Layers of Memory and Imagination at Artiscape

This Artiscape class covered making packing tape transfers, gel medium transfers, and collage creating. Each of these student pieces is unique. I love all the ways the class participants evoked the mystery and emotion of the past! Even when several people used the same photo, the pieces were completely original. Enjoy!

Gel Medium Photo Transfer Tutorial

Here's a tutorial for today: How to make a gel medium transfer. It's an art, not a science but this is the method that works best for me. Enjoy!

"Altered Alchemy" at Art and Soul

Before I share photos from the second class I taught at Art and Soul last week, let me show you what I came home to...We had water damage to two bathrooms a few weeks before the retreat. Now asbestos folks have come and gone as well as the damage cleanup people. Now we're ready to reconstruct the bathrooms. Happy retreat memories sustain me during this process!

The gutted upstairs bathroom. Kinda wabi-sabi?

Now I'll get to the good stuff. This class was subtitled "Altered Books 101." We covered preparing the books, backgrounds, photo transfers, adding embellishments, and a lot more. I hope I led the students into becoming altered book addicts like myself!