Judith Christensen 

Tuesdays, 9:30 AM–12:30 PM 
February 2–23 
(4 weeks, 12 total hours of instruction) 
AAC Print Room 
$225/245 + $12 materials fee paid to instructor 

Bring the beauty, color, and endless variety of nature into your artwork. Explore the rich shapes, textures, and hues of flowers and leaves while experimenting with creative processes for incorporating botanicals into works on paper. 

Through hands-on exploration, we will delve into techniques including hammer-flower printing, eco-dyeing, direct leaf printing, and more. We’ll explore other botanical processes, such as Gelli printing and shadow painting, as time allows. Each student will select at least one process that inspires them to create a series of pages, then bind them into a unique artist’s book. 

Materials: Required: hammer; cutting knife and extra blades; metal ruler; stylus for scoring (ballpoint tracing stylus, 1.5-2 mm is ideal); sharp pencils; eraser (Pink Pearl is good); scissors; glue (UHU glue stick or a small container of PVA and brush); an old towel. Optional/Recommended: two pieces of 8” x 8” ceramic tile; 3–6 feet of string; bone folder; absorbent and fairly heavy paper (such as watercolor paper); colored pencils; leaves and flowers. The required papers, inks, and dyes needed to complete the projects will be provided with the $10 materials fee. 

Max Students: 8