Your Heart Self Mixed Media Collage Workshop with Sharen Chatterton & Karen Rester
May 20-21 | 9:30 AM - 1:30 PM
638 E Market Street In Rockport, Texas.
$125 for members, $150 nonmembers
Your Heart Self Mixed Media Collage Workshop
May 20th and 21st, 9:30 – 1:30, each day, bring snacks/sack lunch/ beverage $125.00, 5 minimum 12 maximum
Join us, Artist’s and twin sister’s Sharen Chatterton and Karen Rester on this unique, creative mixed media journey. Our goal is to take you on the path to truly listening to and hearing your inner heart. Allowing that voice to come out through color, images and words, onto your Heart Self piece. This is the time to allow yourself to express your unique creative energy, by bringing out your inner self, through this mixed media art process.
“The one thing that I have that nobody else has is me. My voice, my mind, my story, my vision. So, I will write and draw, paint and build, play and dance and live only as I can.”
You will travel your unique path, where you will uncover colors, words and images of your inner Heart . This workshop will provide a creative space to be inside the mixed media process with color, paint and collage, while speaking through your own inner voice and letting it flow into your unique piece.
In this workshop, we will lead you through the steps to create your mixed media Heart Self. Each person will use the provided silhouette, to bring their heart self to "life", using mixed media techniques, ribbons, yarns and information from the Gatherings for your Heart Self Worksheet, provide to you (through email or pick up). The silhouette and the wooden stand for creating your Heart Self will be provided by us.
You are each encouraged to personalize your Heart Self by gathering and having available, paper, paints, images to put on her body, as well as trinkets, bangles, beads, stones, etc., these items will be used to personalize and bring out your Heart Self. Your Gatherings Worksheet will be your starting point for knowing what things to gather for your unique Heart Self piece, this will be emailed or available for pick up.
No experience necessary, just a desire to get creative and bring your Heart Self to "life"!
Supplies you will need (Your Heart Self Gatherings Worksheet will guide you in colors, images, etc. that you will gather)
· Acrylic paints: recommend Golden soft bodied acrylics or Americana craft acrylics; just depends on your preference, use what acrylics you have if you love working with them.
· Optional Stencils (If you are investing “Stencil Girl” stencils are out favorites)
· Stencil sponge (we use wedge makeup sponges)
· Fine line Posca Pens white and black or other fine line permanent ink pens, white and black for sure.
· Printed copies of images that represent you (printed copies of photos, etc.)
· Magazine images
· Copies of your art work
· Design papers in your chosen colors (needs to be light weight, not card stock), if you make art papers, include some of these.
· Yarns, ribbons, trinkets, bangles, etc. to personalize your Inner Goddess.
· Matt Medium (we use Liquitex Matt Medium)
· Variety of paint Brushes flat, round, detail
We will provide your silhouette and stand, as well as various mixed media items to be used by all.
About the Artists
Twin sisters and artists, Sharen Chatterton and Karen Rester are unique in their own respective creative processes and when working together, bring magic to whatever they are doing. Their Art is as varied and eclectic as they are. “It is all about listening to the wisdom of your soul.” Whether painting in acrylics, watercolor, sculpting with clay, spinning, weaving or mixing it up creating a mixed media piece, it is a journey, a path that they have created together. Every art book they have created is filled with their heart and soul. Every piece of art is imagined with color. texture and feeling, to bring forward an emotional response from the viewer. “We like to think that every paint stroke brings energy and light to the piece. Each is a journey, unique and ever evolving.”
About Teaching
“As a teacher, we believe that being creative is a choice and anyone who chooses to take that leap into feeling free to express their artistic abilities, with us, will have fun and make their own unique art. In our workshops, we provide a place for you to choose your colors, your words, a place that allows you to express your unique self, exploring our bag of tricks and techniques and then using any or all that you choose.”
Education
“We have been artists all our life and taught for a good part of it. We have taken and taught mixed media, watercolor, and art healing workshops in Texas, New Mexico and Online, for many years. We work in acrylics, watercolors, mixed media and fiber, producing artwork as well as teaching classes in each. “
Sharen - BS in Biology, minor in Physics
Karen – Art and Literature, University of Colorado at Boulder
Honors /Awards / Exhibits/Publications
Sharen -Art Journal Kickstarter – Pages and Prompts to Energize Your Art Journals edited by Kristy Conlin, published by North Light Books Sharen Chatterton contributing artist pages 86 and 87.
Sharen – Award winning Art in numerous events across Texas.
Sharen - Solo Exhibit at the Texas Discover Gardens “The Nature Of Flowers” by Sharen Chatterton, Curated by Janet Reynolds
Karen – Juried into “Red, the Color” exhibit in Bandera, Texas
Karen – Juried into Kerrville Art Center, spring Exhibit
Karen – Juried into “Alpaca Fiber Art Exhibit” Oklahoma
Joint – Grapevine a Visual Journey Through a Beloved Texas Town, written and photographed by Kristi Reese, Published 2016, Sharen Chatterton and Karen Rester contributing artists Page 87
Joint – 20-piece Exhibit at Grapevine Art Project Sharen Chatterton and Karen Rester
Joint – Duck Soup, art in North Texas, Sharen Chatterton and Karen Rester contributing artists