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Join me for a FULL DAY of Image Transfer play at the San Francisco Center for the Book.
Sat June 1st from 9:30 - 5:30
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Whether you are a beginner or a seasoned artist, learning how to create image transfers will introduce you to a whole new world of using creative imagery in your work. Courtney will demonstrate her favorite methods from her book, Playing with Image Transfers on how to transfer onto paper, fabric, wood and more with inexpensive materials. The resulting images are beautiful for adding dimension and depth to all work.
Courtney will begin the class with demos on a variety of transfer methods using photocopies and found imagery. Spend the afternoon playing with these methods, layering them, and working them into your own sketchbook creating many samples to refer to.
Make Art Where You Are: A Daily Practice
MAKE ART WHERE YOU ARE
Artist and author Courtney Cerruti provides an in-depth look into her tool kit for capturing the essence of a place and your personal impressions of everything you see around you. Using her book of the same title, she’ll share techniques you can do in as little as a few minutes. From a five-minute blind contour drawing to mixing a color palette of your surroundings, find opportunities to draw, make marks, and paint while you are on the move or in your own home. Courtney will share her favorite ways to use colored pencil, watercolor, and brush marker pens to create evocative sketches. Even if you only have five minutes, she encourages you to seize the moment for making art every single day.
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Living a More Creative Life: A Daily Practice
LIVING A MORE CREATIVE LIFE
So many of us are on a quest to incorporate creativity into our lives, but short on time and resources, we’re not sure how to begin. For inspiration and sage advice, we turn to artist and explorer, Courtney Cerruti, who incorporates art into everything she does and finds beauty in even the most mundane moments. This Daily Practice is perfect for aspiring artists, crafters who are in a rut, and anyone who suspects that a creative habit would be good for their soul - your eyes will be opened to new creative possibilities that are easy to practice every day. No matter your skill level, we hope you’ll show up, bring a playful attitude and a willingness to try new things.
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Gelli Plate Printing
GELLI PLATE PRINTING
Learn how use the Gelli Plate to make layered and textural prints. The silicone plate is infinitely reusable and is adept at printing both flat shapes and dimensional items like botanicals, fibers, textiles and more. Learn how to print on both paper and fabric in a process that is fast and addictive. Courtney will even share an trick for making an image transfer using the gelli plate. The unexpected beauty in every print ignites an insatiable curiosity that can only be cured by an afternoon of printing.
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Color Image Transfer on Wood
COLOR IMAGE TRANSFER ON WOOD
Turn those small, intimate moments from life into a permanent treasure by transferring them onto wood. Courtney Cerruti shows you one of her favorite techniques from her book, Playing with Image Transfers, using a color or B&W photocopy and a few simple materials. She also shows a few different finishing techniques to customize your miniature works of art. The wood adds luminosity and brings out the beautiful, muted colors in your photograph.
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Warhol Inspired Monoprints
WARHOL INSPIRED MONO PRINTS
When Andy Warhol first used this blotted-line monoprint method, illustrators were amazed – and they’re still amazed today! In this class, Creativebug’s resident artist, Courtney Cerruti, walks you through the very same process that Andy Warhol made famous using simple materials: a nib pen, acrylic ink and transparency film. Plus, of course, you’ll need a wonderful image to trace. Without any drawing skills required, you’ll learn how to create one-of-a-kind monoprints by tracing over the image, then adding a touch of watercolor to make your designs pop.
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How to Make Zines
HOW TO MAKE ZINES
Zines are DIY booklets (“zine” is short for magazine) – perfect for showcasing your artwork and sharing with friends. Zine enthusiast, Courtney Cerruti, shows you how to make four simple zine structures using copy paper and a photocopier, including 8 or 16-page books made from a single sheet, an accordion book, and a pamphlet stitch book. Courtney fills her zines with found photos and doodles, but you can feature anything that sparks your imagination. Drawing from her own collection of zines, Courtney shows examples of each structure to get you inspired.
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