Cordula Kagemann
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Abstract Collage Course with Cordula Kagemann

What Is The Process & Possibilities Course?

Process & Possibilities is an online course designed to keep you connected to your art practice, finding solutions with papers, paint and textiles.

Step back in time as Cordula Kagemann, takes you behind the scenes, into her 300-year-old farmhouse in Germany, to learn her signature process that has continued to sustain her art practice for over 15 years. This is a special opportunity to be guided methodically through the processes and techniques that have made Cordula one of Europe’s most recognisable abstract collage artists.

Cordula’s gentle tuition will open up a world of possibilities. Armed with a new approach, you’ll move forward with confidence knowing how to create a coherent body of artwork you are proud to share.

All course materials, including streaming videos, actionable tasks and downloadable resource guides are within an easy to use member portal with lifetime access.

You’ll be able to ask questions, get feedback and solve the puzzle of collage as you connect directly with Cordula and fellow Process & Possibilities students through a private online community, including live Q&A’s.

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You'll Learn How To....

Abstract The Everyday

By learning how to abstract the everyday influences of your life together with the endless possibilities of working with transparent papers and paint, through the process itself, your work will become visually unified and layered with meaning.

Move Through Creative Blocks

Stay connected to your artwork by learning several unassuming almost meditative ways for preparing materials in advance. Taking the pressure off feeling like you need to create a masterpiece every time you head into the studio whilst ensuring you’re prepared when inspiration strikes!

Create A Coherent Body Of Work

Working on a series of canvases from beginning to completion, you’ll learn Cordula’s signature techniques and processes finding the rhythm, resources and ideas for continuation in your artistic practice to create a coherent body of work that is uniquely yours.

What's Included?

With 8 modules, 74 videos and over 7 hours of footage, Process & Possibilities will provide you with a deep insight into Cordula’s thought process. Learning her methods for image structure and design almost incidentally, as she turns four blank canvas’ into finished artwork.

Through the calm and personable tuition, Cordula is famous for, you’ll discover the different types of paper suitable for layering, glazing, paper cuts and image transfers and how to make your own unique collage materials before moving towards a textured approach to collage by embedding textiles and stitch into low relief works of art.

Each module contains several palatable video lessons that build on each other plus actionable assignments with comprehensive downloadable resource guides.

Students are fully supported by the Fibre Arts Take Two team and are invited to join a private Facebook community where you can share your progress directly with Cordula. Here Cordula offers invaluable support to students with 8 weeks of *ongoing tuition.

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About This Course

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Staying Connected

When life is feeling heavy and dark it shouldn’t leave you feeling disconnected from your art. But it often does…if you don’t grasp the importance of daily creative rituals.

Through a multitude of exercises including small image composition studies, creating bespoke collage material and abstract paper cuts , you will explore different ways to stay connected to your artwork and move through creative blocks finding solutions with papers, paint and textiles ensuring you’re prepared when inspiration strikes!

Layered With Meaning

Described as delicate, expressive and authentic, Cordula’s abstract collages often use circles and stylised shapes not only as a design element but a window into her soul.

Working biographically, Cordula will show you how to turn your own everyday life experiences into meaningful abstract collage pieces to express a personal story that you’ll be proud to share.

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Instant & Lifetime Access

Once enrolled you will have instant and lifetime access to the entire course so you can learn at your own pace, refresh, rewind and revisit anytime you like, all from the comfort of your own home.

During the first 8 weeks of enrollment, you have an exclusive opportunity to engage with Cordula for additional tuition, support and feedback in a private online community.

By fully engaging with the course content you will be able to develop a connection with an international cohort of like-minded artists ready to create a cohesive body of work that you are proud to share.

Meet your Tutor

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Meet Cordula Kagemann

My art reflects my life in an abstract way and is my way of expressing what I am not able to vocalize.

Living in an old house in the countryside for the past thirteen years has influenced my art. Being surrounded by nature and observing its constant change has shifted the focus of my art making toward exploring the themes of time and transience.

I create my work in solitude and lose myself completely in the process letting the image find its path and just let the magic happen. I am fascinated by the materiality of papers and of the possibilities and textures that develop in the process of creating.

Using my own experiences and sometimes my own photos as a starting point I aim to bring the image into universalization by abstraction. The images symbolize the process of life, the gathering of experiences and impressions, the ageing, the remembering and forgetting as well as everything cyclic in nature that is often represented by the use of the shape of the circle in my work.

I look forward to sharing my process and techniques with you in my signature online class Process & Possibilities.

Abstract Collage Course with Cordula Kagemann

8 Modules, 7 Hours of
Footage and 8 Weeks
Ongoing Tuition!

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Cordula will guide you through the following modules sharing her stories and wisdom along the way.

Module 1
Staying Connected To Your Art

Immerse yourself in the history of collage and allow Cordula to share with you her insights into finding your flow through the process. Here Cordula shares her daily rituals and creativity tools for staying connected to your art practice inviting you to do the same.

