AuSable Artisan Village

A TWO Day Summer Camp Class - Tuesday, June 24 and Wednesday, June 25   

10:00am-12:00pm (Four hours total)

Open to ages 11-16

Monsters can be found lurking in the shadows and creeping into our dreams! Everyone’s idea of a monster is different and can be anything from a cryptid to a feral chicken or annoying sibling! So why not release the bones of your creature in a story of your own making?

How can you capture your MONSTERS! Snare them into a article in a zine! What is a zine? A small DIY collectable, tradeable magazine that captures your own experience! Zines are a popular way of exchanging ideas and literature on your life!

Create two different format styles of stories in this class with artist and author/illustrator Lori Taylor and print one finished copy to share. Learn composition, layout, and drawing skills.

Day 1: Make the standard digest ½ page stapled zine. Create characters by drawing and inking to be cut-out and collaged on mixed media paper. Paint a background with tempera paint, monoprint, and stamp as a stage for your creatures.

Day 2: Learn to fold a ¼ page zine into an eight-page non-stapled format. Tell your story in pictures. Add a monoprint, stamp or make a transfer over pages to set the stage for your beastly monsters. Write text with a black art pen, draw your creature or transfer your sketch! Add final creative finishing touches and your zine is ready to be copied, printed, and shared with friends!

Lori will supply: bleeding tissue paper, tempera sticks, Canon scanner/printer, circle punching tools, stamps, stencils and craft scissors.

Other Supplies that will be available to share, but feel free to bring your favorite pens and equipment!

8.5 x 11” card stock or mixed media paper, pencil, black fine line art pens, Versachalk white or Posca pen white pen, brushes for glue, PVA glue, colored pencils, tissue paper, black Stazon permanent ink pads, old magazines to tear for fonts/words, scissors  

Class Length: 10:00 - 12:00 pm (2 hours)

Tuesday, June 24 AND  Wednesday, June 25

*Maximum Size: 15 students 

*If we get a wait list, this class will be repeated at 2:00 – 4:00 pm on Tuesday and Wednesday, June 24 & 25th

June 24-25 

10:00-12:00

Max 15

Use the PROMO CODE sent to Grayling students by the school to reduce the cost.  Enter it on the final payment page in the upper right.  Contact the school or the Artisan Village Gallery.

Full refunds if AAV cancels the class. Refunds minus the processing fees up to seven days before class begins. No refunds after that time.

AAV is handicapped accessible.

AAV takes precautions to provide a safe environment and our instructors are educated in providing options for individual limitations.

Please make your own individual decisions regarding health precautions.