Award winning graphic designer, teacher, and creative coach, Patricia DiBona has taken over 20 years of distinctive style of mixed media art and graphic design into the imaginative world of book art. Recognized across the country as “The Artist Who Journals On Canvas,” Patricia made her presence known in the late 1980’s for her unique style of paintings which artistically combine her words with her creative designs offering a message of love, healing, and inspiration.
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Love Potion #9
Create your own love book complete with Love Potion #9. Make your own Love Potion #9 book starting with the cover of a vintage book, velvet fabric, METAL, velvet aged ribbon, metal words, and a little bit of magic. Different images of gypsies and tarot cards will be provide along with interesting rubber stamps and other imagery. Techniques will include the use of air clay, copper mesh, gesso, beeswax, and other fun mixed media elements. This will be a truly magical class!
Vintage Shadow Box Starting with a 6.5” x 8.5” butterfly specimen box with a glass top, inside you will collage with Patricia DiBona papers, additional charms, glass beads, and stamps. Patricia will show you some alter techniques that can carry over to many other projects including adhering mini glass beads to your images, rubber stamping, and embossing, gluing, using acrylic glazing materials, metal word plates, basic collage techniques, and much more. Your beautiful finished piece can sit on a your desk or hang on a wall.
Pollage
Create your own personal canvas! You will use painting techniques to build up your canvas background using acrylics, gesso, primary elements paint with mica chips, and gel medium. You will collage on top of the background with unique Patricia DiBona images or your own collage images that you will need to bring with you. You will further embellish with charms, metal, ribbons, many pieces of printed ephemera from Patricia DiBona’s line including transparencies. You will leave with a completed canvas that you will just absolutely love.
