description

Create a journal that looks cool and serves as a portable art studio that will hold your creative stuff when you are on the road. The pages of the book are pockets and have pockets on them to hold materials and tools. Begin the class by painting with stamps, stencils and sponges on to fabric and paper to be used in your journal. Embellish the journal by collageing, painting, stamping and sewing. You can tailor the journal to hold your media of choice, weather you sew, paint, collage or are a mixed media artist.

Art Studio Journal

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kit fee: $10       supply list

• Fabrics: about 2 fat quarters for the front and back of the cover of the book, lots of scraps and strips of various colors, prints and solids to collage and decorate with. I prefer cottons and light weight canvas type fabrics. You can really scrap it out on this one.
• Sewing machine
• Basic sewing supplies
• Pins & needles
• Fabric scissors
• Paper scissors
• A ruler
• Colored sewing threads
• UHU glue stick- 2 sticks
• 1 yard ribbon of ¼ to ½ inch for the binding
  
  Optional: This is the stuff you like to play with-
• Collage materials
• Paper ephemera
• Fabric trims
• Charms and beads
• Embroidery threads and yarns
• Rubber stamps and foam stamps
• A bone folder
  
  Kit fee: $10.00
• Heavy weight interfacing
• BFK print paper
• Wonder under
• Metal Grommets and binder rings
• Colored elastic
• Printed instructions
• Collage materials
• Acrylic paints
  
  You will have the use of in class:
• Caran D’Ache water soluble crayons
• Paint brushes and cosmetic sponges
• Rubber and foam Stamps, stencils
• Grommet setting tools

I am a mixed media teaching artist exploring my creative voice through visual art journals, cloth dolls, collage, painting, and sewing. I am passionate about color, cloth, journaling and exploring the layered surface. I currently work for the Museum of Children’s Art in Oakland, CA as a full time teaching artist. I teach classroom teachers, artists and children how to develop their creative practice.

I live in the bay area of northern California with my husband and two dogs.

My work has appeared in Somerset Workshop, vol.1, Somerset Memories, Sew Somerset, Making Creative Cloth Dolls, and an up-coming publication, Stuffed, a gathering of softies.