Robin Bielefeld has given us some great inspiration for Runaway’s Inktober prompts. Runaway team member Kiah helped Christy Wood come up with a fantastic list of prompts. So the idea is to draw or use a stamp to create a card based on the following prompts. Please tag all of your posts #Runawayinktober2019 so we can find you.
Inktober is traditionally a challenge to encourage drawing everyday through October usually with a spooky, Halloween theme. But we are expanding our use of the “ink” to include stamping and coloring. For instance, we use ink to stamp and Copics or other markers to color.
Artwork is drawn by Robin Bielefeld and will also be for the next Kaleidoscope Coloring Club! The pic is for inspiration so don’t think any of the rest of us will be doing drawing like these! 🤣😂😇
Runaway’s Inktober Prompts 2019
Autumn
Hat
Mask
Beverage
Face
Birds
Vintage
Foliage
Mushrooms
Polka Dots
Mice
Stippling
Tape
Ghosts
Buttons
Cat
A Murder
Creature/Monster
Fantasy
Scissors
Creepy
Eye
Witch
Sweet
Bones
Charm
Pumpkin
Hatching/cross-hatching
Nostalgia
Free Draw! (Anything you want)
Edgar and/or Crows
Kiah and Christy will be drawing and we are sure to be be sharing some art from Robin too! The idea is to have fun and try something you have done before.
Runaway is very excited to be hosting yet another nationally known mixed media artist. This time the very talented Seth Apter will be joining us for two workshops on Saturday, Nov. 9, and Sunday, Nov. 10.
Take a look at the descriptions below — “50 Ways” on Saturday is full and has a good-sized waiting list. If “Get Baked” on Sunday looks interesting, though, you may want to check to see if we have a slot open up. Right now it’s full — but there is no waiting list.
50 Ways to Leave Your Layer
Saturday, November 9 from 10 am – 5 pm (with a lunch break) Fee: $110
Okay. Maybe not 50. But a lot. In this workshop, you will be putting your paint playlist on repeat as we go through a series of paint layering techniques that you can apply to all your creative projects. Everybody will be provided with a journal to work in that we will fill up, page after page, with layered backgrounds. Additive and subtractive paint techniques, properties of acrylic paint, mark making, application strategies, and much more will be included. In the end, you will leave with a new journal that you can keep as a technique reference manual or continue to work in to complete your journal pages in your own personal style.
Supply List (available at Runaway): Fluid acrylic paint (both opaque and translucent) Chip brushes (1/2 and 1 inch brushes work well) Flat paint palette Ink Pads (in a variety of colors) Craft sponges Brayer Black and white journaling pens (Signo Uniball are Seth’s favorite) Heat tool (optional – each table will have one embossing gun or heat tool to share between two people) Your current art journal, if you have one (optional)
Seth will provide a journal for each participant, plus a number of mixed media supplies not listed. In addition, he will bring the following to share but you are welcome to bring your own as well: unmounted rubber stamps, stencils, textured material ****************************
Get Baked!
Sunday, Nov. 10, 2019 from 10 am – 5 pm (with a lunch break) Fee: $110
Get Baked! This ain’t your grandma’s embossing powders. Everything old is new again and that refers to art and craft products too. In this full day workshop, we will be bringing embossing powder into the 21 st century. Using my line of embossing powders, we will start by discussing the properties of embossing powders and reviewing traditional uses, such as stamping. Then we turn to the future and work with new ways to use this product.
Examples include faux encaustics, custom blending, and layering. We will also cover alternatives to embossing pads. You will leave with multiple layered, textured, and dimensional artworks.
Supply list (available at Runaway): Fluid acrylic paint (a few of your favorite colors) Ink Pads (assorted colors, any type) Chip brushes (1/2 and 1 inch work well) Paint palette Matte Medium Glue Stick Embossing Pad Heat tool (optional – each table will have one embossing gun or heat tool to share between two people) Craft Sponges Black and White fine tip journaling pens and any other of your favorite mark makers (pens, pencils, markers, paint pens, etc)
Instructor will provide: Embossing Powder Art Panels and/or Paper Collage Material Seth will have washi tape, stencils and unmounted background stamps to share, but feel free to bring your favorites
Mixed media artist Jamie Dougherty will be coming this summer to teach two art journaling classes on August 10th and 11th. Jamie is a talented artist from southern California who has designed for Prima Marketing and is currently working closely with Ranger. Jamie’s art journaling classes are suited for students at any skill level. No drawing skills are required.
