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Enhanced Eco Dyed Example
from Beckah Krahula's Class |
Big Bear Mixed Media & Art Retreats in Southern California
hosted by Soft Expressions / Sharla R. Hicks, CZT
$600 Dancing With Natures Muse Eco-Dyeing for the Expressive ArtistTeacher: Beckah Krahula CZT |
Schedule: Friday Evening, Saturday, Sunday, Monday, Tuesday AM
2019: September 13, 14, 15, 16 & 17
All Inclusive: Includes Room (Friday night to Tuesday Morning) with Buy your own Dinner on Friday evening & meals provided starting with Saturday Breakfast to Tuesday AM Breakfast.
This hands-on packed workshop offers controlled chemistry combined with the serendipity process of eco-dyeing. You will be exploring 5 or more unique processes. Each technique will become a chapter (signature) in an heirloom Coptic Bound Art Book. Learn how to emboss and enhance your leather cover with botanicals. As time allows, intuitively decide if each page is frame ready art or if you want to enhance and embellish with your unique styles of Intuitive Tangling and Mixed Media techniques.

Enhanced Eco-Dyed Leather Book Covers

example of Coptic Stitched Art Book
with Eco Dyed cover to be created in class |
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Time line: Supply List & Map will be sent after sign up.
- Friday:
$50 Round Trip Soft Expressions Shuttle service available from Ontario Airport.(ONT) to Big Bear and back. 1.5 hour drive to cabin.
- Please make plane reservations to arrive by noon on Friday September13. If that is a problem, let us know.
- Return Shuttle on Tuesday will leave mountain at 11 or 11:30 depending on plane schedules. If possible, please make plane reservations after 2:30 pm.
- Commuter's Registration: Arrive Friday from Noon to 3 pm. Map will be sent for directions to cabin.
- Friday 3:30 pm take a boat tour around Big Bear Lake & dinner in Big Bear Village (buy your own dinner in town)
- Friday Evening: Introduction to eco-dyeing and begin your Art Book.
- Full day of instruction on Saturday, Sunday, Monday.
- Tuesday: Breakfast & saying good-bye to new eco-dyeing friends. OR stay over for a day of Tangle-Inspired Botanicals with Sharla Hicks or Metal Point with Beckah Krahula on Monday PM, Tuesday, and Wednesday AM.
- NOTE: Shuttle will leave mountain at 11 or 11:30 depending on plane schedules. If possible, please make plane reservations after 2:30 pm because it can be 1.5 hour drive down the mountain to airport.

Eco dyed example
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Eco dyed example
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Introducing Beckah Krahula, Artist, Author, Certified Zentangle Teacher (CZT 5)
Beckah Krahula’s philosophy on life has always been, “Keep creating, it will change your world.” She is a mixed media artist, award-winning and best-selling author, product designer/developer and maker, has taught in the U.S. and internationally. She’s the author of the “One Zentangle A Day,” a book that has sold over a million copies and is out in multiple languages, Tangled Journey, and curated the book 500 Tangles.
 One Zentangle a Day
by Beckah Krahula
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Tangled Journey
by Beckah Krahula

Beckah Krahula Curated
500 Tangled Artworks
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Beckah started practicing Zentangle in 2008 and was certified as a Zentangle teacher in 2011. Guiding her students to think and create 'outside the box' and imparting the skills, knowledge, and confidence to succeed are part of Beckah’s strong, surefooted teaching style offering instruction that develops intuitive art and tangling.
Her love of eco-dyeing began in her childhood at the feet her grandmother. Since the 1980’s she has continued exploring with world renowned eco-dyeing artists coming to the unique place of incorporating her chemistry and technical expertise to eco-dyeing resulting in consistent success with strong and varied eco-dyed imagery. She has developed this course for the curious intuitive artist who wishes to expand their repertoire in mixed media backgrounds and art pieces.
NOTE: Scroll down to find Registration below the retreat information
Suggestion: Sign up ASAP Retreats fills rapidly
Lodging
- 2 mountain cabins with individual beds in shared rooms.
- Location is on the edge of National Forest land with quiet, open spaces.
- Free WiFi can be sketchy so may want to use your smart phones for email and online browsing.
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Extra Amenities
- Explore Big Bear Lake with a pontoon boat ride on Friday afternoon.
- There will be a mini store with mixed media and Zentangle supplies available for purchase.
- Sit and enjoy the zen-ambiance of early summer or fall mountain air on comfy seating on the large decks and enjoy mountain views, open forest lands.
- Close by trails for mountain walks, hiking and other recreational activities.
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Eco-Dyed example from Beckah's Class

Eco-Dyed example from Beckah's Class |
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Dancing to Nature's Muse: Eco-Dyeing Retreat with Beckah Krahula in Big Bear California.
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