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2019 Zentangle "All-Inclusive Retreats" Big Bear, Southern California INCLUDES: Room, Board, with Meals prepared by Cordon Bleu Chef, Diana Hudson, Instruction, and most Supplies SMALL CLASS SIZE: Limited to 8-10 students for a small hands-on class environment.
$1250 Tangle-Inspired Botanicals Retreat Dancing with Petals and Leaves Wednesday to Monday 2019: June 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24 NOTE: $175 Optional Workshops for each Retreat	$1250: Intermediate to Advanced Tangled Expressions Retreat AKA sometimes referred to as the Alumni Retreat Moving Forward in Expressive Tangling Wednesday to Monday 2019: September 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23

Tangle-Inspired Botanicals by Sharla R. Hicks

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Tangle-Inspired Botanicals on Eco-dyed Background

Big Bear Lake & View from Cabin Deck
Sunset & Clouds Rolling In Over the Mountain

2019 Zentangle "All-Inclusive Retreats" Big Bear, Southern California INCLUDES: Room, Board, with Meals prepared by Cordon Bleu Chef, Diana Hudson, Instruction, and most Supplies SMALL CLASS SIZE: Limited to 8-10 students for a small hands-on class environment. More Info Here Tangle Inspired Botanicals By Sharla R. Hicks, CZT $1250: Tangle-Inspired Botanicals Retreat Dancing with Petals and Leaves Workshop Instructor: Sharla R. Hicks artist, author of Tangle Inspired Botanicals, Certified Zentangle Teacher, Mentor Wednesday to Monday 2019: June 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24 NOTE: Most supplies provided. Includes: room & board with Cordon-Bleu Chef prepared meals Location: Big Bear, California Suggested Attendees: Beginner to intermediate Tanglers familiar with Zentangle wanting to personalize their own style ow mark marking through learning how to morph fundamental tangles into organic style botanicals, petals, leaves and scapes and explore color, design, composition, and enhancers. INCLUDED: Open 24 hours a day, mixed media studio stocked with multiple kinds of transparent, opaque, pearlescent and metallic paints in watercolor, brushes, gouache, water and acrylic inks, speed ball inks, acrylics. For your use: stencils, stamps, textures, brushes, daubers, water containers, palettes and more. $175 Optional Early Bird Workshop with Sharla Hicks Color Exploration & Mixed Media Monoprints Create One-of-Kind Tangle Ready Backgrounds June 2019: Monday to Wednesday 2019: June 17, 18, & 19 Optional Early Bird Workshop Arrive: Monday afternoon to settle in. We will leave for town at 4:30 pm for a buy-your-own-dinner. Instruction: Monday Evening, Tuesday & Wednesday AM with open mixed media studio Wednesday afternoon to provide the time and opportunity to make multiple, ready to tangle backgrounds to take home or use during retreat. An indepth color presentation sets the road map for your color journey offering the essentials that turn complex color theory into simple, easy to understand vocabulary and exercises that will be the foundation to all color decisions you make in any medium, art, or craft. You will develop rich backgrounds that bring to conscious awareness how to make color choices by understanding how value, warm and cools, lights to darks, how pure, shade and grayed tones interact to develop foreground, middle ground, backgrounds for botanical and landscape tangle pieces. Time will be provided for experimenting on your own. You will explore multiple techniques and paper types using and develop an understanding of the differences between opaque, transparent, and translucent paints. You will explore as many of the following as time allows: alcohol inks, watercolor, brushos, gouache, acrylics, marbling, and printmaking with Speedball ink, weeds and reeds, foliage, textures. Use a small press at the workshop and learn hand pressing techniques to use at home. Remember, essential supplies provided in the well stocked mixed media studio. Just come and enjoy a lighter suitcase. Tangle-Inspired Botanicals Retreat NOTE: Each student will have a 45 minute one-on-one time with Sharla to help you discover the journey you have been on, and where you are going. You will be encouraged to verbalize your goals and explore together recommendations on where to expand your skills. You will set goals to explore during the retreat. Instruction: Learn how simple lines, C & S curves, dots, circles, expressive line, and more become tools to enhance and personalize your work and begin developing your own style of organics. Sharla introduces the fundamental components found in many tangles that easily evolve and morph into botanicals. Multiple Power Point presentations will lay the groundwork for hands-on exercises that explore enhancers, framers, textures, shade, shadow, color, design, and composition. The journey includes finding your unique visual vocabulary. Exercises and instruction simplify the color essentials needed to make pens and shading choices using graphite, pastel pencils, color pencils, and color pens to develop a well balanced piece using