KC Willis Studio Retreats

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KC On The Road 2011


 Great workshops in 2011!


This will be my last year traveling and teaching art based on my Lipstick Ranch signature style...so please join me in one of these great classes.

If you have 45 seconds check this out....http://blip.tv/file/1994328




Taylor, TX ...Clark Mansion   December 10th

San Jose, CA...October 27th

Ocala, Florida  to be announced

Scottsdale, AZ, November 5th  2 spots left

Sedona, AZ November 7th   SOLD OUT

San Angelo, TX  December 3   1 spot left

Taylor, TX  December 10   Details soon

 


Can't make it to a workshop in person? Three of my most popular classes are available on DVD and on-line (kits available too) at www.collagecamp.ning.com.

 



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"Mixed Media Book Workshop...San Jose Style"
Thursday, October 27th, 2011

A Work of Heart
2196 Lincoln Ave
San Jose, CA 95125-3542
(408) 266-1005
10-5

 

 

Yes...I do know the way to San Jose.  After such a wonderful time at Collage Camp here last month, I couldn't wait to get back to this great place and see my new friends again...this time for a book class!

In this full day workshop we will create a multi-page mixed media book pretty much from scratch. Yes! in one day! Using coffee-stained canvas, new and vintage fabrics, papers and textured collages you will make a book to hold in your hands and tell a story from your heart.

With images of family, a beloved pet, your favorite flowers...whatever....let me show you how I make the books that I love. Here's a cover of one of my favorites.....



And then letting the images speak to us....we will learn to listen. From this will come our journaling, letters or quotes.



Workshop fee....$180 due when you reserve your spot.
$60 materials fee due at class (Wait until you see all the fabrics and papers needed to make this book!) They come coffee-stained for you and ready to go!

 

 

$180

If you can't make a class in person check out the Main Page here for on-line and DVD class info.

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Free Form Fabric in Fabulous Tucson

Wednesday, November 2, 2011

10-4  This class will be held in a private studio in north Tucson.

 

Whether your style is western (the sample above was done by Renee Troy in an LA workshop), victorian or something in between....you will have a great time in this one day class aimed at showing you how to make a piece of art look worn and wonderful with my special aging techniques. You will also learn how to throw rules out the window and create a great piece with your favorite photo and creative layering of fabric scraps. You will leave with a completed piece.  Almost everything needed for the workshop is included in the $40 materials fee...so no hunting down a long list of stuff. You get to pick through my new and vintage fabrics and trims. :-)

 

Limited to only 6 so don't delay in claiming your spot.

 

$125

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Mixed Media Fabric Collage Book

Scottsdale, AZ Saturday, November 5, 2011

9:30-5 This class will be held in a private studio. Address upon registration.

ONLY 2 SPACES LEFT!

n this full day workshop we will create a multi-page mixed media book pretty much from scratch. Yes! in one day! Using coffee-stained canvas, new and vintage fabrics, papers and textured collages you will make a book to hold in your hands and tell a story from your heart.

With images of family, a beloved pet, your favorite flowers...whatever....let me show you how I make the books that I love. Here's a cover of one of my favorites.....



And then letting the images speak to us....we will learn to listen. From this will come our journaling, letters or quotes.



Workshop fee....$160 due when you reserve your spot.
$60 materials fee due at class (Wait until you see all the fabrics and papers needed to make this book!) They come coffee-stained for you and ready to go!

 

Hi All...IMPORTANT NOTICE! The Paypal Buttons for this class do not appear to be working for some reason...no matter what I do. If you are trying to register for a class and it is still not working, contact me at lipstickranch@yahoo.com to use a credit card or go into your Paypal and do a "Send Money" for this class amount to my e-mail address above. Sorry for the hassle. Never had this happen before.

 

$160

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Shrine On in Sedona!


A one day Altars and Shrine Workshop

Monday, November 7, 2011  SOLD OUT


This class is at a private home set against the red rocks of beautiful Sedona, AZ

Limited to 6In this class you will learn the fabric collage techniques that are the signature style of my work and we will use them to transform and old drawer or cool box. Photo transfer techniques and new ways of looking at old things will be part of the class highlights. Paint techniques to age wood will also be taught. Fun for sure!!! Any favorite image will work!

$125 class fee and $50 materials fee due the day of class. A selection of altar boxes and all other materials will be there for you.

This class is Sold Out

$125

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Saturday, December 10, 2011...a very special one day seminar in Taylor, Texas at this beautiful, historic mansion...."The Art of The Covenant...How to live a Creative, Christ-Centered Life."

