Michael's workshops fill up fast so make sure to sign up soon. Please go to the Zinnia website for more information about the workshops and supply list.
June 22, 2012 10am to 5pm
One Day Workshop
Assemblings of a Mad Watchmaker
$140.00
Class Description: As you know time keeps on slipping slipping slipping into the
future. Because of this you should do something with it before it leaves completely.
Grab those watches because we are going to dismantle and then remantle them in
strange and peculiar ways. Using processing involving assemblage and painting you
will modify these little devices into something that will bend time. When finished
then can be used as a amulet, medallion or as something strange for your curio cabinet.
It might even be possible for it to keep on ticking after it takes a licking.
June 23 and 24, 2012
Two Day Workshop
deMent-Triloquism
$280.00
Class Description: In case you were wondering, the fear of ventriloquist’s dummies
is called automatonophobic (which by the way includes the fear of wax dummies and
automatons like Zoltar the fortune teller). I can understand how ventriloquist
dolls could illicit terror and trepidation; typically they are bit creepy looking.
Remember Anthony Hopkins in the film Magic, whose dummy seemed to have a
villainous will of its own? Well, in this class, I’m not sure you’ll walk away with
a self-aware dummy but you will learn how to make deMented dolls that are capable
of flapping their jaws. You start with a mannequin head, doll head, bust, taxidermy
item, etc. and then using various found objects you will adorn and transform them into something rich and strange. Most importantly, your bizarre creation will be rigged
so that it has the power to speak…hopefully not on it’s own.
