Source: PAINTING YOUR INNER GODDESS MIXED MEDIA ART JOURNAL CLASS OCTOBER 21, 2017 9:30AM TO 12PM
Author: wendycampbellcreations
PAINTING YOUR INNER GODDESS MIXED MEDIA ART JOURNAL CLASS SATURDAY January 13, 2018 10:30AM TO 2:30PM
Source: Classes
I am teaching a mixed media art journal class called Painting Your Inner Goddess. Our world is stressful right now. I believe art is very healing; it gives a voice to our thoughts and feelings and helps us find our power. We all need this right now. Come join us in our mixed media art journal adventure as we discover our voice through art. This is a very healing and powerful class. I can’t wait to begin this journey with you!
JANUARY 13, 2018 10:30 AM TO 2:30 PM FEE $50
AT MIDDLETOWN WELLNESS COLLABORATIVE
955 SOUTH MAIN ST. MIDDLETOWN, CT
Pre-register call Wendy @ 860-879-2781 (860-879-ART1)
Supply list:
*Heavy Weight Mixed Media Art Journal
*Acrylic Paints-you can purchase a set or build yours slowly with colors you love: 3-5 warm colors (reds, yellows, oranges) & 3-5 cool colors (greens and blues). White, Black & Titan Buff
*White Gesso & Matte Medium & Light Modeling Paste or Texture Paste
*Paint Pallet & Paint Brushes-A No. 4 round, No.6 round, 1/2 inch flat and a 1 inch flat, Water Container
*Glue Stick & Permanent Waterproof Black Ink Pad-(I use Ranger Archival)
*Craft Mat & Scissors
Paper Towels & Pack of Baby Wipes
When Art Hurts June 2017
It has been a long painful journey watching our dear friend battle as long as he did. He fought a long hard fight, but it was time to let go.
How do I let go when all I want to do is hold on? I know he is still with me because I feel him watching over us all, but I miss him. I miss the smile on his face, the knowing that he was always there to talk to. I even miss his awful oxtail soup.
I made keepsakes to pass out at his service. I thought of his love of sailing and his love of the sea. It hurt. I made more. It helped. I made more. It healed. I said goodbye.
Godspeed Dear Davey
Class Photos from September Painting your Inner Goddess
Our first class Painting Your Inner Goddess was so much fun! I got to spend time with a wonderful group of women. I loved helping them go through the process of letting go and creating. Watching them was so inspiring. Here is their work:
A New Class
I have been asked to teach a class at The Middletown Wellness Collaborative! I am so excited to be part of this wonderful place! Check it out, they offer all sorts of classes. They also have a Facebook Page.
I am teaching a mixed media art journal class called Painting Your Inner Goddess. Our world is stressful right now. I believe art is very healing; it gives a voice to our thoughts and feelings and helps us find our power. We all need this right now. Come and join us!
Painting Your Inner Goddess
with Wendy Campbell
Our world is stressful right now. Come join us in our mixed media art journal adventure as we discover our voice through art. This is a very healing and powerful class. I can’t wait to begin this journey with you!
SEPTEMBER 22, 2017 10:30 TO 1PM FEE $50
AT MIDDLETOWN WELLNESS COLLABORATIVE
955 SOUTH MAIN ST. MIDDLETOWN, CT
Pre-register call Wendy @ 860-879-2781 (860-879-ART1)
Supply list:
*Art Journal-I use Rangers Dyan Reaveleys Creative Journal because the paper is wonderful for mixed media, it is a bound book with a pocket inside and an elastic to keep it closed. Pick one that makes you feel good, one that you are going to want to work in. It needs to be a heavy weight mixed media paper.
*Acrylic Paints-you can purchase a set if you like or build your set slowly; pick 3 to 5 of your favorite warm colors (reds, yellows, oranges) and 3 to 5 of your favorite cool colors (greens and blues). You will also need white, black and titan buff
*White Gesso
*Matte Medium
*Light Modeling Paste or Texture Paste
*Paint Pallet
*Glue Stick
*Black Ink Pad-I use Ranger because it is permanent, acid free and waterproof
* Various Paint Brushes-A No. 4 round, No.6 round, a 1/2 inch flat and a 1 inch flat
*Craft Mat-I use Ranger Inkssentials Craft Sheet because it rolls up, it takes heat and paint won’t stick to it.
*Roll of Paper Towels
*Pack of Baby Wipes
*A container for water
*Used gift card or hotel card key
*Heat tool-I will have some available to use, but if you don’t want to share, I like Rangers Heat It Tool, it is quiet and works well
*I will have stencils and stamps to share but if you have some favorites, feel free to bring them
*We will always have items to share if you can’t get everything, the most important thing you need is your art journal
the happy knitter
When I am not in my studio, I can quite often be found knitting on my couch. I have been knitting and crocheting since I was 6 years old; my mom taught me that love. There is something about yarn, the smell and feel of it that makes my hands itch to create. When I walk into a yarn store, my heart starts to pound, the colors, the texture; I can’t keep my hands off it, I have to touch and I ache for it all. Yarn is like candy to me. I am addicted to it. Perhaps that is why I have two glass cabinets in my living room just loaded with colorful yarn.
