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CORNEILLE LITTLE THREE LITTLE BIRDS, 2020 OIL ON PANEL 9 BY 12 INCHES
COLLAGING SUBJECTS TO LIFE
Native Raleigh artist and elementary school art teacher Corneille Little is known
for her personalized portraits of pets and birds, which she captures in two styles:
realistic oil painting and paper collage. For her unique collage technique, she
collects various types of paper—rice paper, deli paper, old letters, and sheet music
from old hymnals or Bob Marley songs. Then she hand-paints and hand-stamps the paper in liquid-based acrylic paint. When tearing the paper, she mimics the motion
of her brush strokes. Collaging the paper onto the surface brings her subject to life. Little studied art education at UNC–Chapel Hill. View her pet and bird portraits
at petportraitsbycorneille.com. Little teaches small-group painted paper collage
and pet portrait workshops in her home studio, which reopened this spring.
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“I always start with the eyes, once I get a sense of the soul of the animal, and then I start building around that.”
BY CHARLOTTE RUSSELL
