March Classes 

Visual Haiku with Serena Barton

When:   March 6 & 7 from 1 - 3 Eastern Time
Cost:  $79
Live and Recorded class on Zoom.  All Students will have access to the recording
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This workshop introduces you to a way of creating abstract or semi-abstract pieces through experimentation, adding elements, subtracting elements, and joyful play. We’ll explore using traditional haiku by Japanese masters as inspirations for creating atmospheric visual responses to these poems. I’ll provide you a PDF booklet of tips and images, as well as many haiku to inspire you.

Traditional haiku poetry describes a world of seeing, listening, smelling, tasting, and feeling in the recording of a single moment. A haiku has three lines and seventeen syllables. Each haiku corresponds to one of the four seasons.  Haiku create a mood which may be content, lonely, bittersweet, ironic, or humorous.

We’ll use acrylic paint, various acrylic mediums, inks, collage papers, ephemera, mark-making tools and your imagination to fashion pieces that express your vision. We’ll have demonstrations, time to work, and time for sharing and questions. 

I love this layered method of creating as it is impossible to ruin your work! “Mistakes” may turn out to be happy accidents or may easily be transformed into something you love. You can experiment with confidence and curiosity in this workshop. The watchword for this workshop is, “Experiment!” You’ll build up layers, incise, scribble, scrape back, and texture your work, allowing each piece to tell its own story.

Link to Supply List PDF

Gel Plate Printing with Stamps, Masks and More! With Elaine Huffman

When:  March 13, 1 - 4  pm Eastern US Time
Cost: $40 (3 hour class with break)
Live and Recorded class on Zoom.  All Students will have access to the recording

Create gorgeous textures and patterns with gell plate printing. Gel plates provide an easy, accessible way to create beautiful mono-prints. In this class we will create beautiful prints that you can use for Zentangle® projects, mixed media, book covers, cards and as stand alone art works. Gel plate printing is one of my very favorite things to do and I look forward to sharing this passion with you! 

Learn to make your own foam stamps, stencil masks, and catalyst type tools from simple materials and then let the good-times roll as we brayer out paint and print!
print!
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Encore! Introduction to Akim Cursive with Brian Crimmins, CZT 

March 14, 11 - 1 Eastern Time
$40
Live and recorded class on Zoom

In this workshop students will learn a monoline lettering style known as Akim Cursive, inspired by the written hand of Hans-Joachim Burgert. We’ll also explore a modern interpretation involving unique ways of connecting letters together. This monoline lettering style can be done with a regular pen or pencil and requires no special paper (just those you enjoy using). Discover the versatility of this style, how to put your own twist on the form, and get inspiration on how this lettering style can complement other projects you might create. Though no specific exemplars exist, Brian will teach an inspired version of Burgert’s monolinear printing and also show how to take a printed form into more of a flowing cursive form.

This class requires no previous lettering experience, nor skill with using classic lettering tools. Just your favorite pen and lined or graph paper is all you need.

​Faux Etching: Surface design techniques on metal, clay faces and assemblage.
with Leighanna Light

When:   March 20, 2 - 5 pm Eastern US Time
Cost:  $40
Live and Recorded class on Zoom.  All Students will have access to the recording

​I will begin this workshop by teaching you a fast, fun & easy technique for creating “etched” metal surfaces without using toxic chemicals, and I will show several options for adding color or rust. I will be demonstrating this on a small tin, then using the tin as a body for a small figurative sculpture. 
While the metal is drying I will show how I make my faces out of clay and I will teach you how to make a mold out of just about anything.
From there I will demonstrate a variety of techniques to assemble the figure without using glue. I will cover basic cold connection methods as well as composition & design.
These techniques will be useful in many other projects and are suitable for learners with all levels of experience.
I hope you can join us!

*** Assemblage workshops require a great deal of one on one interaction, problem solving and collaboration, making it difficult to offer a hands on assemblage class on zoom, so this will be a hands off workshop! 
I will be demonstrating this process from beginning to end, but you will not be working along with me. Instead I am hoping that you will participate by asking a lot of questions and sharing your ideas as I go. You will receive a detailed supply list in case you would like to try this on your own after class.

Patches Goes On A Date
​with Nancy Dawes

When: March 21, 2 - 4 Eastern US Time
Cost: $40
Live and Recorded class on Zoom.  All Students will have access to the recording

Earlier this year, while weeding my garden on a sunny afternoon, I noticed a small creature hiding among the plants in the far corner. The little fellow with a tall hat that covered his eyes, introduced himself as Patches, the gnome. Over the course of several days, I learned how he came to be in my garden and a bit about his family. During our visits, I was able to sketch Patches, his family and some of his favorite flowers. Those sketches led me to design a series of classes featuring gnomes. I hope you will enjoy learning about the history of gnomes and their family life from my garden in B.C.

In this class, we will focus on drawing Patches in the garden area with his sweet date and her golden hair! I will provide you with stepouts to help you through the process of drawing the tangles and gnomes. 

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