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(Official Warning: This workshop can be emotionally intense and psychologically challenging for some. Please read the following description carefully. These courses are life altering and not recommended for those not interested in doing deep inner work.)
Repetition is necessary to artmaking and creativity-it allows us to create and develop a series, it assists us with composition, and greatly aids our experimentation process, which is the basis of all art making. This workshop will concentrate on repeating scary, haunted, or gothic black and white images for high impact, and learning how to work back into these black and white images for interesting affects that can be used with any other art form. At the risk of repeating myself, I’ll repeat myself: The art of repetition is a creative device we will use to set up and develop the pages of our visual journal. We can start with one image, repeat it like a quilt, or shrink it down, make more copies, and create a border. Or blow it up and expand on one single or central idea. From one idea, from one possibility, we get many. The art of repetition is like a birthing ground or a playing field and is soothing or Zen like in that we don’t have to think about, or brainstorm what comes next, we just continue with our series and allow the potential to flow. This gives our mind freedom to come up with new ways of picture making and story telling. It’s in these repetitive experiences that we have our aha! or eureka, I’ve found it! moments. This is the perfect introductory workshop for those interested in discovering my style of working!
Supply List:
-Visual Journal ( do not bring unbound sheets of paper) see www.destinyvoyages.com<http://www.destinyvoyages.com/> / discovering visual journaling/ for suggestions on choosing a book.
-glue ( I prefer big UHU gluesticks because we work so quickly- get the big ones- don't bother with the little ones.)
-scissors
-paint brushes ( no sponge brushes- get a few good ones- they don't have to be expensive- but nice bristles that can make a clean line instead of a shaggy line- at least .25, .5 and .75 inch thick.)
-rubber stamp letters any size
-a drawing pencil like an ebony or 6B.
-black ink or black acrylic paint
-2 acrylic paints in any color, one light, one dark ( these can be cheapy craft paints like Anita's)
-markers: brush marker or sharpie in black, plus one other color marker
-red water color crayon, red china marker, or red opaque paint.
-stamp pad ( I prefer staz -on because we work so quickly in any color- black is always good.)
Collage: Bring some random collage items that appeal to you that have to do with this October season such as gothic, Halloween, Day of the dead, black cats, witchy, vampire, etc. (bring copies of things that are precious to you.)
Repetition: (please read carefully) Get to know your local copy center. Bring a bunch of BLACK AND WHITE interesting gothic, scary trees, cemeteries, or Halloween images- photos, portraits, close ups, patterns, even some of your own artwork- or small sections of your artwork- to your favorite copy center and play around with the self service machines. Get to know them. See what they can do. Test out the different functions. You may need a little help at first, and most copy stores are very happy to help answer all your copying questions. Change the settings: there are settings for just text, for just photo, and something in between. Some settings will give your images shadings or tones of grey- we don't want that- we want the real black and white graphic images- high contrast. Take your images and blow them up. Shrink them down. I love doing this and always have a good time seeing what happens. Photos of people work really well. Make a series of repeating images- they can all be the same image- or images that look similar. We'll need three batches of different repeating images. You'll need at least 10 of each- some repeating the same size and some in in different sizes. Bring these stacks of images to class and be ready to cut, paste, and go crazy with layering materials! You will need one very large image that fits 8.5 x 11. People or animals will work best for this. It can be just a head.
for any questions or concerns email Juliana Coles of Pete and Repeat at meandpete@msn.com
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