description

Participants will create unique mixed media portraits, using fabrics, papers and paint. Begin the day learning the basic elements of drawing faces. No drawing experience necessary! Use one of your drawings as the starting point for your piece. You will begin the process of layering on a piece of twill or canvas with gesso and then paint and stamp with layers of paper and fabric scraps, crayons, stenciling, collage and hand and machine stitching lines. These portraits can become a book cover, journal pages or a wall piece.

Mixed Media Mind

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kit fee: $10       supply list

• Fabric- printed and solid cottons, one or two fat quarters and lots of scraps for collaging and some strips for the edges. I also like to have black and white printed fabrics, like a white print with black polka dots
• Sewing machine
• Pins & needles
• Fabric scissors,
• Colored sewing thread
• Pencil
• Black Sharpie
• A ruler
• Paper scissors
• UHU glue sticks
  
  Optional: This is the stuff you like to play with-
• ric-rack, buttons, safety pins, snaps, ribbons, beads, charms, brads,
• black and white copies of text and personal photos
• Color copies of photos, magazine pages
• painted papers and paper scraps
• Embroidery floss and yarns, etc.
• A blow dyer to dry layers quickly
  
  Kit fee: 10.00
• Heavy weight interfacing
• Canvas or heavy weight fabrics
• Wonder Under
• Collage stuff
• White gesso
• Acrylic paint
• Matt medium
• Paper for drawing
  
  You will have use of in class:
• Caran D’Ache water soluble crayons, Colored permanent sharpies, wite-out pens
• Large foam rubber stamps, stencils, printing tools
• Paint brushes and cosmetic sponges

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.