after.

Approximate run time: 27 minutes

Presenter: Laura Kemshall

Join Laura as she works on her mixed media landscape paintings. She's using a base of collage and experimenting with using white to make a photographic collage more painterly. See how she uses different media, including digital painting to achieve the effects she's after.
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To work along with all the ideas in this workshop with Laura you’ll need:

Collage papers (photocopies of your Handpainted Collage Papers, or of photographs)
Acrylic matte gel medium
Wooden panel
Flat paintbrush
White acrylic paint
iPad or tablet and your favourite painting app (Laura uses an iPad, Apple Pencil and Procreate app)
Printer (laser printer ideally so that your images won’t smudge with the addition of subsequent layers of glue/paint)
White or pale coloured pencils

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