For detailed information on her upcoming classes, please check out our class desciptions: In a Dream State and Hide and Seek Journal. Please call us at Runaway to reserve your spot soon–space is limited!
This past weekend was Stamp Out Cancer! This fun event is a fundraiser for the American Cancer Society and sponsored by the “Just Beat It” Relay For Life team. Participants created stunning art and enjoyed their community all day Saturday and Sunday while donating to help stamp out cancer once and for all.
To continue on the spirit of giving, Runaway Art and Craft Studio is so pleased to host four prize drawings to directly benefit the American Cancer Society. From now through Sunday, June 30th, you may purchase tickets at the store at $1 each.
Raffle 1 & 2 are gently used Cricket Machines and cartridge packages as shown in the pictures below and in our window. Each ticket for these raffles are $1 per ticket. Winners will be contacted by phone or email the first week of July.
Raffles 3 & 4 are very special jewelry combinations donated by Tiffany. Details in the store.
Runaway Art & Craft Studio is joining the Salem First Wednesday crowd — come celebrate our downtown, including a special demonstration from 4 pm until 7:00.
And, of course, the store will be open late as well!
Runaway Art & Craft Studio is joining Paper Parachute, Whimzee’s Scrapbook Studio, Main Street Stamp & Stationery, Impressing Ideas, and Paper Craft Addiction (that’s just the list so far — thanks to the folks at Paper Parachute for getting the ball rolling!). We are launching the new Spring Paper Journey, built around the 2019 theme “Let’s Get Cookin'”!
Join us for 2 Weeks of Paper Crafting Fun! Whether you like Scrapbooking, Cardmaking, Art Journaling, Mixed Media, or every one of these Paper inspired crafts, you will find stores that will fit your needs perfectly. Start at your HOME store or any store on the list. Purchase your Traveler’s Notebook and receive a Swag Bag. As you visit each store, they will stamp the appropriate space in your notebook and provide you with a “Let’s Get Cookin'” recipe card for you. They also will provide a Photo Opportunity and a chance at a weekly drawing for a $20 Gift Certificate.
At each store where you spend a minimum of $20.00, you will receive a 20% discount on regular priced merchandise and a 6” x 8” Cookbook page kit designed at that store. Additional kits can be purchased for $3.00.
And here at Runaway you also will receive a 15% off coupon, which can be used for 15% off all regular-priced merchandise (with only limited restrictions) that you purchase on a single day between now and September 1.
Turn in your completed stamped page at the last store you visit for an entry into the Grand Prize Drawing for a $20.00 Gift Certificate from each participating store.
Contact us here at Runaway at 503-881-6270 or at Christy@RunawayArt.com.
We here at Runaway are so excited! We will be the first store where Dina Wakley teaches in 2019 using her new products released in the middle of January.
Dina will be at Runaway on Thursday, Feb. 21, Friday, Feb. 22 and Saturday, Feb. 23, 2019.
You will find out the basic information bout her classes below, with more details on the class descriptions pages. Let us know which classes you’d like to take. If you take all of the classes, Christy will have a goodie bag for you to take home on the first day of class.
Save your spot in class by an e-mail to Christy@RunawayArt.com, by calling us at 503-881-6270, or coming by the store.
We do require prepayments for Dina’s classes. You can come by the store or mail a check to: Runaway Art & Craft Studio 311 Commercial St NE Salem, OR 97301
“IT FIGURES”
Thursday, February 21 — 10 am to 5 pm Fee: $145
Dina’s description: “I love abstract figures, and the best part about them is that they are easy to create and there are lots of fun ways to create them. Join me for this class, where we will explore several methods of creating our figures. Then we’ll incorporate them into finished journal pages and art pieces.”
