BUNDLE: Everything Color & Tinted Mortar Substrates with Erin Pankratz
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Mosaic Arts Online is offering both of Erin Pankratz's online courses together in a bundle option! With this bundle option, you will get both courses at a lower price than purchasing them separately. Below is the description of each of these courses. Click the titles below to watch the FREE promos and personal interviews to learn about these courses and see if these techniques are for you!
Tinted mortar substrates with Erin Pankratz: How to tint mortar and create mortar mesh substrates.
Mosaic Arts Online is thrilled to have Erin Pankratz on board and sharing her technical and artistic approach to tinting mortar and making substrates. Erin's signature approach to adding color to her mosaic art has created quite the buzz in the mosaic community. Now that she has brought these color-rich techniques to an online platform, people around the world can learn from her and discover their own style with these skills.
In the promo and the personal interview Erin shares how she got started in mosaics, but more importantly, she describes how these techniques were created and why. Erin's diverse art background shines throughout this online course. Students will learn a variety of art elements, including color balance, a bit of color theory, composition of color, and so much more.
In this course, Erin talks about how and why she likes to use both powder and liquid tints. She explains how to get the proper load ratios when mixing the tints with the mortar, and what mortar she uses and why. You will see up close how much water is needed to get the desirable consistency for the tinted mortar. Erin also teaches her inventive multi-colored, layered, and sometimes textured technique for the underpaintings she uses on her substrates.
This online course is presented in 20 sections which are full of information. It is the same information that is taught throughout her in-person workshop. The benefit of participating in this online course is that you will have an up-close bird's-eye-view of her hands as she works and teaches. You will also have the luxury of watching the sections repeatedly, as you can stop and restart at any point in the course. Once purchased, this course is yours in perpetuity and you will have unlimited login access.
Note: Erin has a sister course that is the follow up to this one- "Color Everything: How to Create and Mosaic with Dots and Under-paintings". If you are interested in learning how Erin creates her tinted mortar dots and uses her thin tesserae “sticks” in her mosaic work, and you would like the full experience of both courses, there is a bundle option available. Click this link to take you directly there!
Everything Color (DOTS!) with Erin Pankratz: Learn how to create and mosaic with colorful dots and under-paintings. : Learn how to create and mosaic with colorful dots and under-paintings.
Erin Pankratz has brought her signature colorful mosaic "dots" and substrates to Mosaic Arts Online! She begins this online course by teaching a few different methods for creating under-paintings on her substrates, followed by lessons on how to create the dots, and then how to mosaic with them. This course has the same information she teaches in an in-person workshop, but the video format allows her to demonstrate making the dots more in depth! Erin has a sister online course that teaches how to mix tinted mortar properly and create the colorful substrates. These "dots" are then adhered by using modern andemento. Once you have learned how to create the substrates, this online course is a wonderful accompaniment to increase understanding of color, composition, balance, and other art elements to incorporate into your art. All of these dot and mosaic techniques can be used in a variety of ways. Throughout the course, Erin urges you to think of other ways to incorporate these techniques into your own work, in your own ways.
The beauty of this online course is that if you missed something or want to learn it again, you can refer back as often as you like. This course is broken up into sections so that you can watch and learn each section, and then move on to the next step. No need to play and then pause. (We recommend watching the entire course before diving in.) Once you have all the tools and materials necessary, go have fun!
It is recommended that you learn how to mix the tinted mortars and create Erin's handmade tinted mortar substrates before learning how to create the underpainting and dots in this course. There is an option to buy both of her courses in a bundle in the Mosaic Arts Online library. If you know how to tint mortar, create tinted mortar substrates, and want to move into learning how to make dots and mosaic with them, then this course is for you.
There is a full PDF with all the tools, materials, and resources, so that you can get started. You will also be introduced to these materials in the third section of this course. Erin has included everything in this course so that you, the student, can feel as though she is right there with you.
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"All of my work culminates from the many different techniques I have studied and have been exposed to my whole life: weaving, dying, printmaking, drawing, painting, casting, sculpting, and mosaic. My work always has an element of time, marking changes, and shifting perspectives. The work is not a suspension of one moment in time, but the accumulation of moments within one piece. Using seemingly meandering lines of individually cut coloured tile woven together to create layers of meaning throughout my work."