Finding Your Creative Voice through Collage

Mixed media artist Hanoch Piven believes art and play are two concepts that go hand-in-hand towards demystifying the idea that only a select few can be real artists. Piven's playful portraits have appeared in Time, Newsweek, Rolling Stone, The Atlantic Monthly, The Times and Entertainment Weekly, among other publications.

Throughout this course, you will use everyday objects to create 3D collages in order to unleash your creativity and allow you to express yourself visually. Join Piven on this journey to create a fresh new way of seeing, and become the artist you've always been.

Piven will start off this course by presenting his collection of work, talk about his references, and share the circumstances which led him to develop his own unique way of creating caricatures.

Next, you'll use his collage technique as a creative experiment where you'll be able to observe different ways to trigger and build up a creative process. Meanwhile, you will also consider the concept of collage as a metaphor for any creative process, helping you enter the right frame of mind in order to creatively play.

You will analyze the face, using the tips Piven learned throughout his 40 years of drawing and studying other caricaturists; learning how to create similarities and visual hierarchies, while Piven gives a demonstration of how he creates a portrait from A to Z.

Art is a safe place in which we can explore the way we interact with the world and enter a space of inner communication and self-reflection. This is why so many artists have created self-portraits, and why you'll create one too.

Trusting your individual voice is key to allowing yourself to act creatively. A good creative space is one that allows you to follow your own ideas and feelings, and break free from convention. Once you trust your intuition, you'll have your own personal measure which will help you distill what is essential, or at least meaningful, in your projects and beyond. In other words: editing. Editing is essential but basing that process on your own guiding rules is the real secret.

Because being creative is deeply connected to finding and cultivating your individuality, you'll end the course creating a 3-dimensional self-portrait.

This course is aimed at anyone who wants to enter a space that encourages you to see, feel, think and behave differently. This will allow you to come up with new ways of seeing, creating, educating and being.

Any aspiring creative who wants to loosen up will find the spark they need in this course, as well as art educators and teachers in general who want to discover alternative ways of sharing content in the classroom.

Previous ability or artistic knowledge not necessary. You only need the motivation to play and use this process to discover new ideas around you and within yourself.

You'll need a box of reused small objects, some Blu-Tack, and the greatest tool for creating 3-dimensional collages: a simple hot glue gun. It will also be helpful to have some foam core boards or any other sturdy surface to work on and some colored paper. Finally, you'll need a camera, which can be on your phone.