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 “ Message of the Sphinx:  Sifting Through the Sands of Time to create texture, drama and content in an Extreme Visual Journal”

(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.)

Travel back in time to Egypt to enter a significant tomb of a female pharaoh in the Valley of the Kings.  Make your way to the underworld utilizing mixed media and textured surfaces.  In this class I will help you find your edge. We will learn not just how to make background textures, but also how to complete them with images. Learn to work back and forth: through construction, content, technique, embellishment, and back again to construction to build many ancient layers.  To create our mummified pages, we will utilize various journal writing exercises combined with  art making assignments designed to present us with content and personal symbolism.  It is said that hidden below the ancient Sphinx is the legendary Hall of records.  Your Extreme visual journal, an artifact of soul, is your very own hall of records.  Your inner life depends upon this archeological dig.  It is time to excavate the layers of your life for unification of upper and lower you.  The result of this endeavor will reveal a treasure more profound than that of King Tuts!

 

Supply List:
 
-Your Extreme Visual journal, blank book, handmade book, or book to alter.  
(see www.destinyvoyages.com for tips on choosing your book)

 

Mixed Media:
-your favorite glue - I love big UHU gluesticks
-scissors
-some brushes for your paints (no sponge brushes- get yourself a few good ones and a 1/4”  brush).
- a rag or two
-rubber stamp letters - I have a big set and a small set. 
-stamp pads (I highly recommend Staz On stamp pads because we work so quickly)
-acrylic paint- any brand, any color in at least two colors, one light & one dark. 
-at least two brush markers in different colors.  
-a permanent black marker
-a graphite pencil- regular old number two is fine, but if you can get to an art store get an ebony pencil, or a 6B, or a graphite stick (not charcoal)
-white gel pen, white pen and ink, or anything else that can write on dark surfaces.
-a writing pen
-optional: china markers in black, white, red.  A couple water color crayons (not portfolios or water based oil sticks). You may want some Egyptian, hieroglyphic rubber stamps or carvings.

 

Collage Items:
-random collage items ( copies of things that are precious)
-one magazine to cut up
-one poetry book to cut up ( you can share with friends)

 

Each student will be required to bring an “Artifact Bag.”  A plastic grocery bag will do.  Some suggestions are collage items, an old paintbrush that is all glued together, that orange paint you hate, stickers from when you were 14,  Artist tools and supplies you no longer use or never liked, torn up pieces of your artwork that didn’t work out (no recognizable artwork, please) books to cut up, magazines, sticks, markers, 2 inch pencils, you get the picture-sort of a grab bag.  We will be using these mysterious artifact bags as part of our mixed media explorations.  What, and how much to bring, is up to you.  Don’t worry about trying to include nice things- we’re looking more for garbage items.  We all ready have our own nice supplies-we want your cast offs to really make us think!

 

contact me at meandpete@msn.com for any questions or concerns