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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 2008 Atlantis stamp images and her NEW 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 new HOT JEWELS and her new 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 NEW Atlantis Series stamp images,
her NEW Hot Color Jewels and a variety of Zana's unique art-filled
techniques. Your finished art "sphere" will measure
12" in diameter, will be painted and stamped on her NEW
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 NEW 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 NEW Alphabet
Word stamps and vibrant painted watercolors and textures a unique
set of Prose Panels! Stamp and paint with freedom using her NEW
Neon 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
Join Zana on a personal
journey to create an inspiring, art filled "soul map".
Using Zana's unique collage applications and techniques, her
custom products for water media applications and a series of
artistic break out exercises, you will complete a collaged, painted
and stamped art piece that will evolve through our day's activities.
Your "soul map" will measure 20" x 20" and
will be comprised of 4 - 10" x 10" panels that fit
together to showcase your completed avant-garde creation! All
supplies are provided for this daylong artshop. You will use
Zia's Chroma Sprays, a variety of unique collage materials, papers
and boards, magical layering tricks with papers and paint, a
variety of water media supplies, stamps, colored pencils, chalks
and foils! This is your chance to be the artist you dream of
being!
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"Botanical
Beauties"
Focus/Technique
-
Painting/stamping with Zia's NEW vessel patterns and NEW Chroma
Jewels
Create TWO stamped still life panels (6 x 16") using Zia's
NEW vessel/vase patterns, her NEW collection of plants, stems
and flowers and her NEW Chroma Jewels. This unique project incorporates
her special techniques in painting, masking, stamping and embossing!
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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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"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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"Four Season
Aspen"
Focus/Technique
- Using Twinkling H2O's
Learn how to "paint"
with Zia's unique palette of 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 her fluorescent pencils and a selection of unique oriental
papers!
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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
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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"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 Watercolor
Stamped Paper
Art Quilt"
This artshop is designed
to change the way you stamp and create "beyond cards"
stamp art! Join Zana and learn how to paint with watercolors,
collage with stencils and stamp a unique painted paper quilt
using her NEW 2006 fabric stitching stamps, her Color Wash Jewels
and Ultra Color Wash Jewels, her NEW Zia Metallic Flows and Zia
Resist.You will learn watercolor tips and tricks to showcase
your NINE painted and stamped paper quilt 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 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 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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" The Zia Seasons
Quilt"
Have a
blast painting and stamping twelve unique seasonally themed art
cards into a 14x 15" mounted hanging piece of art. You will
stamp up a storm to create your art cards with Zia's Four Seasonal
Chop images and seasonal word paragraph stamps using her innovative
watercolor techniques and her unique product, Zia's Color Wash
Jewels! Walk out of class with a spectacular piece of stamp "quilt
art" made from twelve art cards ready to frame together!
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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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“Zia’s
Ceramic Masks”
Let's paint,
foil and frolic with new life size ceramic Zia masks! You will
complete a ceramic mask from Stamp Zia’s unique Masquerade
stamp collection - The Phoenix, Kabuki, Butterfly Branch, Dragonfly,
Fin & Feather or Landscape Mask. This art shop is for all
you stamp artists who are looking to make a 3-D statement in
fashionable style! With acrylic paints, foils, feathers, ribbons
and fibers we'll turn our bisque ware masks into a creations
to wear and hang!
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“The Zia Hanging
Medallion
This unique
circular format will get your creative juices going! A totally
new art filled look, using a custom cut 20” medallion-styled
mat and a 6” acrylic sphere! Stamp, paint and decorate the
hottest new stamp material, Acrylic!! Then transform your circular
mat with inks, paints, foils and 3-D layers of mat board into
a medallion to showcase your acrylic sphere. We'll add textures
with paint, papers and real dried leaves, then stamp some more!
Your finished Zia medallion will be 20” in diameter and
will be ready to hang on your home “gallery” wall.
A “one of a kind” artshop for the stamper who loves
to create big stamp art! This art shop is pure stamping drama!!
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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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