Painting with the Earth
THURSDAY, AUGUST 25, AND SEPTEMBER 1, 2022
7:00-8:30 PM EST
For students who have attended Grounded: Mixed Media Books and Pages this is an all new offering for Spring with new content for adding to your creative art making.
Connect with the world around us through color and creative self expression.
Learn how to make paint, charcoal sticks, inks and stains with dirt, stone, sticks and waters from rivers, streams and the sea. Learn to relax on your walks and find color all around for making natural pigments to provide creative opportunities that scaffold experimentation, contemplation and meditative journeys with earthly color.
Expect to leave class knowing how to create your own plaster book, sampler journal and a few bookbinding techniques, mark making tools, handmade brushes and found objects in nature for creating with your handmade colors as prompts and exercises that offer relaxing intuitive and meditative ways to create color charts, paint simple land and seascapes for journal references and color notations.
Learn how to gather color on your travels and save the memories through earthly color notations in your journal or on pocket memory cards you will learn how to make along with a handmade carrier.
Recipes and ingredients as well as care of supplies and pigment storage options will be shared.
Explore with me as I visit sites where farm community that once flourished and now development unearths layers of color as bulldozers destroy orange groves and land where cattle other wild animals roamed. Visits to the sea, walks in the woods examining lichens, mosses and streams for rock tools and color.
This series will meet on Zoom. Registrants will be provided with meeting details for class entry. Please become familiar with Zoom applications before class. This will provide for a more relaxing experience at class time. Note taking suggested.
The class is a lecture series with hands on demonstrations, examples and time for answering questions. Each class will be recorded.
A kit is not prepared for offer with this class. Supply lists will be available as well as resources for supplies and tools that aren’t handmade. If assistance is needed with supplies the instructor can offer assistance.
All skill levels are invited to join us.