Extreme Journalism 101: Hand Lettering for the Visual Journalist
$145
Juliana Coles
(The desire to access inner information for self _expression, healing and transformation required)
Experience the Art of the expressionistic letterform in this Extreme Visual Journaling 101 Workshop that emphasizes written text as image. Learn to integrate text with imagery to practice speech, language, and hand lettering as an art form as we first set up various mixed media backgrounds and then layer different text styles to stretch our techniques for verbal expression. Learn to develop patience and attention to every detail of the writing by considering the text as important to the image as the image itself. We will practice lettering using many different script creating tools such as pens, pencils, stick and ink, fine brush w/acrylic in ways you never considered and even how to give rubber stamped letters and alphabets your hand drawn touch. We will create many different layers with all things related to text including cutting up words from poetry books to create found poetry. Then utilizing Juliana’s Extreme Journalism techniques, we will also learn to speak and write our own words, rather than quoting some other source, in order to weave the tale of our telling in the safe containers of our Visual Journals. These techniques will carry over into all other forms where text can be used as art and will take your art form to the next level.
Supply List :
Your Visual Journal ( or two or three )
A big glue stick such as UHU or your favorite glue
Scissors
Your favorite mixed media supplies (email me for suggestions if you don‘t have any favorite supplies)
Writing Tools:
A fine detail brush, #1or #2 about 3/4 to 1 inch long
A thin stick at least 8 inches long (Just pick one up off the ground)
A clean pen holder and nib ( just a plain drawing nib will be suitable or any other nib you are interested in trying- you may need two- I use one for my white and one for all other colors so I don‘t dirty my white)
A carpenter’s pencil ( the flat pencils- you can get them at art stores or at Hardware stores)
Exacto knife or sand paper for sharpening ( art stores sell short pieces of wood with sand paper stapled that is perfect for sharpening these flat pencils
Ebony pencil, or 6 B, or graphite stick in any thickness
Black ink, India ink, or Sumi ink
A high quality white ink (Check it-If it’s too old it can be funky)
White China marker
Black sharpie (or other favorite permanent black marker)
A couple of brush markers in different colors
At least two different sets of rubber stamp letters in two different sizes
A poetry book and at least one magazine to cut up
Gel pens or any other writing tool that can write on dark surfaces
Staz on stamp pads ( one in black, one in any color)
A white or light colored stamp pad of your favorite kind (metallics will be fine too)
A plain old bic pen or any other regular writing tool
A regular #2 pencil.
Optional: silver or gold pencils, a pastel or light colored pencil, stencils, stickers, Krylon marker in gold or silver, press on type.
Collage: bring any papers that utilize text as well as random collage images or your favorite papers/things to cut up.
Questions? Email Juliana at meandpete@msn.com
Web site: www.meandpete.com
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