2021
Winter TERM 2021 (Zoom)
FILLED Nature Sketching in your Backyard (zoom)
Tuesday’s, 1-3pm, 8 weeks starting January 12, 2021
Sketching opportunities abound all year long on daily walks, in neighborhood gardens, and even from your kitchen window. Learn techniques in pen/ink, watercolor, and colored pencils for starting and maintaining a Nature Journal. This fun and accessible class is appropriate for all skill levels with a focus on the beginner. See link below for more info and registration.
FILLED Advanced-Nature Sketching in your Backyard (zoom)
Wednesday’s, 1-3pm, 8 weeks starting January 13, 2021
Designed for the advanced student with basic drawing/painting/pen and ink skills, this interactive and supportive group is focused on promoting new ideas, inspiration, weekly challenges or prompts, along with critiques for individual feedback.
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SPRING TERM 2021 (Zoom)
STARTS SOON! Open Studio-Nature Sketching (zoom)
Wednesday’s, 1-3pm, 8 weeks starting March 31, 2021
see LBCC Spring 2021, for descriptions and registration
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Summer TERM 2021 (Zoom)
Registration starts in May Creativity Unleashed (zoom)
Tuesday’s, 4 - 5:30pm, 6 weeks starting June 29, 2021
Expand your artistic repertoire with exercises designed to challenge, invigorate, and breathe fresh air into your creativity. Through guided experimentation, we’ll use mixed media, such as watercolor, collage and drawing to create multiple samples of texture, color, imagery, text, and line work. Be willing to discover the unexpected!
Registration starts in May Travel Journal/Urban Sketching (zoom)
Wednesday’s, 4 - 5:30pm, 8 weeks starting June 30, 2021
Students will learn the basics for creating a travel journal with quick-sketch techniques, using pen and ink, watercolors, and colored pencils/markers. No prior sketching experience needed to succeed. We’ll discuss the best supplies to take traveling, what to look for in a journal. We’ll meet weekly on Zoom for instruction, demos, practice, homework suggestions and one-on-one help. Have pen and sketchbook or paper, 9x7 or larger, for the first class.
through Linn-Benton Community College
Benton Center, Corvallis, Oregon
see LBCC Spring 2021, for descriptions and registration
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Registration is OPEN!
Sitka Center for Arts and Ecology
Creativity Unleashed - 2 day workshop (in person and zoom options)
September 12-13, 2021
I'm very excited to be invited to teach at Sitka Center in 2021, in Neskowin, Oregon.
In this 2-day workshop, we will explore a wide variety of processes to open and expand your creativity. With Sitka's rich, natural environment as our muse, we'll use unconventional methods with line, color, form, mark-making to shift perceptions and perspectives of what we see. It's a focus on process rather than product to break out of old patterns and pre-conceived ideas of painting and drawing. We'll work fast-paced and loose, (need to get ahead of the critical mind!) with simple art supplies like watercolors, pen, markers, and graphite. Participants will generate 12-48 small 'snapshot' sketches in a folded journal that we'll make in class. Working on a large sheet, broken into smaller shapes takes the 'preciousness' out of each drawing. Then, upon opening, all the marvelous images become a wonderful exploration of texture, color, imagery, text and line work.
Sitka Center is taking the necessary steps to ensure a safe learning environment for students and staff during COVID-19. Updates and registration information for 2021 will be posted directly through Sitka Center’s website.
Winter TERM 2021 (Zoom)
FILLED Nature Sketching in your Backyard (zoom)
Tuesday’s, 1-3pm, 8 weeks starting January 12, 2021
Sketching opportunities abound all year long on daily walks, in neighborhood gardens, and even from your kitchen window. Learn techniques in pen/ink, watercolor, and colored pencils for starting and maintaining a Nature Journal. This fun and accessible class is appropriate for all skill levels with a focus on the beginner. See link below for more info and registration.
FILLED Advanced-Nature Sketching in your Backyard (zoom)
Wednesday’s, 1-3pm, 8 weeks starting January 13, 2021
Designed for the advanced student with basic drawing/painting/pen and ink skills, this interactive and supportive group is focused on promoting new ideas, inspiration, weekly challenges or prompts, along with critiques for individual feedback.
_________________________________________________
SPRING TERM 2021 (Zoom)
STARTS SOON! Open Studio-Nature Sketching (zoom)
Wednesday’s, 1-3pm, 8 weeks starting March 31, 2021
see LBCC Spring 2021, for descriptions and registration
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Summer TERM 2021 (Zoom)
Registration starts in May Creativity Unleashed (zoom)
Tuesday’s, 4 - 5:30pm, 6 weeks starting June 29, 2021
Expand your artistic repertoire with exercises designed to challenge, invigorate, and breathe fresh air into your creativity. Through guided experimentation, we’ll use mixed media, such as watercolor, collage and drawing to create multiple samples of texture, color, imagery, text, and line work. Be willing to discover the unexpected!
Registration starts in May Travel Journal/Urban Sketching (zoom)
Wednesday’s, 4 - 5:30pm, 8 weeks starting June 30, 2021
Students will learn the basics for creating a travel journal with quick-sketch techniques, using pen and ink, watercolors, and colored pencils/markers. No prior sketching experience needed to succeed. We’ll discuss the best supplies to take traveling, what to look for in a journal. We’ll meet weekly on Zoom for instruction, demos, practice, homework suggestions and one-on-one help. Have pen and sketchbook or paper, 9x7 or larger, for the first class.
through Linn-Benton Community College
Benton Center, Corvallis, Oregon
see LBCC Spring 2021, for descriptions and registration
___________________________________________________________________________________
Registration is OPEN!
Sitka Center for Arts and Ecology
Creativity Unleashed - 2 day workshop (in person and zoom options)
September 12-13, 2021
I'm very excited to be invited to teach at Sitka Center in 2021, in Neskowin, Oregon.
In this 2-day workshop, we will explore a wide variety of processes to open and expand your creativity. With Sitka's rich, natural environment as our muse, we'll use unconventional methods with line, color, form, mark-making to shift perceptions and perspectives of what we see. It's a focus on process rather than product to break out of old patterns and pre-conceived ideas of painting and drawing. We'll work fast-paced and loose, (need to get ahead of the critical mind!) with simple art supplies like watercolors, pen, markers, and graphite. Participants will generate 12-48 small 'snapshot' sketches in a folded journal that we'll make in class. Working on a large sheet, broken into smaller shapes takes the 'preciousness' out of each drawing. Then, upon opening, all the marvelous images become a wonderful exploration of texture, color, imagery, text and line work.
Sitka Center is taking the necessary steps to ensure a safe learning environment for students and staff during COVID-19. Updates and registration information for 2021 will be posted directly through Sitka Center’s website.
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