Many people keep a written journal. It is a place to document experiences and write down thoughts and feelings. An art journal takes this recording a couple of steps beyond! Like all journals, it creates a timeline of experiences, actions and feelings. But instead of using just words, art journals may contain pictures, colors, photos, or everyday items and nature to tell a story or document an event. Art journals can serve as inspiration for future projects. They are idea books where recorded events and experiences serve to inspire.
Through a variety of exercises and prompts, Students will become familiar with ways to keep their creative juices flowing. Art journaling becomes a quick and daily practice where working with small and ordinary materials allows the creative process to flow organically. The preciousness becomes removed from the task. Students chose their own medium and mark making methods. Consider drawing, watercolor, thread, fiber, layering, transparency and many more. Students will learn to generate original exercises by honing skills and observation. Come learn to work with your intuitive mind. Open up channels of deep creativity. Students will have a small journal of samples to take home.
Roxanne Lasky, an explorer of the ordinary and the often overlooked, uses found and salvaged objects in connection with intuition to guide her process. A perennial student of color theory and design, she elicits a view of an interior landscape through varying degrees of abstraction in her drawn, painted and stitched work. She relies on language as a defining medium, always questioning alternatives and origins. Roxanne’s experiments are ongoing, driving a practice full of wonder and discovery. Her lifelong affinity for natural elements has led her to work exclusively with earth-friendly techniques where she engages in a dialog with her materials to exact metaphor and meaning. Roxanne holds a BPS in Visual Art and a Master of Teaching in Art Education. She lives in Bluffton, South Carolina.
Roxanne will provide a kit which includes: an eight-page accordion book of multi-media paper, a variety of hand dyed fabrics and fabric prints, burlap, plastic mesh and other textures, lace fragments, vintage photos, handmade paper, dried leaves, cotton thread. (12 colors), tea bag paper, tags, postage stamps, ephemera, fine sewing needle
Materials to bring: scissors, glue stick, small ruler (optional), needle (optional), Markers or colored pencils or watercolor paint and pens, thread scraps, beads, trims, embellishments, dried flowers, leaves, and petals, small journal about 4x5 inches or blank paper, a small object to draw, stamp pads and stamps or anything you think might be a worthy material.
Available to share: alphabet stamps, stamp pads, acrylic inks, tools for some projects.
$15 material fee payable to Roxanne on the day of the workshop.
Bring lunch and a beverage. Location is Oatland Island 2nd floor.