value, warm, cool, light, dark, greyed choices that sing together when making the correct magical, yet very strategic, color choices. For a greater indepth study of color, take the Optional Early Bird Class: Color Exploration & Mixed Media Monoprints: Create One-of-Kind Backgrounds At the retreat, you will learn how to Eco dye unique one-of-a-kind backgrounds on a variety of papers and fabric that offer organic information ready to tangle. Each combination of paper, botanicals, bits and pieces, and mordants creates a unique look. Then learn how to read the Eco dyed shapes and forms that turn the ho-hum into WOW tangled botanicals, land and sea scapes. Each eco dyed shape, form and mark has the potential to evolve and morph into organic leaves, florals, botanicals, trees, stems, backgrounds, foregrounds and more with the addition of shading and line. You will leave with handouts for additional guidance at home, a filled notebook, completed tiles, and an extensive set of color, eco-dyed backgrounds for additional play at home, and a (3) month membership in a Facebook group that offers mentoring and encouragement to help keep you on track after leaving the retreat.	$1250: Intermediate to Advanced Tangled Expressions Retreat AKA sometimes referred to as the Alumni Retreat Moving Forward in Expressive Tangling to Define and Refine 'Your' Artistic Voice Moving Forward Workshop facilitators / teachers: Sharla R. Hicks & Beckah Krahula are artists, authors (see books list below), mentors, and Certified Zentangle Teachers who understand the struggle of artists looking to improve their work and are eager to learn the fundamentals to allow them to soar. Sharla and Beckah have a mutual ideology and find that team teaching offers students the best of each of them. 2019: September 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23 Wednesday Evening to Monday Morning: Arrive Wednesday between noon and 3:30, Instruction begins at 4 PM, with evening dinner, and Welcome introductions, and defining and exploring your personal goals for the retreat. This is always the beginning seeds that grow into a strong bond with your fellow students and teacher. Suggested Attendees: Tanglers looking to advance their personal style and art, CZTs, Alumni, and Attendees from Sharla Hicks & Beckah Krahula Retreats & Classes. If you are looking to find, refine, redefine, or even reinvent your artistic voice and unique expression with inventive ways to incorporate tangling, mixed media, %co dyeing, collage, gold leaf, and more through the art of mark making, repetitive patterning, design, composition and color. Then, Moving Forward's small intimate (8-10) students ratio with two supportive teachers offering gentle guidance and the occasional nudge that reflects each student's creative journey is perfect for you. AND, nothing can equal the strong supportive bond formed between fellow students. If any of the following fit, you belong in Moving Forward If you do tangling and repetitive patterning as a way to reconnect to your art of earlier years and are struggling with how to make it your own. If you have a spotty understanding of the basics to create good art and often feel ill equipped to make the decisions to develop a work of art that stands apart from others. If you are seeking but have not found a way to develop your own 'unique' artistic voice. If you are looking for permission to just do art for art sakes and tap into the joy of the creative process. If you are an artist who wants to share in the supportive environment offered by our small retreats that encourages individual expression through your own unique creative journey. Moving Forward Workshop This workshop is a journey on 'how' to move forward in your art by developing a 'personal and unique' repetitive pattern style with a personal visual vocabulary of mark making, design, composition, and color choices that can be identified as 'your' work. NOTE: Each student will have a 45 minute one-on-one time with Sharla and Beckah to help you discover the journey you have been on, and where you are going. You will be encouraged to verbalize your goals and explore together recommendations on where to expand your skills. You will set goals to explore during the retreat. Each year the 'Moving Forward' retreat goes indepth into a few select mixed media techniques that offer learning opportunities that expand color, shading, composition, and design knowledge that helps to define and refine your unique artist voice and style. This year, Beckah Krahula will be offering a unique blended color pencil technique that looks like an oil painting when finished. Here you will continue exploring how shading, color, and value choices influence a finished work of art. Sharla will offer new insights and ideas on how to develop composition using narrative concepts, tangling, collage, color, and design elements that enhance and expand your choices as the work evolves and morphs. This is a more cerebral, controlled approach to developing a work. that incorporates multiple mixed media techniques. This indepth how-to approach will evolve and morph