workshop information

Join our four exciting instructors for our creative explorations.

Design your own experience by selecting on 3 hour workshop on both Friday and Saturday.

Friday, October 7 (9-noon)

• Denice Barlow Brown: Create Your True North
• Marisa Anne: Painting with Stitches
• Liz Kalloch: Art Treasure Pendants and Charms (Part One)

Saturday, October 8 (9-noon)

• Denice Barlow Brown: Artful Exploration
• Liz Kalloch: Art Treasures Pendants and Charms (Part Two)
• Sarah Stevenson: Through My Eyes
  

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Denice Barlow Brown is an award-winning illustrator, artist and author. While most days she can be found creating alongside her many muses, she took a long and winding road to her current journey as “artist.” Through many varied endeavors both creative and business related – including wedding photographer, freelance writer, public speaker, and having her own line of scrapbook products, among others – she has learned the value of listening closely to the truth inside ourselves and allowing it to guide our creative path.

 

She is passionate about celebrating the creative sparks that light up her life, honoring her personal truths, and dancing under the stars as often as possible. She is mama to nine rather awesome and intensely creative people and makes her home with her cartoonist-writer husband on a very little farm in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains.

Friday, October 7

Create Your True North

 

Uncover your secret muse as we use free writing, color, mixed-media, collage and art journal exercises to unearth your deepest values. We will go deep, beyond the surface values we have assumed, to dig into our hearts and unearth the mysteries and dreams at our core. We will play and get messy as we use art to discover our truest passions and uncover and explore new creative paths while simultaneously honoring our present roles, embracing where we are while setting an intentional path for our future. If you are rediscovering creativity, this class is for you; if you are well on your way and seeking tools to more fully honor your own inner compass, this class is for you; and if you are looking for ways to know yourself better, get “unstuck” and find your creative direction, this class is for you, too.

 

Class materials will include:

• An intense variety of artist materials and supplies for exploration
• Adhesives, gels, glues, tapes, staples, etc.
• Paint, gesso, ink, crayon, pastel, charcoal, pencils, etc.
• Brushes, tools, scissors, stamps, etc. My own special collection of papers and ephemera for you to dig into!

Additional materials to bring:

• Sketchbook, any size, with sturdy paper to handle a variety of media
• Notebook, an inexpensive wire-bound school notebook
• Your favorite writing pen(s)
• Assorted writing/drawing implements (Suggestions: Pitt pens, Micron pens, markers, Sharpies, paint pens, pencils, charcoal, etc. Additional drawing tools will be provided, so just bring you favorites.)
• Assorted ephemera (receipts, tags, tickets, scraps, text, magazine images, favorite quotes, photos (copies!), wrapping paper – anything you like, however scrappy. Bring precious favorites as well as everyday bits and pieces.)
• Your own watercolors, if you have them.
  

 

Saturday, October 8

Artful Exploration

 

An expansion of Friday’s Create Your True North class, this class can also be taken alone. Whether you are brand new to art journaling or have stacks of completed works, you will learn new tips and tricks to make art journaling more joyful, more unique, and more fully yours than ever before. Learn ways to create and find supplies without breaking the bank, and learn new uses for supplies you have on hand. Learn to love your own drawing style, no matter your skill level, and get tips for loving your own hand lettering. We’ll carve, paint, stamp, glue, and draw our way to new ideas for incorporating more of your soul into your art journal without stockpiling supplies you’ll never use. We will also discover a wide variety of tools and supplies, giving you the opportunity to experiment and play and come away with a better sense of your own personal style, favorite mediums and a new list of favorites for you to focus on.

 

Class materials will include:

• An intense variety of artist materials and supplies in a wide range of media for exploration. This is your chance to try lots of new things!
• Adhesives, gels, and glues, tapes, staples, etc.
• Paint, gesso, ink, crayon, pastel, charcoal, pencils, etc.
• Brushes, tools, scissors, stamps, carving tools, punches, etc.
• My own special selection of paper and ephemera.
  

Additional materials to bring:

• Sketchbook, any size, with sturdy paper to handle a variety of media
• Assorted writing/drawing implements (Suggestions: Pitt pens, Micron pens, markers, Sharpies, paint pens, pencils, charcoal, etc. Additional drawing tools will be provided, so just bring you favorites.
• Assorted ephemera (receipts, tags, tickets, scraps, text, magazine images, favorite quotes, photos (copies!), wrapping paper - anything you like, however scrappy. Bring precious favorites as well as everyday bits and pieces.
• Your own watercolors if you have them

 

