About

Denise Kester, a talented artist from Ashland, Oregon, will be leading this fun and colorful Paste Paper making class! Participants will be creating designs on 12"x18" drawing paper with acrylic paint in a paste medium using combs, scrapers, rollers, stamps, and brushes.

Paste Papers have many great uses for craft and art projects, such as book making, collage and card making, scrap books, origami, photo display, and much more.

• This session is geared to participants of all skill levels. 
• Feel free to bring a sack lunch and snacks; you can store and reheat food in the building kitchenette.
• A Materials Fee of $20 will be added to the class cost when you register which includes your first large sheet of print paper.

About the Instructor

Denise Kester is a renowned teacher and international artist. Animals, birds, and the natural world fill her life-affirming work with myth and stories. She has been teaching art workshops and classes for 20 years, including monoprinting, collage, mixed media, and book arts.

Denise has presented “Awaken Amplify and Sustain your Inner Artist” with Jean Houston’s Seminars and Women of Wisdom conferences of Seattle Washington. She has been an Artist in Residence at the Horace Mann School of New York. She is a recently featured artist on Oregon Public Broadcasting’s Art Beat, and Hanson Howard Gallery of Ashland, Oregon represents her. Denise's new work and works in process can be seen at her working studio in the Ashland Art Center, which is open daily to the public. Denise also shows locally at Roby King Galleries here on Bainbridge Island.