Discover Creative Expression through Collage and Monotype with Diane Brinker

It's Winter - time to come inside and Play!

Want to think outside the box? Maybe you're an artist who needs loosening up, or maybe you want to discover something new. Either way this 2 day session at the Museum will give you a new appreciation for your creative self! Diane is well-known for her enthusiasm in making novices feel comfortable while giving fellow artists the encouragement to try something new. The session begins the basics of Monotype including some printing tricks, but the focus is on creative experiment, using everything from cemetery rubbings (a local field trip weather permitting), primitive self portraits, and design elements of all kinds. Come learn how Monotype and Collage can stimulate and transform your approach. You'll go away with new parameters regarding creativity, revived old discarded works, intriguing self portraits or simply some captivating Valentines, but you will be stimulated and have new ideas to go play' with.

Diane Brinker spent 30 years designing and leading workshops in San Francisco and the Napa Valley, and in 2009 brought her creative measures full time to the Cape. As primarily a printmaker and experimenter, she brings to her workshops an energy and freshness Her classes are known for the passion and enthusiasm she shows for artists of all ages and abilities. A staunch arts advocate and organizer, she has served as appointee on the Napa Mayor's Round Table for the Arts, as well as chaired the Napa Valley Arts and Culture Alliance. On Cape, she has taught classes at the Chatham Fine Arts Center, The Cultural Center of Cape Cod, and provided Artist Studio workshops for PAAM. Educated at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio with a degree in Marketing (Art minor), her design creations and products have been widely marketed to the National Parks in the US and Canada since1984. Commissioned memoir pieces, photography, and abstract painting experiments round out her playful and successful approach to art. www.dianebrinker.com

One student wrote, Diane is an excellent teacher, really helped me to learn the medium, very inspiring!! She was wonderful - very well versed and generous and supportive. I learned a lot about possibilities of the medium. She taught me to play and explore, not get caught up in trying for a specific effect, like perfection. Creative spirit - helped me with process but allowed me to use my own ideas and compositions."