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Marisa Anne is an artist living in Los Angeles, California.
Always drawn to a creative life, Marisa decided to get a degree in Advertising instead of Fine Art because she didn't think she could make a living as an artist. {As it turns out she was wrong}
Working as a both a graphic designer and interior designer in the early part of her career, Marisa also studied acting and improvisation at the Groundlings School and Theater in Los Angeles. She credits Improv, and the small intention she set while working full time; to be more creative just one day a week {on Thursdays of course}, as the catalyst to helping her finally trust her own creative voice.
Once she decided to take that leap, she found her way back to what she truly loves, working in all mediums, from acrylic painting, to sculpting, to writing, to textile creations and design.
Oh and that small intention also grew into a full time business called Creative Thursday that is now home to a cast of characters who wear hats, hold hands and encourage you to follow your dreams too.
Marisa’s art work sells all over the world via select galleries and her own online shop, as well as Urban Outfitters, Papyrus, and the Land of Nod. Her first fabric line was just released in the Spring of 2011.
Passionate about encouraging others to live a life they love, especially creatively Marisa teaches, speaks and is also the voice of the Creative Thursday blog and podcasts.

Friday, October 7
Painting with Stitches

Where art meets embroidery. A needle and thread, fabric and maybe a paint brush or two, we will be creating an illustration with embroidery. Just bring yourselves and your creativity. Each student will be provided with a kit, including a design template to follow along with or use as an inspiration to expand from.

Class materials will include:

• a hoop
• illustrated design template
• creative thursday fabric
• base fabric
• needle
• thread
  

• small scissors
• acrylic paints
• paint brushes

Optional Student Materials: (please feel free to bring these items along)

• favorite thread
• fabric
• ribbon
• button, beads or other embellishments
  

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Liz Kalloch is a painter and designer and as an artist she is enchanted with the little details: the veins in a rock, all the different “browns” that come together to make brown hair, and how in such very different ways, we all use our hands to talk.

"I believe we all have our own very individual life purpose. I believe that colour can change a moment, a life. I believe that when we stop long enough to listen to that still and quiet inner voice, we can do anything we choose.

My current work is about what we might call the smaller moments: Moments that may not feel like much of anything as they pass us by — a breeze that blows back your hair and makes you turn to see a bird flying at some crazy reckless angle; dropping something on the ground and bending over to pick it up, realise there is a miraculously beautiful doodle painted onto the base of a sign post — chance encounters that sparkle briefly and are often forgotten, like dreams slipping away when waking. I make lists of these moments and return to them when I am sitting down to paint. These moment-memories are then combined with symbols, colour, patterns, flowers and a tableau is created to keep the moment alive.

My desire as a teacher is to inspire students to fully stop, find their own voice deep inside and begin to notice their world—taking note of the things that thrill them, the moments that make them feel most alive, the feelings that give them the most energy, and to take what I call these Observing Tools and use them to find the power in their own deep artistic expression and then to create. "

Friday, October 7 and/or Saturday, October 8
Art Treasure Pendants and Charms


This is a 2-day class on creating art for a resin pendant. Using pieces of your paintings - or an original miniature you will create in class - photographs, art papers, and found objects you will create an original piece of art to wear. A piece that will bring meaning and joy to you each time you put it on.

Friday Morning Class: We will spend the first morning thinking and working small, 1.25” round to start—creating an original piece of art to be set into the pendant bezel provided in your Student Kit. Your piece can be collaged, painted, mixed media-d, or really anything that your imagination can dream up that will fit into the bezel.

Saturday Morning Class: Our second class will be spent learning about the properties of ICE resin and learning to prepare your artwork for the resin pour, and then pouring and curing the resin. For those of you who want to add dimensionality to your piece we will look at adding beads, flat back cabochons, vintage papers, brass stampings, tiny shells, etc.

For those that would like to bring a finished piece of art and just learn the resin process, you can sign up for the second class only. Please bring print outs of your art or photography, or an original piece already created that can be cut to fit into the 1-3/16” (30mm) bezel interior provided to you in the Student Kit.

Also, bring some extra images to play with. If you are taking the second class only, please note that we will not be focusing on creating your image, just the lead up to pouring the resin.

In your Student Kit I will be providing you with a few extra bezels in different shapes and sizes that will be pewter based. So keep in mind that you will be able to make a few other pendants in class, time allowing.

Class materials will include:

•  1 - 24” chain in antique brass, and jump ring
• 1 - 1.5” (37mm) pendant in antique brass with a 1-3/16” (30mm) bezel opening for your art
• 2 additional pewter bezels in random shapes and sizes, beads, small ephemera, and charms
• Disposable latex gloves

Students will be provided with the following tools to use while in class:

•  hole punches to size art for the bezel
• ICE Resin and all tools needed for mixing and pouring resin
• acrylic paint and some student brushes
• Mod Podge
• Xacto Knives

Some Supplies you will need to bring:

•  A selection of your favourite papers
• Small collage elements like : ephemera, watch parts, beads, pressed flowers, glass rhinestones, old jewelry bits,
• charms, and any other small teasures or trinkets you might like to use

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