Thurs 12th April
Art from the Heart - Derwent Day!
Come and have a play with the fabulous new Derwent products available at Art from the Heart:
Inktense pencils, Inktense bars and the brand new Derwent Artbars.
Here’s what Derwent has to say about the *new* Artbars:
With a beautiful creamy consistency, these triangular bars of solid, highly pigmented colour offer the artist so much creative potential. They feel luxuriously smooth as they release consistently rich, deep pigment. The wax based bars are also completely water-soluble and dry marks almost seem to melt under your brush. Used either dry or wet, Artbar opens up a world of expressive mark making and rich opaque colour.
But what do you do with them?! Let Kate give you a few ideas. You can make backgrounds with them, paint with them and even stamp with them, and they work perfectly well alongside all your other favourite mediums. Come and have a play …try before you buy
Here’s what Derwent has to say about the *new* Artbars:
With a beautiful creamy consistency, these triangular bars of solid, highly pigmented colour offer the artist so much creative potential. They feel luxuriously smooth as they release consistently rich, deep pigment. The wax based bars are also completely water-soluble and dry marks almost seem to melt under your brush. Used either dry or wet, Artbar opens up a world of expressive mark making and rich opaque colour.
But what do you do with them?! Let Kate give you a few ideas. You can make backgrounds with them, paint with them and even stamp with them, and they work perfectly well alongside all your other favourite mediums. Come and have a play …try before you buy
Click *here* for the details.
Tuesday 24th April
Art from the Heart - Inky tags and cards!
Kate’s last class on inky cards and tags proved to be really popular so she is back with more ideas and techniques for fun and colourful inky cards and tags.
Ink sprays are perfect for creating vibrant and colourful backgrounds, and when combined with rubber stamped images they make for wonderful tags. Have you ever tried using ink sprays as a background for a greetings card? Kate will share tips and tricks for building up beautiful, multi-layered stamped inky backgrounds for your greetings cards using a variety of stamps from Dylusions, Tim Holtz and Stampotique.
Kate is on the Stampotique Originals Design Team and frequently combines colourful inky backgrounds with rubber stamped images for Design team challenges
Click *here* for the details.
Saturday 28th April 9.30 - 12.30
Masking techniques with Distress inks
Workshop in The Mechanics Institute, Kirkby Malzeard, Ripon.
Materials and refreshments included.
Workshops can get very busy so please book your place:
crane.kate@yahoo.com
Wednesday 9th May
Art from the Heart - Draw in your journal!
Draw? Who me? Yes, you! Everyone of us can draw, but somehow along the way we lose our confidence and our inner critic tells us ‘we’re no good’. Have you ever watched a child draw? They just draw, without the nagging self-doubt that engulfs us as we get older. Well let’s embrace our inner artist, and have a go at drawing in our art journals. It isn’t so hard, and as you finish a page you can sit back and think ‘I did that’!
Let Kate guide you through some simple techniques, using basic shapes to draw your own characters and features for a journal page.
Kate has been published in Somerset Art Journaling (including some hand drawn pages!), Somerset Studio, Stampers’ Sampler, Somerset Apprentice and also writes regularly for British magazines Craft Stamper and Scrap 365.
Click *here* for the details.
Saturday 12th May
Art from the Heart - Build a collage
Kate frequently creates collaged pages in her art journals and has some great tips to share for achieving cohesion and balance on the page, alongside a vibrant, colourful background.
Use paints and Dylusions ink sprays to create glorious backgrounds, and then play with collage elements to build your journal page.
Kate has been published in Somerset Art Journaling (including some collaged pages!), Somerset Studio, Stampers’ Sampler, Somerset Apprentice and also writes regularly for British magazines Craft Stamper and Scrap 365.
Kate has been published in Somerset Art Journaling (including some collaged pages!), Somerset Studio, Stampers’ Sampler, Somerset Apprentice and also writes regularly for British magazines Craft Stamper and Scrap 365.
Required: Art journal or sketchbook (any size)
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Wednesday 23rd May
Art from the Heart - collage and painting techniques
Use the new Golden Fluid Acrylics and Golden mediums to paint a colourful multi - layered background on deli paper (waxed Kraft paper regularly used at Deli counters!). This is a wonderfully versatile material; you can fold it, stitch it, add it to your journal pages, collage it …… the list goes on. Also try painting multi- layered backgrounds on watercolour paper, and collaging regular tissue paper to make colourful backgrounds. Once you have completed a few backgrounds Kate will show you how to make miniature mounted houses, as well as a few feathered friends (inspired by Cloth, Paper, Scissors and www.annellis.co.uk) Stitching is optional!
Kate has been published in Somerset Art Journaling (including some hand drawn pages!), Somerset Studio, Stampers’ Sampler, Somerset Apprentice and also writes regularly for British magazines Craft Stamper and Scrap 365.
Kate has been published in Somerset Art Journaling (including some hand drawn pages!), Somerset Studio, Stampers’ Sampler, Somerset Apprentice and also writes regularly for British magazines Craft Stamper and Scrap 365.
