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Woman Unleashed Online Retreat is beginning!

Consider checking out the Woman Unleashed Online Retreat with host Amber Kuileimailani Bonnici at: http://theradiantmama.com/OP/winter2017/.  I've done her (no cost) retreats for the last three years focusing on the art-related sessions.  She has good instructors!

Project 1 is to make your journal cover--the journal we'll be keeping throughout the workshop.  You can do whatever you want.  Her example was to gesso the cover of an art journal and then paint an image on it.

Mine started out by reusing a piece of cardboard from an 8x10" photo paper package as the base.  Other materials used include metallic tape, alcohol inks, glitter, paint, pen, magazines (for the collage paper), a recycled earring, and reused stitched writing on fabric (with verse that is mine).

There is an outside and an inside.  The inside drawing is a quick self-portrait in pen. The face and hair have been left black and white.  I'm thinking of filling them in with paint or collage after 2018 and finding my tribe. The piece went together smoothly -- just like it wanted to be made this way.  I'm excited to see what other work I come up with during the retreat!!


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