Join us for an immersive two-day workshop where we will delve into the pages of a hardback book to uncover and create our unique version of the story within. Guided by Tiffany, you'll learn to transform an ordinary book into an extraordinary Artist Book, merging the original narrative with your personal touch.

What You’ll Learn:

• Day 1: Preparing and Layering

  • Book Preparation: Learn techniques for prepping your hardback book, including selecting, deconstructing, and preparing the pages.

  • Layering Techniques: Discover the art of layering materials to build depth and dimension, incorporating fabrics, collage elements, and more.

  • Creating Your Narrative: Begin crafting your story, interweaving the original text with your own artistic expression.

• Day 2: Enhancing and Finalizing

  • Collage and Fabric Work: Use collage and fabric to add texture and richness to your pages, creating a tactile and visually engaging experience.

  • Painting and Stitching: Enhance your book with paints and stitching, bringing your narrative to life with color and texture.

  • Finishing Touches: Complete your Artist Book with personalized details, ensuring it's a unique creation you'll cherish and revisit time and time again.

What You’ll Get:

• A one-of-a-kind Artist Book, blending the original story with your personal narrative

• Hands-on experience with various artistic techniques

• Inspiration and skills to continue creating unique books

• A supportive and creative environment to explore your artistic potential

Kit Fee:  $25.00 kit fee which includes

Vintage Photos

Mini envelopes

Acetate

A selection of Fabrics

Vintage Ephemera

Rusty Wire

Safety Pins

Washi Tapes

Supplies to bring:

Hardcover Book no larger than 7" approx 1" spine

Glue Stick

Black and White Paints + 3 other colors you love Acrylic Paint

Stapler 

Fabric Stash/ Ephemera collage elements you would like to use

Stabilo Marks All in Black

Paintbrush

Scissors

Ruler I prefer Metal for tearing Pages

Needle and Tread/ DMC floss

5-6 Neocolor 2 or Color Pencils

Your Instructor:

Tiffany is a Mixed Media Artist, whose passion is to educate and share how art can impact everyone's life. She loves to inspire others through color, layers, textures, and storytelling. Tiffany enjoys pushing the envelope and “reimagining what's possible”.

Warning label: she is a risk taker. She has had the pleasure to travel and create with many creative souls in the past few years all across the country. Tiffany found the power of art and one day you may hear the story of how art saved her. She is known for her free spirit and loose style. She loves to create handmade art books and has filled 50+.

When she’s not in the studio with paint in her hair and trying out her next “what if'' project, she loves to treasure hunt in resale shops and flea markets. She is also very passionate about recycling, and turning trash into art treasures.

Tiffany and her amazing husband Josh have fur-babies: 3 dogs and can't even tell you the number of stray cats they feed.

They live in the deep south on the Gulf Coast of Alabama, nestled in the woods.

She founded The Ugly Art Club, has online art offerings, and has had her art published in many art publications.

You probably should know she is high energy and fueled by caffeine.