Susan Rossiter
Website: susanrossiter.com
Area of Operation: Ohio
Events:
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Pochoir Printmaking
Tuesday, October 10, 2023 6:30 PM 9:30 PM Portland Airport Sheridan Hotel (map) $95 This is such a fun and easy technique. Using hand cut masks and stencils you’ll create several unique prints ready as collage papers, art to frame, gift or make into cards. All skill levels welcome. Email if you have any questions susan.rossiter@yahoo.com $30 materials fee includes use of Gel Press plates, OPEN Acrylic colors, large brayers, masks, stencils, and printmaking papers Students need to bring for class: Tweezers (the pointy kind) Small fussy scissors X-Acto knife Small cutting mat Small 1 or 2” brayer Gloves if you want to keep paint off your hands (Many items are available at Runaway Art pop-up store, just email christy@runawayart.com and she’ll reserve for you If you have any questions email susan.rossiter@yahoo.com
Date: October 10th, 2023
Time: 06:30 PM - 09:30 PM
Venue: Sheraton Portland Airport Hotel, Portland, Oregon, United States
Contact: Susan Rossiter
Email: susan.rossiter@yahoo.com
Fee: $95
Event Open to Public
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Gels, Pastes & Aggregates
Monday, October 9, 2023 9:00 AM 4:30 PM Sheraton Portland Airport Hotel (map) $185 The focus of this workshop is to sample a variety of acrylic mediums that can enhance your mixed media pieces. I’ll talk about several Gels, Pastes and Grounds; discuss different ways they can used and basically answer the question: WHAT ARE ALL THESE JARS OF STUFF FOR?? For example: • Using Grounds so you can draw or write on your paintings • Glass Bead Gel to make reflective areas • Crackle Paste as a mosaic base • Creating patterns and texture with Molding Paste • And so much more… You’ll try each one and create 9 (suitcase friendly) reference pieces that show how many interesting textures you can create. Together, these samples will help you make tons of mixed media decisions going forward. Feel free to email if you have questions susan.rossiter@yahoo.com We’ll be experimenting with: • Crackle Paste • Pastel Ground • Pumice Gel • Molding Paste • Gold & Pearl Mica Flake • Heavy Gel Matte • Glass Bead Gel • Clear Granular Gel • Gesso • Fiber Paste • Absorbent Ground • Super Matte Medium Materials Fee $30 paid at beginning of class includes: 9 wood panel substrates, use of many GOLDEN Paints, Gels, Pastes and Aggregates, Pan Pastels, handout, large palette knives, misc. class materials Supplies Needed to bring for Class: palette knife, your brush set, paper towels or rags, water container. Many items are available at Runaway Art, our pop-up supply store email christy@runawayart.com to reserve any supplies you need Email with any questions: susan.rossiter@yahoo.com
Date: October 9th, 2023
Time: 09:00 AM - 04:30 PM
Venue: Sheraton Portland Airport Hotel, Portland, Oregon, United States
Contact: Susan Rossiter
Email: susan.rossiter@yahoo.com
Fee: $185
Event Open to Public
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Mini Encaustic look- achieving an encaustic look with acrylic paints and mediums
Get a luminous encaustic look using acrylic products. In this workshop, we’ll create two small mixed media pieces that go together (a diptych) using an acrylic recipe that mimics that beautiful waxy encaustic appearance. This process is an easy, fun way to paint- much less expensive than oil & cold wax or traditional encaustics. Materials Fee $30 paid at beginning of class includes: shared GOLDEN Paint colors to achieve a dreamy blue palette, shared collage papers, Medium, Interference colors & everything needed to make the secret acrylic encaustic recipe. Supplies Needed to bring for Class: 2 small substrates- gessoed canvas or wood panels 8x8" or smaller Your brush set, acrylic set, palette knife Water container, rag, palette paper Scissors Feel free to email me if you have any questions Susan.Rossiter@yahoo.com
Date: October 8th, 2023
Time: 06:30 PM - 09:30 PM
Venue: Portland Sheraton Airport Hotel, Portland, Oregon, United States
Contact: Susan Rossiter
Email: susan.rossiter@yahoo.com
Fee: $100
Event Open to Public
https://www.artandsoulretreat.com/retreat-pdx23fall-6217-workshop.php
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DECONSTRUCTED
