Well almost last chance! My last workshops for 2011 are coming up in October at Art Is East Coast! If you are interested in creating some awesome journal pages like these
Creating Color Book Journal
Reinventing old work to create new pages in your Art Journal
Reusing your own artwork in your journal pages helps you get the most out of the time you put into creating art. By making copies of previous journal pages and other art you’ve created, you continually have a great stash of collage fodder right at your fingertips! You are able to revisit your art in a totally new way and create pages that are uniquely your own. We will use black and white copies of work and other black and white journal fodder to create a color book style page that we will build on with paint, pens and water soluble crayon, completely reinventing the original work.
Class Kit-$10-payable directly to instructor at beginning of class
Includes:
- Strathmore 140lb Cold Press Visual Journal
- Copies of some of my own journal pages
- Special collection of journal fodder you won’t be able to get anywhere else!
- All paints, mediums and other workshop materials are provided
Students Should Bring:
- Paint brushes, assorted
- Water container
- Palette of some sort (can be a paper plate)
- Black and white copies of your own artwork
- Black marker (permanent)
- Graphite pencil
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or painting portraits
Behind the Face
We will create a mixed media background using a variety of techniques, developing a perfect 8×10 backdrop to add a mixed media portrait to. I will deconstruct the drawing of a face to make it doable by everyone. Behind the face we will explore ourselves, through journaling. Our ‘thoughts’ will then be covered up by the face we create as we work on a self portrait of sorts that anyone can do. I provide full support for all skill levels in this class, offering a variety of ways to add a face within your comfort zone.
Class Kit-$10-payable to instructor at beginning of class includes:
- 8×10 hardboard premium artist panel
- Collage fodder you won’t find anywhere else
- Charcoal pencil
- Blending Stump
- My favorite white gel pen
- Sequin waste
- Wooden stick tool
Students Should Bring:
- Water container
- Palette
- 2” chip brush (or other cheap wide brush)
- Paint Brushes, assorted
All other paints, mediums and materials supplied by the instructor
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Now is the time to reserve your space at Danbury CT!
I also just learned that Americana Tuscana has extended the early enrollment discount of US$100.00 until September 30, 2011!! So if you want to join me in Italy now is the time to sign up and save some $$$!
Cortona Italy 2012
Cortona Italy
March 31-April 7, 2012
Liquid Sketching with Pam Carriker
Derivan Liquid Pencils are a relatively new medium that takes sketching to a whole new place! With different tints in both permanent and rewettable formulas, they offer a wide range of creativity and allow you to ‘sketch’ without picking up a pencil! I’ve been working with the creators of Liquid Pencil and am excited to have a line of new products coming out that make this new medium especially user friendly to Art Journalers. If you love the look of sketching but are unsure of your drawing skills, this class will give you exactly what you need to begin sketching in a journal made with hot press watercolor paper. For the more advanced student the sky’s the limit when you add this to what you already do and I will show you the many different techniques possible with this innovative product! I will be bringing my very own Portrait Sketch Stamps to use in class as well so there is nothing to fear if you don’t have much experience with portraits-you can literally stamp a sketch! As we gather memorabilia from our day trips, we will add them to the covers of our journals to finish off an artistic keepsake that will bring back the once in a lifetime memories of our time in Italy.
Supplies
Paint brushes-watercolor type
Watercolor brush with a refillable water reservoir
Small set (field type for outside/travel type use) of watercolor paints
Bone folder tool ( for scoring and burnishing)
All other supplies will be supplied by the instructor
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 sketch journals using a binding method from my book, with a twist-we’ll add a pocket or two to the book 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 here! Derivan Liquid Pencil is actual graphite in a paint-like form. My line of Sketch Ink products provides a user-friendly way to apply this medium in a more liquid form. Using both Permanent and re-wettable formulas, we will smudge, erase, lift off, burnish it 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 the foundation for our pages as we layer various fluid media.
-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, Sketching Ink and Brushes, we will begin quick sketching 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
Time to find a quiet spot to turn yesterdays sketches into journal pages filled with words, color, and texture.
-1:00 Lunch
-3:00-5:30p Afternoon Session
We will now gesso the front and back cover of our journals turning them into leather like covers and then add our memorabilia in true mixed media collage form to create amazing covers for our journals.
-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 can capture the moment so we can return to it later.
-1:00 Lunch
-3:00-6:00p Afternoon Session
Depending on how many pages you’ve already completed, it may be time to create a second journal. 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 portraits to our journals will be the finishing touch. 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.
-7:30p Farewell Wine Tasting Dinner
Saturday – Departure
-Morning Check-out and departure from Cortona.
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On the subject of ‘making’ new friends, I’m really excited to be teaching my Busting Out-Self Portrait Journaling workshop at Art Is. This is the only place I’m offering this fun and personal workshop. Not only will we explore journaling techniques in 3D, we will also learn how to shade portraits in the easiest way possible. All of the face painting techniques can be applied to flat work but working on an actually dimensional face will allow you to see where shadows fall from front, side, and 3/4 views. It’s a great way to learn as we start with some cool long-necked wig forms and build layers similar to that of a journal page and then continue on to paint a portrait with all of the facial features already in place!
