All Classes run from 9am to 4pm
Secret Garden Journal
Limited Vacancies
Bring your journals or blank books with sturdy pages and join Judy in a day of exploration and fun.
You'll start right off with a series of exercises geared to break down the wall of resistance when faced with a blank page. Then you'll experiment with paint, monoprint and water soluble crayons; stencils, stamp pads, sumi ink, collage and various acrylic mediums.
Explore hand drawn letter forms and consider composition and placement of words and images, discuss what the journal can do and how ypu can use it as a springboard to other projects.
This will be a fast moving class for all levels. Judy will cover all of her favorite journaling techniques and send each student home with new skills to keep them inspired and renewed.
Class Cost: $295 No Kit Fee
Technique Twinchie Canvas
Four Vacancies only
Learn several techniques that be be used in your art from canvas's to ATCs, even cards, that you will then make into a nine twinchie canvas.
Covering:
Tissue Paper Backgrounds, Sheer Heaven Transfers, Faux Tin Types and Faux Metal Foil Tape you will take home loads of ideas along with your finished canvas.
Choose from either of two colour ways and themes:
(click themes below for supply lists)
or
Class Cost: $160 (includes kit)
Shadow Box Shrines
Skill Level: All Levels Note
Polymer clay is the perfect medium forcreating these three dimensional mosaic shrines.
In this technique driven class, students will be making all of the component parts of their shrines by stamping into clay and making expressive tiles that reflect their own personalities.
These shrines have a small recessed area where a little three dimensional object can be placed. This space also creates another opportunity to explore additional mixed media techniques.
We will cover rubber-stamping, painting, embedding, collage, transfers, embossing, beading and mosaicing.
Open to all levels.
Class cost $295 Kit cost (wooden shrine base) $15
Exploration of Resins & Translucents- an Emerging Voice in Metalwork
CLASS FULL - WAIT LIST ONLY
Skill Level: All Levels Note: 2 Day Workshop
This hands on workshop offered in a 2 day format offers many ground breaking techniques from creating hand made hollow bezel forms from wire, sheet metal and filling pierced recesses. Ideas for images, text, layering, and creating colorful stone like textures from organic material such as sand, pepper and crushed powders. Learn proper application andsafety tips for resin.
Day One: Create layers of extraordinary translucent pages using a collection of new ideas and techniques in Susan’s new work. Use altered transfers, tissue and pages to layer, bind and finish an extraordinary, personal journal.
Other techniques include rubs, burnings, oil pastel and colored pencil techniques. Use of found object bezels, mixing and pouring of resins, collage, assemblage, use of color with resin.
Learn to cast charms, objects and figurative piecesusing flexible rubber molding compound that allows for many undercuts. Pulling your resin charm from your mold is just the first step. Now turn them into dimensional, interesting elements.
Learn clean up and finishing secrets such as Patinas for making the details stand out, sanding without creating a cloudy surface and drilling tips. Work with a superior non- toxic jeweler’s grade resin that will never yellow in time.
Create layers of extraordinary translucent papers in jewelry using a collection of new ideas and techniques in freestanding paper and resins. Learn rubs, burnings, oil pastel and colored pencil techniques. Make charms for jewelry, journal or home embellishments.
Students will take home a few molds, complete a handful of finished charms, handmade bezels, and jewelry pieces.
Kit fee includes: tissue, resins, transfers, paper, eyelets, waxed linen, needle, handouts
Class Cost Pt 1 $295 Kit fee :$TBA
