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More Workshops: The InkPad in NYC and 21 Secrets

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I am teaching this Raw Canvas Staining Class at The InkPad in New York City on May 16, 2015 – 10.30am – 5pm

The technique of painting on unprimed, raw canvas is most often associated with artists such as Morris Louis, Kenneth Noland and Helen Frankenthaler just to name a few.

Color-field artists poured, dripped, or brushed thinned paints onto the canvas that soaked through the surface and stained the fabric, creating a velvet-like appearance.

Join me in exploring fun techniques of staining and painting raw canvas and open a whole new creative world to apply these techniques on stretched canvases, pillow cases, bags and home decor items or even clothes.

You can sign up here

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21 SECRETS Spring ART

And a reminder that the 21 Secrets Art Journaling Workshop starts in April 2015. You can still sign up for this downloadable Workshop which is contains actually 21 workshops by 21 Artists . You will download an eBook which contains written text, loads of videos and photos. I am super thrilled that I was asked to participate.

What I teach? The Story Within a Story

For me art journaling is visual story telling. It might not be a story that everyone can read but I can read it and that is all that counts. All my stories consist of many viewpoints and layers – thoughts, emotions and the story itself. I love to express the complexity of a story by building up layers and dimension through various techniques and texture.

In this workshop I would like to walk with you through my art journaling process. I will show you various layering techniques and I will tell you why and how I am doing what I am doing.

Join me in telling a creative story within a story.

How much does it cost?

Right now the PRESALE is happening !

Note: The link that I am using to promote 21 SECRETS is an affiliate link and I will receive a small percentage of any student who registers through my link. If you want to register, and want to support me as an artist it would be wonderful if you would consider registering through my link .

Hope to see you either in person or online :)

Nat

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Jackie P Neal

February 27, 2015 at 5:33 pm | #

So cool for you Nat! looks like you are one busy gal! xo

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  March 2, 2015 at 12:15 pm | #
  
  thank you Jackie :)
  
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De Craforij Retreat 2015 in The Netherlands in June

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So stoked that I will be rounding up my European Tour in June with an Artfusion Weekend teaching with my dear friend Birgit Koopsen at the De Craftorij Retreat 2015 in The Netherlands. The retreat will take place in a gorgeous hotel in Ede on June 13 -14, 2015. You can read all details about the event, workshops, hotel etc. in Dutch and English here.

Have a wonderful day

Nat

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Marsha.

February 25, 2015 at 3:25 pm | #

Yay!

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- nathalie-kalbach
  
  March 2, 2015 at 12:15 pm | #
  
  :) <3 Marsha
  
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  - marsha.
    
    March 2, 2015 at 3:31 pm | #
    
    Both days + diner on Sat. :-D
    
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      March 2, 2015 at 3:35 pm | #
      
      Yeahhh – cannot wait to see you! Gosh- it is still so long until then- LOL
      
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Marie-Anne Raeman

February 25, 2015 at 1:37 pm | #

Hey Nathalie, I’m so excited to do the craftorij weekend and see the both of you again. It is so long ago :-)
Just can’t wait

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  March 2, 2015 at 12:16 pm | #
  
  I cannot wait to see you again Marie- yeahhhh!!!!
  
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Matka Luovuuteen – Creative Retreat in Finland in June

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This is going to be so much fun! My friend Birgit Koopsen and I are teaching at a Creative Retreat in Turku, June 6-7, 2015 , which will be held on a Museums Cruise Ship. You can read all details here.

Here are the workshops that I will be teaching -the first workshop is one that I will co-teach with Birgit – we should have called it Double Trouble I guess ;) woot woot :)

Lauantai 6.6. – Saturday June 6

Lauantaina Nathalie ja Birgit vetävät yhdessä koko päivän kestävän kurssin:
On Saturday Nathalie and Birgit teach together in a one day long class:

Sunnuntai 7.6. – Sunday June 7

Artvergnugen – Art Journal Class with Nathalie Kalbach

It starts the moment you sit down, an experience that is distinctly Art Journaling. A quick exhilaration, a sense of control, the art media’s surprising responsiveness as if they were simply an extension of you.

There is a word for this creative experience: Artvergnugen! Artvergnugen is what makes your journal a piece of art.

