CREATE YOUR PERSONAL COLLAGE MINI-BOOK
Embrace your creativity and bring your ideas to the craft table. Share your stories and bring them to life working with collage, mixed media and mono-printing techniques. Using photocopies of your favorite people and places, images sourced from magazines, found objects and odds and ends, you will cut, paste, and collage your own personal story while sharpening your crafting skills in a relaxed and supportive environment.
INTUITIVE PRINTING AND COLLAGE
Tuning in to your own unique creative process is an on-going experience. Using a variety of techniques and mediums, you will allow for intuition and playfulness to direct your work. While exploring gelli-printing, mono-printing, mark making, layering and collage, we will discover how chance and spontaneity support the development of your own distinctive work. Unleash your inner artist and experience creative freedom while experimenting with varied materials and most importantly, having fun!
GELLI PRINTING BOOTCAMP
Gelli printing is a fun and accessible way to create beautiful multilayered prints and interesting papers that can be used in collage. Working with available tools, including, but not limited to stencils, masks, texture plates, stamps, brushes, and inks, you will learn how to create exciting and spontaneous patterns and colors using a Gelli Plate. The individual, creative results are surprising and as you reveal your “inner artist” you discover the beauty found in the imperfect and unexpected!
JUMPSTART YOUR CREATIVITY
Creativity is a wild mind and a disciplined eye… Dorothy Parker
This workshop is designed to explore and activate the creative process through a series of playful exercises. Participants, at any level of their practice, will tap into their innate creative potential using a variety of techniques and mediums including mark making, tinting, stamping, layering, and collage. Utilizing familiar household items, garden discoveries and just plain “junk”, in addition to your usual brushes, pens, and markers, you will discover how chance and spontaneity strengthen your compositions in a fun and relaxed way while supporting the development of your own distinctive work.
