Creative Catalyst Newsletter January 7, 2009
A CREATIVE MIXED MEDIA START TO 2009
The five new DVD workshops by Interweave / Quilting Arts celebrate a variety of versatile techniques for mixed media artists.
Jane Dávila’s One-page Book makes a small fiber book from one piece of fabric. She uses a variety of surface design techniques and mixed-media materials.
Judy Coates Perez<Mixed-media Painted Fabric) explores textile paints, gel medium, and decorative printed images to create a fun, versatile fabric that can be used to make tote bags, fabric bowls, vessels, sculptural objects, or book cloth for handmade and altered books.
Ruth Rae, in The Journey is the Destination: Techniques for Mixed Media & Fabric Art shows you how you can add new dimensions to your artwork! Learn the secrets of transparency manipulation along with fabric altering and creative machine sewing. You explore: working with resin, burning, stitching, dyeing, and stamping. Then it’s all brought together in a project that will combine all the new skills.
Want to learn a tried and true transfer technique?
Join Lesley Riley (Transfers Tried & True) as she demystifies and demonstrates the latest, greatest, and most reliable methods, materials, tips, and tricks for perfect photo transfers onto fabric. Learn which methods to use for art quilts and collage and discover her latest transfer technique for soft, permanent, washable photos on any fabric, from any inkjet printer.
Quilting Arts DVD Series 200 is a 4-disk 13-episode DVD set filmed for Quilting Arts TV. It was aired nationally on PBS in June 2008. Quilting Arts TV, hosted by Patricia Bolton includes some of your favorite fiber and mixed-media artists as guests demonstrating a wide variety of techniques and projects.
Check out the whole Interweave Group
Any suggestions?
A person wrote asking if I had any suggestions for client data management software for artists. Any ideas? I’d like to hear from both PC and Mac users. Thanks.
Please drop us an email with your suggestion.
From Behind the Camera: Hello again
Happy 2009! I thought I’d begin the year by introducing myself to those of you who have joined the newsletter since the last time I did this.
I’m one of the co-founders of Creative Catalyst. Jim, my husband and best friend, is interested in things technical and I’m the artist. I was introduced to watercolor earlier than I can remember by my mother, Jan Kunz. Around 1989 I assisted her in making three videos using another production company. The experience was frustrating, expensive and a real learning experience. I remember thinking that these folks haven’t a clue what a student wants to see.
When our three kids left the nest, Jim and I decided we would live life with intent. We wanted to work with happy people making something that helped make people happy. I recalled my experience filming with my mother. Producing a video workshop is a blending of art and technology. We saw a need we would enjoy filling. Creative Catalyst was born.
I have a degree in Art History, Graphic Design and Print Technology. I remember very little of any of it. It was too long ago. We live on 4.5 acres in Oregon and the business is on site. Aside from painting, I love to garden. And I seem to have an invisible sign on my back inviting stray cats to take up residence here.
My personal search is to find my own artistic voice. I absorb and filter ideas from as many sources as I can. From Behind the Camera is a weekly reflection on some of the things I’ve learned working with these fabulous artists.
Cheers~ Lynn Powers
Upcoming Live Workshops by Creative Catalyst Instructors
NOTE: These workshops are not presented online. They are live workshops presented by the artists around the country.
Ann Bagby
February 9-13, 2009 – Taos, New Mexico
Contact: lyn.bleiler@yahoo.com
Ratindra Das
February (TBA) – Ajijic, Mexico
Contact: ratindradas@sbcglobal.net
Dayle Doroshow
February 21 & 22, 2009 – San Francisco Center for the Book
Contact: www.sfcb.org
Lisa Engelbrecht
February 13-16, 2009 – Kellogg Conference Center, Pomona CA
Contact:www.societyforcalligraphy.org
Janie Gildow
February 24, 2009 – Colored Pencil 2 at Arizona Sonora Desert Museum Art Institute
Contact: www.desertmuseum.org/arts
Caroline Jasper
February 15, 2009 – Sarasota, FL (Painting Demonstration)
Contact: www.artsarasota.org
February 16-20, 2009 – Sarasota, FL
Contact: www.artsarasota.org
Judy Morris
February 17-19, 2009 – Emerald Art Center, Springfield, OR Contact: 541-726-8595 – www.emeraldartcenter.org
February 20, 2009 – Buffalo Grass Workshop, Portland, OR
Contact: billbaily@comcast.net
Jean Pederson
February 2009, Covington, LA
Contact: www.theriversretreat.com – 985-871-9100
John Salminen
February 2-5, 2009 – The Presidio in San Francisco, CA
Contact: Karen Powers 510-502-6211
February 17-20, 2009 – Little Rock, AR
Contact: diwizi@comcast.net
Jacqueline Sullivan
January 31 & February 1 & 2, 2009
Forest Grove, OR
Contact: 503-357-7263 www.greenheronbookkits.com
February 6, 7, & 8, 2009
Portland, OR
Contact: www.diylounge.com/teacherlist
Pat Weaver
February 6-8, 2009 – Dade City, FL
Contact: ivel2@aol.com
February 20-22, 2009 – Bradenton, FL
Contact: Diane Shelly 941-746-2862
February 21, 2009 – At Paint Out at the Long Boat Key Art Center
View our Blog for January 2009 schedules, here.
