Digital Art: Sticker Making Workshop 2.24.24

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Written by Kenley Turner
Sticker Making Workshop Oil and Cotton

I’m glad I was able to teach a sticker-making workshop at Oil and Cotton to share Photoshop skills and prepare files for dicutting!

Here are the skills we learned:
1. Eating yummy snacks 😜
2. Diverging ideas for design creation
3. Using Adobe Capture to convert images into vectors
4. Using Adobe Photoshop to add layers of color to complete images
5. Export Files for dicutting
6. Learning to prepare sticker sheets with laminate and send them through the dicutter!

The students were very creative and patient learners and I am so happy with the work they created! Learning photoshop can be daunting at first but they truly did amazing! People were approaching this from all skill levels, and I think everyone did great! I hope to stay connected with them. I hope to be a resource people can use. <3

Here are future workshops + events I hope to see you at!

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Hikaru Dorodongos In The Garden
Nov 15
Twelve Hills Nature Perserve
Hikaru Dorodongos In The Garden
Twelve Hills Nature Perserve

Oil and Cotton x : Hikaru Dorodango in the Garden
Sunday, November 15 11 am - 2 pm 
Instructor: Kenley Turner
Location: If weather is permitting we will meet at Twelve Hills Nature Center ; If weather is inclement we will host the workshop at Oil and Cotton 2313 Beatrice St. #100 Dallas, TX 75208

Join us in the beautiful neighborhood nature preserve, for a step by step how to make a dorodango. What is hikaru dorodango? It's the Japanese art form of polishing a mud ball into a perfect sphere. Use this time to build community and appreciate nature together. Continue this practice to use soil from memorable places in your life and create keep sakes for them. This is a mindful, kinesthetic, sensory experience meant to put you into the "flow state" of making.  

"This process is simple, but seems like alchemy" - Bruce Gardener   

All materials are provided, along with cookies and tea. Please bring a water and sun protection 

*If weather is permitting and we meet at the nature preserve, we will be sitting on picnic blankets. Students may want to bring an outdoor folding chair if ground sitting is anticipated to be uncomfortable. 

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Twelve Hills Nature Perserve
Zine Fest Houston
Nov 21
orange Show for visionary art
Zine Fest Houston
orange Show for visionary art

Zine Fest Houston (ZFH) is an annual, all-ages festival dedicated to promoting zines (self-published magazines), mini-comics, and other forms of small press, alternative, and underground DIY media and art.

Admission is always free and low cost table space is made available for creators, writers, and artists involved in the creation, publication, distribution, or promotion of alternative DIY media. ZFH is the sole event in Houston that specifically provides a platform for emerging and established regional and national zine makers in the DIY community to exchange new work and create meaningful relationships that lead to productive collaboration. 

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orange Show for visionary art
Dallas Zine Fest
Dec 5
Nasher Sculpture Center
Dallas Zine Fest
Nasher Sculpture Center

Ghostgrl Studio will be at Dallas Zine Fest 2026 at The Nasher Sculpture Center!!!

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Nasher Sculpture Center
Small Sculpture: Silver Clay Charms
Dec 6
Oil and Cotton
Small Sculpture: Silver Clay Charms
Oil and Cotton

Learn the basics of small sculpture through charm making with mixed media artists Kenya Diaz + Kenley Turner using the magical medium, Silver Clay! Silver clay is sculpt-able clay made out of real fine silver, that can be turned into any shape or form, and then fired. Learn jewelry basics like how to create and carve clay into shapes, use molds, and set dazzling stones. Experience the firing and finishing process, and understand how you can continue using this medium at home. Take home your beautiful hand crafted charms and a silver chain. 

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Oil and Cotton
Kenley Turner
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