Virginia Art and Soul Workshops

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Juliana Coles 9-4:30 Saturday Morning	830 - Word: The Extreme Art of Lettering	[back to quicklinks] $ 130
Experience the Art of the expressionistic letterform in this Extreme Visual Journaling Workshop that puts the emphasis on written text as image. Learn to integrate text with imagery to practice speech, language, and lettering as an artform as we first set up various mixed media backgrounds and then layer different text styles to stretch our techniques for verbal expression. Learn to develop patience and attention to every detail of the writing by considering the text as important to the image as the image itself. We will practice lettering using many different script creating tools such as pens, pencils, stick and ink, fine brush w/acrylic in ways you never considered and even how to give rubber stamped letters and alphabets your hand drawn touch. We will create many different layers with all things related to text including cutting up words from poetry books to create found poetry. Then, utilizing Juliana’s Extreme journaling techniques, we will also learn to speak and write our own words, rather than quoting some other source, in order to weave the tale of our telling in the safe containers of our Visual Journals. These techniques will carry over into all other forms where text can be used as art and will take your art form to the next level. Supply List: --Your Visual Journal ( or two or three ) --a big glue stick such as UHU or your favorite glue --scissors --a poetry book and at least one magazine to cut up --at least two different sets of rubber stamp letters in two different sizes --Staz-On stamp pads ( one in black, one in any color), and a white or light colored stamp pad of your favorite kind ( metalics are fine too) --your favorite mixed media supplies ( email me for suggestions if you don‘t have any favorite supplies) --Writing Tools:  a fine detail brush, #1or #2 about 3/4 to 1 inch long; a thin stick at least 8 inches long (Just pick one up off the ground);a  clean pen holder and nib ( just a plain drawing nib will be suitable or any other nib you are interested in trying- you may need two- I use one for my white and one for all other colors so I don‘t dirty my white); a carpenter’s pencil ( the flat pencils- you can get them at art stores or at Hardware stores); an exacto knife or sand paper for sharpening ( art stores sell short pieces of wood with sand paper stapled that is perfect for sharpening these flat pencils; an ebony pencil, or 6 B, or graphite stick in any thickness; black ink, India ink, or Sumi ink, and a high quality white ink ( Check it-If it’s too old it can be funky); white China marker; black Sharpie (or other favorite permanent black marker); a couple brush markers in different colors; gel pens or any other writing tool that can write on dark surfaces; a plain old bic pen or any other regular writing tool, and a regular #2 pencil. --Collage: bring any papers that utilize text as well as random collage images or your favorite papers/things to cut up. Optional: silver or gold pencils, a pastel or light colored pencil, stencils, stickers, Krylon marker in gold or silver, press-on type. Please email Juliana Coles with any questions or concerns: meandpete@msn.com CLOSED - CLASS FULL

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