into unique organic art pieces that speak from 'your' voice and offer a narrative for the viewer to interpret. Create a one-of-a-kind fusion of mixed media tangled pieces, collaged with personal imagery and repetitive patterning, enhanced with a personalized tangle-inspired stencil cut on the Silhouette, character personas, shape, form, gold leaf, Eco dyeing and more. This year's mixed media exploration will include creating larger sized eco-dyed works that incorporate new methods of setting botanicals, textures, bits and pieces to paper. Add an edge with pre-processing mixed media enhancements resulting in a unique look and feel inside the world of eco-dyeing. (3) Optional Early Bird Workshops to choose from for Moving Forward Retreat New to the Sharla's method of Tangle-Inspired Botanicals or Beckah's Eco-Dyeing techniques or support doing Independent study? Attend an optional early bird workshop. Includes: Light meals, room and board Arrive: In the afternoon to register and settle in. **At 3:30 go to Big Bear Lake for a boat ride and buy-your-own- dinner in Big Bear Village. Return in early evening to begin instruction time. 1. $175: Overview of Tangle-Inspired Botanicals with Sharla Hicks OR 2. $175: Independent Study of your choice under Sharla & Beckah's Supervision Schedule: 2019: September 16, 17, & 18 1.5 days of instruction: Monday Evening, Tuesday & supervised indendent study Wednesday AM with open mixed media studio time Wednesday afternoon. OR 3. $350 Dancing with Nature's Muse: Eco Dyeing for the Expressive Artist with Beckah Krahula NOTE: Requires signing up for both Moving Forward & Eco-Dyeing Workshops Schedule: 2019: September 13, 14, 15, 16 & 17 For additional information about the Eco Dyeing workshop, CLICK HERE. 3.25 days of Instruction, Friday Evening, Saturday, Sunday, Monday eco-dye workshop ends. Tuesday AM Breakfast & independent study under Beckah & Sharla supervision. For those staying for Moving Forward Retreat, Tuesday & Wednesday are rest days with supervised independent study & mixed media studio time.
NOTE: Scroll down to find Registration below description. Sign up for newsletter. Questions: Call Soft Expressions & ask for Sharla 714-630-7414 or Toll Free 888-545-8616 or email: info@SharlaHicks.com	Retreat & Optional Class Schedule: Arrival Day: Registration noon to 3:00 PM Arrival Afternoon: Boat Ride around Big Bear late at 3:30 PM. Arrival Dinner & Evening: See details in schedule below. 5 day retreat: Thursday to Monday: Instruction, Lectures, and Mixed Media Art Studio Departure: Monday Sept. 23, 2018: Retreat ends 11:30 AM. Morning will include breakfast, independent study, instruction wrap up, mixed media open studio with shuttle leaving the mountain at 11:30, it is a 1.5 hour ride to the Ontario airport so make flights after 2:30 pm if possible. If flying out of LAX, 2.5+ hour drive, make flights after 4 pm.
5 day Retreat Chef: Diana Hudson CZT Le Cordon Bleu Trained Offering a culinary experience giving you an array of delicious food for every meal and snack time. Save room for dessert! Coffee, Herbal Tea, Juice, Infused Water: NOTE: bring your own soda Treats, Snacks, & Drinks available 24 hours a day. 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.	Extra Amenities 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. Opportunity to experience Big Bear Lake with afternoon boat ride on Big Bear Lake on arrival day. Close by trails for mountain walks, hiking and other recreational activities.
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Soft Expressions' Courtesy Shuttle from or to Ontario California (ONT) or Los Angeles (LAX) Airports Ontario Airport (ONT) 1.5 hours or less ride to Big Bear. Los Angeles Airport (LAX) 2.5+ hours ride to Big Bear. NOTE: Flight arrival & departure recommendationations Tangle-Inspired Botanicals: Dancing with Petals and Leaves 5 day Retreat Wednesday to Monday: 2019: June 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24 OR Moving Forward in Expressive Tangling Wednesday to Monday 2019: September 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23 ONT: Arrive Wednesday NO later than 12 (noon) ONT: Depart Monday AFTER 2:30 pm LAX: Arrive Wednesday NO later than 10:30 - 11 AM. LAX: Depart Monday AFTER 4:30 PM OPTIONAL CLASSES Optional Botanical Classes OR Independent Study Arrive the Monday before retreat starts: *Tangle-Inspired Botanicals Retreat: Monday, June 17, 2019 OR *Moving Forward Retreat: Monday, September 16, 2019 LAX: Arrive Monday NO later than 10:30 - 11 AM. LAX: Depart Monday AFTER 4:30 pm ONT: Arrive NO later than 12 (noon) ONT: Depart Monday AFTER 2:30 pm Dancing with Nature's Muse: Eco Dyeing for the Expressive Artist with Beckah Krahula Shuttle Service is from Ontario Airport ONLY because of Friday Afternoon Rush Hour. ONT: Arrive Friday Sept 13, 2019 NO later than 12 (noon) Friday September 13. ONT: Depart Monday September 23, 2019 AFTER 2:30 pm Questions: Call Soft Expressions & ask for Sharla 714-630-7414 or Toll Free 888-545-8616 or email: info@SharlaHicks.com NOTE: Scroll down to find Registration below description.

