"Zia's
Egyptian Card Duets"
Focus/Technique
- Layered surfaces, collage, watercolors, markers and themed
stamp combinations
Stunning ancient
imagery in bold colors created as cards or ready to hang!
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"Fossilized
Fragments"
Focus/Technique
- Modeling clay, metallic surface applications and stamps
Stamped fossil
images with mica/foil accents.
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"Egyptian
Safari Panel Set"
Focus/Technique - Layering
animal print papers with partial stamp images
Two 16"
horizontal artistic panels.
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"Zia's
Paisley Butterflies"
Focus/Technique - Unique
papers, textures, watercolors and stamps
Gorgeous images
combined with watercolors, pencils, markers and specialty papers.
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"Zia's Waxed
Ginkgo Panel "
Focus/Technique
- Crayon resist textures, metallic stickers and stamps
Scratch art
made artistically easy using Zia's technique!
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"Zia's Bird
Obelisk"
Focus/Technique
- Construction with plaster, foam and branches
Sculpt your bird, wind it in ribbons, wires and feathers, then
perch it on a conical obelisk covered in fabric and fibers, punctuated
with twigs to create a 15" statuesque pillar of nesting
materials!
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"Zia's Unmitigated
Torsos"
Focus/Technique
- Construction and collage
Create a life
size TORSO using plastic body molds, fibers/fabric and plaster
then paint surface with a Zia faux finish and complete with embellishments
of wires, ribbons, mesh, glitzy materials/trims and Zia styled
techniques!
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"Zia's
Encaustic Collages"
Focus/Technique
- Wax, surface texture and collage
Learn how to
incorporate encaustic materials into sensational collaged artworks!
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"Zia's
Hot Bodies"
Focus/Technique
- Wax, surface texture and watercolors
Create a luscious
panel of hot colors, textures and figures using Zana's unique
stylistic tricks.
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"Zia's
Color Drenched Dream"
Focus/Technique
- Water surface texture,watercolors and stamps
Experience
the magic of Zia's watercolors and her unique surface texturing
tricks!
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"Zia's
Nature Murals"
Focus/Technique
- Building a series of related images
Create a vertical
panel with Zana's unique products and techniques. This series
will be mounted/presented on black core mat board to create a
finished 6-8" x 12 -14" panel ready to frame!
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"Zia's
Fantasy Foils"
Focus/Technique
- Metallic foils and collage
A unique presentation
to collage and combine Joss Papers, foiled stickers of lines
and geometric shapes with metallic paints, papers, markers and
stamps!
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"Zia's
Tattoo Graffiti"
Focus/Technique
- Layering unique imagery
Stamp to create
a classical collaged scene using Zia's images of tattoos, figures,
columns and textures!
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"Zia's
Artful Architecture - Revived"
Focus/Technique
- Drawing, resist applications and collage
Learn how to
paint in resist, pour on liquid color and embellish this classical
imagery with stamps, papers, wood scrolls and other elegant items.
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"Zia's Mini
Mosaic Orchid"
Focus/Technique
- Creating a quick and artful puzzle card
A great "starter"
class to experiment and capture the Zia watercolored layer look!
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"Zia's Antiquarian
Sea Life Series"
Focus/Technique
- Creating a series with embossing, collage and text
Design with a limited
color palette a collection of three antiqued-styled stamp art
panels. Using Zia's Atlantis stamp images and her cool insect
collection you will emboss in layers of texture and treasures!
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"The
Hot Bug Series"
Focus/Technique
- Paint application, collage and design elements
Create with
Zia's HOT JEWELS and her insect collection an explosion of color
and texture to showcase a unique set of 3 neon "bug"
cards.
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"Zia's Atlantis
Sphere"
Focus/Technique
- Watercolor and Collage Tricks
Create a spectacular
piece of stamp art using Zia's Atlantis Series stamp images,
her Hot Jewels and a variety of unique art-filled techniques.
Your finished art "sphere" will measure 12" in
diameter, will be painted and stamped on her fabri-paper and
will be ablaze in color, texture and underwater imagery...take
home a one-of-a-kind ocean drenched fantasy!
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"Zia's
Nature Sphere"
Focus/Technique
- Watercolor and Bleach Tricks
Create an 18 inch diameter
Nature Sphere on Zia's fabri-paper using her unique watercolor
media products and her beautiful nature-themed stamps. Backing
will be provided for your favorite sphere. This is a project
for those who like to experiment and have total freedom! Learn
how to play with Zia's Chroma Sprays, Color Wash Jewels, Ultra
Color Wash Jewels, Metallic Flows and bleach pens.
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"Zia's Prose
Panels"
Focus/Technique
- Layering Watercolor, Collage and Text
This artshop is designed
to challenge your writing muse and express with Zia's Alphabet
Word stamps and vibrant painted watercolors and textures a unique
set of Prose Panels! Stamp and paint with freedom using her HOT
Jewels, Ultra Color Wash Jewels and Metallic Flows. You will
learn watercolor tips and tricks to showcase your multi-sectioned
ready to hang piece of art!
