Curious About Encaustic???

Encaustic Piece  by:  Bridget Benton

Been curious about Encaustic???
We have a wonderful all-day encaustic workshop scheduled in our Alberta St store's classroom this Saturday May 31st.

Encaustic Intensive -- All About Layers -- Saturday, May 31st

In this beginner-friendly workshop, we'll learn all about painting and collage with wax. We'll start at the bottom -- and learn a variety of ways to develop interest in your painting before you even apply the wax: paper, stenciled texture, and mark-making with wax-friendly media. We'll  build up layers, exploring different ways to create depth and make all the layers work together. Been running into challenges working at home? The instructor will be available to answer questions and help trouble-shoot.

Time: 11am - 5pm

Instructor: Bridget Benton

Cost: $90 + $20 supply fee

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Mixed-Media Playground Workshop

 Bridget Benton

We've started  a wonderful monthly workshop in our Alberta St Store's classroom:  Mixed-Media Playground with local artist Bridget Benton.  
This month's focus is Shape And Stencil!

Call us at 503-249-2190 to register.

Check HERE for a list of all of our upcoming classes and workshops!

Mixed Media Playground: Shape + Stencil -- Sunday, May 25th

Join us once a month as we explore different mixed media art materials and techniques. This month's theme is: Shape and Stencil -- no drawing skills required. If you have favorite brushes, stencils, papers, punches, or acrylics, bring them to play with!

Time: 11am - 3pm

Instructor: Bridget Benton

Cost: $50, all supplies included

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True Portland

We recently had a customer let us in on the special project that is True Portland: the unofficial guide for creative people.

Created and maintained by a group of Japanese friends, the book serves as a guide to everything creative in Portland. From sustainable restaurants & farmer's markets, to local coffee places, creative spaces, micro-breweries and small publishing houses. Its beautifully designed, filled with amazing photographs and is available for purchase through their site!

 

They also run a Facebook page under the same name. We were lucky enough to appear as a place of interest and one of our calligraphy classes was reviewed on their Facebook page! We're happy to be included and want to share our next calligraphy workshop coming up:

Uncial and Lombardic Calligraphy Workshop

Sunday, May 18th from 10am-5pm

$45, all supplies included

*Alberta location*

This workshop focuses on two styles of calligraphy

which were often used together in early book

transcription: Uncial: a common calligraphy of the

fifth century and Lombardic: which is still used

in monogramming today. Students will leave

with the beginning designs for a final project.

 

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Crafty Wonderland!

We're excited to be a sponsor of Crafty Wonderland again this spring! We'll be attending with our FREE DIY table of fantastic craft projects, as well as our booth filled to the brim with goodies from our shop. Our free activities for the day are listed below:

Washi Tape + Stamped Cards
11 am - 12:45 pm

Stamped Mini Muslin Bags

1 pm - 2:45 pm

 

Stamped Wooden Pendants

3 pm - 4:45 pm

There will also be other fun sponsors such as SCRAP, Birds and Bees Nursery, and CAT Adoption Team! We're hoping to see you there!

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Representational Collage

This Saturday, May 10th, join us for one of our favorite classes, Representational Collage, at our Alberta location. This month, we're focusing on butterflies. Class is from 2-5pm, $40 for all supplies included. Students need to bring an 8x10 image of a butterfly to work from. Instructor, Susan Schenk has perfected the art of painting with paper. We're proud to boast about her being featured in the magazine Cloth, Paper, Scissors on more than one occasion!

Here she was featured in the Jan/Feb 2014 issue all about her technique.

“Representational collage invites you to see beyond the apparent. From a distance, these collages appear to be paintings, but up close you see a complicated jumble of separate parts. Appealing when viewed from afar, these collages are surprising when inspected more intimately. Using discarded materials as “paint” fosters the idea of finding beauty in the overlooked. Discover line, color, and form hidden in what others toss away.”  --Susan Schenk

Representational Collage: Butterflies

Saturday, May 10th   2-5pm

$40, all supplies included

Please bring 8x10 image of butterfly

Alberta location

Give us a call: 503-249-2190 or stop by the store to sign up!

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WE HAVE A WINNER!!!

Congratulations to Emily L, the winner of our April Creative Challenge: LEATHER!  Emily has won a $50 Collage gift certificate to use as she pleases towards supplies and or classes.  Emily's entry was this amazing leather backed resin pendant with a leather cord necklace:

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