For the first half of the day, we’re going to make several types of collage paper. Some with patterns, some distressed and some perfect blocks of color using OPEN Acrylic colors. After lunch we’ll create our collage elements and add paint and papers as needed. We’ll explore paint and paper assemblage- constructing and deconstructing until we get a nice grid of pieces. You’ll take home a 9 block (9 paintings that go together) with some suggestions for framing and hanging. This is a workshop for all skill levels and can be easily transported back home in a suitcase. Feel free to email me with questions susan.rossiter@yahoo.com $30 payable to instuctor at beginning of class includes: almost everything you need for this workshop: Gel Press Plates, OPEN Acrylic colors to share with your table, (9) 4x4” wood panels, specialty papers for printmaking, Supplies Needed to bring for Class: Soft Gel Matte & brush, palette knife Your paint brush set Your acrylic set Any collage papers you’d like to add (optional) Scissors ***Most materials will be available at Runaway Art, our pop-up supply store! Just send an email with your list to make sure your supplies will be there when you arrive. christy@runawayart.com
Date: April 19th, 2023
Time: 09:00 AM - 04:30 PM
Venue: Sheraton Portland Airport Hotel, Portland, Oregon, United States
Contact: Susan Rossiter
Email: susan.rossiter@yahoo.com
Fee: $185
Event Open to Public
https://www.artandsoulretreat.com/retreat-pdx23-6023-workshop.php
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Pochoir Printmaking
This is such a fun and easy technique. Using hand cut masks and stencils you’ll create several unique prints ready as collage papers, art to frame, gift or make into cards. All skill levels welcome. Email if you have any questions susan.rossiter@yahoo.com Materials Fee $30 paid to instructor at beginning of class includes: use of Gel Press plates, OPEN Acrylic colors, large brayers, masks, stencils, and printmaking papers Supplies Needed to bring for Class: Tweezers (the pointy kind) Small fussy scissors X-Acto knife Small cutting mat Small 1 or 2” brayer Gloves if you want to keep paint off your hands (Many items are available at Runaway Art pop-up store, just email christy@runawayart.com and she’ll reserve for you
Date: April 18th, 2023
Time: 06:30 PM - 09:30 PM
Venue: Sheraton Portland Airport Hotel, Portland, Oregon, United States
Contact: Susan Rossiter
Email: susan.rossiter@yahoo.com
Fee: $95
Event Open to Public
https://www.artandsoulretreat.com/retreat-pdx23-6024-workshop.php
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Wax Free Encaustic Effect
Paint and paper assemblages with a luminous waxy glow comparable to oil & cold wax or traditional encaustics. I’m going to give you recipes to get this effect with acrylic colors and mediums. We’ll work on multiples and learn all about Interference and Iridescent colors, paint drips, painting with palette knives, and more! Materials Fee $30 paid at beginning of class includes: GOLDEN Mediums, colors, Interference and Iridescent colors, collage papers and large palette knives Supplies Needed to bring for Class: 3 gessoed canvases or wood panels (your choice of size) Your acrylic set Water containers, rag Your brush set, palette knife
Date: April 16th, 2023
Time: 09:00 AM - 04:30 PM
Venue: Sheraton Portland Airport Hotel, Portland, Oregon, United States
Contact: Susan Rossiter
Email: susan.rossiter@yahoo.com
Fee: $185
Event Open to Public
https://www.artandsoulretreat.com/retreat-pdx23-6021-workshop.php
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Badass Abstracts
We’ll be covering a lot of fun abstracts techniques in this class. We’re also going to talk about things that hold you back in your Art Practice and how to get past them. I’ll be using a slide show with discussion, doing several process demonstrations, and walking the room to answer any questions. All skill levels welcome- here are a few things we’ll cover during this workshop: • Substrate prep • Jumping in • Choosing a color scheme, limited palette options • Making custom collage papers • Using Grounds and Pastes for Texture • Finding your “THING” • Bringing your “A-Game” • How to handle “The Voices” • Making your art stand out Materials Fee $25 paid to instructor at beginning of class includes: • A BadAss collage pack • GOLDEN Grounds or Pastes • Use of miscellaneous GOLDEN products & palette knives, tools Supplies Needed to bring for Class: • 2-3 canvas or wood panels that are prepped with black gesso any size • Your acrylic paint set and brushes. I use flat brushes mostly • Any collage papers you already have • Water container, rag or paper towels, palette paper or paper plate • Soft Gel Matte or Fluid Matte Medium/Matte Medium • Scissors If you have any questions, please email: Susan.Rossiter@yahoo.com