In This Issue
Creative Start
Any Suggestions
From Behind the Camera: Hello Again
Workshop Schedules
This Week’s Winner
Sale Continues
Quote
What Customers Say
Winter DVD Giveaway Winners
Congratulations to Carol Reynolds of Hawaii, USA for being our winner of the Period 2 drawing (12/1-21/08).
Congratulations to Lynn Pajunen of British Columbia, Canada for being our winner the Weekly drawing (1/1-1/4/09).
“The common denominator of artistic expression is the ordering of a vision into a consistent complete form. The difference between a mere expression – however intense and revealing – and an artistic image of that expression lies in the structure of the form.”
Georgy Kepes
1906-2001
from THE ARTIST’S DESIGN: Probing the Hidden Order by Marie MacDonnell Roberts
Susan, you are so kind to respond to my request so quickly. Every experience I have had with your company has been very pleasant. – Lisa –
I’m so glad you guys are here for those of us that want to learn to draw, paint or whatever. The videos I have purchased have
all been exceptional. – Kristen D. –
Thank you for the wonderful Nicholas Simmons DVD that you produced! It was extremely well done and Nick himself a great teacher. I wanted to get as much information as possible prior to taking a workshop with Nick this past November and this DVD really helped me get an understanding of how he worked and what to expect! It was dynamite! -Nancy G. –
Incredible video production. So thorough, well composed and lit. So enjoy the out takes…good fun. Thanks – Ginny L. –
Creative Catalyst Newsletter – December 23, 2008
Creative Catalyst Newsletter
December 23, 2008
HAPPY HOLIDAYS
We are looking forward to a fun and productive 2009. We will be adding even more great workshops by other production companies, along with more of our own. Available now are some produced by Interweave Media and include mixed media, fabric and quilting arts. Link here to see more (scroll to the bottom).
We will also be working with Teaching Art of Great Britain to bring some every exciting European teachers to a digital format suitable to US viewers. Stay warm and stay tuned. We have only touched the surface of some very satisfying experiences in art and craft.
Kelly on Camera
Check out a few holiday crafts presented by Creative Catalyst’s own Kelly Powers. When not crafting, Kelly does the amazing job of pulling together the workshop footage to make it into a coherent presentation.
From Behind the Camera: The gifts of ART
Yep, things are sort of crazy right now. The world, the weather, Wall Street… all we need to do is to turn on the news and we’re reminded things could be better, a lot better.
As individuals, we have a good deal of control over what we choose to absorb into our version of reality. I do not suggest we be oblivious, but quite the opposite. I’m saying there is a real benefit, even sanity, in focusing on the here and now.
Art teaches us this. It’s about being present in the moment. One cannot wrangle the media without attending to what is at hand. It’s about what we have and what we can do with it. Sometimes it’s even about simply stopping and living with it for a while. It’s about being brave and bold and giving voice to a personal vision.
I wish everyone Happy Holidays and for us all the continued gifts of art in its fullest measure. See you next year.
Upcoming Live Workshops by Creative Catalyst Instructors
NOTE: These workshops are not presented online. They are live workshops presented around the country.