 




This one-day faith-based Seminar in intended to change your artistic life, by moving you forward into the well-lived life that Christ died for you to have. Practical and powerful ammunition based on a life in The Word. I will show you how to look at this differently than you ever have...while embracing all you are as an artist. Get ready to take your art and your walk with The Lord to a whole new level while creating a prayer and blessings journal.

Class is limited to 10.

 

$185...lunch and supplies included.

.IMPORTANT NOTICE! The Paypal Buttons for this class do not appear to be working for some reason...no matter what I do. If you are trying to register for a class and it is still not working, contact me at lipstickranch@yahoo.com to use a credit card or go into your Paypal and do a "Send Money" for this class amount to my e-mail address above. Sorry for the hassle.

 


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Free-Form Fabric in Florida...Finally!
Date to be set for Fall 2011
Ocala, Florida

I have been hoping to book a workshop in central Florida for quite some time. And believe me....it was worth the wait. Join me as we spend two art-filled days smack-dab in the middle of one of the most beautiful horse farms in the southeast. (The last Triple Crown winner came from this farm).
Note: Horses on this amazing property are there for us to admire...not ride.


In a class that is limited to 8, we will have plenty of room to spread out both in the beautiful home where the workshop will be held and outside as we spend time together talking art and life. As a Colorado girl....I am looking forward to a few days in the warmth and beauty of this central Florida location in winter.

In this two-day workshop we will create several pieces of art using your favorite photographs. You will learn how to make a textured and "aged" piece of art and learn the techniques to not "over-think." Free Form fabric at its finest! You will leave with at least 2 pieces completed and enough motivation and inspiration to last you a long, long time. Jill Haglund of Tweety Jill Publications will be joining us and will have some of her amazing art books there just for us.



Workshop cost....$258
All you bring is scissors and glue and a few personal embellishments. Bring several favorite photos on a thumb drive or e-mail them to me.
I will bring tons of my favorite coffee-stained fabrics, trims, laces and handmade papers for you to dig through!
$40 materials fee due at class.

IMPORTANT NOTICE! The Paypal Buttons on this section do not appear to be working for some reason. I have contacted NING. If you are trying to register for a class and it is still not working, contact me at lipstickranch@yahoo.com or go into Paypal and do a Send Money for your class amount to that e-mail address. Sorry for the hassle. Never had this happen before. KC 4/2/11
 
Two day Ocala Workshop....$258
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Clumpies Are Here!!!

Now if you have never taken one of my on-line or in-person classes...you won't know what the heck this is. If you have...for the first time ever I am selling clumpies and you are very happy, aren't you? :-)

 

For a limited time (because clumpie production is limited) you can purchase a bag of the famous embellishment without having to buy canvas, tear canvas, wash canvas, (cross your fingers that you get clumpies to begin with) cut apart clumpies from canvas, coffeestain clumpies, dry clumpies...you get the picture.

 

Your bag of clumpies will contain enough to do plenty of collages. (Estimated to be 30-40 if you use sparingly like we do in class.) And considering all that we have to do to in order to  "harvest" these for you...and all you won't have to buy and do to get these...$40 with free shipping is a deal. 

Use the Paypal button below to order one bag at a time. Use again and again to order subsequent bags.

 

Clumpies will be on their way to you before you can e-mail me and tell me how excited you are. :-)

 

$40 per bag





 

 

And another thing I have never done before is sell fabric straight from my studio (outside of prepared kits) and ready to use. If it needed coffeestaining...its coffeestained. Some will be new, some will be vintage...all will be handpicked and put together by yours truly.

All the Fabric Finds will contain at least 20 pieces of fabric, a piece of lace or crochet and a piece of our Lipstick Ranch handmade fringe. This red stash is a beauty, but you can select the color theme you want by simply adding a message on your Paypal payment or e-mailing me at lipstickranch@yahoo.com.

Shipping is free. Buy two of these Fabric Finds collections and get a bag of clumpies for free!

 

Be sure and check out all the kits on the front page of Collage Camp.  They are Buy One Get One Free for the moment.

 

Fabric Find Collection

$68





KC WILLIS ART KITS

NEW!!!!

The Women-The Flag....

THE KIT!

 

Also available: Flag Instructions PDF without the materials kit!


"The Women-The Flag" is probably the only piece I make that more or less has a formula to it's concept and construction, instead of a creative free-for-all. :-) With detailed and easy to read written instructions and photos of the process...this project is a perfect candidate for a kit with a short how-to-booklet. AND...you can e-me any time you have a questions.

