Tattered and Frayed

Printmaking. Stencils. Fabric Dying. Embroidery.

"It doesn't happen all at once," said the Skin Horse. "You become. It takes a long time. That's why it doesn't happen often to people who break easily, or have sharp edges, or who have to be carefully kept. Generally, by the time you are REAL, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in the joints and very shabby. But these things don't matter at all, because once you are REAL you can't be ugly, expect to people who don't understand. -The Velveteen Rabbit

I love old things. Vintage lace. Old pages. Beautiful books with history. Distressed metal tins. Objects that are well loved. Painted pages. I am feeling inspired by tattered fabrics that have started to fray and unravel. There is a haunting beauty and textural loveliness to found fabrics and old vintage lace.

Tattered and Frayed. Art Journaling Class. Book binding. Leather distressing. Fabric dying with coffee and tea. Mono-printing papers to use for collage. Embroidery. Creative Prompts. Color palette building. Expressive mark making. Stitched collages. Stencil art and prints.

This class is a collection of all of the things that I am feeling inspired by at the moment. I love gathering old fabrics and stitching them all together into an art journal. We will explore printmaking and creating beautiful papers to use in collages. I will be playing with my new line of stencils with Stencil Girl. We will dying our own fabrics with coffee and tea. This is fabulous if you love the distressed vintage look but don't want to spend money on old fabrics. In fact, many of the coffee dyed fabric that I created for this course looks exactly like the pieces of vintage lace that I picked up at the antique market recently. You can't tell the difference! We will be doing embroidery and creating a unique piece at the end of the class that you can hang on your wall.

Materials and Supplies:

• Gelli plate for monoprinting
• Leather for cover
• Book binding kit (Check Amazon)
• Leather dye
• Watercolor paper
• Arches printmaking paper
• Found and vintage papers
• Coffee and Tea for fabric dying
• Chiffon, silk and lace for dying
• Acrylic paints
• Loose canvas sheets
• Gesso
• Paintbrushes
• Artist gel pens
• Chalk pastels
• Oil pastels
• Stencils (Wendy Brightbill stencils or other)
• Embroidery floss
• Embroidery needles
• Vintage lace
• Vintage ephemera
• Mark making tools (pencils, pens, markers)
• Artist board
• Cold wax medium *optional
• Sewing machine *optional