Lisa Engelbrecht
February 13-16, 2009 – Kellogg Conference Center, Pomona CA
Contact:www.societyforcalligraphy.org
Ann Bagby
February 9-13, 2009 – Taos, New Mexico
Contact: lyn.bleiler@yahoo.com
Caroline Jasper
February 15, 2009 – Sarasota, FL (Painting Demonstration)
Contact: www.artsarasota.org
February 16-20, 2009 – Sarasota, FL
Contact: www.artsarasota.org
Dayle Doroshow
February 21 & 22, 2009 – San Francisco Center for the Book
Contact: www.sfcb.org
Janie Gildow
February 24, 2009 – Colored Pencil 2 at Arizona Sonora Desert Museum Art Institute
Contact: www.desertmuseum.org/arts
Judy Morris
February 17-19, 2009 – Emerald Art Center, Springfield, OR Contact: 541-726-8595 – www.emeraldartcenter.org
February 20, 2009 – Buffalo Grass Workshop, Portland, OR
Contact: billbaily@comcast.net
John Salminen
February 2-5, 2009 – The Presidio in San Francisco, CA
Contact: Karen Powers 510-502-6211
February 17-20, 2009 – Little Rock, AR
Contact: diwizi@comcast.net
Ratindra Das
February (TBA) – Ajijic, Mexico
Contact: ratindradas@sbcglobal.net
Pat Weaver
February 6-8, 2009 – Dade City, FL
Contact: ivel2@aol.com
February 20-22, 2009 – Bradenton, FL
Contact: Diane Shelly 941-746-2862
February 21, 2009 – At Paint Out at the Long Boat Key Art Center
View our Blog for January 2009 schedules, here.
In This Issue
Happy Holidays
Kelly’s Holiday Demo
From Behind the Camera: The gifts of ART
Workshop Schedules
This Week’s Winner
Sale Continues
Historic Note
Quote
Congratulations to Randy Ringstad of Nevada, USA, for being our winner of the weekly drawing (12/14-12/21).
RESIN JEWELRY – Sherri Haab
Sherri Haab has done it again! She has done all the research so you can just enjoy this new exciting product with confidence and safety. Resin opens new vistas of transparency and inclusions into jewelry, ephemera or just to seal a treasured keepsake. You learn about the material while making 15 unique projects. Sherri uses commercial molds, makes her own from a family heirloom, uses game pieces in a mini-tableau dangle, creates a theme bracelet … the list goes on. Check it out!
Sale ends when these DVDs arrive at the CCP warehouse.
Hand Lettering on Fabric with Lisa Engelbrecht
Lisa Engelbrecht’s DVD workshop is a sound, yet creative introduction to beautiful hand lettering. She makes practice fun with an easy decorative project. It’s like two workshops in one. Basic materials and the building block of hand lettering are presented in the first part, while the second half shows you the important considerations when working on fabric. You learn how to condition material and seal the surface, plus how she creates her special backgrounds before writing. Lisa brings it all together by using a few simple materials to build a collapsible Bali Lantern. What you learn here can be applied to the fabric arts, collage or just because you want to learn more about decorative writing.
Capturing Limited Light Using Expressive Brushwork by Betty Carr
Betty’s energetic approach to watercolor is contagious. Her workshop covers concepts such as: beginning with darks rather than lights, how to direct the visual path using gradations and darks, painting on a vertical surface, carrying the energy off the page and how to use expressive brushwork to add life to a painting. Along the way, Betty shares how she uses her sketch book to design her painting and think through her value pattern, her favorite quotes, warm-up exercises and much more.
View the Preview / Trailer for this DVD
Ever wonder what the big deal is about polymer clay? Here’s your chance to find out why this versatile product is so popular. In Dayle Doroshow’s two workshops she takes inspirations from the motifs of Provence, France (DD1d) and China (DD2d) to develop exciting faux materials out of Polymer clay (Femo).
You learn to make ‘jade’, ‘bone’, ‘mileflorie’ and how to create an antique look and transfer images. Dayle creates jewelry, pendants, boxes, books, beads and charms… all great fun and it makes wonderful gifts or ephemera for collage or quilting projects. Check it out!
View the Previews / Trailers for these DVDs
MIXING IT UP
January 21, 2008
We were wrapping up development of the Gloria Page workshop right before Christmas, and I had the pleasure to view and review the project several times! Gloria inspired me to give it a shot! I have had very little experience in the craft arts, but I decided to make gifts for a group of women friends with whom I exchange gifts. As long as I was at it, I decided I might as well try combining some of the techniques I had seen in some of our other workshops … in for a penny….
