Art & Soul Virginia: Magical Midnight Stories
Posted on January 17, 2010 - Filed Under 2010 Workshops
This week I am one of the featured artists for Art & Soul in Hampton, Virginia, and Glenny is offering a 20% discount on my classes. Click here for that offer.
Leave a comment here under one of the posts for VA, and on the 29th I will pick one to win a big box of goodies from my studio.
In May I am excited to be teaching two classes at Art & Soul in Hampton, Virginia, and I have been busy making agendas for them that should satisfy even the fastest, most manic participant. The first class is Magical Midnight Stories. It is a combination of bookmaking and surface design on paper.
The book is a never ending structure that fits in a small case.
The signatures will be stitched, but the big cool factor is that the pieces inside it will be woven together, without using glue. This is a technique I came up with after hanging out with my friend Paul Johnson for a week. He is bookmaker and artist extraordinaire. I was inspired to find a way to make non-adhesive attachments somewhat simpler than the complex techniques he has, and that is when I came up with this.
I love the entire line of Arches papers, and this one is no exception. It is Arches Cover in black, and has a velvety surface that can take alcohol, bleach, paint and pens, shown on the sample above.
We will also use sumi, watercolors, colored pencils, gouache and acrylics. We will do some drawing, but there are many workaround exercises if you are one who is convinced you can’t draw. You can, and I will show you.
This is also pencil, with a different technique.
We will do some black on black blind drawing with sumi ink, and find the creatures in the designs.
I call the one below “Ninja Trains the Cosmic Bunny”
Lumiere paints and Twinkling H2Os create fabulous luminosity on this paper.
So, if you want to try all this stuff and make a book to prove you did, sign up for Magical Midnight Stories at Art & Soul in Virginia.
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woo, wee! this is just GORgeous! *and were my handsome hubby not escorting me to A&S in Vegas in four short weeks, i would be in the front row
* i will have to hope to catch this one at a later date… i am sure that you will have many eager students, tho’ — and what fun you will all have! sending you sunshine; and wishing filled seats and anxious learners at all your outings in this vast New Year!
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Your work is wonderful, full of color & imagination.
I won’t be going to Hampton but plan to be in Portland & in, at least, one of your classes.
Your work is beautiful. I love the vibrant colors. I’m new to mixed media and am not familiar with the paper you used or with sumi inks, but the combination is lovely.
Jill- I met you at Art Fest last year when you were a FV –Loving your work…looks like a great class…Barbara
I always love how you come up with the next NEW AMAZING work of art! And how I wish I could be in VA!!!
Love your work, and looking forward to A&S in Hampton–it’s my first and I’m so excited!!
I thought about signing up for the Midnight Magical Stories class but I was put off by the bookmaking part. (It’s too late now – I’ve already filled my whole schedule.) If I had seen these pictures then, I might have signed up anyway – I love decorated paper. Maybe next year…
I love the accordian style of this book. The possiblities are endless! Your work is gorgeous! My first A&S will be Portland and I look forward to taking one of your classes! Can’t wait!!!!
This is fabulous! I love the paper, I love the book. I wish I were going to Art and Sould so I could make one of my very own.
these are really yummy!!!