“THE ART OF RESTRAINT”
Friday, February 22, 2019 — 10 am to 5 pm Fee: $150
Dina’s description: “I always say one thing missing in mixed media is restraint. This class is all about doing less. We’ll focus on the power of line, brushstroke, and color to tell our stories instead of burying them under dozens of layers. Listen, I love layers, but it is good artistic practice to work with a limited palette of supplies. Artistic growth, here we come! This class includes a small 6×6″ journal, in which we’ll work during the class.”
“BEESWAX COLLAGE”
Saturday, February 23, 2019 — 10 am to 1 pm Fee: $75
Dina’s description: “By special request, here’s a reprise of beeswax collage. This process is experimental, fun, and creates such interesting transparent layers that pictures don’t even begin to do them justice. We’ll play with Media Board, pure beeswax, and collage papers and tissues. We’ll add acrylic paint in between layers for interesting effects, and will even scratch into the wax to make marks. You’ll be hooked!”
“THE PAINTED FACE”
Saturday, February 23, 2019 — 2 pm to 5 pm
Fee: $75
Dina’s Description: “No drawing experience required for this face painting class…we are going to use stamped images and collage tissue. Easy peasy! I’ll show you my favorite ways to paint faces, using both acrylics and Scribble Sticks. We’re going for interesting art faces, not traditional and cute. Come with a sense of adventure and ready to play!”
Supply list for all classes.
Basic tool kit: Ranger craft sheet, scissors, baby wipes, paper towels, paper plate or palette paper to use as a palette (or you can just use your craft sheet). You may also want a small notebook and a pen for taking notes.
Your art journal.
We are so fortunate to be the first store! Please join us for three days of amazing teaching and fun!
It’s almost time for Edgar Allan Crow and the Runaway gang to complete the 2108 inventory. If it’s in the store on January 1, we have to count it, so help us out — and get a deal in the bargain!
50% off 12×12 printed paper
40% off all handmade and large printed paper
At least 35% off all stencils (others priced as marked)
30% all Christmas merchandise
30% off all re-inkers
25% off Golden products (including High Flows and Media)
30% off Pan Pastel and Sofft Tools
25% off Prima Art Alchemy Metallic Paints and Mica
25% off Prima Rust Pastes Additional discounts on clearance item as marked
Runaway returns from the Thanksgiving Holiday to celebrate Black Friday and Small Business Saturday with a special Holiday sale! Savings throughout the store – some as much as 70% off! These prices are good through 5 pm Sunday, November 25.
Just take a look at these prices on many of your papercrafting and mixed media art essentials!
50% off Hero Arts Christmas stamps and dies
40% off Hero Ink Pads (excludes Intense Black)
20% off Distress Oxide Ink Pads and Re-Inkers
30% off TCW (The Crafters Workshop) Stencils
35% off Pan Pastels & Pan Pastel Tools
25% off marked price Canvases
20% off marked price Wood Panels
25% off Art Advantage Acrylic Paints
25% off TCW Heavy Body Acrylic Paints
25% off Art Alchemy Impasto Heavy Body Acrylic Paints
25% off Prima Rust Effects Paste
Add’l 25% off Jack Richeson Metallic Watercolors
And check out these sale prices on our Sizzix Die Cutting Machines!
Sizzix Tim Holtz Sidekick Machine just $30!
Sizzix Bigshot Plus Die-Cut Machine just $120!
Sizzix Tim Holtz Vagabond Machine just $140!
And you’ll find other special discounts marked throughout the store – 30%, 40%, 50%, 60% and even 70% off the price marked!
30% Off Marked Price All “Blue Dot” Items
40% Off Marked Price All “Green Dot” Items
50% Off Marked Price All “Red Dot” Items
60% Off Marked Price All “Yellow Dot” Items
70% Off Marked Price All “Orange Dot” Items
All sale prices are limited to stock on hand.
All discounts will be taken off original price unless otherwise indicated.