I am very excited to say that my scarves, hats and mittens are for sale at Quality Care Drug in Centerbrook, CT. They have a lovely gift department in their store. Not only that but this pharmacy is a great place. Remember the way pharmacies used to be before the big chains bought out all of the old-time ones? Remember how personal it was? That’s how it is here, and we love it. Come check out some scarves if you’re chilly. They are hand-knit by me, from local hand-dyed yarns.
5 Things I Learned While Pouring Candles
Yesterday, I had the good fortune to attend class aimed at teaching inexperienced people like myself how to pour candles that would make suitable gifts for our friends and loved ones around the holiday. It was hosted by Creative Girl Studios, and was taught by The Higganum Company, which is of course famous for their deliciously scented candles. We had a wonderful time, and the refreshments helped to create a casual and friendly atmosphere. I can’t say enough about the studio. It is beautiful! It’s the perfect place to meet up with friends or to make new ones. The candles I made are beautiful, so beautiful in fact that I can not part with them. I will definitely go back again. Here are my takeaways from my art candle making adventure:
1. Do not put essential oils on your skin.
Repeat: DO NOT PUT THE OILS ON YOUR SKIN.
As our instructor was quick to emphasize, essential oils are an extremely refined and distilled form of the oil, making it not just potent but an actual irritant when not diluted by waxes, harmless oils, etc.
2. Bring a friend!
There’s time to socialize while the wax sets up, and the set up of the wax takes awhile. What better activity to pass the time with than getting to know the new friends around your table, or chatting with someone you already know? I went with my daughter and it was so very nice to do something new together! The refreshments seemed to make everyone a little more talkative, so it was all very friendly.
3. Experiment wisely.
Just because two scents smell nice on their own does not mean they will smell nice together. This is something the instructor had told us, so I played it safe and stuck with vanilla!
4. Looks can be deceiving.
Dye looks much darker when wet than when dry. Several colors looked black initially but dried into periwinkles and strawberries in the end, so be very careful when evaluating how much dye will create the right result. It won’t look like it does in the cup.
5. Ask for help!
The process looks straightforward enough, but I had no difficulty knocking the wick crooked or over-pouring the votive. It’s surprisingly easy to do!
On Pushing Creative Boundaries
As you probably know, I take a lot of classes. They’re a great way to try new techniques and see what I like and what doesn’t work for me, and exploring new ways of doing often catapults me off in a whole new direction with my art.
I recently was invited to join a mixed media altered book group. I had no experience in altered books but I love mixed media so I was willing to give it a whirl! I have to say, I had placed myself firmly outside my comfort zone, and it proved to be really valuable.
As some background, each member creates a book on a subject that they have picked and they complete the first few pages of their art book in their own style. We each write a page of instructions to let the other members know what we are looking for from them, and also to let them know of anything we don’t want done in our book. Every month we all rotate books, so by the end of the year, everyone has a full book containing original artwork from the entire group. This is a big commitment, and once you sign up it is important to follow through until the end of the year, as the books are passed in a round-robin, and it would be unfair to not complete every ones pages.
For my book, I gave few guidelines. I wanted people to just have fun with it, and so long as it connected in some way to the subject of 1950’s Housewives in the Kitchen, the art had no restrictions. I was curious what people would create, and delighted by the book that came back to me. People approached this very differently, and some people’s books came with many guidelines. It was intended to be a challenge, to try and stretch ourselves creatively while emphasizing how differently the artwork manifests from person to person even when following the same guidelines, but I found myself apprehensive. When it was my turn to take home a book with a very detailed set of guidelines, I couldn’t help but see them as rules, and I balked. I put it off, as though it were a homework assignment and I was a student who had avoided studying. Eventually, the day to exchange the journals was coming fast up on the horizon and I had no choice but to sit down and commit to it.
When I did, something interesting happened. I felt the spark of inspiration. By putting these guidelines in place, and restricting the subject matter to a specific time and place, the book’s creator was asking me to think about what appealed to me, what jumped out at me, what stuck with me from this time? And a strange thing happened, once I gave it a chance: I realized that actually, there were a number of things I was passionate about that fit within the guidelines already. I had never done art involving these figures, never explored their history or their origins through a creative lens. I read about them, often, but I had never incorporated them into my art. So that is what I did, and after spending several days working hard on the pages they came out beautifully. I was proud of them, I loved them, and I would never have thought to make them at all if I hadn’t been pushed like this in the first place. My fears were unwarranted, in the end, and the book’s creator actually enjoys the same stories I do, and so we had a lovely conversation about these women from history and what they meant to us. I had been so caught up in whether the pages I made would be ‘right’ somehow that I very nearly missed the purpose of the challenge.
Planner Playtime
Papercraft Clubhouse Today I attended the CTPG Planner Playtime meet-up at the Papercraft Clubhouse in Westbrook, Connecticut. It was quite a lot of fun, and very productive!
I also attend Papercraft Clubhouse’s Planner Club, which is offered once a month. These are part classes, part get-togethers. Tracie teaches us something new to make that we can use in our planners. Look at this fun autumn shaker pocket page I made in this class! You should check out the class, you won’t be disappointed!
Mixed Media Owls
I was excited to take this class taught by an artist friend of mine. It was to benefit a local high school and was located at a restaurant. I had a really good time taking this class on creating whimsical mixed media owls. It was definitely outside my usual sphere, but it was a lot of fun, and a great learning experience. And I have this quirky owl that maybe my soon-to-be-born grandson will like.
Wendy Campbell Creations 