La Catrina - and Her Flowered Hat! Online Class Oct 26

La Catrina - And Her Flowered Hat! Online Class
Sunday, October 26, 10-1pm MT
Instructor: Jone Hallmark
Limit: 15 students. Includes class kit + shipping
To receive your kit in time for the class, register by October 19. All participants must be 15 years or older.

Class Details

Dia de los Muertos is an annual, high-spirited Mexican holiday that literally explodes with color! It celebrates the annual return of the spirits of the departed, and is a time for food, drink, lively music, parties, and activities the spirits enjoyed in life. This little character from Santa Fe artist Jone Hallmark is dressed for the occasion. She’s Jone’s interpretation of La Catrina, an iconic symbol of the holiday. Her dress is covered in painted flowers composed of simple lines and dots, which are easy to learn even if you’ve never held a paint brush before. Just follow the examples in the small booklet Jone provides. Catrina’s smiling skull face is even easier. (Jone painted her, so of course she’s smiling!)

Catrina wouldn’t be Catrina without a wildly decorated hat, and Jone’s Catrina has a hat that is covered with miniature flowers. To make them, Jone cleverly combines bits and pieces of this and that, such as scraps of decorative paper, book pages, small millenary items, and deconstructed fake flowers that Jone’s repurposed. (Talk about making a silk purse from a sow’s ear!) She’s delighted to show you her tricks.  

Part of the fun of working with Jone is absorbing her clever techniques and seeing the unusual tools she makes from commonplace objects. Plus, you never know what other whimsical touch she just might dream up during class!

This online class will be recorded and made available to class participants for 14 days after the class.

Class Materials

Please bring the following materials:

• Small pair of scissors for detailed cutting
• Small water jar for painting. Jone includes a set of small paint brushes in the class kit.
• Paper towels or baby wipes
• ModPodge, matte finish

• Acrylic paints. Jone uses Deco Art Americana, which comes in small plastic bottles, but other acrylic paints are fine. The Folk Art brand is comparable in price. You’ll receive a printable PDF with a list of all her favorite colors; following are the Deco Art Americana paints she used for this project. 

  • Light Buttermilk (off white)
  • Santa Red
  • Spiced Pumpkin (light orange)
  • Cadmium Yellow
  • Burnt Sienna (reddish brown)
  • Dark Chocolate (dark brown)
  • Hauser Light Green
  • Hauser Medium Green
  • Blue Harbor (medium blue)
  • Lavender
  • Fuchsia Pop (hot pink)
• Optional: Tweezers 

Class Kit Includes:

• Jone’s signature booklet of charming designs and instructions
• Set of small paint brushes
• Wooden peg doll, other small wooden pieces
• Paper, glue, fine tip pen
• Lots of this and that to decorate Catrina's hat

We ship class kits approximately 2 weeks before the class via USPS Priority Mail. You will receive a tracking number (check your spam folder) once your kit ships. Kits can only be shipped within the USA. If you’re outside the USA and would like to take the class, please contact us for information.

Zoom Info

An email will be sent to participants the Monday before the class. Classes with homework may receive pre-class info earlier.  The email includes class date/time, materials list, pre-class prep, and Zoom link/info. No email? Double check the email address you entered when you registered and your SPAM folder. Due to SPAM filters and inbox settings, we cannot guarantee you will see, read, or open these emails. Two Hands Paperie assumes no responsibility for non-attendance of a class. Contact twohandsclasses@gmail.com with any questions and see our Class Policies page for more information. 

Class Refund/Cancellation Policy - Online Class with Kit

For cancellation made 3 weeks before class we can either issue a refund or apply the funds to another class. We deduct the price of the class kit plus shipping if we’ve already shipped the kit, and we retain a $10 processing fee for EACH class cancelled. If you cancel fewer than 3 weeks before the class there is no refund or credit. If Two Hands Paperie cancels a class, we’ll contact you by email and refund the FULL class fee.

Instructor Bio

Santa Fe artist Jone Hallmark, who says of herself, “I tend to work in a two-inch square!”, has created her own little world of magical delights. Each tiny wonder – from the cleverest fox or hedgehog to a charming parade of flower-bearing young girls – is handcrafted from paper clay, wire, wood, and other tiny bits and pieces. Her sophisticated yet simple designs show the influence of both her father’s Scandinavian heritage and the intricate painted miniatures she collected when living in Switzerland. Her affinity for using small, ordinary objects comes from her mom, also a graphic designer and artist. She taught Jone that you can make just about anything you want instead of going to a store to buy it. Jone’s creative life started on the floor of her father’s studio, where she sat as a child surrounded by brushes, paints, and a treasure of paper.

Her passion for design eventually led to work developing store displays, award-winning lines of decorated papers, and the beloved Bryce and Madeline stickers. One day, after twenty years of licensing her artwork for other people’s products, Jone realized that she needed to get back to basics and simplify. In that moment, her tiny little world was born. Now she spends her time teaching, drawing, painting, and making huge messes on every available flat surface. See her work on Instagram at @jonehallmark.