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Imagine With Art Newsletter
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I welcome your comments!
susan@imaginewithart.com
707-824-8163
Table of Contents:
Etymological Inspirations
Workshops
Art Play: Rorschach
Sketchbook Project
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 Dear Friend,
While jumping around this morning in Jazzercise, I found myself having an art news conversation with you and realized it was time for another newsletter! Movement to music has always had the effect of setting words and images free while of dislodging any logjams in my thinking and emotions. So here's what's up. . .in image and word. . .
While the baby chicks have been growing big and brazen this month, I've been experimenting with some new color palettes and acrylic painting techniques. There's something about the personalities of some chickens which warrants dramatic color in the painting of them. Or maybe it's just my envy of their elegant attire. Starting with a high chroma underpainting makes for some pretty peppy color.
We all know what a Rorschach test is, but have you tried one lately? The Saturday Muse group did earlier this month with mind blowing results. You can try your own with the instructions given in the Art Play column.
And would you like to make a sketchbook that goes on a concert tour around the country? Or try an etymological inspiration - a word which carries such a powerful image that it could be the catalyst for your next series of paintings?
I hope you'll take a moment to peruse the workshops I'll be offering this fall. A new session of the monthly Muse Groups will be starting in September and there are still openings. And then a progression of skills building workshops combining experimental water media with collage and words.
Cheers,
Susan
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Etymological Inspiration
Chalice: Middle English, from Anglo-French, from Latin calic-, calix 1. a drinking cup, goblet, eucharistic cup
2. the cup-shaped interior of a flower
3. a poetic euphemism for the sacred feminine
4. a type of coral, usually formed in the shape of a cup
5. an ornamental serving vessel
Georgia O'Keefe directed our gaze to the cup shaped interior of a flower. Primitive art celebrated the sacred feminine as the origin of life. What form does the chalice take for you. . . and what is contained within?
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Imagine With Art Workshops
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you want a practice of art journaling and a group of Muses to meet with
regularly and explore the limits of your imagination. . .or. . .if you
want to learn some new water media techniques combined with collage and
word, you will find something here to match your schedule and feed your art longing. You can take a single workshop or all three as a series for a discounted price.
Freedom in Painting with Inks and Gesso!
When: Sept 25
Time: 10am-3pm
Cost: $65
Location: The Studio in the Orchard, North Sebastopol
To register contact Susan, susan@imaginewithart.com
Watch
your imagination take flight as you paint, draw, stamp, comb, spray and
splash color and shapes onto your paper. Along with adding these
techniques to your artistic repertoire, you will be introduced to the
process of art journaling as a way to access inner guidance.
Mix Those Media to Energize Your Paintings!
When: October 30, 31
Time: 10am-4:30pm
Cost: $160
Location: The Studio in the Orchard, North Sebastopol
To register contact Susan, susan@imaginewithart.com
Enliven
your paintings with unusual textures, collage elements, and design
challenges. The use of collage papers, textural mediums, and image
transfers will be demonstrated along with the transparent and opaque
applications of acrylic paints. Your choice of abstract or objective
subject matter.
 Paint + Collage + Word! |
| When: November 20, 21
Time: 10am-4:30pm
Cost: $160
Location: The Studio in the Orchard, North Sebastopol
To register contact Susan,
susan@imaginewithart.com
Integrate your personal vision through explorations in painting, collage
and written word. Along with painting skills you will learn to build
meaning in your paintings with imbedded text, and hand drawn,
painted or stamped words, which become an integral part of the piece.
Sign up for all three workshops, Sept, Oct, Nov for the discounted price of $335, (a $385 value)
Art Journaling in Muse Groups
The Muse group is a laboratory to spark creative expression, an opportunity to treat yourself to a regular infusion of art play in a supportive group setting. Each session features a different painting or art technique which you can add to your repertoire - from textured collage to a variety of wet media painting techniques. Simultaneously you will learn an art practice which captures your thoughts, feelings, and intuitions in a playful visual format that you can keep as an ongoing book of your life.
Saturday Muse Group (six monthly meetings)
When: Sept 11, Oct. 2, Nov. 6, Dec 4, Jan 8, Feb 5
Time: 10am-2:30pm
Cost: $240
Sunday Muse Group (six monthly meetings)
When: Sept. 12, Oct. 3, Nov 7, Dec 5, Jan 9, Feb 6
Time: 10am-2:30pm
Cost: $240
To register contact Susan, susan@imaginewithart.com
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Comments from recent Muse Group students:
I am now working in my visual journals using a wider range of mediums with more courage and enthusiasm. This is the best class I've taken in many years. -S.J.
You put lots of heart and soul into these groups and you have created such a warm supportive atmosphere in which to learn. -Suzanne
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Art Play: Rorschach
In the Saturday Muse group we created and took our own Rorschach
tests! Dribbling inks and gesso and paints on one side and folding the
paper over to get a mirror imprint. They were so beautiful!
multicolored and textured and fascinating shapes that we could never
have created "on purpose".
Try it out for yourself. Fold your paper in half, open it up,
dribble/splatter a couple different inks and some much thicker gesso on
one side. Fold your paper over onto the inks and press. Open the paper
and marvel, fantasize, let your own stories evolve!
We'll be playing around with inks and gesso in my September 25 workshop Freedom in Painting with Inks and Gesso if you want to join in. |
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The Sketchbook Project
I just sent away for my blank Moleskine sketchbook and registered for this fascinating project that's "like a concert tour but with sketchbooks". You get to select a theme from a list they provide - mine is "make mine a double" (I figure I can at least put some Rorschachs in there!)
You send in your finished sketchbook by the closing date and it goes on tour to be exhibited in art galleries and museums around the country before ending up in the permanent collection of the Brooklyn Art Library, where it's also available for public view. And you can bring your friends to see the exhibit because it will land in San Francisco on the way. Read more about The Sketchbook Project and sign up here.
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"Imagination is more important than knowledge." These are the words of Albert Einstein. I guess he ought to know.
Allow time and space for your imagination to take flight. And let me know what comes of it!
Cheers,
Susan
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