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May 2015
Doodle Letters with Flourish (Day One)
Canceled due to lack of registration Instructor: Joan Wiens We have all admired Joan's lettering. This two-session class will teach you to add flourish to your own hand-written text in journals, cards, ATCs, and even notes to yourself. This class is in two sessions, allowing you time to learn every letter. One prices covers both days (and the supplies for a "little reference book" showing every letter for future reference). Check out the samples on the display board at Runaway.…
Find out more »Doodle Letters with Flourish (Day Two)
Canceled due to lack of registration Instructor: Joan Wiens We have all admired Joan's lettering. This two-session class will teach you to add flourish to your own hand-written text in journals, cards, ATCs, and even notes to yourself. This class is in two sessions, allowing you time to learn every letter. One price covers both days (and the supplies for a "little reference book" showing every letter for future reference). Check out the samples on the display board at Runaway.…
Find out more »Spirelli
Instructor: Joan Wiens Going in circles? All strung out? How about doing both at the same time? Come and learn a new way to do string art. This can be used for stand-alone pictures, card-making, art journals, tags and even ATCs. You really need to check out the various effects on the display at Runaway!
Find out more »June 2015
Embossing Wood and Water
Instructor: Joan Wiens Joan will teach you to use your watercolors, Gelly® Roll pens and Wink of Stella® to create clever wood and water embossing effects.
Find out more »Watercolor Pencils and Stamps
Instructor: Joan Wiens Joan will teach you to use watercolor pencils to get the most from your stamps (including the Prima® stamp that is part of the class fee).
Find out more »July 2015
Inktense Outside the Box with Joan Wiens
Instructor: Joan Wiens Inktense® -- compressed ink in a stick -- how wonderful is that? But now, how do you use them? Come find out six different (and perhaps unusual for you) techniques for using these versatile tools to color your creations, combine with other media, design background pages and more. They are fun and mesmerizing! You'll need pencils in at least red, yellow, blue and white. MORE colors would be even better! You also should bring a waterbrush. If you…
Find out more »Medieval Borders with Joan
Instructor: Joan Wiens Okay, we’re not exactly redrawing historical borders from the Middle Ages. But you will learn to draw decorative borders of a different sort –using a medieval theme! You’ll recognize these classic borders when you see them – and they can add a wonderful touch to your creations.
Find out more »August 2015
Once Upon a Time with Joan
Instructor: Joan Wiens Learn to start your own “Once Upon a Time” story with the art of “drop caps” – where the first letter of the narrative is decorated an embellished. You will learn 3 different styles of crop caps, as well as other tips and tricks (such as inserting clip-art images into the letters). The photos are a bit blurry (which may keep people from stealing them). But they give you the idea of these marvelous letters!
Find out more »Inktense Bags with Joan, Version 1
Instructor: Joan Wiens Joan walks you through decorating some wonderful bags using Inktense® watercolor pencils. Learn the first of two different techniques to decorate a beautiful 13” by 13” bag (provided as part of class fee).
Find out more »September 2015
Inktense Bags with Joan
Instructor: Joan Wiens: Joan walks you through decorating some wonderful bags using Inktense® watercolor pencils. Learn to decorate a beautiful 13” by 13” bag (provided as part of class fee).
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