Drawing a window and creative borders on my journal page in Alnwick, England
Meeting on Saturday’s – April 2 through 30, no classes on April 23, 10 am – 12 noon
Our adventure continues! This class includes students who took the first Creative Journaling class and we welcome all new comers!
Creative Journaling class 1- Making our journals
Get Creative with Journaling! A class for all ages. We’ll combine sketching, painting and writing with experienced guidance from our instructor to create a journal of experiences and special days. Learn drawing skills, how to add decorative borders, creative designs and lettering to your journal. Learn creative writing tips; dabble in poetry writing and techniques for creating a very personal record. You’ll also be introduced to the use of watercolor pencils, watercolors, permanent ink pens, and water brushes to create images and illustrations to share. We’ll even make our own journal! Creative Journaling or Art Journaling is becoming increasingly popular; it complements internet blogs or conventional diaries and provides a highly visual and descriptive book to treasure for years to come.
Creative Journaling - playing with creative text.
$75 for 4 classes, a $3 materials fee payable to the instructor the first day covers the water brush you keep.
•Following this class (after a lunch break) is “Nature Sketching”, a two-hour class that ties in beautifully with Creative Journaling. Sign up for both and save $5 on both classes!
•A complete materials list will be emailed to you after registering. Contact Mary with any questions.
•Read more on my blog about my sketching adventures in England and New York, just click links in the right hand column. You can sign your email to receive automatic updates when there are new posts.
Creative Journaling class 3 - drawing landscape behind a shape
To register for class go to http://www.burchfieldnac.org/Spring_Classes.html to download form.
Phone: 716-677-4843 or www.burchfieldnac.org
Learn how to make colorful Creative Borders
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Oh, I wish I could come Mary. I sounds like so much fun!! I would especially love to learn how to make colourful creative borders! How wonderfully whimsical!! xxoo
I have been following you for some time now, though I have not commented. I found your site on “accident!” (Is there such a thing?) I home school my children and the cirriculum I use is called Ambleside Online. It is based off of a woman who lived in England during the 1800’s in Ambleside. When I Google searched it your site came up and I fell in love. I have had a long distance love affair with England most of my life. I could hardly believe it when I saw that you were a painter and lived part of the year in England. 🙂
Drawing and painting are my love and of course when children came that got “put away.” But I missed it so, and watching your site inspired me! So I decided to start again. I started a blog called The Dao of Doing and I blog about what it’s like trying to finally do what I love to do after not doing it for so long.
I wish so much that I lived near you. I would LOVE to take your classes! All of them! Have you ever thought of doing an “on-line” class! I would be the first in line to pay for that!
In Friendship,
Kel Wilson
Hi Marie!
It’d be fun to have you in class! hey someday maybe I’ll get to teach in England, that’d be awesome! I’m working on new ideas all the time.
Well Kelly that’s one of the nicest comments I’ve gotten in a long time! Thanks so much for telling me that I inspired you to start painting again and start a blog! I’m very proud of you then for doing that! Sometimes people do write and tell me that I’ve inspired them to begin again and I feel so great about that. I know exactly what it is to set aside your art for children, you do what you can when you can. Just don’t ever stop doing creative things no matter what they be. If your kids are still little make sure they have a place to make art too, my boys were always allowed to make a mess on my studio floor, they had their own ‘kit’ with paints and clay.
I hope to live in England someday, it’s where my boyfriend is (he’s British). When you mentioned a lady near Ambleside around the 1800…you MUST mean Beatrix Potter?? I adore her and feel a close kinship to her life. I feel I do many things that she would have done with studying nature first hand and painting it. I also like to write stories for children and need to get illustrating them.
I’m working on a book that someday I hope to get published, it’ll be great for home school families. So even if you aren’t near my classes you could still read the book! I guess I’d try online classes if I knew how to set it up. I’m not sure how hard it’d be?
I can’t wait to check out your blog, keep in touch and don’t be shy…leave me comments anytime!
Mary