Sketchbook Revival Binge Fest with Karen Stamper: WILD GARDEN

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Karen Stamper was the instructor for this 'Wild Garden' multimedia foldout in my sketchbook. 

Karen is an artist who works in multimedia..is a firm believer in working in sketchbooks everyday in a million different ways. 

This particular exercise of the Wild Garden was to use different media: Charcoal, pencils, pens, ink, erasers, watercolor, crayons, resists, mono printing with leaves, scratching...you name it. All in like 30 minutes.

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She uses multi-page accordion sketchbooks. We were encouraged to add paper by taping to make an extra foldout in the sketchbook. I only did three pages, because I was slow. I had gathered materials together, but not everything that she was using.

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Karen is British and talks very quickly...so my scribbles of instructions are a bit garbled. And I write in a sort of crippled shorthand-my own version.

Left column: Wild Gardenm, Multi-media, Charcoal pencils, (drawing Pencils) SMEAR, Soft Prismacolor(white and black), black acrylic or watercolor paint, White eraser, ink pens, sponges, tape, scrub brushes, washi tape, black, fine point markers.

(forgot to write down, pastels, conte crayon, or oil pastel) because I didn't have those available.

Right Column: other recommends, inks, ink sprayer, water sprayer, water. 

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We started working across the page with broad scribble strokes with crayon or charcoal pencil. I used the charcoal pencil layed on it's side. These were to be 'trees/grass/ or branches. Next she wanted ust to scribble some leaves, then add white crayon or wax to make some blank spots, smudge some of the charcoal. We then added printed leaves with paint...I stuck my fingers in the paint and put some blobs, thinking they might look like mushrooms

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Here's my other note. In the middle of the whole thing I tipped over my water (small amount) and not wanting to miss any of the lesson, I used coffee with creamer from my cup to make some washes on the left side pieces.

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Resist was formed with the crayon, and I had a resist pen that made the tiny speckles...circles, loops, lines ---she encouraged all these movements...

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Here you can see the writing is bleeding through on the back side. I mistakenly grabbed mny alcohol spry instead of water and it activated the pen on the other side. I was really scurrying to keep up--so another lesson be aware of what you use on your surfaces.

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Is it art...no....I think it is exactly what it's meant to be...play and experimentation. I found some things I did in the heat of play I will use again. 

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Here you can clearly see the mono-print leaves (peppermint) and the mini fine print pen details of small plants on the garden floor.

Maybe even the coffee ....LOL

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I will definitely explore doing multiple page/accordian style sketchbooks. I have another prompt of hers that I'm going to try ...a city scape multimedia, and I'm collecting collage materials for that, which will be much more controlled and realistic. 

HAVE YOU Had FUN trying

 ANYTHING NEW

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