Mountain Retreat Back Deck Workshop Space Mixed Media and Tangle-Inspired Botanicals by Sharla R. Hicks

Mountain Retreat Front Deck Unique Presentation at Each Meal Lunch is Served by Diana, our Le Cordon Bleu Chef Dessert Time

Tangle-Inspired Botanicals Tangle-Inspired Botanicals on Monoprint Backgrounds Introducing Sharla Hicks Artist, Author, Certified Zentangle Teacher (CZT 5 & 11) Sharla trained under Zentangle® Founders Rick Roberts and Maria Thomas to become a Certified Zentangle Teacher aka CZT in 2011 & 2013. CZT training and the daily practice of Zentangle has had a profound effect on her discipline as an artist, her creative abilities, rekindled her love of teaching and most profoundly has guided her toward her own Artistic Voice. Sharla crosses the boundaries of expressive artist, writer, painter, quilter, fiber, textile, mixed media, watercolor, collage, printmaking and more. Her current focus is offering the gift of Zentangle to others through lectures, workshops, and retreats. Sharla brings 40 years of expertise in using the sewing machine, pen, pencil, brush, paints, pastels, and watercolor, acrylics, alcohol inks bundled into a mixed media package to teach design, color, and Zentangle. From 1980 to present Sharla has taught Zentangle, free motion embroidery, exotic threads embellishment by machine, traditional and innovative quilting from the basics of piecing, appliqué, free motion machine quilting to innovative quilt design and how to use color as a design element to produce innovative works. Today as a Certified Zentangle Teacher, Sharla infuses art background and training with her expertise in design fundamentals and color with the Zentangle basics and beyond as she facilitates the journey her students are on in their search for their personal Zentangle voice to create exciting new mixed media Zentangle Inspired Art pieces. Beckah Krahula Author Introducing Beckah Krahula, Artist, Author, Certified Zentangle Teacher (CZT 5) Co-Teacher of Moving Forward Retreat Beckah Krahula’s philosophy on life has always been, “Keep creating, it will change your world.” A mixed media artist, award-winning and best-selling author, product designer/developer and maker, Beckah has taught in the U.S. and internationally. 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. What Students are saying about the Big Bear Zentangle Retreats: Kathy Dudek, CZT: I was fortunate to sign up for the retreat with Sharla. It was amazing, from 9 or 10 in the morning til 9 or 10 at night. The only thing we really had to bring were our pens. If you get the chance to take her botanical series, you should sign up immediately. I grew so much in my tangling, the gourmet meals were incredible, and the sharing was so wonderful. This retreat was of the highest quality, and I've attended 18 years of retreats both in tangling and also polymer clay. My husband (a CZT too) and I plan to attend next year. Sharla put her heart and soul to make this a grand event. Ps her husband and Diana (a CZT chef) outdid themselves. Many, many thanks. Jan Brandt, CZT: I whole-heartedly recommend this fabulous retreat! I attended last year and was thrilled with the variety of exciting hands-on opportunities to expand my world of creative experiences. Sharla is a generous and passionate teacher as well as a gentle, thoughtful mentor. Attend if you can! Pat Mathes, CZT: Sharla Hicks has been an inspiration to me since I first took a class from her on Mooka Blues at Tangle University 2015.  Her style was a fascination to me.  I had the opportunity to participate in one of her retreats in Wisconsin .  This was one of the greatest experiences I have had.  Sharla openly shares her work and techniques.  Very hands-on training.  Intense work in technique, color, style . . . one of the best things is she doesn't stop after the retreat.  She remains open to questions and advice afterwards.  It was the best thing I ever did to further my artistic endeavors.

