Visual Journaling - A Return to the Analog World NEW! In-Store Class
Saturday, November 16, 11:30am-4:30pm
Instructor: Fran Meneley
Limit: 6 students. All participants must be 15 years or older.

Class Details

"Life Is Short And The World Is Large" - Oliver Jeffers

In this digital age of screens and scrolling, visual journaling can be a wonderful place of respite and contemplation. Fran Meneley’s class illustrates how enriching and soul-satisfying a return to the analog world of visual journaling can be. She’s an explorer, collagist, painter, maker, teacher, and workshop facilitator who’s been journaling on the road and in her studio for over twenty years. Join Fran to learn how to make a cleverly folded, 16-page journal using a single 22x30” sheet of art paper.

Fran is known for putting together great packages for all her classes. For this one she also brings in a bin of delightful collage ephemera to share. So that you can immediately start filling your new journal, she demonstrates a wide range of simple techniques she finds most useful. For example, she shows how to create imaginative collages and – a game changer – how to make tape transfers from printed images. In addition, she demonstrates how to make basic sketches and how to use a grid to lay out a page. She covers a lot in a single class! Time passes in a flash as you apply her techniques to the blank pages of your folded journal.

Leave at the end of class having begun your journal and with detailed instructions for making another one. More importantly, benefit from Fran’s experience incorporating a journaling practice into daily life. She essentially gifts you with a road map for shaping your journey through this big, wide world.

An email will be sent to participants the Monday before the class. Classes with homework may receive pre-class info earlier. 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 class questions and see our Class Policies page for more information.

Class Materials

Please bring the following materials:

Three favorite magazines to cut up and use for collage
Optional: favorite ephemera and images
Optional: favorite scissors for fine cutting
Optional: apron
Optional: Water bottle and something to eat during the short lunch break.

Class Materials Include:

Fine art paper for journal pages
Acrylic paint and application tools
Pens, pencils, and markers
Ephemera, adhesive, scissors, and other creative tools/supplies

Class Refund/Cancellation Policy

Cancellations made up to 14 days prior to the first class meeting will be refunded or, at the participant's option, used to pay for another class. Two Hands Paperie will retain a $10 processing fee for EACH class cancelled by a participant. After 14 days, there is no refund or credit. In addition, the fee for a class cancelled within this 14-day timeframe by a participant cannot be transferred to pay for another class. These policies are to ensure that teachers are compensated for their investment in materials and in time spent preparing for the class. We reserve the right to cancel a class if fewer than 3 students enroll 48 hours prior to the scheduled class time. If for any reason Two Hands Paperie cancels a class, students will be called at the phone number on file and refunded the FULL class fee.

Instructor Bio

Fran Meneley is an explorer, journaler, painter, maker, teacher, and workshop facilitator for the Taos Studio Retreat in New Mexico. For 23 years she’s been journaling, writing, collaging, and painting in her studio and on the road. She loves to cook and eat (not in that order), travel and explore (always, anywhere), garden sporadically (and in small containers), museum hop, blog (exploring life, travel, and art – the good stuff), dance (with or without a partner), teach art (big and small humans), and scavenge and collect. Fran is inspired by the intricacies and divine beauty of nature, and is a lifelong learner and experimenter. In a former life she was Associate Publisher of a nationally circulated environmental magazine called Buzzworm.

You can find Fran’s work in 1,000 Artist Journal Pages by Dawn DeVries Sokol, Beaded Embellishment by Amy Clarke, 500 Beaded Objects by Lark Books, and The Brooklyn Art Library’s Sketchbook Project. She’s also in issues of the following magazines: Studios, Beadwork, and Cloth, Paper, Scissors. To read an interview on the Two Hands Paperie blog about Fran’s creative process and teaching, click HERE. Also visit Fran’s website: franmeneley.com and find her on Instagram: @athandstudio.

Fran lives in Boulder, Colorado, with her husband. She delights in the fact that her grown, adventurous children visit often!

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