Join Nathalie for a half-day workshop and play with different art media and supplies. Learn techniques, tips and tricks to take your art journaling further and turn it into Artvergnugen.

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International students are welcome- Birgit and I will hold these classes in English…I am not sure I will ever manage to learn finish :)

You can sign up here – if you are on the fence, decide soon, I was just told, the event is almost fully booked.

Nat

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ansku

June 8, 2015 at 1:09 pm | #

Thanks, we have amazing weekend.

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Pirjo salmela

February 16, 2015 at 8:40 am | #

Hi,
just can´t wait for your Double Trouble week-end. Is it a show with cancan dance and paints, a performance with gesso or a mystery story with two lost adhesive tubes?
Welcome!
See you both in Finland- Turku in Matka Luovuuteen
Best regards

Pirjo S.

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Photos of the Mixed Media Workshops at ESS in Florida

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I had such a great time with my Mixed Media Workshops at Everything Scrapbook and Stamps in Florida. Thanks to Michelle for bringing me back and being such a great host :) Here are some pictures of the three days I taught there:

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Friday I taught a Mono printing Class – lot’s of fun and texture and I loved seeing my stencils and stamps being used so much :)

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and we used loads of Liquitex Acrylic Paints.

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And everyone was hands on :)

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In between I learned that this is the only snow you can get in Florida ….sounded good to me with the arctic weather back home and comfy 86F at Lake Worth :)

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Saturday I taught my Artvergnugen art journal class. My nifty students had practiced how to say Artvergnugen and were even able to show me :) Made me laugh big time!

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We had an awesome day playing with paint and creating layers upon layers in our art journals

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Sunday I taught a Collage Class- and I loved loved loved all the different results- it was loads of fun !

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Thank you to all my amazing students for coming, being so amazingly creative and making me laugh! Until next time :)

Have a gorgeous day

Nat

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Sue Clarke

November 20, 2014 at 9:59 am | #

Just look at all that marvelous Liquitex products!
My favorite is the page with the teal and brown feather stamp!!!

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  November 20, 2014 at 6:44 pm | #
  
  Not Stamped Sue- she hand drew it over the texture stamped images- pretty cool huh?
  
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Belinda Basson

November 20, 2014 at 8:21 am | #

Wow, they look like they had loads of fun and great projects to take home too!

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Laura Strack

November 20, 2014 at 8:17 am | #

Looks like you all had so much fun! I can hear you laughing, right now, at their little English/German lesson. That’s hilarious!!

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Join me in Florida, Lake Worth for Mixed Media Workshops

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There are a couple seats still open for my Mixed Media Workshops at Everything Scrapbook & Stamps November 14-16, 2014 in Lake Worth, Florida. Come and join me :)

Friday 14, 2014 – Texture Journal – 6-9pm

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Create wonderful texture pages with mono printing, stenciling and stamping techniques, encrust them with different Embossing Media and bind them together in a beautiful tactile art journal.

Saturday 15, 2014 – Artvergnugen – Art Journaling Class – 10.30am – 4.30 pm

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There is a word for this creative experience: Artvergnugen ! Artvergnugen is what makes your journal a piece of art.

Join Nathalie for a one-day workshop and play with different art media and supplies. Learn techniques, tips and tricks to take your art journaling further and turn it into Artvergnugen.

Sunday 16, 2014 – Play Transform: Mixed Media Collage – Noon- 6pm

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In this one-day workshop Nathalie will share her favorite techniques to create background papers using paints, stencils, and stamps. Layered up it will turn into a fun Mixed Media Collage. Nat will share her fun and easy peasy collage techniques, talk a bit about composition and make a sticky business a creative new passion for you.

We will play with loads of fun acrylics, techniques and ideas in those workshops – don’t miss it .

Have a gorgeous day

Nat

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Photos of CREATE in Seattle

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It was such a fun trip and event at CREATE Mixed Media in Seattle. I taught four classes but arrived early the day before and Elena made sure I was visiting classes WAY OUT of my comfort zone for a couple hours myself – Jewelry Making and Metal working is not something I usually dabble in.

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It is always good as a teacher to do something out of your comfort zone to get reminded how that feels for your students– and I enjoyed my awesome teacher friends Jen Crossley , Jen Cushman and Kristen Robinson (thanks Kristen for pretending I made the pendant using the torch myself- hahahah).

