Description
In this class, we are going to get creative with our paints and create some beautiful hearts with an inspiring meaning behind them.
Kintsugi is the Japanese art of mending ceramics with gold dating back to the 15th century, a metaphor for embracing your flaws and imperfections.
And in my favorite mystery series, Louise Penny has a theme that she brings up though out the books that I love. In “The Great Reckoning,” our hero Armand Gamache says: “Things are strongest when they are broken. We are all marred and scarred and imperfect.
I thought it would be fun to embrace these and create some art with these in mind. Using different colors to represent the things we have gone through, and using gold to highlight the cracks and scars. Symbolizing that we have come through it all and are stronger.
This class is for you if:
- You love learning new techniques for your art
- You are interested in creating some art with meaning behind it that you can share
- You love experimenting with art supplies
- You love watching how others approach their art practice
Supplies: I encourage you to use the supplies you have on hand to do your projects. Look around at the supplies you already have, and check out the supplies I’m showing you in class to see what you can substitute, and what you’d like to experiment with. I give you lots of choices and suggest substitutes.
- Watercolor paper – 140lb watercolor paper is perfect for this project
- Acrylic inks in your favorite colors, or watercolor paints in your favorite colors. I’m using the inks in class since I am currently obsessed with them and this was the perfect project to play. Watercolors would be just as good. So use what you have already.
- Kuretake Mica Paste – this is my very favorite gold to use in art projects. You can use any gold metallic you have – craft paints work great or Posca gold paint pen is a good choice too
- Heart paper cutter – I am using this to cut out my mini hearts. You can also use the template I provide in the resources area and cut your hearts out by hand.
- Random Stencils or Punchinella if you want to use the stencils as I do in class.
*The video workshops come with Online access and you can download videos to keep. Your workshop includes approx 1hr 35 min of video.
Check out what students are saying about my other workshops in our workshop group:
“Thank you, Denise. I’m really enjoying your workshop. You give me so many creative ideas; Thank you for all that you teach and are willing to share.”
“How FUN! Love this class and now I can’t wait to get into my studio and play with a mix of my supplies. Denise is such a great teacher!”
“Loving your workshop! It’s really helpful, absolute quality, and the very best value for money!”
“I’ve waited anxiously to get this workshop and got it yesterday and very excited! Started watching it yesterday and I have to work this weekend, but with Monday being a snowstorm guess what I’m doing!”
“I just love these classes and they get me working on my art. Success!”
“I have been working on your food workshop videos! They are so well presented!! You did an AWESOME job!!! :)”
“One of the best collage classes I have taken. Lovely enthusiastic teacher, with lots of ideas and examples. Can’t wait to create my own and finally use some of the mountains of collage fodder I have already accumulated. Thank you so much”
“Your classes make me feel art-capable. Thank you!”
Once you make your purchase – your course will be available for you immediately. You will access your course under the “my courses” tab up top under the “my account” tab.
You must be logged in to view your course. All of the videos are available for download for you to keep. I provide a Vimeo link below each video – which will allow you to access the Vimeo video page for your download options.