Date: April 15th, 2023
Time: 09:00 AM - 04:30 PM
Venue: Sheraton Portland Airport Hotel, Portland, Oregon, United States
Contact: Susan Rossiter
Email: susan.rossiter@yahoo.com
Fee: $185
Event Open to Public
https://www.artandsoulretreat.com/retreat-pdx23-6020-workshop.php
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Arte Povera
This lesser known Art movement started in Italy in the 1960's. Artists were rejecting traditional painting and using common items creating assemblage, sculpture and paintings with items like dirt, rocks, paper, clothing and rope. Their mission? To reconnect Art and Life. I’m convinced this is where the recycled and repurposed art that we see so much of today began with this small group of artists. In this class you'll get a little art history and then we'll make our own Arté Povera assemblage painting piece using acrylics, twig bundles, old postage stamps and Italian papers Materials Fee $25 paid to instructor at beginning of class includes: cradled wood panel, an Arte Povera class kit with various “poverty art” assemblage supplies- kits are unique and may include any combination of flattened bottle caps, items from nature, twigs, used postage stamps, birch tree skin, fabric, shredded money, quilling paper, string, leather and metal scrap, wine cork slices, Italian book pages, beads and more. Supplies Needed to bring for Class: Soft Gel Medium and a stronger adhesive- heavy gel or tacky glue Favorite acrylics set and brushes, palette knife Your favorite collage papers and any interesting items you have been squirreling away for a special project. Water container A second substrate- canvas, wood panel, wooden box lid or anything you already have in any size is fine Feel free to email if you have questions Susan.Rossiter@yahoo.com
Date: April 13th, 2023
Time: 09:00 AM - 04:30 PM
Venue: Sheraton Portland Airport Hotel, Portland, Oregon, United States
Contact: Susan Rossiter
Email: susan.rossiter@yahoo.com
Fee: $185
Event Open to Public
https://www.artandsoulretreat.com/retreat-pdx23-6019-workshop.php
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Fabulous 50's Florals
Celebrating Female Textile Designers from the 50’s and 60’s! See where these simple shapes and colors originated and hear about the lives and inspiring histories of Vera Neumann, Lucienne Day and Jacqueline Groag to name a few... I’ll show you some of their work and demonstrate techniques for creating your own mixed media collage pieces Feel free to email with questions Susan.Rossiter@yahoo.com Materials Fee $25 paid to instructor at beginning of class includes: Fabulous Collage Pack featuring handmade papers with a 50’s and 60’s color palette, Artist grade 140lb watercolor paper substrates, QoR watercolor sample and use of GOLDEN Acrylic Colors Supplies Needed to bring for Class: • Scissors, small fussy scissors • Small circle, oval punches or hole punch if you have them. I’m using 1 ½” and smaller & we can share • GOLDEN Soft Gel Matte or Matte Medium/Fluid Matte Medium • Small brush or palette knife for Gel/Medium • Paper towels or rag, water container, your paint brush set • Optional- any collage papers or paints you already have and would like to bring
Date: April 13th, 2023
Time: 06:30 PM - 09:30 PM
Venue: Sheraton Portland Airport Hotel, Portland, Oregon, United States
Contact: Susan Rossiter
Email: susan.rossiter@yahoo.com
Fee: $100
Event Open to Public
https://www.artandsoulretreat.com/retreat-pdx23-6018-workshop.php
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Mini Encaustic look- achieving an encaustic look with acrylic paints and mediums
