Anne Grgich | Workshops | The Opulent Goddess

Opulent (OP-U-LENT) —
1. Possessing or exhibiting great wealth; affluent.
2. Characterized by rich abundance; luxuriant.

Join Anne Grgich on a mixed media journey to create a sparkling lavish tactile fitted looking golden book. Build a mosaic-like jeweled fortress to hold your ultimate personal icons. This beautiful inlaid book structure is built in a day or 2 day workshops depending on how lavish and swift you want the book completed. Inspire your Goddess to shine in all its charm, make up your own stories in a book to honor the spiritual and delightful beauty and feminine fortune that lies with in you.

Anne Grgich will share her ongoing creative process with you in a generous, spirit-lifting day of creative Goddess play. This is a class for all levels. Build a scrumptious book full of portraits of beauties and princesses, queens and matron gods. The main emphasis will be on creating a powerful personal book and learn new methods of simplistic luscious construction a fun creative girlie intensive for ladies. In this class you can return to your inner Princess, bring on the Queen and make an elaborate precious book.

Ideas to enhance the class project:
Judkins "Amazing Glaze" and a heat gun, Super Sculpty, Gold Leaf, Wax, Extra Super Glue Wire, Lace, Velvet Fabrics, (paper from) Patterned Wall Paper Books, poems. Beads, marbles, costume thrift-store bags of costume jewelry, cups of fake pearls, rhinestones, shiny thingies, old dangly earrings, small dolls, cameos, clear glass marbles (flat on one side) ivory buttons and waxed linen, ephemeral, lettering, special stamps, stickers, sea shells. Opulent fabric scraps, gold, lace, velvet small pieces of brocade or ribbon, if have on hand needlepoint square, or heavy fabric for binding, and any kind of miniature bauble, knick knacks, or beautiful-expendable do-dads-and recycle transformative debris...

Per Day Fee (per student): on request
Kit/Materials/Travel/Lodging (teacher fee): on request
Min/Max # of Students: 4-10 1-2 days
Class Length: 6 hours per day (extra time if allowed)

Items to bring for Opulent Goddess:

Lightweight Matching thriftstore, (plastic or Wood) Gold Frames. If you can't find matching ones you can contact Anne for ideas.
Scissors/Exacto Knife/Hole Punch
Gorrilla Glue, Wood glue/Hard as nails/Super Glue/Airplane Model Glue (any 2)
Acrylic paints- (a small set) acrylic paints brushes and paint pens
Clear Glass Glitter/Angel Dust-Glitter, 1.50 cups clear glass mosaics, and/or a colored glass mosaic pieces
Gobs of baubles, used jewelry to embellish covers
Photo of your lovely Goddess self, 5-8 colored luscious woman prints to fit in the book.
Old master queens and dainty girls, pictures of frumpy, frilly women's dresses or doll books or or collage of any Goddesses of your desire
Goddess inspired collage materials, poems, miniature goddesses or dolls to create hybrid goddess queens, bows, ribbons, favorite pretty little things

Instructor will provide:

A range of materials for use in books, wires, wax crock pot, holes punch, sand paper, self leveling gel, ribbon, lace, pretty papers, matte board, opalesant paint, gold leaf, and a free box of broken tid-bits and baubles to pick from will be available.