Description
Interpret your observations of the coastal Pacific Northwest environment to create abstract art that is wholly your own. You’ll expand your artist’s eye by learning different ways of seeing, loosen your grip on realism, and move into an exploration of essence. Starting in small format and moving larger in an iterative approach, you’ll lean into different mediums, including watercolor, graphite, oil pastel, and cut paper, to personally express the magic of the landscape. Meg shares examples and creative process methods that can free your hand and strengthen your visual voice.
About the Instructor
Meg Kaczyk’s abstract paintings are inspired by the natural world, contemporary poetry, meditation practice, and life’s transitions, uncovering themes of joy, grief, gratitude, and presence found in everyday life.
With a 30-year career in the creative arts, Meg has worked in fine art, creative direction, graphics, arts administration, and teaching. She began her career as an illustrator and designer in the Midwest, graduating from Kendall School of Design in Grand Rapids and working in print and publication in Detroit. In the 1980s, seeking a vibrant arts community, she moved to Portland, where she exhibited her paintings in local galleries and public venues, and worked as a creative director in tech marketing. Now based in Port Townsend, Washington, on the Olympic Peninsula, Meg paints from her studio, exhibits regionally, and teaches creative process classes designed to help artists grow their personal expression.
Learn More
artist.megkaczyk.com
Materials List
You will need to bring:
Smartphone with digital camera or other digital camera device such as an iPad. Photographing in the field can be the sole or supplemental source material for the workshop’s studio time.
Students may bring whatever they normally use for outdoor, informal field sketching such as portable sketchbook, watercolors, pencils, pastels, etc. Sketching in the field can be the sole or supplemental source material for the workshop’s studio time.
All other course materials and supplies are provided by the instructor.
Provided by instructors:
Water soluble oil pastels
Oil pastels
Graphite crayons
Charcoal
Liquid acrylic
Watercolor
Gouache
Papers: small and larger format multimedia papers including postcard and tile sizes, canvas paper, Rives BFK, colored papers
Informational handouts with key points, supply sources, and reading list