Click *here* for the details.
19th and 20th May
Art from the Heart - Two day Art Journal Weekend
A whole weekend with further ideas from me for creating fun and funky journal pages.
We’ll kick off the weekend with a few technique tags to try out some of the many ways of adding paints and inks to your pages before moving onto your own journals. There’ll be lots of hints, tips and step-by-step instructions to create fabulous layered backgrounds using inks, paints, pastels, crayons and charcoal. We will experiment with stamped images and digital collage images to create focal points on the page, and maybe even look at how to incorporate your own drawings! There will be loads of ideas of how, what and where to journal on a page including a few journal prompts.
Bring your own journals, fill them with with colour, and after two days you’ll be brimming with confidence and raring to go on your own art journaling journey.
Suitable for beginners / intermediate
Requirements: Moleskine journal, notebook or sketchbook in A5 or A4.
Optional: Small self-portrait photo(s) printed on paper in black and white.Lunch and snacks will be provided as well.
Kate has been published in Somerset Art Journaling, Somerset Studio, Stampers’ Sampler, Somerset Apprentice and also writes regularly for Craft Stamper.Click here for all the details:
Wednesday 30th May
Art from the Heart - Mail art
Mail art is a fun and funky way to send mail in the post so come and show off your artistic skills and surprise the postie!
Kate will show you how to deconstruct a regular envelope and then decorate with Paints and Dylusions ink sprays, before finishing with some stamped images. Create a matching notelet to go inside! You will also make your own ‘envelope’ from a piece of card, with optional stitching.
Kate has been published in Somerset Art Journaling (including some hand drawn pages!), Somerset Studio, Stampers’ Sampler, Somerset Apprentice and also writes regularly for British magazines Craft Stamper and Scrap 365.
Kate will show you how to deconstruct a regular envelope and then decorate with Paints and Dylusions ink sprays, before finishing with some stamped images. Create a matching notelet to go inside! You will also make your own ‘envelope’ from a piece of card, with optional stitching.
Kate has been published in Somerset Art Journaling (including some hand drawn pages!), Somerset Studio, Stampers’ Sampler, Somerset Apprentice and also writes regularly for British magazines Craft Stamper and Scrap 365.
Click *here* for the details.
Saturday 16th June
Art from the Heart - Golden Day
*Golden Fluid Acrylics
Fluid paints contain near the same pigment strength as Golden Heavy Body colors in a pourable, low viscosity formula.
If you have been used to using Dylusions Acrylic paints then you will be looking for a suitable alternative and if so, then these could be the paints for you!
Golden acrylic paints and mediums are well-known and well-liked by artists everywhere! They have super-strong pigment so you can achieve beautiful vibrant backgrounds. They are also semi-translucent allowing you to build up multi-layered backgrounds and when combined with the different Golden mediums on offer you can create some stunning effects. Come and find out just what these paints can do!
Kate has been published in Somerset Art Journaling (including some hand drawn pages!), Somerset Studio, Stampers’ Sampler, Somerset Apprentice and also writes regularly for British magazines Craft Stamper and Scrap 365.
Required: Art journal or sketchbook (any size
Fluid paints contain near the same pigment strength as Golden Heavy Body colors in a pourable, low viscosity formula.
If you have been used to using Dylusions Acrylic paints then you will be looking for a suitable alternative and if so, then these could be the paints for you!
Golden acrylic paints and mediums are well-known and well-liked by artists everywhere! They have super-strong pigment so you can achieve beautiful vibrant backgrounds. They are also semi-translucent allowing you to build up multi-layered backgrounds and when combined with the different Golden mediums on offer you can create some stunning effects. Come and find out just what these paints can do!
Kate has been published in Somerset Art Journaling (including some hand drawn pages!), Somerset Studio, Stampers’ Sampler, Somerset Apprentice and also writes regularly for British magazines Craft Stamper and Scrap 365.
Required: Art journal or sketchbook (any size
Click *here* for the details.
Tuesday July 3rd
Art from the Heart - Art Calendars
A chance to get ahead and prepare a few monthly calendar pages ready for 2012! If you have already been taking part in Kate’s calendar challenge then this a great opportunity to get a few pages ready for daily journaling in advance, but if you always wanted to have a go but never quite got round to it then here’s your chance!
Requirements: A4 size sketchbook or Moleskine journal.
Requirements: A4 size sketchbook or Moleskine journal.
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Saturday July 14th
Art from the Heart - Mini box canvas with Stampotique
*please note the change of date for this class*
Canvases are great fun, especially when combined with Golden Fluid Acrylic paints, perfect pearl mists and funky Stampotique characters! Let Kate guide you through the process from painting and stenciling, to creating depth by clever placement of Stampotique images. Choose from the latest Stampotiqe stamps from girls with attitude to weirdy monsters, all peeking out from a giant shroom!
Kate is on the design team for Stampotique originals.
Kate is on the design team for Stampotique originals.
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