OCTOBER 27TH- NOVEMBER 3RD 2012
Creating Art at the Speed of Life with Pam Carriker
Come with me on the trip of a lifetime as we Create Art at the Speed of Life through Mixed Media Art Journaling inspired by beautiful Tuscany, Italy!
Creating Art at the Speed of Life is about more than just creating art; it’s about finding the creative spirit that dwells within and feeding it on a daily basis. By incorporating daily sketching into our itinerary and expanding on it while we take field trips, feast on Italian foods and wine, and even learn something about Italian cooking, we will explore many mixed media techniques and mediums that both make art journaling exciting and doable! I’ve chosen one of my favorite journals to be our constant companion on this epic journey and it will provide us both a place to sketch and play with mixed media. I‘ll show you how to create you your own Personal Paint Palette right in your journal using Peerless Watercolor papers and Liquid Pencil Sketching Ink and we’ll make ‘Journal to Go Kits’ to take on our field trips through Tuscany, Italy.
Spend a week with Pam, creating Art at the Speed of Life, Italian Life that is! Inspired by the beautiful Italian cities of Florence and Cortona you can explore many mixed media techniques and begin a habit of creating daily in the windows of time that life gives you. Indulge in Italian foods and wine while your body is pampered and your creative spirit is inspired! Pam will share a variety of mixed media techniques as well as encourage and explore daily sketching to exercise those artistic muscles. She’ll be bringing with her some exciting new mixed media products including her new line of Liquid Pencil Sketching Ink and Mixed Media Adhesive to show you innovative and easy techniques to make the most of creating Art at the Speed of Life in while under the Tuscan Sun. All of the sketching and mixed media play will be captured in your Art Journal as a lasting keepsake and reference tool for future use. Enroll early as this small group workshop is limited to allow for plenty of one on one instruction!
Supplies
Permanent Black artist pens (such as Faber Castell Pitt Artist Pens black fine liner set of 4) http://www.dickblick.com/products/faber-castell-pitt-artist-pens/
Strathmore 400 Series Field Watercolor Sketch Book (which ever size you like to work in)
http://www.dickblick.com/products/strathmore-400-series-field-watercolor-sketch-book/
Assorted paint brushes
Palette (can be a paper palette)
All other supplies will be supplied by the instructor
If you are not coming from the US and have trouble getting these supplies, please contact me and I’ll make arrangements for you.
Class Kit Includes
Peerless Watercolor Papers
Faber Castle Mixed Media Kit
Pam Carriker Liquid Sketching Ink
Woodless graphite pencil
Kneaded eraser
Blending stump
Water reservoir brush
And other art goodies!
Saturday – Arrival in Cortona
-7:00p Welcome to Cortona wine and chocolate tasting at La Saletta.
-8:00p Evening dinner in Cortona at La Locanda nel Loggiato
Sunday - Cortona
-9:00a-12:00p Morning Session
Class kits will be handed out including a signed copy of my book, ‘Art at the Speed of Life’
We will spend the morning session constructing our own personal paint palettes right in our journals and with a twist-we’ll add a pocket to the journal for the memorabilia we’ll no doubt pick up on our outings. I will introduce my line of Sketch Ink from Derivan Liquid Pencil and we will begin to explore its properties and the tools we will use to apply it. No pencils needed! Derivan Liquid Pencil is actual graphite in a paint-like form. My new line of Sketch Ink products provides a user friendly way to apply this medium in a more liquid form. Using both Permanent and Rewettable formulas, we will smudge, erase, lift off, burnish and more.
-1:00p Lunch
-3:00-6:00p Afternoon Session
Now that everyone has had a chance to play with the Sketch Ink, we will begin our first journal pages, discussing our views on what Art Journaling means to us and how we each find ways or hope to find ways, to incorporate it into our daily lives. This will become a foundation for our pages as we layer various fluid media and water soluble media on top, experimenting with the fun things I’ve provided in our class kits.
-7:30p Wine tasting
-8:00p Evening dinner
Monday - Cortona
-9:00-12:00p Morning Session
Time to venture outside for inspiration! Taking our journals, Personal Paint Palettes and water brush, we will begin quick sketching with and without pencils as we capture the sights and sounds around us.
-1:00p Lunch
-3:00-6:00p Afternoon Session
The afternoon will be spent in the studio or on the grounds, completing our quick sketches and turning them into journal pages.
-7:30p Wine tasting Il Pozzo
-8:00p Evening dinner
Tuesday - Florence
-Day trip to Florence with lunch provided
As we journey to Florence, we will gather memorabilia along the way, stowing it into the pockets in our journals. Quick Liquid Sketches will capture the beauty around us.
-7:30p Wine tasting
-8:00p Evening dinner
Wednesday - Cortona
-9:00-12:00p Morning Session
Collage time with with memorabilia collected from the day before and my new Mixed Media Adhesive! This new medium is so matte that even delicate watercolor and other water soluble media work right over the top!
-1:00 Lunch
-3:00-5:30p Afternoon Session
Finish off the mornings pages with some quiet journal writing and prompts to inspire creative writing.
-6:00p Tuscan cooking class & dinner
Thursday - Cortona
-Morning visit to outdoor market in Camucia
Fruit, vegetables, people, there will be no end of inspiration and a Quick Liquid Sketch from your Personal Paint Palette can capture the moment so we can return to it later.
-1:00 Lunch
-3:00-6:00p Afternoon Session
Adding bold black line work to the Liquid Sketches of the morning, we will continue to explore journaling techniques to create completed journal pages in little windows of time. We will stroll outside and find lovely spots to capture the beauty around us and enjoy returning to the moments captured from the mornings outing.
-7:30p Wine Tasting
-8:00p Evening dinner
Friday - Cortona
-9:00-12:00p Morning Session
Adding self portraits to our journals will be the finishing touch. Don’t worry if you think you can’t draw a face, I will provide a number of ways to accomplish this that will suite the varied degrees of experience. Even if you’ve never drawn a face before, I’ll show you how to use my Portrait Sketch Stamps to create a one of a kind face. These were designed to work with the Sketch Ink and you will be amazed at how you can personalize the stamped image to make it truly your own.
-1:00p Lunch TBA
-3:00-6:00p Afternoon Session
Now is the time to share our journals within our small group. We are all friends now, having shared this once in a lifetime experience and as we talk about our art, finish up our pages, exchange email addresses and take pictures, we will know we’ve bonded in a special way through our journals and our art. I will provide one on one time for each of you to discuss your art and provide critiques for those who want them.
-7:30p Farewell Wine Tasting Dinner
Saturday – Departure
-Morning Check-out and departure from Cortona.
December 2nd, 2011 at 7:54 pm
I Just hate that money is an issue in life. Will be thinking of you and all the fun you will have! You are an awesome artist, friend, mom and wife! So glad you are getting to do what you love in a big way!!
May 6th, 2011 at 5:17 pm
Pam, I was in your creating faces (archibaldo style) in Hampton. I am really interested in the Cortona trip. Not that I expect you should remember but I was in the back left side next to the Asian girl. Red hair, and the hair on my sketch became a veil!
Anyway, really like your work, your classes. How do I find out more about Italy 2012?