Description
Look Up! It is intrinsic to our nature to pay attention to daily and seasonal climate shifts that happen in our environment. We see, feel, hear, sense and smell a change in the air.
Explore a variety of drawing and painting techniques to capture weather patterns to be used in a Weather Journal. Layers of watercolor, graphite, ink and mixed media can quickly communicate the feel of clouds, storms, hot days, wind or dark and smoky skies. Students will build a collection of techniques to use as reference for a continued practice in a personalized weather journal.
About the Instructor
She teaches art workshops with an emphasis on creative process through Linn-Benton Community College, Sitka Center for Art and Ecology and CAC at Menucha.
Her artwork, From Ashes, Water, won an Art About Agriculture Purchase Award and is in the permanent collection at Oregon State University.
Her coffee table book ‘The She Project, how SHE inspired a community’ based on an annual Womens community project she developed and curated for 9 years, earned awards from both the Independent Publisher Book Award, and the Nautilus Book Award.
Learn More
www.laurenohlgren.com
Materials List
You will need to bring:
Sketchbook or Journal- with watercolor or mixed media paper, at least 6”x9” that opens flat.
Black Ink sketching pens-both water soluble and waterproof of varying nib sizes.
Colored Pencils
Graphite pencils- soft and hard
Polymer erasers (small ones that go on end of pencil and/or block
Paper smudge/blender
Water-based paints- (your choice or mix them up); watercolors, ink, acrylic ink, gouache, (no oils)
Watercolor Brushes: variety of sizes and types (ex. 1” flat, #12 round, old stiff boar bristles for textures, etc)
Small water container
Optional:
Mark-Making tools- might include: colored pens, pastels, wax crayons, ink, pan pastels, etc
Provided by instructors:
Variety of papers (synthetic, watercolor, mixed media) for creating samples
Variety of mixed media supplies to share
Assortment of mark-making tools