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August 2014
Felted Bird Nests
Instructor: Joan Wiens Learn to use raw alpaca fibers and felt them into a little bird nest – add a bird, and perhaps a couple of acorns, for another great technique that will help you add a truly unique touch to your art, or just to your home décor!
Find out more »September 2014
Got Balls? Felt Some!
Instructor: Joan Wiens Learn how to use roving to combine fibers into decorative balls that can be used to add dimension to your artwork, cards and journals -- Runaway has alpaca fibers to help you explore all the opportunities you can find to add these unique touch to all your creations.
Find out more »October 2014
Felted Soap Bars–Cancelled, but still on for the 15th!
Instructor: Joan Wiens Come learn the fun craft of wet-felting soap bars. Start with some wool roving, wet-felt it onto any soap bar, and voila! You have a built-in scrubber/exfoliator and soap bar in one. Makes a unique gift! All supplies are included.
Find out more »Felted Soap Bars
Instructor: Joan Wiens Come learn the fun craft of wet-felting soap bars. Start with some wool roving, wet-felt it onto any soap bar, and voila! You have a built-in scrubber/exfoliator and soap bar in one. Makes a unique gift! All supplies are included.
Find out more »“Be Still”
Instructor: Joan Wiens Who can’t use a beautiful reminder to just be still, and know?! Make this mantra into your own expressive art work, building upon a scripted template (provided) and then adorning it with die-cut leaves (also provided), which you will color with watercolor pencils.
Find out more »November 2014
The Colors of the Hummingbird
Instructor: Joan Wiens Let the beautiful colors of the hummingbird inspire you to learn to "paint" them for yourself. Using Joan's original design of a hummingbird in flight, we will be learning how to blend, contour and shade the hummingbird (useful techniques to apply to any other design, as well!). Students will receive one drawing to work on in class and another 5 by 7 card to take home to work on. Supplies Required: Colored pencils (either regular or watercolor)…
Find out more »Pan Pastel Paper Quilting
Instructor: Joan Wiens Joan will guide you through designing your paper using Pan Pastels (with a little embellishment, of course!). Then we will cut it up and arrange it into a paper quilt block. This can be used as a stand-alone picture (making a lovely gift), a background for other work, a greeting card -- you name it! Students will receive enough supplies to make one quilt block I class, plus two more (different) templates to take home. Extra adhesive…
Find out more »Pan Pastel Paper Quilting
Instructor: Joan Wiens Joan will guide you through designing your paper using Pan Pastels (with a little embellishment, of course!). Then we will cut it up and arrange it into a paper quilt block. This can be used as a stand-alone picture (making a lovely gift), a background for other work, a greeting card — you name it! Students will receive enough supplies to make one quilt block I class, plus two more (different) templates to take home. Extra adhesive…
Find out more »The Colors of the Hummingbird
Instructor: Joan Wiens Let the beautiful colors of the hummingbird inspire you to learn to “paint” them for yourself. Using Joan’s original design of a hummingbird in flight, we will be learning how to blend, contour and shade the hummingbird (useful techniques to apply to any other design, as well!). Students will receive one drawing to work on in class and another 5 by 7 card to take home to work on. Supplies Required: Colored pencils (either regular or watercolor)…
Find out more »May 2015
Inner Strength – Celtic on a Black Background
Instructor: Joan Wiens Let the Celtic symbol of inner strength carry you through to your own discovery. Using a black background, add ethereal layers of color to make the inner strength symbol pop out of the page.
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