Handmade Nature Journals: A Workshop on Nature, Color & Imagination w Deborah Stein 6/29/24
Handmade Nature Journals: A Workshop on Nature, Color & Imagination w Deborah Stein 6/29/24
We’ll make two kinds of beautiful simple handmade watercolor journals, one large and one small and find ways to begin to fill them with observations of colors and sights from the natural world, like many explorers that came before with a unique modern twist. The perfect thing to have to take notes and make marks on your vacation to accompany your beautiful palette of watercolors.
Making your own journal is a wonderful way to take notes, keep track of what you find and see and think, track your favorite colors in nature, clouds, faces and mountains and practice drawing and scribbling.
After we make our journals we’ll go outside and paint, weather permitting and find ways to express what we see using pencil, watercolor and other marks including collage. We'll practice note-taking, play with color mixing to explore the true colors we see in leaves, petals, bones and more. I’ll show you tricks for careful and carefree mark-making to create textures as well as making your notes and lettering sing!
All materials provided and all skill levels welcome!Deborah Stein lives, paints and writes in NYC and the Embudo Valley in New Mexico. She teaches visual narrative workshops, runs twice a year artist residencies. Deborah studied the passing on of traditional arts with a toymaker family in Northern India, worked with NYC school kids as a museum educator at the Museum of Arts & Design and has traveled and taught alternative arts education workshops about seeing and translating the world in new ways for adults and children for a lifetime.
Saturday, June 29
12 - 3 pm
Class limit: 10
La Petite Ecole
717 Canyon Road Unit C
Santa Fe, NM 87501