In this workshop we’ll use the incredible handmade paint of LDBA to paint the dark: the summer night sky and it’s moon, stars, space and moonlight and consider its inhabitants— the real (and imagined!) nocturnal animals, humans and plants that occupy space at night.

We’ll use the LDBA’s beautiful handmade watercolors and play with touches of the METALLICS line! We’ll explore their different properties, experiment with ways of creating light, beauty and fun with dark and light and also dip our brushes into gouache and acrylic paint to experiment with ways these can be used to play with a mixed media approach in much the same way I do in my paintings.

We’ll consider silence, sleep and dreams, react to fun prompts about nighttime to create inspired night scenes and painted stories. The bonus is we’ll have an in-depth discussion about paper and feel and learn about its different properties. We’ll also practice glazing techniques and drawing with paint to create beautiful fun paintings depicting dark sky country and all the things and silences that lurk there.

Some watercolor experience is helpful but not necessary. All materials provided.

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, July 22
2-5 pm
Class limit: 8

La Petite Ecole
717 Canyon Road Unit C
Santa Fe, NM 87501