Your photographs, the ones that move you, that resonate for you, hold a message for you written in your own visual language. Those images you have stored on your computer are notes to you from your super creative subconscious self. What are you trying to say? These photos are ripe for exploration! Let’s create a personal set of cards, notes of inspiration and question, drawn from your collected images, adding in quotes, poetry and musings generated by in-class guided exercises and activities. Working with paint, paper, photographs, and text, we’ll scrape, paint, stencil, transfer, mark-make and write our way to an intriguing set of small works. If you want to bind them into a journal, join me in the Criss-Cross Binding class!
Supply List:
- 4 8x10 pieces of mat board cut into quarters
- 8 8x10 pieces of sturdy paper (cut into halves)
- A plastic stencil or 2
- Acrylic gel medium
- Glue stick
- 5 colors acrylic paint
- Old gift/reward/credit cards
- Paint brush & water cup
- Gel pen
- Baggie of collage elements (pages from old books, paper scraps, think small!)
- Handful of quotes, poems, thoughts
- Dozen small photos (photos need to be smaller than 4x5! Print onto matte photo paper and regular copier paper)
- Fave journaling tools
Come dressed to paint and grab a newspaper to use as a work surface.
Teacher will bring:
- paper towels, stencils to share, rags, spray bottles.
