Join us for the Mixed Media Journaling online workshop with Sketchbook Skool. I am teaching alongside Seth Apter, Mary Beth Shaw, and Kecia Deveney for this 4 week course that begins tomorrow, November 11th!!!
Check out my little chat to learn a bit more about this class:
This is a great line up of teachers and wow did they do a nice job producing the videos and website for this one. I hope you check it out HERE and we see you in the skoolyard :)
Today my newest online workshop Artful Adventures with Andy Warhol goes on sale on my website!
Get ready to go on an Artful Adventure with us! Through 4 lessons you’ll learn a variety of fun and clever ways to translate some of Warhol’s signature artistic moves, to help you add new elements to your art journaling and artwork.
Sign up NOW to enjoy great pricing: Early Bird pricing – 25% off the regular price of $39, so just $29.25!!! – now through Monday October 7th.
Check out the promo video:
Sign up now through Monday, October 7 and get the workshop for just $29.25. Throughout the workshop I show you ways to pull off Warhol style elements without fancy equipment so you can combine it with your own artmaking practices and style. Collage, making multiples of images, portraiture, and stamp carving are all explored in the lessons. If you are ready for another Artful Adventure, this is the perfect workshop for you! Sign up TODAY
The Artful Adventures workshop series will introduce you to master artists from around the world and throughout history, and through their techniques and style inspire YOUR art journaling and artmaking. Check out Artful Adventures with Joan Miró for another fun workshop in this series.
Are you joining us for an Artful Adventure? Today my newest online workshop Artful Adventures with Joan Miró begins with the first lesson.
TODAY is also the last day for Early Bird pricing – 25% off the regular price of $39, so just $29.25!!! – now through 11:59pm tonight, Monday September 16th – Sign up NOW!
Check out the promo video and sign up HERE:
I hope you come along as we seek inspiration from one of my favorite artists: Joan Miró. Through 6 lessons you’ll learn a variety of unique ways to translate some of his signature artistic moves, to help you add new elements to your work and to enhance its meaning. Join us!
Join me in my home neighborhood of Jersey City, at one of my favorite local boutiques: Kanibal & Co., for a workshop. This is my second time teaching at this awesome little shop and last time we had such a great time, I’m very excited to be back!
The workshop will be held on Saturday March 9th, 2019 from 12noon – 2pm at 197 Montgomery Street in Downtown Jersey City. Space is VERY limited on this one so sign up early to reserve your spot!
We’ll be customizing some tea towels with foam stamps – something that is fun to do to spruce up your kitchen or to make as gifts. You can register here.
Here is the official description :)
Foam stamps are a fun and easy way to block print on fabric. Join me as I demonstrate how to work with foam stamps and fabric paints. Working with color and pattern, students will learn how to create custom textiles. Each participant will create two unique tea towels to take home. Refreshments will be served.
Join us! Create! Get crafty! Play with foam stamps! And get inspired to personalize fabric with paint and foam stamps :) Sign up here.
Today my newest Online Workshop goes on sale: BYO Art Journal! That stands for Build Your Own Art Journal just in case you were wondering :)
I will show you step by step how to build your very own art journal. I actually make a lot of my own art journals using this method! What will you get? You will learn how to make some patterned background pages for within and one-of-a-kind covers for the outside. Then you’ll learn a versatile book binding technique to pull everything together. Finally we’ll discuss various creative methods for finishing up your pages. If you have always wanted to create a custom art journal instead of buying the same off-the-shelf one that everybody else has, this is the workshop for you!
You will get 6 downloadable video lessons – approximately 1.5hours of content!!! You can find all the details for BYO Art Journal HERE.
Watch the promo video to learn more:
Early Bird Offer: Sign up NOW through Monday, October 1st at 11:59pm EST and save $10. That means BYO Art Journal can be yours for $49USD! On 10/2/2018 the workshop will return to it’s regular price of $59USD.
The workshop begins Monday, October 1st with the first lesson and additional lessons will be uploaded every Monday and Thursday. You can follow along with us or work at your own pace as lessons are up. I will pop into the classroom comments section daily while the lessons are going up to answer your questions. And at the end we will have an online gallery where you can share YOUR new art journals :) Throughout we’ll be sharing stuff online using #byoaj
Join us and create an art journal that is just as unique as the artwork within.
Last Sunday was the last lesson of six in a Watercolor class with John Duval at the Jersey City Art School. As some of you might know I have taken two printmaking classes already there and I really love being able to do something different over several weeks, and just being able to walk there.
This was the first time I took a Sunday morning class and I have to say, despite my first hesitance of getting up early on a Sunday it was really awesome – having my friend Mary join helped ;)
What drew me in taking the class were several factors – I really suck in painting with watercolors and I love John’s loose expressionistic style depicting urban landscapes. Here are three gorgeous samples of John’s work- check out his website for more or follow him on instagram!
John started with explaining and showing the different applications of watercolor he uses for his watercolor paintings- from very wet application (wash), to medium wet and sticky watercolor application, to dry brush application.
He talked about the importance of planning a painting and how to not shift your plan. You can imagine that was a tough one for me ;)
Above one of my first attempts …gosh …sigh …but hey- it was fun and I learned a lot
One of my favorite aspects of the class was his usage of a limited color palette (yeah I know guys- awkward right?) and how to play with alternating warm and then cool colors and vice versa in the layers.