Module 2
The Layering Process

Layering is essential to Cordula’s process. She delves into the practicalities of working with different papers and where to source the best assortment for collage. You’ll discover the power of limits and work through some critical elements Cordula uses within her abstract collage incorporating words and image transfers.

Module 3
Transparent Collage Papers

Creating unique materials to include in your collage is both rewarding and relaxing. In this module, Cordula uses a Gelli plate technique so you can create some amazingly beautiful patterned and transparent collage papers that you can use in further modules. BONUS vegan Gelli plate recipe for you to try at home.

Module 4
Abstracting Your Inspiration

Learning to see differently and extract the essence of a place, photograph or found object is the gift that abstract artists possess. Here you’ll learn Cordula’s freestyle cutting method to recreate stylised representations by noticing the negative spaces and endless inspiration that nature provides.

Module 5
Layered Collage - Project 1

Working from a blank round canvas, Cordula completes a finished artwork. From preparing and glazing the canvas, building up the layers you’ll learn how to incorporate acrylic paint and combine the previous elements created throughout the course to create depth and connection. Learning the finishing touches will be a turning point for pulling your elements together to unify your artwork.

Module 6
Textiles In Collage

It’s time to pull out your textile remnants and sewing machine and create a textile collage sheet and stitched collage elements that you’ll later use to embed into your artwork. This module is fun and exciting as you learn to let go of expectations and have some fun with acrylic paint and materials.

Module 7
Low Relief Collage - Project 2

Looking deeper at your creative influences and composition Cordula begins to incorporate textures into low relief deep frame canvases. Beginning with a canvas overview and wrapping technique to embedding paper rolls and fabric, you have the opportunity to further explore paper cuts on heavyweight paper to enhance the haptic nature of your compositions.

Module 8
Completing Low Relief Collages

Working on a series of three canvases simultaneously Cordula will complete each piece and add the finishing touches. You’ll find yourself itching to begin working in a series working on multiple pieces at once as your ideas and inspiration begins to flow.

Comprehensive
Reference Guides

Over 50 downloadable pages!

Your enrolment includes access to specially designed action tasks, resource guides and a comprehensive written accompaniment that follows the course curriculum.

By layering your learning experience you’ll be surprised how quickly you’ll find yourself in the flow as a body of work begins to emerge. You’ll be left with an arsenal of techniques to get you through the inevitable uninspired studio time along with a comprehensive workbook to refer back to.

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But That's Not All…...

Cordula has been a Member of IAPMA – International Association of Papermakers and Artists since 2004 and is excited to share one of her greatest passions with you in a BONUS Introduction To Papermaking Workshop. Over an hour of bonus footage carefully crafted to give you the tools and resources to create papers that you can use to further personalise your artwork.

This exclusive bonus is not available anywhere else!

Your BONUS Introduction To Papermaking Workshop includes:

Papermaking Equipment
Preparing Paper Pulp
Pulling & Couching
Embedding Plant Materials & Collage
Embossing
Making & Incorporating Pigmented Pulp
Creating Textured Colour & Patterns
Pressing & Drying Your Papers

This exclusive BONUS is valued at over $100 USD and yours free when you enrol in Process & Possibilities

Process & Possibilities –
Connecting Through Collage

With Our 100% Risk-Free Guarantee

This course has been created to the highest standards. Professionally filmed and crafted for your viewing pleasure.

Through Cordula’s expert guidance, you will have the opportunity not only to learn new techniques and processes but to reconnect your art practice with your daily life, realizing that it doesn’t need to be spectacular and you have all the inspiration you’ll ever need within you now.

The tuition for Process & Possibilities – Connecting Through Collage is for immediate and lifetime access. Payment plans are available, please see below for details.

We also offer a 100% satisfaction guarantee! If you’ve viewed less than 10% of this course within the first 7 days we’ll happily purchase the course back from you.

We’re confident that if you do the work and engage with your tutor you’ll get enormous benefit from this experience. And we’re happy to back that up with our risk-free guarantee.

Pricing Options

Learn from an expert textile artist for a fraction of the cost of in-person lessons.

2 Month Payment Plan
$3902 x Payments of $195
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  • Modules - 8
  • Hours of Content - 7
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Single Payment
$359Single Payment
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  • Modules - 8
  • Hours of Content - 7
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5 Month Payment Plan
$4005 x Payments of $80
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  • Modules - 8
  • Hours of Content - 7
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This Course Is For You If...

You want to find ways to move through creative blocks and expand your creative practice

You aspire to turn your own everyday life experiences into meaningful abstract collage artworks

You want to learn new techniques that you can adapt and take further in your unique way

You need to find a sustainable artistic process that provides a continuation of art-making long after you finish this course

You want to see behind the scenes of an accomplished artist and network with a group of likeminded people

You want to move forward with confidence knowing how to unify your artwork to produce a meaningful body of work you’ll be proud to share!

What Cordula's Students Are Saying

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Click the image below to flip through an online exhibition by Process and Possibilities alumni.

Frequently Asked Questions

8 Modules, 7 Hours of
Footage and 8 Weeks
Ongoing Tuition!

Enrolments are open for a limited time.

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