Join Jane Davies as she shares her favorite texture making techniques and materials.

You'll learn over a dozen ways to make beautiful paper that will be uniquely your own. She shows you how a simple knowledge of design and color can help you expand your collection of collage papers with design enhancing papers. She focuses on color schemes, value contrast, color contrasts, scale and mood.

In this workshop you see Jane's high energy approach to glazing, textures, spritzing & blotting, painting, spattering, non-traditional uses of the brayer, mono-printing, uses of the gel plate, resists, alcohol, sumi-e ink, altered paper, staining and layering.

Jane then tackles composition in collage. She demonstrates using a grid study. She then moves on to a landscape style composition. You hear her describe the rationale of her choices. Seeing her work is fun, enlightening and freeing!

Collage: Paper, Patterns, and Glazing with Anne Bagby

In this video workshop you'll learn to create your own stamps, masks, stencils, and paper as you build a truly customized collage. Work fast and free, layering homemade paper and lush acrylic glazes to design an intricate and eclectic figure. Anne makes all her own collage materials. She combines stamped and painted patterns to create the wafer-thin paper she uses throughout the workshop.

You'll transfer antique designs to hand-carved stamps and cut contact paper masks to guide custom stencils. Anne uses an experimental process, working simultaneously on five figures. She takes risks with the weakest, using the freedom of collage to find creative solutions. You'll quickly build shapes with paper and slowly unify them with controlled glazes.

Anne makes all her own collage materials. She combines stamped and painted patterns to create the wafer-thin paper she uses throughout the workshop. You'll transfer antique designs to hand-carved stamps and cut contact paper masks to guide custom stencils.

Anne uses an experimental process, working simultaneously on five figures. She takes risks with the weakest, using the freedom of collage to find creative solutions. You'll quickly build shapes with paper and slowly unify them with controlled glazes.

Start from scratch and end with an elegant figure in Collage: Paper, Patterns, and Glazing with Anne Bagby.

Art Stamping Innovations: Carving Workshop with Gloria Page

Discover the incredible creative flexibility of art stamping with Gloria Page. From simple, no-carve stamps to intricate designs pressed in polymer clay, this workshop explains all you need to get started with handmade stamps. Gloria shares the basics of carving soft blocks, beginning with easy projects that get you stamping in minutes.

You'll learn safe carving techniques that work whether you're using one of Gloria's image transfer methods or creating a free-form design. Gloria introduces a variety of inks, paints, embossing products and bleaching materials that allow you to stamp designs on nearly any surface, from paper and cards to fabric and clay. You'll also learn about multi-block printing, masking and a variety of carving materials including wood, linoleum and scratch foam.

Gloria finishes the workshop with projects that are easy to execute and look fantastic. You'll learn stamping techniques that will keep you inspired for years to come in Art Stamping Innovations with Gloria Page.

Page first teaches you the basics of how to make a stamp. She explains what carving materials are available including soft blocks and cutting tools. She then moves on to the basics of how to carve a stamp and gives artist tips for carving safely. Page introduces a variety of inks, paints, embossing products and bleaching materials, plus shows some exciting combinations of stamps, papers and fabrics.

She shows you that you can make a stamp out of anything including many inexpensive supplies you can find in a hardware or thrift store. Page's art lesson finishes with image transfer techniques and a few ideas to jump start your own adventures into art stamping.