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Marbling For Everyone

Marbling For Everyone

Hampton Deck
Sunday, January 26, 2025 (This Class is Full to be added to waitlist email: info@artsbenicia.org)
1:00 pm – 6:00 pm

$140 non-members/$125 members
$30 materials fee paid directly to the instructor

Location: Arts Benicia Annex, 991 Tyler St, #116, Benicia

Level: Beginners
Age minimum:  18+
Minimum 6 | Maximum 10

Class description: Learn about the ancient technique of marbled paper and create your own sheets of marbled paper to take home. Each student will have their own marbling tray, set of acrylic paints, nails, rakes, and combs for use during the workshop. The instructor Hampton Deck will share classic paint patterns and alternate between demonstrating and helping students as they (learn to) do it themselves. You will produce many beautiful marbled papers for your own pleasure & use! Midway through the day
Hampton will show a Powerpoint presentation on the history and variety of marbling. ​

SPECIAL NOTES:
Please bring a bag lunch, snacks and something to drink. 5 hours is a long time and you may need a break.​

Materials: All materials will be provided by the instructor: the marbling trays, the size, the paints, the tools, paper pre-treated with mordant, a draining board, a drying rack, etc.

Use the arrow in the box below to choose the appropriate member or non-member tuition rate.

ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR

Hampton Deck “discovered” marbled paper in Florence, Italy, in the summer of 1986. He was so smitten by its beauty, he vowed to himself that one day he would learn to make it. Twenty-nine years later he fulfilled that vow by learning from world-renowned marbler, Pamela Smith in Abiquiu, New Mexico. He has been marbling ever since in the marbling studio he built in his garage. He loves to introduce this amazing and addictive art process to others. He covers datebooks, journals, blank books and the like with his marbled paper. He grew up in the Southern United States, studied engineering in college, moved to the San Francisco Bay Area in 1988 and has just retired from being a Presbyterian minister for the past 35+ years. Right after retiring he and his wife travelled to Italy to visit the shop where he “discovered” marbled paper! He is married and has 4 grown children. He loves to tell stories, practice spirituality, backpack in Yosemite in the summer, ride his bike, take long walks and marble paper!

Instructor email: hampdeck@aol.com
Instructor website: www.firstpresvallejo.org

UPCOMING ADULT CLASSES/WORKSHOPS

  • Abstract Forms in Monoprinting
  • Abstracts in Mixed Media with Acrylics
  • Accordion Fold Book Workshop
  • Advanced Woodblock Printing Techniques
  • Beginning Watercolor
  • Beyond Frames: Presenting Prints
  • Bold Abstraction and Play
  • Coaster Madness
  • Cyanotype Printing
  • Encaustic Painting Workshop
  • Experimental Fiber Sculptures
  • Figure Drawing Sessions
  • Hand Bound Cloth Case Book
  • Indigo with Shibori
  • Introduction to Pastel Painting
  • Introduction to Wood Engraving
  • Marbling For Everyone
  • Paste Papers
  • Printmaker’s Workshop
  • Printmaking Playground is Back!
  • R&F Pigment Stick Gelli Prints
  • Small Works: Abstract Collage & Mixed Media Workshop
  • Small Works: Abstract Collage & Mixed Media Workshop
  • Solarplate Printmaking: Focus on Intaglio Printing
  • Solarplate Printmaking: Focus on Relief Printing
  • Suminagashi: Floating Ink Prints
  • Surrealism and Translucency in Collage

VISIT ARTS BENICIA:

Physical Location:

Arts Benicia
Commanding Officer’s Quarters
1 Commandant’s Lane
Benicia, CA 94510

The Arts Benicia Annex (for printmaking classes) is located at
991 Tyler Street, Ste. 116
Benicia, CA 94510

Directions to Arts Benicia at the Commanding Officer’s Quarters

Mailing address:

Arts Benicia, Inc.
P.O. Box 545
290 East L Street  Benicia, CA 94510-0545

CALL US: 707 747-0131
EMAIL: info@artsbenicia.org

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