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Try This! introduction to An exploration in painting, art styles & mediums: Tuesday 12-2pm

Hi there and welcome to your journey in exploring a multitude of mediums, art terminology, theory and how they all work together to create amazing visual results. Below you will find a projected itinerary. I do work intuitively, so if a project needs to go another direction or we need more time playing we will do exactly that. The emphasis is FUN and enjoying our time together and about the experience NOT the result. I am a Creative Coach, so if anything comes up along our journey and you need some one on one- please reach out! I love new ideas and exploring with people I'm connecting with, so please don't hesitate to probe my 27 years of self taught failures and successes to make that creative idea become reality! When this course is complete, we will switch into a regular weekly art class based on a monthly membership rate. I look forward to our time together at the studio! 1:11 Art and Healing Space, 3409 University Dr.Durham. Åndria

Introduction course with all materials and supplies included

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week 1: Black & White terms " texture, balance, proportion"

This excercise is sure to broaden your Doodlebase, and whether it be a new way to focus on lectures, meditate or just start a family project for when friends, kids and family come to visit. Grab some things to trace and lets get started! This project lends itself to creating depth and planes in a piece with just the use of lines and patterns playing off each other. This is drawing, and pen and ink, it is created to help start opening up your minds eye and shift how you look at the world around you.

Supplies: pens, mixed media paper,ruler, pencil, eraser, and a variety of shapes (coins, lids, bowl, cookie cutters, library card etc.)

Artists to gain Inspiration from:
MC Escher, Vera Wang, Matisse, Miriam Schapiro, Lim MacConnel, Henri Matisse

Homework: take as much time as you want, just be sure to complete!
* this may be hard for the hands for long periods of time, break it down, do a little every day and let it lead you.

Week 2: Surreal collage

How do we convey an emotion , concept, subconscious experience when we haven't the facility to draw or paint it into fruition? Collage and surrealism go hand in hand to help with creativity. By looking at objects, colors, scale and how they play off one another, we are able to create powerful messages and feelings with found images, words, and backdrops that quickly transmute us to another land. Feel free to bring pictures you might want to incorporate.
terms "scale, balance, color, focal point, warm, cool"
Salvador Dali, Magritte, Ernst, Chagal

Week 3 : Introduction to alcohol inks

This week is all about fluidity, flow, and allowing your medium be your guide. Often in art, we don't know " when to stop". It takes many years of practice and understanding your relationship with the media you choose to work with. This weeks exploration will be working in paint forms where you must release control - to a degree and then how you let go of expectation and allow art to happen!

Week 4: Painting with Paper

I lead you in a meditation and visualization process then release you to create a scene from that peaceful journey

week 5-6 decorative art

Let's familiarize ourselves with brushes now and paint! I'll lead you through a couple of warm up excercises, cover mixing paint and strokes. With an understanding of proportion and scale, and how images play off of each other you will begin your first "decorative piece", so its organic nature lends to getting comfortable with the canvas, using space or choosing to let it rest.
This is a two week process, in the second week , we will learn about form, leaves, flowers and embellishment

Week 7 : scrapbooking/journaling

We all love the art of card making, sending and receiving post. During this class I will take you on a journey of creating a variety of paper "stash" and recognizing that every little piece or scrap of art we have made along the way, lends itself to a mini masterpiece for gifting.