I purchased inexpensive note booklets, the kind with brown tag board covers. Using a hand carved leaf stamp, I used a burnt sienna colored stamp pad and stamped the covers with a repeated leaf pattern. Over that I spread clear gel medium, and into that I again stamped a leaf pattern. After the gel dried, I brushed the textured surface with a thinned wash of fluid acrylic paint which settled into the depressions more heavily. Much to my amazement, things were looking pretty good! Of course, everything looks better during the holidays with a touch of metallic paint. Soon the booklet/journals looked very different from the original booklet and the covers felt “leathery”. As Gloria would say, “How cool is that?!”
I was proud to give these to my friends and I think they liked them! In truth, the gift I gave was to myself. Sad comment, but it was the closest thing to “play” I’ve done in awhile and I had a great time! In addition, the project could be sectioned into manageable parts which I was able to sandwich between work, shipping, cooking and the many other holiday activities. There is a lot to be said for the craft arts! I just might be hooked.
~Lynn~
ART STAMPING INNOVATIONS with Gloria Page
January 21, 2008
Get ready to have Art Stamping become your new favorite medium! Expressive, innovative and very practical, art stamping can be everything from a simple gift tag to an elegant full page design. Paper, cloth, polymer clay… it’s all within reach!
Gloria Page shows you all you need to know to get off to an exciting start or push your ’stamping’ to a new level of creativity. She gives an overview of the possibilities of art stamping and an inspiring closer look at some very creative applications of the medium. Gloria discusses traditional and innovative carving surfaces, and the benefits of each. She demonstrates the best carving technique for accuracy and safety. She reviews inks and embossing products and shows how they vary when used on a different surfaces. You learn specific techniques such as bleaching and image transfers, and Gloria shows you design examples you can try at home. She even shows several methods to transfer images to express your personal style. Additionally, you learn applications for mixed media. Finally, Gloria demonstrates projects that are easy to make and look fantastic.
Gloria’s enthusiasm and great ideas are absolutely contagious. The workshop is fun, creative and stimulating. It will inspire your own design combinations and you will find yourself using your paper, acrylic textures, quilt embellishments, assemblages and collage pieces in new and innovative ways.
The DVD workshop includes a printable list of supplies to help you find these materials easily. And it includes instructions and a pattern for folding the traditional Masu Box.
This DVD workshop is 2 hours in length plus a gallery of Gloria’s work.
KELLY’S ANIMATED " 12 DAYS OF CHRISTMAS"
This falls into the “What CCP Employees Do In Their Spare Time” category. Kelly, one of our editors has just put a new animated video on YouTube. You have to see it to believe it!
If you like her video you may also enjoy our new Craft Arts webpage.
(Kelly is currently on vacation, but I’m sure she would like to hear your comments regarding her YouTube video.) Please send her an e-mail at: Kelly@ccpvideos.com
Craft Cat Newsletter – August, 2007
JACQUELINE SULLIVAN COLLAGE DVD
Now’s your chance to join Jacqueline Sullivan as she demonstrates the unlimited possibilities of collage. Learn how she layers tissue, cheesecloth and aluminum and selects the medium to use for each texture for durability. Jacqueline clearly explains the differences between Golden mediums. In addition to stencils and metallics, she incorporates everyday household items and discusses how to analyze your design for a better composition.
This DVD is perfect for collage artists of any level and style.
Meet Jacqueline Sullivan
Teacher and artist Jacqueline Sullivan discovered collage early in life when she took a high school art class. Since then, Jacqueline’s artistic studies have taken several paths, including a degree in graphic design and years as an advertising and publication designer. Jacqueline has also focused her talents on calligraphy, having studied under world-renowned instructors Sheila Waters, Jenny Groat and Reggie Exell.
Jacqueline’s fans can see her work in galleries and learn from her first hand through one of the many workshops she teaches around the world every year. Jacqueline has juried art fairs across the country and has been on the faculty of several International Calligraphy Conferences.
Jacqueline currently resides in Michigan. She and her husband, Victor, run a custom frame shop and gallery, The Artful Framer.
(The following is an excerpt from a recent interview with Creative Catalyst.)
How do you find time to do art? Can people be successful as part-time artists?
If I can find time to do art, anybody can. I own a gallery/frame shop where I regularly work 6 days a week, 10 hours per day. I travel and teach at 8 – 10 venues in a year. In addition, I still do some free-lance graphic design work. To “speed up” the practice of creativity, I make sure that I am around something or someone creative all of the time. Thus, my “day job” has always been something that is creative: graphics, picture framing, teaching. If I am too tired to make art, I am reading about it, watching DVD’s, or looking at art on the web. I am on several Yahoo groups and enjoy the creative “chatter.” When my children were younger they always had a strict bedtime – giving me a couple of hours in the studio between their bedtime and mine. When they were young, the playroom, studio and laundry room were all adjoining, allowing me to multi-task. My daughter is disabled and we spent lots of times in doctor’s offices and hospitals and I always tried to keep a sketchbook or a journal with me to “stay creative” while waiting. This also helped reduce the stress of those situations.
