Classes

The Artful Holiday - Starts on August 1st.

I’m so excited to be a guest teacher for the #ArtfulHolidayClass!  I created a step-by-step video tutorial for you, sharing exactly how to make Turkish Map Fold Ornaments.  I hope you will join me and eighteen other talented artists for more than thirty handmade art projects to display in your home, give to your friends, and celebrate special days.  The Artful Holiday Class includes printmaking, collage, assemblage, painting, paper crafts, jewelry making, sewing, and more. 

PS: You have lifetime access to class, so watch and learn at your own pace!

Collagraph: Printing Without a Press

Collagraphy is a printmaking process in which textured materials are collaged onto a rigid printing plate. When ink is applied to various textures, you'll see an array of interesting tones and shapes on your prints. You can make your own collagraphs out of items you find around the house. Book artist and printmaker Sarah Matthews shows you how to make different plates using cardboard, hot glue, craft foam, and string. Then you'll learn Sarah's monoprinting technique with a brayer and Gelli plate to create beautiful prints and unique papers with your handmade stamps. This class is great for beginners and kids, and you'll start looking at everything in your house as potential material for future collagraphs.

Design! Carve! Print! Make a Custom Stamp from iPad to Paper

If you've ever hesitated to try making a custom stamp due to any insecurities about your drawing skills, this is the class for you. Printmaker and book artist Sarah Matthews shows you her method of easily turning any photo into a sketch with Procreate on the iPad. You'll then learn how to transfer that sketch to a carving block, carve out your stamp, and print. To create stamped art with sections of different colors, Sarah will also teach you how to print in layers. With all the skills that Sarah shares here, the only limit to your custom stamp art is your imagination.

Carve & Print: Words and Expressions

Known for her vibrant use of color and joyful, expressive printmaking, artist Sarah Matthews often uses words in her work. In this class she demonstrates how to use your own handwriting as well as tracing and transferring found text for making your own custom stamps. Sarah demonstrates how these techniques can be used to create wrapping paper, gift bags, and gift boxes. If you can carve words, you can carve anything. This class is fabulous for someone who's never carved before - if you're going to start somewhere, start with words.

Three Ways to Stitch a Pamphlet Book

The pamphlet is a deceptively simple bookbinding structure that’s easy to transform into something fabulous. Printmaker and book artist Sarah Matthews demonstrates three ways to bind a basic pamphlet book: a seven-hole pamphlet stitch, the link stitch, and her favorite - the dot dash stitch. Use these approachable techniques to make books, journals, zines, and more, and play with specialized tools like the bone folder, a Japanese screw punch, and waxed linen thread.

Stamps! Prints! Books! - A Daily Practice

Artist, printmaker, and educator Sarah Matthews demonstrates her vibrant signature style of layering stamps to create graphic prints. Throughout each week of this daily practice, you’ll design, carve, and print your own stamps. Then, you’ll bind the resulting prints into four different book structures. The month is rounded out with additional techniques that you can use in any book art project. Sarah’s playful, low-pressure style and dynamic approach to color creates deceptively complex designs that radiate energy.

CREATIVE JUMPSTART 2022

Creative JumpStart was created by Nathalie Kalbach for hobbyists and artists alike to learn from the best of the best, and take action to build a creative habit. The workshop is delivered over four weeks via 38 pre-recorded lessons and interactive sessions (think live webinars and a private forum just for CJS students & instructors to connect), where you get the chance to ask questions, get hands-on help, and seek support the community directly. Ready to build your creative habit?

Carve December: 31 Tips, Tricks, & Ideas for Carving, Printing, & Designing Custom Stamps

I'm so pleased to share that I am part of an extraordinary block printing course, “Carve December: 31 Tips, Tricks, and Ideas for Carving, Printing, and DesigningCustom Stamps.” There are eleven instructors from across the globe and every single one of them has participated in #CarveDecember in previous years. If you don’t know about #CarveDecember, it’s an annual challenge to carve and print a stamp every single day in December. There are 31 video lessons in"Carve December: 31 Tips, Tricks, & Ideas for Carving, Printing,& Designing Stamps." And just like the title of the course says, each video lesson delivers a tip, trick, or idea for you to implement in your own stamp carving/block printing process. There are tips, tricks, and techniques in this course for beginners and experienced carvers. Once you purchase the course, you have lifetime access. So do a lesson a day, or spread them out over the next five years. You can do this course in the timeline that works for you and revisit your favorite lessons whenever you need to brush up on the technique or idea.