Last weekend my friend Birgit Koopsen and I taught our 3Day Color Crush Retreat for Art Workshops in Coventry in the U.K.
We had a wonderful group of 34 super talented and sweet ladies creating an art journal from scratch.
Birgit and I both love color but we both have a different style and we set the mood by putting a lot of colorful stuff out.
we started with some color theory and color exercises and some ink drawings and stamping.
so many happy faces – it was such a great group.
Look at all those colors!
Aren’t those gorgeous? The second day we did a lot of gelli printing techniques
Now if you do not call this a yummie color crush!
And we even had a short session for making your own foam stamps outside- the weather was great…who says it is always raining in the U.K?
And a lot of the new Art Foamies were used as well
And of course there was a ton of opportunity to buy some stuff …always love seeing the ArtFoamies, most were gone after 3 days.
It was wonderful to see Tali, Tsila, Iris and Hedi from Israel again -it is so many years ago that I met them when teaching in Tel Aviv. Thanks for coming all the way to the UK to join us.
The third day we started the day off binding the book and adding the covers. I don’t think Hazel and Shirley were really as scared as they look like in the photo when Birgit explained how to add the covers- LOL
After having the book all together we got a treat.
The food for the event was plenty some and so good and on top of that Sue, B, Leroy, Debbie and Pam made all of us feel really pampered during the whole retreat.
And then it was all about finishing up some pages and showing how we layer on top of our backgrounds
And…seeing a lot of the ladies with my book “Artful Adventures in Mixed Media” made me super duper extra happy. I know I am a dork but it really does!
Since I came home this week I feel so energized and inspired- it was such a wonderful retreat. Thank you so much to all of the wonderful students who joined us, for Sue for inviting us and to her and her staff for taking great care of us and to my wonderful friend, partner in crime and very tall co-teacher Birgit! It was amazing.
If you weren’t able to join but would like to take a workshop with me check out my In-Person Classes. I will be teaching at the Queens Ink in Maryland and at Runaway Art and Craft Studio on November 4-5 and December 2 -3 in Oregon. And if you are interested in taking a workshop with me and Birgit – we are coming back to Syracuse July 20-22, 2018 for a three day fun retreat – so safe the date.
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karen bearse
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Looks like it was a lot of fun with tons of ink flying!
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nathalie-kalbach
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it was super fun!!!
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Tania
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I had such an amazing time, and learnt so much from you two,hope to attend another one of your workshops in the future ??
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nathalie-kalbach
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It was so good to see you again Tania- hope to see you soon again <3
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Sue Clarke
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Looks like y’all had a blast with foamies, food and fun!!!
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nathalie-kalbach
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It was really fun …the food of course helped- LOL- gotta have food !
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Ally
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It was such an awesome weekend- wish I could do it every weekend!!! X
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nathalie-kalbach
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It was wonderful to have you!!! Hopefully soon again!
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Natalie Jane
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What an amazing weekend :)
I cannot wait to finish my book with all the techniques I’ve learned and of course to use YOUR FOAMIES!!!
Until next time – you and Brigit are a great teaching team xxx
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nathalie-kalbach
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Natalie it was so wonderful to finally meet you – and you are so talented -rock on with it!!! See you hopefully next year again :) <3
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