Stacy Milrany: The Art of the Personal

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Thank you for signing up for Stacy Milrany’s new class, The Art of the Personal! We hope you enjoy this fun class, where you will make mixed-media pieces that are based on personal things and events in your lives with a chaos-to-order process that is both fun and serious, just like Stacy’s fine art work.

Lessons are pre-recorded and will be available on the following schedule:

Lesson “0” – Immediately Upon Signup

Lesson 1 – Tuesday, Sept 17
Lesson 2 – Wednesday, Sept 18
Lesson 3 – Friday, Sept 20

Lesson 4 – Tuesday, Sept 24
Lesson 5 – Thursday, Sept 26

Class Dates: September 17-26, 2024. You will receive an email on the Friday before class begins with the class forum links.

Your “pre-class assignment” is just below. So gather your supplies, begin your daily practice, and we’ll see you soon!

Carla and Stacy

Lesson “0” – Daily Observations
Pre-Assignment: Daily Observations —Each day, write down or paint a (loose) page of your observations from the day before (or at the end of your day); anything that made an impression on you that day. It might help to consider the 5 senses — see/ hear/ taste/feel/ smell. We’ll be continuing to make these notes every day of the workshop and you’ll want at least one page prior to Lesson 1. Here is the video:

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Supply List

This is a mixed media workshop with few rules—including materials. While you be able to use whatever you already have on hand, it’s good to have variety. And since volume will be one of our objectives, I encourage having plenty of inexpensive paper and paints so you feel the freedom to experiment.

Recommended supplies:

  • Various types of paper—inexpensive 9″ x 12″ construction paper, found paper – i.e. envelopes, notecards, watercolor paper, whatever else you’d like to experiment with. I recommend 100 sheets or pieces total for the course, or 20 sheets per lesson.

  • Three 9″ x 12″ hard surface boards for final pieces (example here) and (here) 

  • Charcoal, pastels, chalk

  • Inexpensive watercolor set (drug store, craft store, etc.)

  • Gesso

  • Post-it notes

  • Clear drying glue

  • Any variety of pens, pencils, inks

  • Any variety of paint brushes —consider both smaller and larger than you usually use

  • Any variety of fast drying paints—watercolor, tempura, gouache, liquid acrylic

  • Craft scraper (or expired credit card, or something similar)

  • Tape, scissors, straight edge

  • Any other materials you’d like to experiment with

  • We’ll also be sourcing some everyday objects to use as subject matter and for mark-making. Those are completely up to you and I can’t wait to see what you use!