In order to be successful as a part time artist, you have to make some tough choices. I don’t run a “perfect” household. It is often embarrassingly chaotic. Friends who visit us understand that I need to make art and understand the “clean enough to be healthy” concept. I don’t garden, although it is something that I love and I am careful with volunteer activities. I have dinner with friends or they visit with me at the gallery, but my social time is very limited. Shopping can be a very creative pursuit, but also a very time consuming one, and so, I try not to “lose myself” in shopping for new tools and materials.
Out and About- CCP Artists’ Workshops
ANN BALDWIN
September 24 -28
Color & Texture in Abstract Painting
Coupeville Arts Center, Whidbey Island, WA
www.coupevillearts.org
SHERRI HAAB
Aug 4
Image Transfer PMC Jewelry
Kit Kraft
Studio City, CA
818-509-9739
Sign up by calling Kit Kraft, email Sherri with questions (sherri @ sherrihaab.com).
TRACI BAUTISTA
Aug 8-12
Art Unraveled
Phoenix, AZ 8/8 – Crayon Cupcakes
8/9 – Creativity Unleashed
8/10 – Flourished Layers
8/11 – Visit Traci’s booth @ the artist’s show – paintings, journals, kits 4 sale!
8/12 – Diva Fairies
Aug 24-26
Stampers Warehouse
Danville, CA
Sept 7-9
The Art Bar
Santa Ana, CA
9/7-Graffiti Bouquet
9/8 – 10am-2pm – Monoprints & Drizzles
9/8 – 3pm-6pm – Doodles & Letters
9/9 – FIBERfusion Art Book
Sept 14-15
More Than Memories
Schaumburg, IL
9/14 – Graffiti Bouquet
9/15 (am) – Colorful Layers. Doodles. Monoprints
9/15 (pm) – The Macrame Journal
Sept 28-29
Rubber Chicken
Gaithersburg, MD
DAYLE DOROSHOW
John Campbell Folk School, North Carolina
www.folkschool.org
Sept 29-Oct 5
John Campbell Folk School, North Carolina
www.folkschool.org
LESLEY RILEY
September 22-24
East Bay Heritage Quilters Guild
Quilted Memories
Fabric Altered Book
LISA ENGLEBRECHT
August 5-11
Art Unraveled
Crowne Plaza, Phoenix, AZ
www.artunraveled.com
8/9 – Swirls and Twirls, calligraphic flourishing on paper and fabric
8/10 – Letter Tool Time-all the latest cool tools for neat-o letters
8/11 – (10am-4pm) – The Vendor Extravaganza
Sept 21-23
St.Louis Calligraphy Guild
9/21 – Lecture
9/22-9/23 – Workshop
JACQUELINE SULLIVAN
Aug. 5-12
Phoenix, Arizona
Linda Young
info@artunraveled.com
Learn Monotype Printmaking, Fabric Altered Books, Precious Metal Clay, Polymer Clay & Collage
Let your friends know about Creative Catalyst
Elephant Magnets
This fun and quick project makes a great summer project.
Craft Cat Newsletter – June, 2007
Summer with Creative Catalyst
Take the Creative Catalyst DVD workshops you love and share them with your family this summer! Use the fun techniques and projects to introduce your kids to concepts like color mixing and grid design while having hours of fun. DVD instructional workshops are a great way to keep kids creative and entertained during the long days of summer!
Then, enter their work in their own art show! Creative Catalyst Productions now has a Kids Art Show and creative Teens Art Show. This is a great way to encourage your children by putting their work on an international “refrigerator door”. In addition, start a conversation about what they think about other entries. A great creative learning experience. There is no juror, just fun for all who participate! Happy Summer!
1. Poppet® Party
Need a fun idea for a summer birthday party? Look to Claudine Hellmuth’s DVD Workshops for the solution! Have kids bring photocopies of themselves and a few basic supplies. Watch any of Claudine’s three DVDs and you’ll have enough inspiration to create for a whole afternoon. Let glue and paint dry between cake cutting and presents!
