Embellished Journals

Service Description

Embellished Journals With Lianna Gilman Wednesdays, September 3, 10, 17, 24 9 am – 11 am Suggested donation is $40 to Create Space for the 4-class series. There is an additional $10 materials fee to Lianna. If this is a stretch, please pay what you can. Using simple paint, collage, layering and stamping techniques, you can easily and quickly fill a sketchbook with richly embellished pages, ready for your everyday notes-to-self, poetry, dreams or other writing projects, or to showcase your collages. We’ll use a free-style approach to creating these journals – which means there’s no right or wrong way to do it, nothing is a mistake and no previous “art” experience is needed. We’re just going to meet the blank pages with curiosity and a playful spirit to see what alchemy emerges through color and texture. You’ll learn some unconventional ways of painting the pages that make it more fun and less fussy than you might imagine. We’ll also experiment with gel-plate printing, translucent painted tissue paper, making our own brushes with natural materials, grid journalling, and stamping with ordinary objects. We’ll cover adding pockets, overlays and fold-outs to your journals. Basic materials will be provided: - Canson mixed-media sketchbooks (7 x 10 inches, spiral-bound) - A variety of paints and inks, and tools for applying them - An abundance of papers, magazines, fabric, ephemera & embellishments Lianna Gilman is a free-style weaver and fiber artist with an adventurous mixed-media spirit. She’s been creating embellished journals for over 13 years and still finds them magical. Visit www.heartsong-weaving.com for more about her fiber arts. To pay the class fee by credit card, you can click ‘Add to Cart’ on the registration page or use the ‘Donate’ button on the website. Or you can put cash or a check made out to WIAC (Whidbey Island Arts Council) in the donations jar in our classroom. If you are unable to afford the full $40 fee, please pay as you are able. Your payments insure the future of Create Space.