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And at least we took a photo here accompanied by John Creighton Petersen – what a highlight of the event to have met him :)

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My first clas was an all day Art Journal class called “It’s All About The Layers” and we did layer up indeed. It was a blast.

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The second one was also an all day class called “Acrylic Media Demystified” and that is easily my favorite class to teach. We had so much fun playing with loads of different Liquitex acrylic media and techniques.

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As always at those events I was just amazed by my students. Their talent, their personalities, their stories and the amazing work they do when they are not creative. Thank you for sharing your stories !

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Without exaggeration I can say that meeting my students and other Mixed Media Teachers is besides arting my favorite thing in the world :) NatKalbach_Create_Seattle07

In the evening after my six hour class I taught another 3hour class- a Texture canvas – accompanied by a mean high wind hauling outside and a lot of flickering lights.

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And sunday morning I taught a Texture Art Journal Technique class. I was in awe that my students were still ready to keep going after some of them had taken classes since Wednesday every day and night!

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Thank you Liquitex for the support- that was awesome ! This was the last CREATE event of the year. My last two in-person classes for the year will be in November 14-16 in Lake Worth, Florida at Mixed Media at Everything Scrapbook & Stamps and November 21 in NYC at The InkPad. If you are in the area- maybe you want to join us :)

I wish you an amazing day

Nat

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Jackie P Neal

October 30, 2014 at 8:20 pm | #

How much fun was had there Nat?!!!!
I love Jen Crossley! How lucky to take a class with her!! And thanks for introducing me to John Creighton Petersen – I had never hear of him before , but now I am a fan!

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Sue Clarke

October 29, 2014 at 8:41 am | #

So much inspiration and I see elephants every where.

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Mixed Media Workshops in Florida, Lake Worth in November

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Coming back to Everything Scrapbook & Stamps in Lake Worth to teach classes from Friday November 14- Sunday November 16, 2014.

Friday 14, 2014 – Texture Journal – 6-9pm

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Create wonderful texture pages with mono printing, stenciling and stamping techniques, encrust them with different Embossing Media and bind them together in a beautiful tactile art journal.

Saturday 15, 2014 – Artvergnugen – Art Journaling Class – 10.30am – 4.30 pm

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There is a word for this creative experience: Artvergnugen ! Artvergnugen is what makes your journal a piece of art.

Join Nathalie for a one-day workshop and play with different art media and supplies. Learn techniques, tips and tricks to take your art journaling further and turn it into Artvergnugen.

Sunday 16, 2014 – Play Transform: Mixed Media Collage – Noon- 6pm

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I will bring loads of fun goodies and we will play with heaps of fun art mediums and materials. I hope I will see you in Florida – I cannot wait :) we had a great time last time I was at Everything Scrapbook and Stamps in 2012.

have a gorgeous day

Nat

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Everything Scrapbook and Stamps

November 14, 2014 at 8:06 am | #

[…] you can also read about the workshops on her site by clicking this link: Nathalie Kalbach classes at Everything Scrapbook & Stamps or on our class calendar . . . but be quick and sign up as we at a “Wait List Only” […]

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Claiming the Creative Birthright

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CREATE New Jersey is about to start in a couple days, and you can still sign up. I was pretty stoked that I was interviewed for an article in the New Jersey Courier News about this event- the article will come out today in print- but you can also read it online

This article gives a great sense of what to expect and what this is about. And as I said –you can still sign up for some of mine and also for most of the other amazing workshops by awesome workshop teachers. I for one will be taking two workshops too and I am so excited about this :)

Here is a short overview about what my workshops are about:

Texture Heaven Art Journal – Thursday Evening:

Create wonderful texture pages with monoprinting, stenciling and stamping techniques, encrust them with different Embossing Media and bind them together in a beautiful tactile art journal.

It is All About Layers: Art Journal Class – Friday whole day

Create depth and dimension by adding several layers with different paint and other media to achieve intriguing art journal pages. Learn about different media and playfully explore how to express yourself in your art journal. It’s all about the layers—so come and join us!

