Spontaneous Haiku Paintings
Sunday
$130
  
  Katie Kendrick
9:00 - 4:30
    

Student Level: All
Type of Workshop: Process and Project

 

This is a spontaneous and intuitive art-making workshop, designed to fuel curiosity and the experimental nature at the core of all original creation. Students will experiment with fluid acrylics on watercolor paper, diluting them with water and altering the wet paint with additional mediums. We will work on several small (5" x 7") paintings simultaneously, using brushes, eyedroppers, dripping, dribbling, spattering, pouring, puddling, and using monotypes to create and uncover fresh and original paintings that reveal hidden stories. Students will learn ways to 'draw out' the stories with a minimum of additional line and color to make the images "pop", using paint, graphite, colored pencil, and pen where needed. We will put words to each visual vignette using haiku, a short-metered form of Japanese verse. Students will choose 6-8 of their favorite paintings to mount onto mat board pages to assemble a simple fabric-bound booklet of personal visual haiku.

Supplies provided by Instructor:
Fabric strips for binding
Thread
Paper cups
Paper towels
Eyedroppers
Use of instructor's paints, mediums, colored pencils, tapestry needles

Supply List :
-One-ounce containers of Golden fluid acrylics (no substitutes for this brand on paint)
black, iridescent bronze, and 2-3 other colors of your choice (not white)
-8 ounce jar of soft gel medium (matte)
-8 ounce container of gesso
-Small spray bottle filled with rubbing alcohol (bottles in cosmetic departments)
-3 paint brushes:
small for details, medium round, and larger (#12-14 flat) for applying gesso to pages
-10-15 pieces of 5" x 7" cotton watercolor paper (my personal preference is Fabriano Artistico, cold pressed - they make 'blocks' of twenty-five 5" x 7" sheets)
-4 pieces of mat board cut to 6" x 7 1/2"
-Graphite pencil
-Stabilo Aquarellable black marking pencil
-Black gel pen (Uniball Gel Impact is my favorite)
-White gel pen (Uniball Signo UM-153 is my favorite)
-Scissors
-Water container
-Paint pallet
-Paint rag

Questions? Email Katie at joyouslybecoming@earthlink.net
Website: www.katiekendrick.com
Blog: www.joyouslybecoming.typepad.com

 

 

 

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