Me trying out the one tone approach – there are areas that I like and some I am like “WTH”?
I loved seeing his demos of painting from start to finish and talking through his process as well as how he chooses a subject to paint. At first I was really itchy to get back to the easel and paint myself, but I realized very soon that a lot of what he talked about and went through sticked in my head and was helpful for my own process. Very dear to my heart was his approach of not being afraid of changing up the scene so that it looks interesting or reflects how you feel rather than the actual depiction of the place.
John about to start after sketching a rough scene from a photo.
John’s finished piece piece from one of the demos- you can actually see a bit of the original photo on the left.
As we progressed in the class we picked our own images and I loved seeing what everyone was doing and talk through it.
I focused on the house and the water …as you can tell trees and foliage …not so much ;)
Love the beach scene of one of the fellow students- especially her shadows.
Such a great water texture here and I love the color scheme.
And I really loved the mood in this one- so gorgeous!
John is a great teacher, he is very good in explaining what he does and why he does it and he is good showing students why and where things work and where not. I loved taking a class from him and I will def. do so again …yes in watercolor —gasp ;)
If you are in the Jersey City – NYC area- take a class with John Duval – I am sure he sends out class informations through his newsletter !
What I learned in this class:
What I take away for the future:
What a fun post! I love the limited colors that you used in that first piece that you did (I do bet that it killed you to use limited colors).
The beach piece is delightful.
He really is talented and I just don’t know how artists can do so much with watercolors.
ha. you know me well -yes it was really challenging to only use a limited palate but it was really good to do so . :)
Come to my place for the day!
I’m super excited to announce that I will be teaching an extra special workshop right here in my home in Jersey City, NJ on October 13th, 2018! I invite you to my home for the full day Transfer, Trace, Transform art journaling workshop.
Join me for a fun day of exploring different ways to trace and transfer images into your art journal pages. The imperfect look of transferred photos can serve either as a building block of your layering process or as a stand alone focal point of a page. Tracing techniques provide just as many creative choices, and we’ll learn loose tracing techniques based on different image sources to give you a variety of options for your art journaling. Not only are there many ways to actually transfer or trace images, there are also many ways to transform those images in your art journal into something personal and unique.
AND we’ll do it all in my home in Jersey City, NJ so you can bet it will be a one-of-a-kind experience, with new friends and old, and lots of laughs :)
Space is extremely limited, sign up today!
Now is the time to sign up for Art Journal Summer School! Early Bird pricing ends May 31st and class begins in July – Woohoo! This will be the Art Journaling party of the summer :)
Here is a little preview of the fun we will be having:
I’m loving the lineup of teachers and I know they will give lots of new ideas to try, in whatever setting you find yourself this summer. Even the supply list is designed to go anywhere you do – travel, beach, back porch – and be super no-stress and super lots-of-artsy-fun. That’s the whole idea with this workshop: Summer can be busy but if you love creating as much as I do, you know you want to carve out a little time for arting.
To register and check out all the info just go HERE.
See you in Summer School ;)
Just saw this…..I tried to sign up and wonder with the time change, did i miss the early bird pricing? this looked like a great class. Thank you.
Hi Julie the time for the sale was on European Standard Time midnight- which is 9 hours ahead of you. There is still another Lucky Bird Price on there right now that is still 20 EUR less then the normal price. So if you would still like to join- go and hurry- it is going up again in two days.
I’m happy to announce that you can now purchase “21 SECRETS The Best of 2014 & 2015” downloadable eBook!
For those of you who don’t know, 21 Secrets is an Art Journaling workshop where the focus is to showcase a variety of approaches, techniques, and ways of integrating art journaling and creativity into one’s life.
This is a “Best Of” eBook featuring 37 workshops by 38 teachers from the 2014 & 2015 Spring or Fall editions. You get a 150+page downloaded eBook, packed with links to videos (downloadable), full color photos and templates, and clear, inspiring instruction. You will receive immediate and lifetime access to all content, plus membership to a private Facebook peer group to share your work and receive support. This is a great resource to inspire your art journaling!
The price of 21 SECRETS The Best of 2014 & 2015 is $128 but…
…sign up by Friday, May 4, 2018 and you can save $21 using the coupon code: BESTOF at check out!!!
Join me and 37 other awesome art journaling teachers!!!
…And for even more fun, join Birgit Koopsen and me in Toronto on July 20-22 for our NEW 3-day workshop: Stroll Around the Block
This workshop will be held in the lovely Old Mill facility, where we will spend time seeking out inspiration, mastering new mixed media techniques, and translating it all into gorgeous art journal pages.
Each full day of creative fun will run from 9am – 4pm. Included is: continental style breakfast, lunch, and afternoon snacks. Toronto is an awesome city to visit with loads of great restaurants, museums, and nightlife. This event is also great if you are nearby in the US as the exchange rate from US to Canadian dollars is very favorable. Make it a long weekend and treat yourself :)
For more information and to register, visit the Stroll Around the Block website!
Class size is limited to 35 so sign up asap to reserve your spot.
Natalie-this is such a great idea!
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