Claudine Hellmuth’s DVD Workshops:
Textures and Techniques
More Textures and Techniques
Beeswax Collage
2. Trip Journal
Before you go, make a fabric-altered book with Lesley Riley’s DVD workshop, Exploring Fabric Collage. Include a pocket for every place you’ll travel. Children can gather postcards and small ephemera and keep it in each pocket. Leave areas in each journal to glue postcards, pictures and to write. Something fun for kids to do before they go AND while they’re in the car. (Plus a great way to help keep them organized on a long trip!)
Lesley Riley’s DVD Workshop: Exploring Fabric Collage
3. Nature Art
Turn a lesson about plants (or a walk in the park) into a piece of jewelry with Sherri Haab’s instructional DVD, Precious Metal Clay. Plan a hike and gather lovely twigs along the way. After your trek, bring home the twigs, choose the prettiest shape and begin the magic. This is a great non-toxic introduction to jewelry making.
Sherri Haab’s DVD Workshop: Precious Metal Clay
4. Decorate a Room
Gather photos of your child’s friends and together with Claudine’s Beeswax Collage make cute Poppets® that can sit on bookshelves and desks. Design outfits unique to each friend’s personality with fabric colors that match your child’s room. Use this fun activity to talk about the impact of complementary and analogous colors in a room and in art!
Claudine Hellmuth’s DVD Workshop: Beeswax Collage
5. Paper Party
Need another theme for a party? How about a day with Traci Bautista and her paper making fun in Retro Rags! Traci shows fun ways to use simple office paper and kids’ craft supplies and turn them into vibrant patterns and colors. Retro Rags offers fast and easy techniques perfect for 3 to 30 children! Collect the paper to make journals for fun car trip activities.
Traci Bautista’s DVD Workshop: Retro Rags
6. Living History
Use polymer clay to introduce your child to Chinese art and history by making faux jade beads, pens and book covers with the help of Dayle Doroshow’s workshop, International Inspirations in Polymer, Vol. 2: China . Then pile in the car and go see the real thing! Use these fun projects as a starting point to talk about ancient Chinese art. The best way to learn history is hands on!
Dayle Doroshow’s DVD Workshop: International Inspirations in Polymer Clay, Vol. 2: China
7. Babysitting Basket
Leave a basket of supplies and a Creative Catalyst DVD Workshop with your babysitter. Know that your kids will be using their creativity instead of just watching TV. Entertaining AND educational. Spread the fun by packing the Creative Catalyst art basket with them when they go to someone else’s house for an afternoon.
DVD Workshops:
Watermedia Collage Workshop
Retro Rags
International Inspirations in Polymer Clay, Vol. 2 China
8. Collage
Make an assortment of papers with your child (or in advance) and then let them have at it. A stack of beautiful Carrie Burns Brown-inspired paper, a glue stick and a pair of safety scissors and your child will be busy for hours while getting an introduction to collage!
Carrie Burns Brown’s DVD Workshop:
Watermedia Collage Workshop
9. Polymer Party
Polymer clay is a great non-toxic addition to any party. Use Dayle Doroshow’s DVD Workshop: International Inspirations in Polymer Clay, Vol. 1: Provence to entertain while creating unique party favors. Have each child bring as many small pictures of herself as total party attendees. Use Dayle’s techniques to transfer the pictures onto polymer. Make into pendants. Then string the pendants together with polymer beads (or purchased beads) for fun original necklaces with pictures of everyone who attended!
Dayle Doroshow’s DVD Workshop:
International Inspirations in Polymer Clay, Vol. 1: Provence
10. Postcards
Add to your travel bag papers you made from Traci Bautista’s, Claudine Hellmuth’s, Carrie Burns Brown’s DVD workshops, a bunch of 4 x 6 cards, and some basic art supplies . Collect fun things along your trip, glue them with pretty paper and send them back to family and friends at home. (May require additional postage.) Better than email!!!
The DVD Workshops:
Watermedia Collage Workshop
Retro Rags
Textures and Techniques
11. Historical Printmaking
Turn your kitchen into a historical printing house with rolling pins and backs of spoons. Kids can learn the basics of monotype printmaking with Julia and Gail Ayres’ Instructional DVD. You’ll love the easy non-toxic water clean up and the lessons your children will learn about mixing primary colors. They’ll love pulling official prints and playing with stencils!
Julia and Gail Ayres’ DVD Workshop:
Painterly Printmaking with Monotype
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