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"Zia's Soul
Map"
Focus/Technique
- Advanced Collage Creating with Watercolors
,Use a variety of unique
collage materials, papers and boards, magical layering tricks
with acetate papers unique water media supplies, stamps, colored
pencils, chalks and foils along with a series of artistic break
out exercises to create a 16x 16" Soul Map! This is your
chance to be the artist you dream of being!
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"Botanical
Beauties"
Focus/Technique
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Painting/stamping with Zia's vessel patterns and Chroma Jewels
Create TWO stamped still life panels (6 x 16") using Zia's
vessel/vase patterns, her collection of plants, stems and flowers
and her Chroma Jewels. This unique project incorporates her special
techniques in painting, masking, stamping and embossing!
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"The
Zia Silk Fan Duet"
Focus/Technique
- Painting/stamping on silk
Stamp, spray
and paint two "paddle" styled silk fans! Each fan will
sprayed, stamped and hand colored. These fans will get you hooked
on exploring and expanding your talents with Zia materials on
silk!
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"Hanging
Silk Window"
Focus/Technique
- Painting/stamping on silk
We will SPRAY, STAMP
and PAINT using Stamp Zia's specialty art materials (Chroma Sprays,
Metallic Flows and Chroma Jewels) and stamps onto a 10 x 10"
silk "window". Your silk square will be attached to
a unique 7" bamboo hanger available exclusively from Stamp
Zia. Your silk hanging will be completed with a hand-made silk
ribbon tassel. This unique project incorporates style, art and
excitement!!
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"Four Season
Aspen"
Focus/Technique
- Using Twinkling H2O's
Learn how to "paint"
with Twinkling H2O's and create 4 gorgeous cards using Zana's
watercolor tricks and tips. Create and complete a 4 x 5"
card for each season that coordinates with the colors of Spring,
Summer, Autumn and Winter.
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"Geisha
Card Set"
Focus/Technique
- Metallic Flows
Create 4 gorgeous
Oriental themed art cards with Zia's Geisha Girls stamps! These
"cards" when finished are really more like a set of
small Asian treasures to frame and hang or give as elegant art
gifts! Each Geisha Girl card is 8 ½ x 5 ½".
You will complete these 4 pieces using Zia's custom products,
Color Wash Jewels, Ultra Color Wash Jewels, Metallic Flows, as
well as a selection of unique oriental papers!
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"The Zia
Un-Quilt"
Focus/Technique
- Fabric, fibers and fusing
A No-Sew gorgeous
fabric "quilt" constructed with fabulous fabrics, fibers,
stamped images and extra embellishments. This art piece will
open your eyes to the creative opportunities available to you
with fabric, fibers, collage construction and stamping used as
an embellishment to your fabric art piece. Includes a unique
Zia Bamboo Hanger too!
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"Wild Watercolor
- Zia Style"
Create
with Zia's NEW Chroma Sprays and Metallic Flows a unique and
personal painting that reflects your sense of color, design,
pattern and pizzazz! Learn how to build a 15 x 20" painting
using Zana's watercolor tips and tricks, layering paints, resist
applications, collage piecing, stamping and more!
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"Zia's Luna
Art Quilt"
This artshop is designed
to change the way you stamp SMALL and create BIG "beyond
cards" stamp art! Learn how to paint with freedom using
her Color Wash Jewels and Ultra Color Wash Jewels. You will learn
watercolor tips and tricks to showcase your NINE painted and
stamped paper art squares to "quilt together" on a
14x 17" black or white mat board for a unique ready to hang
piece of art!
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" Zia's Art
Quilt"
An awesome
opportunity to create nine mini paintings to group together as
one larger piece of art! This class will inspire you to "go
beyond" cards and work in larger formats in the future!
Zana shares her innovative watercolor techniques using her unique
product, Zia's Color Wash Jewels and Ultra Color Wash Jewels!
You will then showcase your completed mini paintings on a 12
x 16" backing. Leave class with a spectacular piece of art
ready to frame in a standard sized frame!!
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"Zia's
Nature Chops Panel"
Focus/Technique
- Unique presentation style
Four Nature
Chops embellished with paints, markers and stencils! This series
will be mounted on a one-of-a-kind piece of water colored paper
mat and then presented on black mat board to create a finished
8 x 10" panel ready to frame! Learn Zana's techniques using
her unique products and original presentation style.
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" Zia's Four
Seasons"
An artshop
created to change the way you stamp! Learn how to turn FOUR unique
seasonally themed art cards into a 16 x 20" matted hanging
piece of art. You will stamp and create your art cards with Zia's
seasonal image and word stamps using her innovative watercolor
techniques and her unique product, Color Wash Jewels! Showcase
your completed cards in a custom 16 x 20" mat that you will
stamp and embellish on to complete this Going Beyond Cards project!
Walk out of class with a spectacular piece of stamp art made
from four art cards ready to frame in a standard frame!!