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	Add to Wish List Quantity in Basket: None Code: ZEN-BEAR Our Price: $1,250.00 Please Read Refund Policy & Select Yes: Yes, I have read the Refund Policy Below: 1. NOTE: Payment includes a NON-refundable $250 deposit. If a cancellation refund is requested, the $250 deposit will be deducted. 2. f for any unforeseen reason the class is cancelled by Sharla Hicks or Soft Expressions, you will be issued a full refund. Please Read & CHECK: Sharla Hicks CZT Big Bear Dancing with the Petals and Leaves Zentangle Retreats are for those looking for a relaxed, inspiring environment to continue on their Zentangle Journey while enjoying the comradry of fellow tanglers. YES I have Zentangle Experience. NOTE: The assumption is each student has some Zentangle experience and: Wants to learn more about creating Zenspirational Botanicals. Wants to take Zentangle to the next level with enhancers that elevate each piece. Wants to find their own Zentangle style and artistic voice Wants to create Mixed Media backgrounds for Zentangle Inspired Art. Wants to learn more about color selection and design Wants to learn alternate shading methods using pastel penciils, color pencils, watercolor pencils, colored pens, gelly roll pens and more. Please answer the following questions and select Retreat choice below   I am a CZT (Certified Zentangle Teacher)   I have taken Zentangle Classes from a Certified Zentangle Teacher   I have taken Workshops with Sharla Hicks   I have taken Workshops with Beckah Krahula   I learned Zentangle from books, videos, online, and other resources Select Retreat & Payment Choice: Retreat Payment Choices: To help keep costs down, a Check is the preferred Payment Method but if needed Credit Card okay. Do what is best for you, we are excited you are coming! $1250 Tangle-Inspired Botanicals 2019 June 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24 Includes $250 NON-refundable deposit $625 Tangle Inspired Botanicals Retreat 1/2 Payment June 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 2019 includes non-refundable $250 deposit Final Payment due April 15 $625 Tangle-Inspired Botanicals 2019: June 20, 21, 22, 23, 24 Final Payment Due April 15 Mailing CHECK Payment(s): for Tangle-Inspired Botanical Retreat. Use due dates listed under Full, 1/2 or Final Payment. Mail to: Soft Expressions (Retreat) 1230 N. Jefferson St. Suite M Anaheim, CA 92807 $1250 Moving Forward 2019 September, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23 NOTE: Includes $250 non-refundable deposit $625 Moving Forward 1/2 payment NOTE: Includes $250 non-refundable deposit $625 Moving Forward Final Payment Due July 15 Mailing CHECK Payment(s): Moving Forward Retreat Use due dates listed under Full, 1/2 or Final Payment. Mail to: Soft Expressions (Retreat) 1230 N. Jefferson St. Suite M Anaheim, CA 92807 Optional Early Bird Workshop Select Choice NOTE: Courtesy Ride service will be available: No, I will not be attending Optional Early Bird Class Before Retreat. June Retreat Optional Class Monday Evening, Tuesday & Wednesday AM June 17, 18, & 19 Color Exploration & Mixed Media Monoprints Create One-of-Kind Tangle Ready Backgrounds Sending Check for Optional Botanical Class Optional Moving Forward Class: $350 Dancing with Natures Muse, Eco-Dyeing Teacher: Beckah Krahula NOTE: Required to sign up for BOTH Moving Forward & Eco-dyeing Retreat Friday Evening, Saturday, Sunday, Monday, Tuesday AM 2019: September 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 Sending Check for Optional Eco-Dyeing Optional Moving Forward Workshop: $175 Tangle-Inspired Botanicals with Sharla Hicks Monday PM, Tuesday, Wed AM 2019: September 16, 17, & 18 Sending Check for Optional Botanical Class Optional Moving Forward Workshop $175 Independent Study with Mentors Supervision: Sharla Hicks & Beckah Krahula: Monday PM, Tuesday, Wed AM 2019 Sept 16, 17, 18 Sending Check for Optional Independent Study Select choice: Are you Driving, Flying or Other: I will be driving and need map and address to Retreat $50 ONT (Ontario Airport) Soft Expressions Shuttle Service (1.25 hour drive): Please schedule flight to ARRIVE around or before Noon on arrival day. If possible DEPART after 2:30 PM on final day $75 LAX (Los Angeles Airport) Soft Expressions Shuttle Service (2.5 hours drive) Please schedule flight to ARRIVE around or before 10:30-11 am on arrival day. If possible DEPART after 4 PM on final day Check Payment: I will require the shuttle and will include payment in check I will be flying and will arrange my own transportation to Big Bear. Map and Address sent with later announcements to retreat attendees. Other or Unknown: I do not know my travel arrangements at this time. Shared Rooms Type Roomate Preference in Box Leave blank if no preference & Sharla will assign based on Night Owl or Retires Early preference: Please select sleeping preference, helps Sharla Assign Cabin & Rooms: Retire after Evening Activity aka Retires Early Cabin Night Owl Cabin Below, Check all diet choices and issues that apply   Wine with Dinner   Gluten Free   Lactose-Intolerant   Vegetarian: Strict Diet with NO meat or fish Any additional Dietary Restrictions or health issues, if yes,TYPE NOTE to our Chef, Diana Hudson CZT: TYPE A brief bio about yourself & why attending Retreat. Thank you, this helps Sharla set her agenda.:
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