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Explore ways of developing and painting a scene from Nature. This workshop combines methods for sketching images onto muslin canvas, working with and mixing acrylic paints to render natural subjects and capturing important details of delicate creatures, flora, and fauna, along with examining ways to distress large areas in order to create interesting backgrounds.

Working with our canvas surface, we will work intuitively to render one drawing by combining different elements from many images and photographs using a fast and easy technique that requires no previous drawing skills.  This sketch will serve as a guide to aid in bringing your scene to life through acrylic painting. You will also learn how to extract subjects from their canvas support giving you options for placing a painted element onto a completely different background and/or creating a 3D effect.

The Art of Nature

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kit fee: $15        supply list

• mechanical pencil with fine tip (such as a Pentel 0.5mm P205)
• white clic eraser
• #1 and #3 Round Paint Brush (make sure the tip of the brush is pointed)
• 3/4” or 1” Flat Brush
• 10 - 1” Sponge brushes
• 2 oz. bottle of white, black, burnt umber, burnt sienna, med. beige, cream, pale purple, olive green, med. foliage green, lt. green, french blue, pale blue, med. yellow, med. orange, and med red acrylic/craft paint (any brand)(NOTE: These paints should be inexpensive normally costing around $1 per bottle or less. Or feel free to use the acrylic paints you already own)
• small pair of very sharp scissors to cut fabric
• Goldens Matte Gel and brush for applying Matte Gel
• 24 ct. box or larger of NuPrisma Pastels
• Clorox Bleach Pen
  
  
•  Optional Supplies - your favorite acrylic paint colors, decorative stencils and/or foam stamps (florishes, and damask type designs are the best), stencil brushes, decorative papers, an old book to cut words from and/or your favorite poem or verse
  
  
• Class Fee of $15 - Students will receive:
• 1/2 yd. of  a special muslin canvas
• 1 sheet of Steam-A-Seam 2
• batting
• water cup, paint palettes, brush rag
• supplies to use in class for distressing muslin canvas (tea, coffee, misc.inks-acrylic paints-metallic powders, rusting solution - NOT SMELLY OR TOXIC, patina solutions - NOT SMELLY OR TOXIC, stencils, misc. papers)

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Tracie Lyn Huskamp Bio:

Over five years ago, Tracie was offered the chance to perform the duties of her job from the comfort of her home studio. In a matter of weeks, changes in her daily routine began to occur because of this new work environment. Instead of rushing out at lunch to grab a fast food meal, she spent her noon hours soaking up the outdoors, and wandering through her neighborhood gathering treasures from Nature.

After several months of telecommuting, her personal art took an important pivotal turn. The subject of Nature became a reoccurring theme.  As a collage artist, mixing and blending natural components with paint, fabric, paper, thread, and metal was quite a fluid process. Nature had become a perfect medium to help her express all of the amorous feelings she has about a place where her heart abides.

Marylin Huskamp Bio:

Marylin has loved working with fibers from the moment she took her first Home Economics class at the tender age of eleven. Today, her focus has evolved into composing beautiful artworks using techniques such as fiber fusion, fiber dyeing and painting. She carefully blends various materials to capture the viewer with vibrant colors and interesting textures.

Several years ago, she received a professional botanist’s flower/plant press. This sparked her creativity to begin down a path of preserving many natural treasures to place within her current fiber works. Sharing a love of art, nature and creative expression, Marylin enjoys time with Tracie Lyn.  They love making art, sharing ideas and most importantly just having FUN!