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Textures: Backgrounds for Visual Journaling and Mixed Media Begins June 1, 2019
“Textures: Backgrounds for Visual Journaling and Mixed Media” registration is now open. Class begins on June 1. There are 6 weeks of lessons in which students work through the process of creating backgrounds for their artwork. I share my favorite materials and approaches and provide detailed information on those materials so that you can […]
Upcoming Local Visual Journaling Class with Briana of Spiral Orange Arts
Artwork in today’s post is all by my friend Briana Goetzen, one of the two co-ordinators of the Minnesota Visual Journal Collective. Briana has been journaling for over 20 years. She’s teaching a series of visual journaling classes at Wet Paint in Saint Paul Minnesota this spring and summer. First up is “Getting Started […]
What’s the Deal with the 2019 Celebration of International Fake Journal Month?
In January I decided that after 10 years of a public celebration of International Fake Journal Month I’d end the public portion of this project. You can read about my reasons at the above link to the official blog. So this year there is no button and theme/tagline and most important, nothing for me to […]
Online Class: “Drawing Practice” Registration Opens Today
Registration for “Drawing Practice: Drawing Live Subjects in Public” opens today. (Click on the link to read about it and register.) Pre-class information will be available to all registered students immediately upon registration so that you can begin to set your goals and organize your time. (See below for a link to the supply PDF […]
Simple Round Back Spine Class Registration Will Close February 14, 2019
Registration for “The Simple Round Back Spine” online bookbinding class is still open through February 14, 2019. Class begins on February 15, 2019 with all lessons dropping at once so that students can work at their own pace during the month. I’ll be available to answer your questions. (I recommend that students aim to make […]
Roz Wound Up Online Class Schedule for 2019 Is Up!
I have posted the 2019 class schedule here. You can access that page by going to the navigation menu under “CLASSES” and selecting “Classes 2019.” There you will find a list of classes that are on-going which you can join any time, followed by a list of scheduled classes. The scheduled classes are listed by […]
Studying Other Artists, Or Dealing with a Plateau in Artistic Development
Recently one of my Drawing Practice students mentioned that she’d been discouraged to see the “before” and “after” artwork someone had posted on Facebook. Some of the artists included showed art from childhood and adulthood. Others posted work that was only a couple of years apart, yet showed great development of representational facility. All were […]
Packing for a Trip or Class
Recently a blog reader who is going to SketchKon (see the note later in this post) wrote to me and asked for tips on packing for such a trip. She wanted to know which supplies to bring and what the perfect pack for carrying supplies might be. Very simply keep the following in mind: • […]
Easy Art Supply Shopping for Roz’s SketchKon Workshop
Wet Paint is my favorite locally owned independent art supply store. They have always been helpful by bringing in items that I need for my binding and art classes. They also put kits together for my local and online classes. While there is no kit or set supplies for my SketchKon 2018 Class “Donuts” there […]
I’ll Be Teaching a Workshop at SketchKon 2018
I’m excited to announce that I’m teaching at the Sketchbook Skool and Artists Network SketchKon in November 2 to 4, 2018 (with a workshop class on November 1). It’s in Pasadena, California. The SketchKon website went up a couple days ago. Click on that link to read about the event, the schedule of activities, the […]