Two Feathered Friends NEW! Online Class Mar 15

The tiny world of Santa Fe artist Jone Hallmark is populated with the most adorable small characters, and she enjoys creating little scenes with them to suggest a story. Her newest grouping will make your heart smile. Two little birdies, who are clearly friends, have met up and are chatting. One nests atop a column and is looking down; the other is standing and offering a small heart as he looks up. Such a charming vignette! 

Join Jone to learn how to create a similar scene with peg dolls and other wooden craft items. She demonstrates how to paint and decorate the wooden pieces with acrylic paint and simple folk art designs. The designs are made of lines and dots. They’re easy to learn even if you’ve never held a brush before. Watch Jone’s demonstrations at the beginning of class, then practice working with the brush and paint for a while. Use the booklet of designs and instructions that Jone made specifically for the class as a reference.  

Enjoy giving life with your brush to the blank wooden pieces in your kit, then assemble them following Jone’s instructions. Voila! – your own tabletop fairytale. We bet at some point during class Jone tells the story of her two feathered friends. Perhaps by the end of class, you’ll have made up a story of your own!

This online class will be recorded and made available to class participants for 14 days after the class.

Please bring the following materials:

• Jone uses Deco Art Americana, which comes in small plastic bottles, but other acrylic paints are fine. The brand Folk Art is comparable in price. Following is a list of the specific Deco Art Americana colors she used for this project. Feel free to substitute other colors.
  • Blue Harbor (bluebird blue)
  • Light Buttermilk (off white)
    
  • Hauser Light Green (spring green)
  • Hauser Medium Green (basic green)
  • Hauser Dark Green (evergreen or forest green color)
  •  Santa Red (true red)
    

• Scissors for fine cutting
• Jar for water (paint brushes provided in the kit.)
•  White craft glue (Jone prefers Alene's Tacky Glue because it sets up quickly and holds tightly)
• Paper for practicing brush strokes and the designs. Good weight copy paper is fine.
• Optional: Mod Podge to overlay your designs with a protective coat. Jone uses the matte finish.
• Optional: apron

Class Kit Includes:

• Jone’s signature booklet of charming designs and instructions
• Set of acrylic paint brushes
• Peg dolls, forms, wooden base, additional small items, etc
  

We ship class kits approximately 2 weeks before the class via USPS Priority Mail. You will receive a tracking number (check your spam folder) once your kit ships. Kits can only be shipped within the USA. If you’re outside the USA and would like to take the class, please contact us for information.

An email will be sent to participants the Monday before the class. Classes with homework may receive pre-class info earlier.  The email includes class date/time, materials list, pre-class prep, and Zoom link/info. No email? Double check the email address you entered when you registered and your SPAM folder. Due to SPAM filters and inbox settings, we cannot guarantee you will see, read, or open these emails. Two Hands Paperie assumes no responsibility for non-attendance of a class. Contact twohandsclasses@gmail.com with any questions and see our Class Policies page for more information. 

For cancellation made 3 weeks before class we can either issue a refund or apply the funds to another class. We deduct the price of the class kit plus shipping if we’ve already shipped the kit, and we retain a $10 processing fee for EACH class cancelled. If you cancel fewer than 3 weeks before the class there is no refund or credit. If Two Hands Paperie cancels a class, we’ll contact you by email and refund the FULL class fee.

Santa Fe artist Jone Hallmark, who says of herself, “I tend to work in a two-inch square!”, has created her own little world of magical delights. Each tiny wonder – from the cleverest fox or hedgehog to a charming parade of flower-bearing young girls – is handcrafted from paper clay, wire, wood, and other tiny bits and pieces. Her sophisticated yet simple designs show the influence of both her father’s Scandinavian heritage and the intricate painted miniatures she collected when living in Switzerland. Her affinity for using small, ordinary objects comes from her mom, also a graphic designer and artist. She taught Jone that you can make just about anything you want instead of going to a store to buy it. Jone’s creative life started on the floor of her father’s studio, where she sat as a child surrounded by brushes, paints, and a treasure of paper.

Her passion for design eventually led to work developing store displays, award-winning lines of decorated papers, and the beloved Bryce and Madeline stickers. One day, after twenty years of licensing her artwork for other people’s products, Jone realized that she needed to get back to basics and simplify. In that moment, her tiny little world was born. Now she spends her time teaching, drawing, painting, and making huge messes on every available flat surface. See her work on Instagram at @jonehallmark.

Shipping 

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Returns

We want you to be absolutely thrilled with your order. If you're not completely satisfied with your purchase, we do accept returns on most products within 14 days of delivery.

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