Stalking the Wild Prints Meets Green Mixed Media Journal

My last workshop was a combo of Stalking the Wild Prints and Green Mixed Media Journal. 

A lovely combination!

Front Cover 

First we will build an up-cycled journal to use for our printing samples.

pages made from recycled cards & junk mail

gesso, paint & texture!

Besides being easy and lots of fun to make, the materials are free and don’t add to the landfills. The journal can be made as simply or as artfully as your muse suggests.

nature prints on all kinds of substrates 

Gather found natural items to print like leaves, grass, and ferns- perfect to get outside!

sample prints glued in 

We'll experience a type of printmaking, very simple, easy and you won't want to stop! This technique is similar to a monotype, the incidental and the unintended become part of the image. 

Stitched

 published in Cloth, Paper, Scissors 

simple notched journal complete

Stalking the Wild Leaves Workshop

        Plein air printing? Why not! Take a walk and get your materials for free! 

Not only can you gather found natural items to print but you can clear you head and get inspired too. 

           

 On walks, I’ll look at a piece of broken stones, leaves and ferns, branches and wonder ‘can I print with that?’ One of my mantras recently is ‘to just try it’! 

            

We'll experience a type of fabric or paper printmaking aka simple, easy and you won't want to stop!

                       

We’ll use some of our samples and print pages for a simple art-filled pamphlet book!

Wen published this technique in Cloth, Paper, Scissors in 2011

 

2 new Paper and Fiber Collages

Working up Samples for my upcoming workshop, I must create!  

The titles are part of my teaching theme.

Listen, it comes to you!

Paper and Fiber Collage

Free collage with hand painted cloth & papers.

Cotton, silk, tissue paper, cheesecloth

Digital printing, transfers, and stitching.

18x20x.5 mounted  

Detail

Experience the Moment

Paper and Fiber Collage

Free collage with hand painted cloth & papers.

Cotton, silk, digital printing, transfers, and stitching.

16x18x.5 mounted 

Detail

Textures

Find out how to these create textures in my Media Mix Collage Workshop this Summer at Peters Valley, NJ!
Guess what they are!

 A

 B

C

D
answers-
A- embedded grass in tissue paper
B- repeated mask resist fabric painting using acrylic paint and text print off
C- brayer painting on masa paper
D- handmade medium with a certain element, gesso & tissue paper.

Journal for Your Heart

glue in small bits of leftover paste papers

re-use old journal pages

paint over anything to muted or cover

Leaf, a sample book from Stalking the Wild Print Workshop

There's room in the workshop!    
MAY 5   Stalking the Wild Print –as published in Cloth Paper Scissors 2011

Pages ready with dried wash

Assembling Materials, you just don't want to stop!

Printed! 

Hello Leaf!

Opened Book Spread

ppp-Pages!