About the Workshop
Join an exploration of image-making beginning in stencil designs. Develop and create your own stencils applying dynamic positive and negative shape relationships. Discover unique motifs and expand your creative process. Work with layers and repeat patterns to build depth and complexity of color, design and meaning. Discover the potentials of shape and pattern.
Students may incorporate stenciling techniques in an art medium of their choice - painting, drawing, fabric, mixed media or collage - to start new artworks, start a series, finish old pieces, try different techniques or a combination of all four. Subject matter is open and could be landscape, abstract, still life, figurative.
Structured exercises each morning are followed by one-on-one creative and technical consultation and time for individual project development in the afternoon.
Open to all levels of experience.
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About Linda Berkley
Linda Berkley is an artist and arts educator working in drawing, painting, illustration, collage and mixed media since 1986, based in the Pacific Northwest. She is a graduate of the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and received her MFA at the University of Arizona, Tucson. She has work in public and private collections and exhibits regionally, nationally and internationally.
Linda was the art department chair and a full-time studio art faculty at Everett Community College, WA 2005-2023 and an art faculty member of PCC for over 10 years prior. She regularly teaches art workshops celebrating passion and skills of creative practice.
Learn more about Linda on her website: lindaberkley.com
Instructor will provide:
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Variety of Stencil materials :2 ply board - such as stiff card stock or manila folders or Yupo or Transparency paper or Stenciling Film and/or transparent shelf/contact paper
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Transfer paper
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Stencil examples to share
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Matte medium
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Modeling paste
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Assorted NuPastels for sharing
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Sponge Stencil brushes
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Cosmetic sponge applicators
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220 sandpaper
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Watercolor Paper - small sizes for class projects
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Tracing paper
What students should bring:
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Sketchbook or journal and a pen or pencil
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Images as personal sources and inspiration for stencil making.
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Scrap paper 10-15 sheets. (Some will be provided)
Stencil materials
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2 ply board - such as stiff card stock or manila folders or Yupo or Transparency paper or Stenciling Film. (Some will be provided)
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2B or HB, 6B pencils or similar variety of graphite pencils (Not water-soluble kind)
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3 or more colors of Pan Pastels (richly saturated soft pastels) or assorted soft pastels
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Pencil sharpener
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Sharp Exacto knife #11 or #16 with extra blades or similar
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Self-healing plastic cutting board for art any size.
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Scissors
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White Retractable Eraser: Tuff Stuff eraser or Tombo Mono Zero Eraser or General's Factis Mechanical Eraser or Pentel Click Eraser
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Staedtler Mars White Plastic eraser
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Kneaded eraser
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2 Water Jars for rinsing and mixing paint
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Soft, smooth, flat brush 1 inch or wider - Dick Blick Scholastic Wonder White Brush-Flat #20 or #24 Serial #05380-1020 or #05380-1024, or a similar brush. It doesn’t need a long handle.
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Blunt-ended stencil brushes (Some will be provided)
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Disposable paint palettes or stay-wet palette for acrylic or oil painters
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Towel or rag for wiping brushes
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Art medium and Surfaces of your choice. Possible mediums to consider for stenciling include watercolor, oil & cold wax, batik, quilting, fabric paint with cloth. Contact instructor if you have questions about mediums.
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Optional materials:
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Premade stencils
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Soft stick chalk pastels
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Applicator tools for Pan Pastels
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Colored pencils