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Dolls and Rustic Figures – Workshop

Dolls and Rustic Figures – Workshop

Posted by on Jun 4, 2013 in Workshops | 2 comments

What is so appealing about a doll? They are a source of delight to a child but often mysterious, a little ominous and disturbing to an adult.

Long before they were children’s play-toys, small figures were used by adults in various forms of ritual and ceremony.

Made of sticks, wire, metal, string, beads, cloth, wax, found objects and all manner of unusual things, dolls possess a succinct and strange ability to embody powerful energy.

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Make a Memory Box

Make a Memory Box

Posted by on Jun 3, 2013 in Workshops | 1 comment

There is something enticing about a cabinet and a shelf.

A collection of life’s fragments arranged and re-configured into some kind of biography that represents a life. Or secrets and dates jumbled into an altered reality that you wish could be true. The epitome of time made visible.

During the Victorian era this was exemplified in the form of wonder cabinets: odds and ends, coins, insects, or shells were arranged in a mysterious tableau for us all to gaze at many years later and build a portrait of the collector in our minds.

I want to do that as a class.

I will provide a simple flat box already constructed with shelves.

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Sketchbook Collage – Workshop

Sketchbook Collage – Workshop

Posted by on Jun 3, 2013 in Workshops | 0 comments

One of the advantages of confining your collage to a sketchbook is continuity.

It offers the ability to respond to the previous collage in an interesting way, a kind of collage journal or diary if you will and in the end you have a visual record that has an inspiring narrative.

This class will focus on keeping collage in a book form with the various techniques practiced in traditional collage (list those from the other description here) but with a continuous thread that in the end tells a story – intentional or not.

Another advantage of sketchbook collage is the ability to have all your collages at your finger tips where you can add changes to previous collages if you need to.

It is also fun to combine collage with drawings and words to create a richer dialogue.

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Printing and Collage on Fabric

Printing and Collage on Fabric

Posted by on Jun 3, 2013 in Workshops | 0 comments

Cloth makes a cheap, durable printing surface, and can be turned into book pages or quilt blocks.

Working your cloth panel you will be combining print making, photo transfer, stenceling, collage, and creative stitching.

Students can also produce a small lino or wood cut using a kind of inexpensive press board called MDF that lends itself well to carving. I will provide a small printing press to make those prints. Other printing techniques can include monotype, draw-through-monotype and stencil printing.
We can also make and use clay stamps to create repeating patterns.

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Drawing without Purpose – Workshop

Drawing without Purpose – Workshop

Posted by on Jun 3, 2013 in Workshops | 1 comment

I love to draw! It is the one artistic endeavor that will always be my own pure means of expression. I draw for clarification, understanding and comfort.

Drawing helps crystallize your thoughts like nothing else can.

It doesn’t matter one bit about how accomplished you are either. There are those who render quite well and those who don’t. It’s the act of drawing I am speaking of.

How often do you sit down and draw? Here is a chance to do that. Choose an idea or a subject and begin to draw. No purpose other than to feel the scratch of a pencil or pen on a piece of paper and watch the progression of line.

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