June workshops are here! 🍓🌞🐟 We have an amazing line up of online and in-person classes, including 2 new instructors in the Art Room!
Whether you’re continuing an ongoing practice or joining us for the first time, these offerings provide time to slow down, experiment, and spend a few hours immersed in creative work. We can’t wait to make with you 🖌️
As always, our online classes are recorded and everyone automatically receives a recording if you aren’t available to attend live!
Only 2 spots left in this in-person class next week! Watercolor Basics: Layering & Depth with @lindsayvictorialee in the @caseformaking Art Room, Friday May 22 🏊🖌️
“In part two* of our three part series on watercolor basics, we will focus on layering and building depth in your paintings. We’ll explore how to work in transparent washes and opaque details, allowing each layer to dry fully in order to create richness and dimension. You’ll learn how to control value, develop contrast, and use glazing techniques to slowly build complexity without muddying your colors. You will leave with a series of layered studies and a stronger understanding of how to create depth and atmosphere in your work.
* You do not need to have attended Part 1 to join Part 2! They are designed to stand on their own.”
Join us online next Wednesday, May 20 for Painting Petals with @sophietivonaillustration ! 💐
“Spring is here and the flowers have risen from their winter rest - let’s celebrate by painting petals! We will practice wet-on-wet techniques as well as dry brush details. This class is a meditative way to appreciate the details in nature and a soft introduction to botanical illustration. Perhaps you can find a few petals in your neighborhood to study - or follow along with Sophie’s subjects if you’d like. Our desks will smell amazing while we learn together!”
Introduction to Watercolor with @melanie.lan is happening again! Join us online Sunday, May 17 to learn foundational watercolor techniques 🎨 The recoding is available if you aren’t able to attend live 🖌️
“Learn how to watercolor! Don’t know where to begin? This class will help you develop a glossary of tools, techniques, and textures, and is perfect for beginners that want to learn the basics. What is a wash, what does wet-on-wet vs. wet-on-dry mean? How much water is needed and how do we incorporate all these techniques into a painting?
We’ll start with learning essential watercolor vocabulary, and by the end of class we will end up with a 3 panel landscape painting. This class is structured with beginners in mind, but all levels are welcome if you’d like a refresher!”
Moods of the Sky with @davidmullerstudio ☁️☁️☁️ Happening online next Thursday, May 14th!
“This class explores ways to represent some of the infinite incarnations of the sky using watercolors. We will embrace the spontaneous relationship between water and pigment to discover cloud formations as well as practicing meditative movements that yield crisp sunset gradients. This class is intended for the celestially obsessed landscape enthusiast! There will be something for everyone from beginners to experts; the only prerequisite is an open mind.”
Join @erinmwheeler in-person for Found and Painted Paper Collage, Saturday May 16 in the Art Room!
“This abstract collage workshop will combine working with a found image in combination with painted paper. We will start by exploring mark making with watercolor, using our found image for color ideas and inspiration. You can also use previously painted papers from color swatches, experiments, and practice pieces. From there, we’ll cut and curate our painted papers with our found papers to put together new color combinations and compositions with glue and even sewing techniques. Open to any level of experience, this is a great opportunity to explore collage and abstract art.“
Join us for May Flowers with Alexis Joseph @caseformaking in the Art Room! 🌺 Happening in-person next Thursday, May 14 🌼
“Join CfM founder Alexis Joseph for an evening of painting flowers — together we’ll explore different approaches to make the process feel fun, light, and totally doable. This is a great class for beginners!
We’ll warm up with a few exercises to get comfortable with our paints and color mixing, then dive into multiple projects using varied techniques. You’ll have real flowers to paint from as well as printed references to work with throughout the evening.
Flowers can feel intimidating — especially in watercolor. We’ll use techniques like blind contour and tracing to build confident outlines, then layer in paint, color, and texture from there.
Everyone leaves with multiple pieces to keep working on, plus tips and tricks for keeping painting feeling playful no matter the subject.”
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Join us online next Wednesday, May 13 for Diebenkorn Inspired Collage Landscapes with @erinmwheeler ✂️
“Richard Diebenkorn (1922-1993) was born in San Francisco and his art practice was forever inspired by San Francisco’s unique geography and colors. He’s known for his flattened and stacked color landscapes and cityscapes. Diebenkorn worked out a lot of his ideas for paintings through collage. Using his paintings and collages as inspiration, we’ll make our own abstracted landscape collages. We’ll cut and curate our colors from a range of collage materials and think about color order and composition in our collages.”
Happening online next Wednesday, May 6! Meditation on Emily Kam Kngwarray’s Mark Making with @anjelika
“Recently after I saw Australian artist Emily Kam Kngwarray’s work in two exhibitions, I could not stop thinking about her creative practice and her vibrant paintings. Something I’ve still been thinking about is how might we draw on our relationship and close observations of nature, geology and typology of the land in our creative work? Drawing inspiration from Emily’s meditative paintings, we will explore our own mark making by layering colors.”
Join us for our first workshop in May, Fluid Fauna: Koi Fish with @smudge_studiobk 🎏 happening online this Saturday, May 2!
“Mother Nature continues to be one of our best muses, so in keeping with this month’s theme of celebrating Spring in Japan, we’ll be studying Koi! These colorful fish have a wide range of patterns and textures (their vibrant markings remind me of tulip petals) and have historically been a popular motif in painting and printmaking. They represent luck, prosperity, strength and success, and watercolor is the perfect medium to explore their iridescent scales and fins. Wet on wet is one of my favorite techniques and lends itself to moving pigments around to illustrate their kaleidoscopic hues.”
Today’s in-person Introduction to Gelli Plate Printing with @erinmwheeler is sold out! Hopefully she’ll teach this one again!
“The Gelli plate opens up all kinds of possibilities for painted textures and color combinations. In this workshop, you’ll be introduced to monoprinting with gelli plates through experimentation and play. Gelli printing involves applying layers of acrylic paint, watercolor paint, textured materials, and stencils to a squishy surface to create a single print (monoprint). Gelli print papers make great backgrounds in sketchbook pages or for further mixed media work. Open to all skill levels.“
The best part about spring is all the new growth 🌱🌿 Grow your watercolor skills and join us online next Thursday, April 30th for Spring Greens with @melanie.lan 🌱🌱🌱
“Leaves, buds, tender shoots – this session is a celebration of spring’s new botanical growth! This workshop combines color theory with leafy brushstroke exercises. We’ll be diving into color mixing all sorts of verdant greens: from earthy cypress to vivid emerald, to the softest greens of young ferns unfurling. We’ll experiment with our color swatches in order to paint a variety of foliage.
Flexibility is key here. This session is less about botanical precision and more about the fluidity of paint. We will be exploring how it feels to make natural brushstrokes that capture the gentle yet lively energy of spring greens.”
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