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"Zia's Chroma
Spray Atlantis Mural"
Focus/Technique
- Creating larger art stamped mural
This artshop is designed
to teach you how to stamp out an entire scenic "mural",
using Stamp Zia's stamps and watercolor techniques. You will
design a four-part art piece; each section can be used separately
as a special card or can be presented together to create a horizontal
mural or a rectangular mural that will "wow" your friends
and fellow artists!
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"Zia's
Stamped Bamboo
Hanging Tapestry"
Join Zana
to create a fabulous piece of stamp art that is suspended from
a unique 22" bamboo hanger! Using Stamp Zia’s images
of "Shadows and Shades", select from her collection
of Birds, Beauties and Beasts to design a tapestry that incorporates
watercolor techniques, embossing tricks and fabric applications.
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"Zia’s Mandela"
This artshop
is specifically designed to express your inner spirit! With Stamp
Zia’s Symbology stamp images, build a unique piece of stamp
art that is a map of your personality’s strengths and passions.
You will select from Zia’s stamp images of SYMBOLS, SIGNS,
TOTEMS and ELEMENTS to define and describe who you are on a 14”
Mandela-styled mat board sphere that is layered and embellished
with paints, inks, powders, foils and fibers. Join Zana to learn
an entire new visual language through this creative process and
discover how the power of symbols and signs can change your “future”
art.This artshop is a must for those searching for new ways to
express their artistic spirits.
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"Zia’s
Monet Landscape"
Create
a visually stunning, stamped waterscape using Stamp Zia’s
unique watercolor techniques and original Stamp Zia stamps. Learn
how to paint with watercolors and stamps on a 30 x 12” custom
designed mat with a “portal” mat opening to showcase
stamped and painted waterlilies.We'll use stencils, resist and
chalks along with watercolor paints and stamps to create your
“Monet-styled Water Garden”. It will be a piece of
stamp art you'll want to frame and hang in a gallery!
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"Zia
Art-a-Ments"
An art-filled
display to showcase 3 hanging stamped plaques. Each "plaque"
(approx. 4x5") will be stamped and embellished with paints,
acrylic and wooden shapes, fibers and paper textures then wired
and woven to each other to complete your hanging Zia Art-a-Ment.
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"Zia
Fabric Banner"
Using Stamp
Zia's big and bold tropical background stamps we will spray and
spatter, mask and paint, then stamp away on a fabric type panel
to create an awesome wall hanging for your home!! We'll be using
spray paints, fabric paints and markers and acrylic paints. This
is a WOW project that makes you have to let loose and play!
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"Zia
Kimono"
This fabulous wall hanging (approx. 24x20") will tempt you
to change your home décor to go ALL Oriental! Join Zana
in creating your own hanging kimono out of mat board sections,
spray paints and Zia's tropical stamps. This "HOT"
unique project will incorporate fibers, wire, beads and bamboo
to showcase your kimono. If you like working big or have been
waiting to play with stamps in a different format, this class
is for you. It's Zia's favorite class too!
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"The Zia Silk
Fan"
Spray,
spatter and stamp on a real silk and bamboo fan (10x17").
Learn resist style techniques and spray masking techniques, both
Zia inspired! Spray vivid colors to blend into a bold Oriental
statement for your gallery wall!
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“The Zia Stamped
Floor Cloth”
Always
wanted to know how to make one of those fabulous arty floor cloths??
This is your chance to spend an afternoon and create your own
custom, painted and stamped 4x6’ “rug” in the
“Zia” style!! We'll mask off some areas, stencil some
areas, then paint stamp, spray and spatter till we finish your
floor cloth masterpiece!
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"Zia Fabric
Art"
Transform
a lightweight jacket or denim styled shirt into a wardrobe DO
with Zia's tips and techniques for stamping and painting with
fabric paints and markers. If you have always wanted to
wear a one-of-a-kind piece of wearable art this class is for
you! Your creative energy will be renewed after getting
up close to the fabric with Zia stamps! If you would rather
design a wall hanging or fabric banner, bring a piece that you
would like to stamp on and the same techniques can be applied.
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"Zia's Model
Magic Kimonos
and Tableaus"
Just kneed,
roll and stamp! That's how easy it is to create "clay"
type objects d'art with this Crayola product. Because the
modeling material is slow drying this class is presented in two
sessions, a day apart. Our Kimonos and Tableaus will be
rolled and stamped during the first session then painted and
embellished in the following session. You will complete
TWO pieces of unique stamp art using this incredible product,
Model Magic, Stamp Zia stamps, and Zana's techniques for making
fantastic three-dimensional stamp art!!
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"Zia Spheres"
This artshop
highlights Stamp Zia's stamp series, The Zia Spheres. These 5-
1/2" round stamps are scenes from nature with an "Oriental
Nouveau" flair. Choose between the Cattail, Waterlily,
Bamboo, Kimono, Koi, Foliage or Star Sphere to create your stamped,
medallion styled, piece of frameable art. We'll color our
spheres with Powdered Pearls and Lyra Metallic pencils, place
them into a custom circular 18" mat, then stamp the mat
ground with a specially designed coordinating stamp and new giant
word stamps that match your sphere!
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