Ode to NYC

Today I’m featuring the journal I created specifically to teach in New York City. This journal was inspired by my love for the city that never sleeps...

"ODE TO NYC" JOURNAL WORKSHOP"

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 28TH - 10:00AM - 5:00PM

$115 (includes materials fee)

 

Get ready to celebrate all things NYC! We will use watercolors, doodling, pretty tapes, and images of your favorite city to create this gritty yet whimsical, color-filled journal.

Starting with an easy binding method, we’ll transform a sheet of watercolor paper into a glorious ode to the city that never sleeps. We’ll paint, tape, doodle, collage, and even do some image transfers.

You’ll never see this exclusive journal in a souvenir shop because it will be made by YOU and chock-full of your favorite bits of NYC. Tourists and residents alike can document all that is WONDERFUL (and maybe not so wonderful, depending on how you look at it!) about the Big Apple. (And if you want to journal another city, that’s OK, we just won’t tell anyone else in the class!)

Materials Needed:
• watercolor pan set (can be any kind, even Crayola)
• black acrylic paint
• white acrylic paint
• Inktense black pencil or a Stabilo pencil
• Bombay or Liquitex black ink
• various favorite pens
• 1 – 22 x 30 in. sheet of Fabriano Hot Press (140 lb.) cut down to three long strips of 22 in. x 10 in.
• watercolor brushes
• Liquitex matte medium or preferred gel medium
• pretty tapes
• collage bits (NYC pics and/or city-related ephemera you wish to use in your journal)
• awl, bone folder, scissors
• Exacto and straight edge
• small cutting mat
• old credit card we’ll use to scrape paint with
• any city items that may inspire you!

Bring if you have: Inktense pencils, duct tape

• I will bring needles, waxed linen thread, Daniel Smith watercolors used in class sample, and other ephemera

You need to sign up for the Meet Up group before you can register. Sign up for the group is free. I’m also offering “Back to the Journal” which I will post details of next week!

Would LOVE to see you there!!!!

A Page and News

Been busy with getting videos together for the online Doodle Camp 2013, July 8-12! It’s gonna be a blast so make sure you register for the early-bird fee of $25. After June 18, it goes up to $35. AND, I will only take registrations until the first day of camp! Remember: I’m teaching my new workshop, Journal by Design, on dawndsokol.com starting the week after Doodle Camp! I’ll be presenting a bunch of magazine design principles I’ve learned during my print career that can help you look at journaling in a whole new way. If you take both classes, you can get an even deeper discount!

Also, a reminder about my in-person teaching gigs in the fall:

I’m teaching at the beautiful Loon Lake Lodge outside of Vancouver, B.C., Sept. 16-19! Come join us for Into the heART! We are going to have SO MUCH FUN at this retreat! I can’t wait for it...I hope the leaves are turning when we’re there. I LOVE autumn! And there are some great teachers such as Vivienne McMaster, Violette Clark, and Dale Ann Potter!

And Little Bird Creations in NYC has just listed my classes for Sept. 28-29! I am so excited to be invited back there...Michele has created such a wonderful venue! We are going to make an Ode to NYC Journal the first day, and then we’ll take a background-making journey in Back to the Journal...These are two new classes I’ve never taught anywhere else!

Join me, won’t you? Have a GREAT day!!!

The Artist Hub

Just wanted to let you know I’ll be a part of The Artist Hub over at Sissy Sparrows in a few months! Make sure to look for it and check out all the great artists featured over there!

The BIG Journal Show

A flip-through of my Big Journal...Most of the spreads in the first half of the book were created with Art Doodle Love backgrounds in mind. Some of them actually made it into the book!

Don’t forget to register NOW for Doodle Camp!

A Two-fer

I mentioned last week that I would be offering a special for those of you who register for both Journal by Design and Doodle Camp 2013. You’ll get $10 off your total registration of both workshops bought together. For those of you who have signed up for Journal by Design who want to register for Doodle Camp, just email me for details on how to do so. For those of you who wish to sign up for both at the same time, here’s the button!

$95 for Journal by Design and Doodle Camp package