Skills & Techniques

• Collage is a technique of an art production used in visual arts, where the artwork is made from assemblage of different forms, thus creating a new whole. (Newspaper, Cut-outs, printed text, etc.)
• Decalcomania is the process of applying gouache to paper or glass then transferring a reversal of that image onto canvas or other flat materials.
• Frottage is a technique in the visual arts of obtaining textural effects or images by rubbing lead, chalk, charcoal, etc. over paper laid on a granular or relief like surface.
• Decoupage is done by adhering cut-outs of paper or glass then coating these with one or more coats or transparent coating of varnish.
• Montage is the use for photography or film where a pictorial image is juxtaposed or placed overlapping to make another picture or design.
• Digital Applications is simply a computer program created to carry out or facilitate a task on a computing device.
• Trapunto comes from the italian word, trapungere, meaning to embroider is a technique used by Pacita Abad where her canvas are padded, sewn, and often filled with sequins, beads, shells, buttons and other things that she picks up from her travels and journeys.