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MEETING February 13, 2020 – Julia Tova Malakoff’s Demo

After a brief business meeting, Julia Malakoff showed how to make Personalized Papers using the Gelli Plate and demonstrated how to make your own papers using a mono print technique printing onto copy, deli, rice and watercolor papers. She also showed how to collage the papers into the beginning of a mixed media piece, adding marks using drawing and mark making tools.
Julia says “Mixed media art has allowed me to grow as an artist by giving me permission to explore with a wide range of tools, colors and styles. By experimenting, I have come to realize that there are no mistakes in this practice. There are only answers. And with this philosophy in mind, I created my class called, Make Your Mark which encourages artists to explore the intriguing world of mixed media. My work is heavily textured, combining hand painted papers, acrylics, inks, drawing mediums and mark making tools. I enjoy the process of creating visual stories through the textures and the layers.”
Julia teaches at the Workhouse Center for the Arts in Lorton, and ArtSpace/ARTSHERNDON

Julia’s Website: www.paperjewels.net

Instagram: paper_jewels

Artist Biography: 

Julia Tova Malakoff was fortunate to be able to explore the arts before the digital age. Growing up in Iowa, where it was winter more than not, Julia used the indoor season to create. She wrote stories and poems, painted pictures, photographed her family and their life in a college town. Her hands were always moving and her hunger for the creative arts continued to grow. At the most unfortunate age of sixteen, her parents moved from the heart of the Midwest to the capital of the south.  At first, Richmond seemed the opposite of what Iowa city had to offer. But Julia quickly found the creative souls in high school and continued to seek them out when she attended Virginia Commonwealth University. Julia graduated with degrees in English/Writing and Advertising. After a few early jobs in publishing, Julia ventured off to start her own artist agency called, Envoy Creative Consultants. She represented commercial artists and photographers, landing them local and national level accounts. Fast forward to marriage and four children, Julia returned to her creative roots and began writing and painting once more. 

Artistic Philosophy: Mixed media art has allowed me to grow as an artist by giving me permission to explore with a wide range of tools, colors and styles. By experimenting, I have come to realize that there are no mistakes in this practice. There are only answers. And with this philosophy in mind, I created my class called, Make Your Mark which encourages artists to explore the intriguing world of mixed media. My work is heavily textured, combining hand painted papers, acrylics, inks, drawing mediums and mark making tools. I enjoy the process of creating visual stories through the textures and the layers. (Julia teaches at the Workhouse Center for the Arts in Lorton, and ArtSpace/ARTSHERNDON

Julia’s Website: www.paperjewels.net

Instagram: paper_jewels

Julia Tova Malakoff’s Demo: 

Part 1: Making Personalized Papers using the Gelli Plate

Julia demonstrated how to make your own papers using a mono print technique printing onto copy, deli, rice and watercolor papers. 

Part 2: Using Painted Papers in Mixed Media Art

Julia showed how to collage papers into the beginning of a mixed media piece and then add marks using drawing and mark making tools.