Portland Art and Soul Workshops

Online ordering for the Portland retreat is now closed.  If you are interested in taking/adding a class, please visit us at the Embassy Suites Portland Airport to inquire about availability. The Art & Soul office hours are 8am-6:30pm Wed-Mon.  Thank you!

Katie Kendrick 9-4:30 Wednesday	982 - Let's Face It--Be Fearless!	[back to quicklinks] $ 130 Plus $10 materials fee
**Important:  For class locations, please refer to the 'Activities & Information' page.
This is a combination of process-oriented/project class. We will start the day by doing exercises to stimulate the right side of our brains and put our pesky critics to sleep. This will include quickly creating simple faces on recycled paper with our non-dominant and dominant hands interchangeably using a variety of media. We are not concerned about ‘drawing’ or fashioning faces in their true likeness, but allowing our hand to talk with the paper in an intuitive manner, the result being completely unplanned and unknown. This class isn’t about painting pretty faces or realistic faces; it’s all about loosening up, letting go, and allowing your muse to play. Of the many faces you will paint and draw, some of them you will toss in the garbage, some you will save for later, and a few you will chose to paint to completion in class. I will demonstrate how I create backgrounds for my faces using inks, paints, papers, and glazes. By the end of the class, most people will have at least one completed piece and some will have more. If you’re enrolled in my “Endearing and Whimsical Folk Art Dolls” class the following day, and have a way to transfer your completed face to muslin before this class, you can use your fabric transfer for the doll project. Supply List: --Scissors --Medium tipped black sharpie marker --Three paintbrushes: a detail brush, a medium and a large brush (Eg, #1, #8, #16) --Soft lead pencil --Stabilo black marking pencil #8046 --Golden fluid acrylic paints in black, titanium white, and buff and additional fluid acrylics in your favorite colors (Golden is my paint of preference but you are free to substitute another brand of fluid acrylic if you like) --Small bits of paper and images to collage with --One or two 6” x 6” gallery wrapped canvases Optional:  Brayer; Paint apron--you’ll need this if you’re as messy as I am; Gel pens, markers, watercolor pencils, Caran D’Ache Neocolor II crayons Materials Fee Includes: --A variety of papers to paint on including atlas pages, old letters, phone book pages, wallpaper, etc --Images to incorporate into the faces or backgrounds --Bits of lace and assorted ephemera --Paints --Golden soft gel medium --Golden acrylic glaze --Gesso --Uni-ball signo white gel pens --Gel pens, glitter, markers

Click here for a printable page