Sunday, September 28th 3:30pm-6pm | Sunday, October 26th 2pm-4:30pm
Bonus: Sunday, October 26th 1:30pm OR 4:30pm - FREE 30-minute Junk Journal Check-in for ongoing students
Join artist Bernadette Renois for a junk journaling workshop. This workshop is available online or can be attended in person at Upside Down Abundance Studio in Seaside, CA (choose from the pull-down menu before purchasing). This class focuses on process and complements all creative practices.
A junk journal is a one-stop-shop for creative practice! In junk journaling, anything goes. A junk journal is a place to capture your ideas and value what inspires you. One of the perks to practicing creative decisions in a small book is getting to learn about composition and how to bring balance to a spread. You will get to play with color, perspective and mark making. Using a junk journal is a playful and accessible way to get to know your creative self.
We will focus on choosing the right book and prepping book pages, collecting and creating collage papers, and adding the first layers of collage and paint to our journals. Then we will add complementary collage and paint layers, and focus on finishing details. This session will invite you to find a creative flow and feel accomplished by finishing a spread.
Materials Needed (Zoom)
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Inexpensive, small (preferably under 8”) book for repurposin
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Adhesives such as glue stick, matte medium, and/or tape
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Mixed collage papers, embellishments, small trinkets, junk mail, stickers…
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Inexpensive brush(es) and/or palette knife or plastic card
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Acrylic and/or watercolor paint
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Mixed mark making tools such as ink pens, pencils, colored pencils, crayons, charcoal, pastels, markers…
Materials Needed (In person)
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Inexpensive, small book for repurposing (*ready to use journals available for purchase)
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Mixed collage papers, embellishments, small trinkets, junk mail, stickers, etc…
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Adhesives, mark making tools and collage papers provided in studio
About the Instructor: Bernadette Renois
Bernadette Renois is a visual artist and trail runner living in Monterey, CA. Through play and curiosity, she has developed an intentional and layered creative practice that includes mixed media, sculpture, junk journals and textiles. Bernadette believes that Anything goes! in art making. She is most inspired by moments of awe, discomfort, long trail runs, her two children and others’ self expression.
About Upside Down Abundance Studios (for students attending in person)
If you sign up to attend in person, join us at Upside Down Abundance Studio - 1760 Fremont Blvd, Unit AU3, Seaside, CA - above the 7-11, with stairs located at the back.
