Instructor: Dina Wakley

Runaway is lucky to have internationally recognized mixed media author and artist Dina Wakley join us for three full days beginning Friday, February 6. This is Dina’s own description of “Beyond the Ink Pad,” one of three of her Art Journal Play Series that she will be teaching at Runaway. The description is followed by the class supply list:

“Art Journal Play” classes are all about exploring and playing with art journaling techniques. The goal is to learn techniques, experiment, play, and make finished journal pages. We’ll be working in journals, but the techniques apply to all mixed-media projects (canvases, book-making, etc.).

In this class, we’ll explore one of our favorite addictions, rubber stamps. But we are going to go beyond the ink pad and use stamps with Pan Pastels, acrylic paints, crayons, gelatos, and more. I will show you techniques for creating and then we will build finished pages on top of our stamping–that means we’ll consider color, composition and layers as we finish our work.

Please bring:

• Basic tool kit: Ranger craft sheet, paint brushes, rag/cloth, pencil, scissors, palette knife, paper towels, old gift card to use as a scraper, water container to clean your brushes in, paper plate or palette paper to use as a palette (or you can just use your craft sheet).
• Your art journal (I recommend the Dylusions journal by Ranger)
• Gesso
• Gel medium (I prefers soft-gel matte)
• Acrylic paints
• Rubber stamps–bring your “muses.” I will have some to share, too!
• Black Ink Pad (I like Archival by Ranger). I will have several to share, if you don’t have one.
• Pen(s) for journaling onto your pages
• Optional: PanPastels, Gelatos, Neocolor II crayons. Bring these if you have them…if not, don’t worry, I will have plenty in class.
• Optional: your own ink spray and stencils. I will have plenty for class use, but if you have your own, you won’t have to share.

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