Gum Printing and Collage– Hope and Julia Zanes

Two-day workshop
limited to 8 participants
June 21 - 22, 2008
Tuition: $300
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Julia and Hope will lead participants in learning this turn-of-the-century photographic process that uses large contact negatives, sun, and water to produce prints. The first day will be spent learning this technique involving pigments and light sensitive chemicals on paper, and often form the underlying shapes and motifs of the compositions. Participants will have access to some old glass negatives for their use, or they can bring their own to work from. On the second day of the workshop, students will use the prints created on day one, to make mixed-media images, using layers of collage and liquid acrylic paint and building up layers of glazes, beginning with an earth-toned ground and working up to a final layer of transparent oil paint. The subjects will be personal narratives of some sort—a self-portrait, map or landscape, working from visual references, but not strictly from life.

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Julia Zanes received her B.A. from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Her artwork is marked by her deep imagination as she explores mythic narrative defined through otherworldy symbols. Her surreal paintings evolve through the layering of color, pattern and symbol. Known throughout New England for the sheer beauty of these story-like panels, Zanes is interested in working with participants to explore their own myth and narrative, while learning the fundamentals of color and pattern.

Julia Zanes’ has used photographs by her mother, photographer Hope Zanes in some of her works. Both mother and daughter have shown their work throughout New England, including at the Currier Gallery in Manchester, New Hampshire.