There's No Place Like Home
Thursday 10-5pm
This class will focus on the start to finish creation of a very personal multi media work of art. We will demonstrate dozens of techniques using myriad mediums & materials. The theme is There's No Place Like Home and we will provide all the specifics necessary to create a piece very similar to what you see here. But this class is anything but rigid. We hope to provide a mere starting point for your own creativity. Whether you work in the realm of realism or total symbolism...you will find this project to be conducive to your whims. Imagine that the shape of the house is just a blank canvas for your art journals...the four walls and the roof taking the place of your pages. You'll be working with wood, cardboard, patterned paper, old photographs, vintage ephemera, paint, glue, pens, pencils, markers, stamps, inks, sandpaper, etc... You'll have access to adornments such as vintage millinery flowers, silk and velvet ribbons, seam bindings, glitter, lace trims, etc... You will be using techniques such as decoupage, collage, cutting & pasting, painting, speckling, assemblage, color washing, distressing, doodling, antiquing, etc...
Again, when working with this pattern, to make this house and pedestal, you can be as loose or as tight with the instructions as you desire. Whatever your color tastes are...if you like busy patterns or serene solids...you'll make this your very own home sweet home.
Kit Fee: $30
Instructors will be supplying:
Template for the house
paper board
wooden disk
wooden base
lots of paints in all colors
vintage millinery flowers
velvet ribbon
other various ribbons & trims
patterned papers
vintage ephemera, old photos, imagery, etc...
glue
mod podge
glitters
...and much more!
Supplies you'll need to bring:
1 inch paint brush
# 4 round artist paint brush
# 6 round artist paint brush
pencils
eraser
standard scissors
(the following are optional)
... scissors with decorative edges if you so desire
favorite markers
we love to use opaque white pens in our collaging and journaling...great for doodling over pattern and darker colors...if you do too, here is one we recommend: Inkssentials, opaque pen: white
we'll supply a lot of cool stuff to work with but you may have your own personal "bag of tricks" that you usually work with...bring all that stuff. It's fun to mix in your perennial favorites with ours
Also, bring your own ephemera too...make color copies of old family photos...your favorite sepia toned photos...maybe make copies in different sizes since space will be limited on your house you might need to shrink some things down.
anywhere from postage stamp size...to playing card size.
we'll have lots of paint...but maybe you have a certain color/brand you're wanting to use
we'll be supplying mod podge...if you prefer gel medium, bring it.
Bring some trims and things that you've been dying to use...again, we'll have plenty, but you can never have too much, right?!
