Experience an art journaling color explosion by rendering subjects using intense, high chroma, deeply saturated art sticks.
This workshop, suitable for all skill levels, explores that art pastel medium along with methods for sketching from a photograph using a fast and easy technique that requires no previous drawing skills, interpreting color, selecting dramatic color combinations, working with glue alternatives for attaching miscellaneous ephemera, creating journal pages from odd materials such as brown packing paper, and idea discovery for recording the everyday. realistic quality to any object, ideas for developing your own masks and stencils, along with using stippling tools to make purposeful yet random looking marks.
Supply List:
- 1 - mechanical pencil
- 1 - white eraser
- 1 - 12" ruler
- 2 - fine point black Sharpie Markers
- 1 - 48 ct. box or larger Prismacolor NuPastels
- 2 - blending stumps or tortillions
- 1 - piece of fine grit sand paper
- 1 - package of graphite paper
- 1 - red ball point ink pen
- 8 to 10 - personal color photos printed on color copy paper (NOTE: select photographs where there is a main subject and it fills the entire picture. Consider enlarging the photo when printing onto the copy paper. The enlarged image should be no bigger than 11" x 14")
- 1 yard of wax paper
Kit Fee $15 includes:
- 1 - 11" x 14" Spiral Bound Brown Packing Paper Journal
- Pastel Fixatives
- Tracing Paper
A Little About ME
Tracie Lyn Huskamp:
Tracie shares her love of art and nature with the release of her
book, Nature Inspired (Quarry 2009). She has appeared on
ABCNews.com in an Associated Press Interview,
on the cover of Somerset Studio Magazine, along with feature articles in various Stampington Publications, as well as Cloth,Paper,Scissors Magazine. She has contributed her art and designs to over ten books, the most recent titles being Creative Pilgrimage by Jenny Doh, Happy Stash: Applique by Cynthia Shaffer, The Sketchbook Challenge by Sue Bleiweiss, and Mixed Media Anthologies by Jane Davila. Tracie is also actively pursuing the dream of licensing artworks. Her first cotton quilting fabric line by Windham Fabrics debuted in the fall of 2010 with great success, and she will launch her second fabric line in the fall of 2011. Her 2012 Nature Inspired Birds calendar line by TF Publishing was selected as an early buy in retail stores, available early August 2011, and she is expanding her calendar products for 2013 with new nature themes.
Marylin Huskamp:
Marylin is a self taught artist who has a love of mixed-media and fibers.
Her fiber work has received national recognition. Her art has appeared in various publications, including Somerset Belle Armoire, Altered Couture, Haute Handbag, Cloth, Paper, Scissors, and Fibre&Stitch. She is a proud contributor to the books, Collaborative Art Journals by L.K. Ludwig, and 1000 Artisan Textiles by Sandra Salamony.