Get a luminous encaustic look using acrylic products. In this workshop, we’ll create two small mixed media pieces that go together (a diptych) using an acrylic recipe that mimics that beautiful waxy encaustic appearance. This process is an easy, fun way to paint- a wonderful alternative to traditional encaustic painting. $30 materials fee includes: shared GOLDEN Paint colors to achieve a dreamy blue palette, shared collage papers, Medium, Interference colors & everything needed to make the secret acrylic encaustic recipe. Materials needed for class: 2 small substrates- gessoed canvas or wood panels 12x12 or smaller (your choice in size/shape) Your brush set, acrylic set, palette knife Water container, rag Scissors If you have any questions shoot me an email: Susan.Rossiter@yahoo.com All items will be available at the on-site store Runaway Arts
Date: April 12th, 2023
Time: 06:30 PM - 09:30 PM
Venue: Art and Soul Retreat, Portland, Oregon, United States
Contact: Susan Rossiter
Email: susan.rossiter@yahoo.com
Fee: $100
Event Open to Public
https://www.artandsoulretreat.com/retreat-pdx23-6017-workshop.php
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Modern Printmaking- Free Demo
Free Virtual Demo January 14th 12pm eastern time & live from my studio Grab your OPEN acrylics and a Gel Press plate and join me for another modern printmaking endeavor. I'm going to keep it simple and show you examples of how I cut masks for patterns and then use them with OPEN Acrylics and my Gel Press. You'll see how masks can create beautiful negative and positive patterns We'll have a raffle at the end I'll be mailing a collage pack to a random participant. You're welcome to work with me or just take notes. Materials I'm using: Golden OPEN acrylics 6" Gel Press Plate Brayers Tyvek paper Scissors Rice paper
Date: January 14th, 2023
Time: 12:00 PM - 01:30 PM
Venue: Zoom- live from my studio, Dublin, Ohio, United States
Contact: Susan Rossiter
Email: susan.rossiter@yahoo.com
Event Open to Public
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3rd Annual Artist Trading Card event
Saturday, December 10, 2022 12:00 PM 3:00 PM Zoom live from my studio (map) $45 Discover Artist Trading Cards! Artists have been trading art for many years- but in 1997 a Swiss artist M. Vanci Stirnemann began what he called “Collaborative Cultural Performance”. He created many small pieces and held trading sessions for artists to exchange cards. ATC exchanges have really evolved over the years… The previous exchanges had a great turnout from all over the world from beginner to professional artists with diverse art backgrounds. I’m so happy to be scheduling the 3rd annual ATC Exchange and hope you will join us. The workshop will cover a little history of Artist Trading Cards as well as some different approaches to making them. I’ll show and demonstrate my creative process and favorite products. How does it work? if there are 20 people in the class, we’ll each make 20+ small pieces. I’ll give everyone a few weeks to finish them up and get them in the mail to me. Once they all arrive- I’ll divide them up and send all of you a little masterpiece from each of your classmates- including me. I’ve participated in several trades in person and through the mail and it’s really fun to get a package with 20 little paintings or collages! You can pick one thing to make 20 times or make them all different. I’ll have a ton of examples from my own collection of “trades” from all over the world. I imagine this to be a fun, relaxed class to be remembered. Materials list: You’ll need all of your favorite art supplies- whatever you have and at least 20 blank ATC’s. 2 1/2”X3 1/2 inches. You can cut them out of 150 or 300lb watercolor paperor whatever you have that is heavy enough to support your preferred art supplies. There’s only one rule- no mod podge unless you put all of your ATC’s in indivdual plastic sleeves. Gel Medium is OK just be sure it’s thoroughly dried before you mail them or they’ll all stick together. I’ll be using various heavy white papers and BLICK has assortments already cut for you in packs of 10 and 12 for under $3. They also have little envelopes and plastic sleeves. Use your imagination- the sky is the limit! https://www.dickblick.com/items/09808-1009/ Assorted papers https://www.dickblick.com/items/10118-1001/ 300lb Watercolor paper **I’ll let everyone know the approximate headcount for the class a couple days before so you know if you need to cut or buy more cards to make. **When you mail your ATC’s to me, please also send a $5 bill to cover shipping and handling when I send the ATC’s back to you.
Date: December 10th, 2022
Time: 12:00 PM - 03:00 PM
Venue: Zoom live from my studio, , ,
Contact: Susan Rossiter
Email: susan.rossiter@yahoo.com
Fee: $45
Event Open to Public