Carla Sonheim
10:00 - 5:30
Wednesday

N137 - Junk Mail Artist Book

$ 140  

With a handful of junk mail, some gesso and watercolors, you"ll spend the morning creating the soft, beautiful colors and textures you see here. You will go through a "no thinking, no decisions"  stage and then a "thinking" stage, adding or subtracting pigment as needed until you are satisfied with each "page". You will be encouraged to listen to that inner voice that will always tell you when to stop, when to keep going, and when to give up. After we bind our pages into an irregular-shaped book, we"ll do some loosening up exercises to segway into the drawing and painting portion. (Can"t draw? We"ll fix that.) Using photo references and your imaginations, you will begin a painting on one spread, with the goal of having each spread connect to and work with the images from other spreads. (In other words, the book pages will be bound irregularly so that drawings from one spread will show up when you turn the page, and you will then create an image based on what is already "started.") Just as each individual is different, so will be the process of each painting. Some images will come easily, and some will give 
you more difficulty. I will spend a lot of time with each of you, offering suggestions, encouragement and ways to "fix" perceived mistakes. At the end of class most of you will have a beautiful, mixed media artist book ready for your coffee table at home.

Supply List:

• 10-20 pieces of junk mail (Pizza Hut flyers etc.)
• A small assortment of brushes, from very small to about 1/2" wide
• small watercolor set (cake or tube is fine)
• brayer
• roll of scotch tape. scissors
• Black Fine Point Sharpie
• A small container of white gesso
• extra fine point black Sharpie

Optional items:  1/8" hole punch, heat gun, colored Sharpies

Teacher will provide: rags, packing tape, twine and anything else needed