CREATE June 2012

Sketching Without Pencils (3-Hour)

Date: Sunday, June 3
Time: 9:00am-12noon
Technique: Printmaking & Surface Design
Instructor: Pam Carriker
Price: $85.00
Materials Fee: $15.00

I’ve been having a lot of fun working on techniques using my line of liquid graphite, Sketching Ink from Derivan, and I want to share them with you! With this new formula, it is possible to stamp a sketch using my Sketch Stamps and with some tools you probably already have. I will show you ways you can manipulate the stamped sketch to create one-of-a-kind drawings in your journal. We will explore both the permanent and rewettable formulas in a variety of ways and you will each go home with your very own bottle of Pam Carriker Sketching Ink!

Students Should Bring: Additional rubber stamps if desired (I will bring my own designs to use in class), Palette, Brayer, Water container, bone folder

Take 6 Techniques for Journaling (6-Hour)

Date: Saturday, June 2
Time: 9:00am-4:00pm
Technique: Bookmaking & Art Journaling
Instructor: Pam Carriker
Price: $149.00
Materials Fee: $15.00

Think you don’t have time to keep an art journal? In this workshop we will work six journal pages from start to finish! Starting with that often intimidating blank page, we will work fast and create fabulous backgrounds for six pages that don’t even require a paint brush. Then we will use six different techniques to add interesting focal points to each page. The journal pages will morph into individual, unique pages, personal to you. Layers of color, texture, text, and more will take your journal pages to a whole new level. We will experiment with Thermofax screens, lino-cut prints, image transfers, stencils, water soluble media, and collage, using my new mixed media adhesive that allows you to watercolor right over the top of it.

Students Should Bring: water container, brushes, palette, scissors, whatever journaling pens you like, bone folder, some personal collage material (enough for one page, can be whatever you want)

Facing the (Thermo)Fax (6-Hour)

Date: Thursday, May 31
Time: 9:00am-4:00pm
Technique: Printmaking & Surface Design
Instructor: Pam Carriker
Price: $149.00
Materials Fee: $20.00

This workshop lets you create not one but three vibrant mixed-media portraits that take you a bit outside the color box you might normally use. Beginning with a lesson in printing with Thermofax screens, we will mix our own print paste, using some fabulous medium from Matisse, and customize our own colors. From this base we will build three fabulous portraits on three different substrates, using paints, additional mediums, and even a palette knife for a brush! We will have fun with a variety of techniques and media, creating these nontraditional painted portraits.

Students Should Bring: (1) 8 x 10 stretched canvas prepped with a coat of gesso, Water container,Paint brushes, Palette, Graphite pencil