New Art Classes

One of our favorite things about owning Scrapbooker's Dream is that we get to share with all of you our love of the scrapbooking craft, whether you come to the store seeking advice or when you sign up for our classes that are taught by some of the most talented scrapbookers around.

We believe that scrapbooking is not just a craft, but also a form of art in that each of your scrapbooks is a wholly unique expression of yourself and the precious memories you preserve of your family and friends. And we all create these books of memories so that our children and our children's children can come to know and understand their own family heritage and their place in the world.

We believe that learning and using new techniques and materials will help you to better express the memories you cherish, keeping your scrapbooks alive and fresh as the years go by. And to that end, all of us at Scrapbooker's Dream are proud to announce our association with Becky Mayhew, noted artist, teacher and founder of The Art Shoppe, who will offer at our store art classes that encompass the foundations of drawing and the excitement of calligraphy and lettering.

In this post we introduce you to Becky Mayhew and the new art classes that will begin this September.

Becky Mayhew

Artist and Teacher

Becky Mayhew attended the Art Institute of Pittsburgh where she graduated with honors in 1980. She worked as both a full-time and freelance artist doing graphic design, caricatures, cartooning, drafting & illustration. Over the past 25 years her teaching experience has included a wide range of subjects including: general art curriculum, yearbook, drafting, graphic design, and drama. She has also taught caricature workshops at the Art Institute of Pittsburgh and has been a guest lecturer at Duquesne University, and several local art leagues. In addition to her classes at The Art Shoppe, she currently teaches at Lakeview Christian Academy in Bridgeville, PA.

Class Offerings

Drawing Foundations - Learn the basics of "how to draw what you see" in pencil using traditional methods of recognizing basic shapes, proportion, shadows and shading, etc.

Calligraphy and Lettering - Learn the "art of beautiful writing" in the Chancery Cursive style using a calligraphy pen with a cartridge. Basic upper & lower case alphabet, word formation, spacing, etc. covered. Students will complete a simple saying by the final class.

Each of these classes is taught once a week (Thursdays) and each
spans eight sessions. Both courses will begin on Thursday, September 10, 2009 and finish on Thursday, October 29, 2009.

Becky's classes are normally $25.00 per hour and a half session, but she is going to give all Scrapbooker's Dream customers a special discount of $20.00 per session, so the full cost for each course is $160.00, which does not including the supplies: note that you can make two payments of $80.00 each; once at the beginning and once half-way through.

Drawing Foundations will start at 10:00AM and end at 11:30AM, and will require $16.95 for your a drawing kit.

Calligraphy and Lettering will start at 1:00PM and end at 2:30PM. We will be sending out a separate email with the detailed supply lists.

You can call or stop in to sign up for classes. In order to guarantee your spot, the first payment is required before the first class begins.