Sunday, January 16, 2022
9:00 AM – 12:00 PM with a 90-minute lunch break, class resumes at 1:30 PM -4:30 PM
$200
Kit fee: $15 (Supplies provided in kits: One foam brush for paint, acrylic paints, wood substrate boards with holes already drilled by instructor, steel wire, crock pot with melted soy way, basic collage ephemera of old sheet music, book texts, maps, dictionary pages. Encyclopedia pages, etc.)
Remember when you were young and crazy enough to throw a couple of T-shirts and a cute dress into a backpack, withdraw the last $50 from your checking account and take off for the weekend with your best girlfriend in search of adventure? Remember when freedom was that easy breezy?
For me those days are long gone, but whenever I get the urge to reconnect with my inner wild child I head into my studio to make a little magic.
It was one of those kinds of days that I created my Love Yo’ Selfie collage on wood panel. I had a small stash of pics from my cell phone that I had printed up on Snapfish with the thought at the time of “I really should do something more with these than leaving a trail of them on my social media feeds.” It was this idea, along with my own artistic curiosity, that led me to create one of my favorite ever All About Jen art pieces.
I’m hoping you’ll print out a few of your favorite .jpgs and join me for a day of healthy narcissism where we wax poetic about ourselves. Rip and tear paper, possibly put your big head on a new little body, add three-dimensional elements likes wings or a crown, paint, sgraffito into beeswax, make marks, freeform bend wire and generally jubilate about this crazy little thing called life. When you finish with this piece, not only will you have laughed out loud from singing along to a couple 70s and 80s songs in class, but you’ll touch base with the wildness inside of you. Most of all you’ll have a day of pure FUN. When is the last time your life has been all about you and only you?
