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Peggy Skycraft Classes Peggy Skycraft has taught numerous classes for universities, art and craft schools and at conferences for the book arts, surface design, and paper arts. References are available. Studio Pictures. Out of town classes: $500. per day plus travel expenses and lodging. Materials and supplies are included. Maximum twelve students. Interns: If your institution wishes to place an intern for experience and training in a professional art studio, please call to discuss the possibilites. See Calendar for possible scheduled classes. Peggy can come to your location to present these classes Click on class title to see description Art Biz From Scratch: Art Materials and Techniques Enriched Surfaces Marbling With Watercolors Marbling With Acrylic on Paper and Fabric Painting With Paper: Collage Techniques Paste Grained Papers Pop Up book Unsacred Text: Artist's Album/Journal Wax Resists and Rubbings Classes range from a half day to four days and can be planned to accommodate your schedules. These are substantial classes, and are information packed. After one of these classes, participants are usually tired, but happy. Most classes are for projects that are easily adapted for K through 12 in schools and teachers come away with very good curriculum material. Art Biz: How to get started in taking the steps to make your art into a business. All aspects of making money from business plan to selling art, market research, taxes, copyright, borrowing money, self promotion, contracts, bookkeeping, taking yourself seriously. Back From Scratch: Materials and Techniques Custom make your own paints and inks for textiles and paper. We will use dry pigments, water pigment concentrates, and various media, including acrylic and watercolor. This is a materials and techniques class which is unique. Most people who have taken this class have been dazzled by the wealth of information offered. The class can be presented as an introduction, or can be an extensive experience for professional artists. Peggy knows a lot about art materials and is generous with her knowledge. Back Enriched Surface Papers Printing methods include rubber decorative blocks, ragging, found objects, feathered veining, faux stone, and artist designed roller prints. Versatile water based print pastes are easy to mix and use, and are easy to clean up. (Use materials you already have!) Lots of metallics and iridescents. Surface protective treatments of dry papers will be covered. Back Marbling With Watercolors The easiest way to do marbling. We will use inexpensive art materials which are commonly available, pan watercolors. You will be amazed that this complicated art can be so simple. Excellent for teachers, this method is good for teaching any age of student, and you have most of the materials and tools alreadyBack Marbling With Acrylic Explore the possibilities in adapting Golden acrylic paints to marbling on paper and fabric. Learn to test acrylics and use additives to make them behave. Learn about the patterns and how to make the tools to produce them We will work on small trays and also set up to do 1 yard pieces of cotton, polyester or silk suitable for garments, pillows or quilting projects.Back Painting With Paper: Collage Techniques Have fun making pictures with decorative papers. Learn special collage skills from a professional. We will simplify a scene and interpret it using shapes cut or torn from paper. The image will be made with layers and transparencies of paper to express the landscape or cityscape in a new way. This is a very structured class, aided by a specially assembled kit of Skycraft papers to make several pictures. The first project takes about of 4 hours. Full day (6 hours) allows time for another project and some fun collage cards. This class is best for people who already have some cutting and gluing skills. This class a great way to encourage a more simple design sense for the painter who is overcome with details. Students will work with Skycraft papers, oriental tissues and novelty papers. All will be assembled using some amazing tricks that make collage a wonderful tool for both beginners and experienced artists.Back Paste Grained Papers A simple technique yields exotic results. Try this traditional yet simple way of making end papers for books and crafts projects. This traditional technique takes on a new sheen when interpreted with modern materials and tools. We use lots of gold, copper and pearl in layers to build up glittering surfaces. Yes, glitter too! Students will make the starch pastes and mix their own colors using commonly available paints. They will learn how to make some very good tools, and will experiment with stamps and blocks. Each person will have lots of fancy papers to use at home in bookbinding, picture framing, collage art, rubber stamp art, and for all kinds of craft projects. Back Pop Up book Make simple and easy small pop up books using page templates printed with a rubber stamp. The engineering is done for us, and we cut and fold and assemble the pages into a book with 5 openings. The book has a cloth spine, fancy covers, and a silk tie to keep it closed. The smallest book makes a wonderful holiday ornament. The pages may later be decorated with added cut outs, lettering and art to make 3D scenes. This is a lovely gift item and can feature family snapshots, memorabilia, magazine images and, of course, rubber stamps.Back Unsacred Text: Artist's Album/Journal Recycle an old hard bound book cover to make a new and exciting book with new text pages which can be full of your own images and writing. Use computer prints, Paints, Rubber stamps. Exciting creativity project. This book has lots of room for adding loose materials like photos and clippings. Back Wax Resists and Rubbings Make exciting decorative papers for use in collage, greeting cards, bookbinding and decorating. Using simple materials you probably already have you can have fun and also save money on materials for your paper art projects This is a new perspective and involves recycling of crayons, candles, paper, and found objects used as texture sources. The important concept here is that wax resists water. If we apply wax to paper, then paint it with inks, dyes or watercolor, the paint will flow off of the wax and just color the paper. The wax image is left in stunning contrast. We can draw and scribble with wax crayons or oil pastels, or we can put a flat texture under the paper and rub the wax colors over the paper to pick up texture from the high relief. The painting can be multicolored or just one color, and it can be pearlescent or not. A fascinating technique.Back Check for our Calendar if you want to coordinate a class for you group while I am in your town.

Phone: 800.578.5608 Or: 503.630.7173  Snail Mail: Skycraft Designs, 26395 S. Morgan Rd., Estacada, OR 97023 USA

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