 

So instead of a video....and for those who can't get to the state the in-person flag classes will be taught...here's the kit and the instructions.

 

The flag is a large piece approx 32"x50"... the size of a flag! The first one of these I ever made is in the permanent collection of the Cowgirl Museum in Ft. Worth. Instead of 50 stars I have 50 images of amazing western women. The kit will come with these 50 women or I am offering a version without my images so you can select and do your own. (This version will have the transfer paper to print your own images.)

 

I make and sell about 20 of these a year for customers and they retail for $500-$600 dollars. In this kit you will have everything you need to make your flag, including great instructions and a "hotline" to me.  Ok...so it's my personal e-mail address...but still...

 

The Flag Kit Complete Version includes:

 

32x50 canvas main-piece of canvas.

 

An assortment of new and vintage cream fabrics for collaged stripes on flag

 

Plenty of coffee-stained red ticking for stripes

 

Coffeestained blue ticking for behind the images

 

60 images (so you have a choice) of a western and pioneer women from all walks of life (some known and some unknown). These images are already transferred onto canvas for you.

 

Coffee stained heavier canvas to use for quotes on your flag if you decide to do that.

 

Everything you need to make this amazing piece yourself and the step-by-step instructions.  Cost: $155

($120 if you don't want my printed images, but want to do your own). The instructions cover that, as well.

 

And to celebrate the launching of The Flag as Kit....all the other kits that I offer will be buy one get one free through October 15th. Sweet deal. Sweet flag. Make it. Hang it. Salute your skill!

 

Complete Flag Kit...$155

 

Flag kit without images...$120

If you ever have trouble with the Paypal buttons just e-me at lipstickranch@yahoo.com.

 

NEW! 18 page Instructional Booklet with how-to pictures on PDF. E-mailed to you within 24 hours of purchase....and you're ready to go!

 

Only $68

 

 

The Following kits are Buy one Get one free through October 15th..

There's more to making pieces that are based on my fabric collage style than meets the eye. Many workshop go-ers have said they would love to make another one or two, but didn't want to spend the bucks collecting all the supplies in yardage or full sheets of the handmade papers, or go thru the hassle of coffee-staining. I hear ya! Took me a year....but I hear ya! :-) I have sold fabric and doo-dad "bits" from my studio before, but never the actual complete kit to make a piece.

COLLAGE CAMP KIT
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Comes with...
• 12x18 piece of coffee-stained canvas for your main piece
• Assorted fabrics in your choice of color themes (blue, rose/red, creams on creams, greens or browns and creams.
• Coffee stained canvas to apply your photo transfer.
• 2 pieces of photo transfer paper
• Bird's Nest paper, Alpaca String paper and/or Cardboard
(In the end your photo will be applied to fabric and then to paper and will look like the one shown as an example in the picture. Does not come with this picture. You will use your own.)
• A piece of heavy coffee-stained canvas for your quote.
• Clumpies! Everybody loves clumpies.
• A ready-made Collage by KC as an example or as muse.
•All of this is wrapped in a big piece of coffee-stained ticking tied with trim.
• You will add your own fabrics to the mix if you want, as well as your own personal embellishments.

NOTE: You can use the transfer paper to print and transfer your own images, but if you do not have the ability to that contact me at lipstickranch@yahoo.com for info on how your specific photo can be sent to me and included in your kit already photo-transferred.

Collage Camp Kit...$62




Collage Camp Kit with Workshop DVD $86



NOTE: You can use the transfer paper to print and transfer your own images, but if you do not have the ability to that contact me at lipstickranch@yahoo.com for info on how your specific photos can be sent to me and included in your kit already photo-transferred.





MIXED MEDIA COLLAGE BOOK KIT...

This one really takes the supplies and some folks just don't want to deal with that...but you want to make a book...right? So here's the kit that will let you do that.


This kit comes with:
• An already sewn together 6-page heavy- canvas, coffee-stained book...I even burned the edges for you!
•An assortment of Sassy Scraps...8"x10" collage pieces...ready to further collage if you want or apply your picture and get going.

• 6 pieces of transfer paper with the light-weight canvas to apply it to.
• An assortment of handmade papers already coffee-stained, for your collages and for the cover.
• Clumpies!
• Heavy-weight coffee-stained canvas for your quotes.
• A ready-made Collage by KC as an example or as muse.


MIXED MEDIA COLLAGE BOOK KIT...$90






BOOK KIT WITH COLLAGE CAMP AND BOOK CLASS DVD (Collage Camp is a pre-requisite for the Book Class) $135









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