This is an online workshop held via Zoom with Case for Making

Tomie Ohtake (1913 - 2005) was a Japanese Brazilian artist who was very interested in abstraction and ways to unsee images in her paintings. She became an important part of the geometric abstraction movement in Brazil and her work was full of color and organic shapes. In the 1960s, she experimented with creating small collage studies of ripped paper and then making a painting from these collages. In the 1970s, she started cutting her collage papers with scissors and moving to brighter, more saturated colors.

In this workshop, we will learn more about Tomie Ohtake’s work and create a series of small collage studies using magazines, catalogs, and printed images. We’ll experiment with translating one of our collages into a watercolor, letting the shapes and colors in our collage inform our painting. Register here >>