Welcome to
The Painting Lesson
by Linda Carson
big black pig studio
98 King St. N., Waterloo Ontario Canada
www.bigblackpig.com
Assemblage
Assemblage is artmaking by sticking together three-dimensional materials. Are you allowed to do that? As I like to say in the studio, "There are fewer rules than you think."
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For example: In the assemblage (above), acrylic paint itself is used as an adhesive. I've used the paint to glue in bits of sponge, glitter, aluminum leaf and plastic. The image projects more than a centimeter above the panel. |
The word assemblage is used more often in sculpture than in painting, but I couldn't resist including it in The Painting Lesson because it's analogous to the practice of collage.
Back to the main lesson?Art & Text (C) Linda Carson 2002
Loosely translated, that means:
"Please don't copy this material or redistribute it
in some other form, for any reason.
This is my livelihood."