Instructors:
Ruth Booth and Linda Prussick

Class Duration:
2 Days

Class Description:
This workshop explores a process, which encourages experimentation and play while enabling participants to channel their energy and discover their own creative wisdom. The marriage of art and science allows the artist to achieve this.

By relating creative learning to a scientific experiment the artist validates creative exploration, finds a starting point, tracks their progress, maintains momentum and develops their own creative process.

Supply Fee:
to be determined

Supply List:
to be determined

Eye Candy:
Seeing in Paper and Thread

Instructor:
Sigrid Blohm

Duration:
2 days

Course Description:
I'm often asked, "Where do you get your ideas?" From what I see around me. The world is full of visual food. But we can't absorb it all at once and so we usually spend periods zeroing in on a few things that interest us, collecting - visually or physically - as we go. This weekend we'll use these collections as a jumping off point for starting a visual vocabulary in paper and thread.

We'll begin by applying colour to Japanese papers using dyes or paints. Next we'll create samples of stitched textures or marks, getting to know our own personal stitching style. Then, using our collections for inspiration, we'll create fields of colour, shapes and textures by cutting, tearing, layering and stitching. Observing the properties of the materials at hand we will use them to distill our eye candy into a whole new confection.

Supply Fee: $20

Supply List: a few brushes for applying dyes, acrylics, gouache etc. if you have them
Participants should bring some things that inspire them visually. These can be actual objects (in small format!) such as pebbles, bark, a button collection or textiles. Or bring in photos (your own, borrowed, in books) of landscapes, cityscapes, water patterns, rusty metal, sewer grates, or even of someone else's art

Finding Your Niche

Instructor: Cherryl Moote

Duration:
2 Days
As artists we all struggle to find our own niche, to speak our own voice. In this class you will have the opportunity to explore, experiment and entice your own artistic persona into coming into clearer focus through a variety of experiences and activities which will include elements of collage, bookmaking, creative writing, image transfer, stitching, stamping.... If you have ever wanted to make an artists’ book and needed the time and guidance to get started, this is the class you want to take.

Supply Fee: $20

Supply List:
self-healing mat and cutting tool like x-acto or scalpel and extra blades
several grades of pencil such as 4B, 2B, HB
set of pencil crayons (at least 8 colours you like)
scissors
fresh glue stick
fine or extra fine black marker or mechanical pen (permanent ink if possible)
small paint brush

Other things you might want to bring:

chalk pastels and q-tips/applicators
photocopies of your own images or work you would be willing to cut up
and/or photocopies of images/photos/clip art made on dry toner machine or Canon colour copies
a small stash of smaller pieces of paper you love (don’t need to be any bigger than 5” x 6”
threads in colors you love
beads, charms, embellishments that have special meaning to you
few rubber stamps and dye base inks

Mycons – A New Invention

Instructor:
Jillian Roos-Markowitz

Duration:
One Day Class

Painting is made exciting with the additional use of fabrics, stitching and quilting. Xeroxed images are painted, gilded and textured with gold and silver and glitter. Then Stitch Witchery works its magic ironed on the layers of paint and glitter. Fused onto fabric and then stitched and quilted, finished images can be used for many things. Play and explore with your imagination all day!!!

Supply Fee: approx. $10-$15

Supply List:
Watercolour supplies
Caran d’Arche crayons
Black and white photocopies of drawings, paintings, photos etc. not larger than 8” x 6”

Printmaking with Rollers

Instructor:
Jillian Roos-Markowitz

Duration:
One Day Class

Thick, deliciously coloured, water based printing inks are rolled onto a plate. (Multiple prints can be obtained.) Working on the surface of the plate in this way, gives qualities in the prints that cannot be achieved easily in other ways, combining both subtle and beautiful effects. Pulling more than one print gives small tonal variations between each print. Scratching or “drawing” into the plate, and working with templates are more exciting possibilities; the effects of chance and accident add to the spontaneous creativity of this method of printing. Such is the method, direct and exciting with the accidental always present.

Supply Fee: $2-$4

Supply list:
Scissors
Craft paper
Masking tape
Pad of 18” x 24” newsprint

Rollers are available for use in class. Additional papers and printing plates are available for purchase.