A Mushroom Family! NEW! Online Class Nov 10

A Mushroom Family! NEW! Online Class
Sunday, Nov 10, 10-1pm MT
Instructor: Jone Hallmark
Limit: 15 students. Includes class kit + shipping
To receive your kit in time for the class, register by Nov 3. All participants must be 15 years or older.

Class Details

The tiny world of Santa Fe artist Jone Hallmark is populated with the most amazing collection of mushrooms! Tending to a small “garden” of them is this adorable mushroom family – two parents and their wee moppet. The three of them make a sweet tableau. Join Jone to create a little mushroom family from wooden peg dolls and pieces of this and that, and to make some mushrooms for their garden. This class is a great exercise in putting together little scenes and painting the patterns that are characteristic of Jone’s work. (Our favorite “flower” is a small mushroom growing out of a vintage wooden spool.)

Jone starts the class with some exercises so that you can warm up your hand and practice how to vary the stroke of the paint brush for different effects. The items for the mushroom family and their garden are painted in acrylic paint with simple lines and dots. The designs are easy to learn, even if you’ve never held a brush before. Jone demonstrates how to create tone on tone patterns and layer colors on top of each other. Follow the patterns from the little booklet Jone’s drawn for the class or enjoy making up your own. Then paint, paint, paint!

Once you’ve finished painting, assemble all the pieces and set your mushroom family and their garden on a little platform. Poof! You’ll think you’ve been transported to the fabled woods of fairy tales! Come spend some time with Jone in her little wonderland. It’s a delightful place.

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:

• Jone uses Deco Art Americana, which comes in small plastic bottles, but other acrylic paints are fine. The brand Folk Art is comparable in price. Following is a list of the specific Deco Art Americana colors she used for this project. Feel free to substitute other colors.
  • Santa Red (true red)
  • Light Buttermilk (off white)
  • Hauser Light Green (spring green)
  • Hauser Medium Green (basic green)
  • Hauser Dark Green (evergreen or forest green color)
  • Warm Beige, Milk Chocolate etc (beige/brown any skin tone)
  • Dark Chocolate (dark brown)
  • Burnt Sienna (reddish brown)
• Scissors for fine cutting
• Jar for water (paint brushes provided in the kit.)
• Paper for practicing brush strokes and the designs. Good weight copy paper is fine.
• Optional: Mod Podge to overlay your designs with a protective coat. Jone uses the matte finish.
• Optional: apron

Class Kit Includes:

• Jone’s signature booklet of charming designs and instructions
• Peg dolls, forms, vintage wooden spool, oval base, etc
  
• Set of acrylic paint brushes
  
• White craft glue
  
• Additional small items for the mushrooms and other accessories
  

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.