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Please note: This is the 1st day of a 2-day class. You must take both days!
This two-day class is packed with techniques. We’ll create nature prints using plants, flowers, leaves, and feathers using patina on metal mesh- a technique that takes mesh beyond an accent or structural element and allows it to become a beautiful, patterned piece of artwork. We’ll make monotypes using a gelatin printing plate, and print with bleach. We’ll work with images of the natural world by using inkjet water transfers, tissue paper collages, some of which we’ll coat with resin to create transparencies that are three-dimensional and ethereal. Using the patina’d mesh, and inkjet transparencies, we’ll create pockets to hold even more natural treasures. We’ll create a page edge support from mesh, and use the patterned mesh as a strong visual element in our books. Using guided exercises and writings and/or quotes that you have brought along, the content in our books will become rich, personal, and meaningful. As the work progresses, I’ll guide you in choosing a design element or two to use in the creation of two small hand-carved stamps to use in your artwork in class and in the future. Making use of found objects such as shells, sticks, stones, bones, or other personal elements, we’ll wire and tie objects to create visual depth. Artificial flowers and stems have come a long way and gorgeous ones abound. We’ll incorporate those onto pages and covers. We’ll use resin to create a shadow box that will stand up to wear and tear. I’ll demonstrate the various ways mica can be used and you’ll have the opportunity to add yet another versatile natural element. We’ll compile your pieces into a book, where each page is individually sew into the spine, in an intriguing but simple binding technique. I’ll bring along a tea kettle, and you bring your mug as we settle in and create.
A materials fee of $20 is payable to instructor on the day of class
Supply List for Two Days of Fun and Exploration:
• 2 book covers. Books should be no larger than 6x9
• 1 sheet of Rives BFK
• 1 sheet of inexpensive watercolor paper
• small 2x3, 3x4 frame, lid from a tin, altoid tin (paint before bringing) to use as a shadow box for your cover
• a few stems of artificial flowers or artificial flowering shrub branches
• brayer
• basic tools: scissors, ruler, pencil, glue stick
• baby wipes
• stamps of decorative shapes, alphabet stamps
• a few cosmetic sponges and a disposable foam brush
• china marker
• white gel pen
• eyelet setting tools, and a 1/8” hole punch
• natural items to use in your book, as wired on items, in your shadowbox: tiny and small shells, stones, sticks, bones, feathers, even small objects that are nature themed Weather permitting, we can gather nature items from the gorgeous Asilomar setting, but you should being some things with you.
• a selection of collage-y items: images of birds/trees/flowers, decorative papers
• IMAGES: made from photographs or images on nature-
---two images on transparency.
---Inkjet copies of at least three images onto PrintWorks Ultra Premium Glossy paper - The Printworks website lists the following retailers for this paper: CVS, Publix, Lewis drugs, Long Drugs, Meijers, Rite Aid, Sears, Target, Sav-On, Winn Dixie, and the Image shop on line. They have links to these retailers on the bottom right side of the page for this paper at:
http://www.myprintworks.com/product_category.asp?category_id=1
---NOTE: Please do not use some other type of paper for these images. Every time I teach inkjet water transfers, I have a few folks who use another type of paper or a different type of printer or copier and their transfers DO NOT work. Please, if you wish to learn inkjet-water transfers, do not substitute another paper.
• your favorite media for adding to your pages- watercolor crayins, pencils, inks, what have you
• copies of quotes/writings/poetry on nature
Instructor will provide: patina solution, spray adhesive, various tools, wire for wrapping, various paints for gelatin printing, pattern tissue, tissue paper, dyes, ink, gelatin printing plates, a number of different tools, clear spray paint, paper cups for brush water, paper towels
Materials fee includes: package of mesh, three mica tiles, 1/8” eyelets, both long and short, fabric for book spine, waxed linen thread, carving material, drawing paper for gelatin prints, workbook, paper brads, and use of envirotek resin for creating transparency pages and shadow box and liquitex acrylic gel medium for collaging
CLOSED - CLASS FULL
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