Texture Galore Canvas – Saturday Evening

In this workshop you will create a stunning and unique canvas that will be a wonderful home decor item. Learn how to create dimension and texture with tissue paper, items of daily life, acrylic paint, lace, burlap, and gesso. Learn how to reveal the interesting and eye-catching texture with acrylic paints, art bars and acrylic inks and add some fun stamping techniques on top.

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May I be so cheesy and quote myself from the article ;) : “Many people think they aren’t creative, but creativity is a birthright,” Kalbach said. “Events like this help us find this ability again, and instill a sense of pride and accomplishment. Don’t be afraid — you can do it.”

Come and join us :) – and if this event isn’t close to you …check out the other locations – I will be at CREATE SEATTLE and DALLAS too.

Have a wonderful day and …don’t forget to exercise your creative birthright today ;)

hugs

Nat

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Amante del Papel

July 6, 2014 at 9:28 pm | #

amazing!

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Sue Clarke

July 6, 2014 at 9:14 am | #

“Creativity is a birthright”…can I quote you on that Ms. Kalback?
Sounds like great fun!

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Photos of my Workshops at the Baltic Sea in Germany

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It was such a fun trip to Germany and see friends and family but mainly to teach again at the Ostsee Scrap Event in Boltenhagen at the Baltic Sea. Just as last year it was a really intimate and gorgeous 3-Day event with round about 25 wonderful students located in a holiday village with a 2 minutes walk to the beach.

I had a blast. Thank you to all my students for coming and being open to try new things and dive right into paints – you rocked it :) Also thank you to Daniela for another amazing event – as last year I had a great time and the organization was exceptionally well done. And last but not least: Thank you to Liquitex for supporting the event and my workshops with wonderful materials – it is not a secret that their products are very dear to my heart and that they make it a breeze to get the results you are going for in your art work!

Since my students were mostly scrapbookers and a lot of them were dabbling for the first time into Mixed Media, I made sure they understand the essential message of this weekend …which somehow they really took to heart – LOL. They took this photo of me (thank you Sandra!) “It is not your life, it is just paper!” so overcome your fear of trying things and if they do not work as you want them , so what?- get over it! ;)

We started with a fun mono printing workshop, adding loads of texture and layers and just to loosen up :)

and soon the whole room was covered every where with prints and papers and booklets and they liked just playing and trying new things.

Here is Dani the wonderful organizer, who also made sure we would eat loads of yummie German food in between…oh man I filled up on sausages and German cake- LOL…I guess I missed that ;)

Next up was a canvas workshop – here is another photo collage I stole from Sandra :)

We used mostly Acrylic Paints and Acrylic Inks by Liquitex to get a nice background and then worked with my Stampendous Stamps and found objects on top of it.

It was so much fun to see them play with different colors and motifs and incorporating my stamps in different ways. Pure bliss and I heard some canvases are already hanging on walls :) Here is a group photo

In between I was able to dip my toes into the Baltic Sea with Andrea Gomoll and Janna Werner, who also taught there. Melanie Hoch was somewhere…she was another wonderful teacher at the event and kept hiding from us ;) just kidding ;) It was wonderful to spent some time with all three of them – I find it always super special to meet other creative teachers and exchange thoughts and support each other.

The last workshop I taught was an art journal technique workshop and the girls were ready for it on the last day :)

We used a lot Acrylic Paints and Acrylic Markers Markers as well as my Stencils by StencilGirl Products and my Stamps by Stampendous.

that was it…if you made it with all the pictures till here…you need a break and should do some art ;)

Have a gorgeous day

Nat

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Natalie Strauß

June 5, 2014 at 1:31 am | #

Sooo schöne Fotos.Ich schwelge immer noch in Erinnerung.Die Workshops waren so klasse.Bis hoffentlich ganz bald.
Lg Natalie

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Sandra

June 2, 2014 at 4:41 pm | #

The weekend was so much fun. Just love how you teach :). Hugs, Sandra

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Sue Clarke

June 1, 2014 at 2:54 pm | #

Yes I made it all the way through and now I will go play in my art journal.
Those canvases are awesome and I especially like the pic of you and the other lady with “duck lips”.

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Seth

May 31, 2014 at 1:37 pm | #

Great work made by everybody and it looks like all these workshops were a lot of creative fun.

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