Chasing Rabbits: Life, Creativity & the Pursuit of Happiness
Non-fiction: Illustrated Memoir & Creativity
96 pages • full color
+ bonus 24-page “Girl, Grandma” ‘zine

U.S. Orders: $28 plus $5 shipping/handling CLICK HERE
International Orders: Not available at this time, but I am working on it!

Hi Everyone!

“Chasing Rabbits” is an assignment I give while teaching (and to myself) that is about being free to discover what happens, rather than be intentional about the end product . . . a time to chase ideas, maybe not ever quite catch them but have a wonderful time in the process. And so for a long time now I have wanted to create a publication that had the FEELING of chasing rabbits.

In the beginning I thought it was going to be a really big book filled with every single piece of artwork I’ve made and every single thing I’ve ever written in my journals and blog posts and newsletters over the years!

Ha! That was never going to happen . . . . So instead I began to think of it as more of a serial book/magazine hybrid that includes drawings, paintings, sketches and scribbles as well as notes, musings and stories divided into three sections: Life, Creativity and the Pursuit of Happiness (with an emphasis on the word “pursuit” because, you know, life is hard). This is the first issue.

I really hope you like it!

Carla

Section 1: Life

The first section includes writing and images that tell the story of my childhood and adulthood (Incomplete! More to come!). It includes an annotated map of my childhood home, Greeting Cards to People from My Past, a selection of illustrated journal pages, and more.

Section 2: Creativity

I am tremendously lucky to be able to teach my passion: art and creativity. This section includes three mixed-media how-to projects and some other fun ways to think about our art.

Section  3: Pursuit of Happiness

I am a chronic documenter of my feelings, with hundreds of completed journals that I’ve kept on and off since high school.  In this section I’ve paired artworks with various journal excerpts, blog posts and other writings. 

And don’t forget that this issue includes a “Girl, Grandma” Board-Book ‘Zine!

Hello and welcome!

In this three-lesson mini class we will create a greenhouse of imaginary flowers while working  with watercolors, markers, colored pencils, white ink, white gesso and pencil on watercolor paper.

This class was. created awhile ago now but I still use the techniques and hope you enjoy them!

xoxo

Carla

The following supplies are recommended for this class (though please feel free to substitute with supplies you already have):

• a small set of watercolors (tube or pan, either is fine!)
• white gesso (I prefer the Golden brand, as it is a little thicker than some of the others)
• two flat brushes, one about 1/4″ and one about 3/4″
• one #12 round watercolor brush
• pencil (a regular 2B or mechanical pencil)
• an eraser (I like kneaded rubber erasers)
• small set of inexpensive colored permanent markers (I like Sharpies)
• one or two very light-colored Copic markers (or similar alcohol based or just something very light, like the gray one at the link) Link: http://store.copicmarker.com/collections/various-ink-toner-gray/products/t1-v
• watersoluable markers (these can be anything, even very inexpensive kid’s markers)
• a few colored pencils, colors you like
• white acrylic ink (I use “FW Acrylic Ink #011″) Link: http://www.daler-rowney.com/content/fw-artists-inks
• half sheet of 140# hot press watercolor paper or similar (I like Fabriano) Link: http://www.dickblick.com/products/fabriano-artistico-traditional-white-watercolor-paper/

optional
• spray fixative (I like Krylon UV Resistant clear) Link: http://www.krylon.com/products/uvresistant_clear

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LESSON 1 – Flower Blast

LESSON 2 – Imaginary Flowers

LESSON 3 – Flower Burst

June 11, 2025

Hello! We have one new class and four backlist classes added to the Brave Art Academy website! They are:

Beginning June 17th:

And four more from our catalog:

And here are the classes available for you if you live in the EU or UK! Just click on the images below and you should be redirected to Brave Art Academy (and we are adding new classes every month. Thank you for your patience!).

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Hello, and Good News!

Brave Art Academy in The Netherlands will be licensing some of  our classes for you in the EU & UK.

Lewis Rossignol’s new class, “Forget Everything you Know & Draw Like a Child!” will be open for registration within the next few days at https://braveart.academy/painting-classes/ … it’s not there quite yet (and thank you for being patient as we work out the timing!), but you will be directed there when you click the class sales page link when it’s ready.

In the meantime, below is some information about the class!

We really hope this works out for you, our valued UK and EU customers, and our plan is to get more of the classes licensed over the next few months.

Thank you for hanging in with us during this transition!

Carla & Steve

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Forget Everything You Know & Draw Like a Child!
Teacher: Lewis Rossignol
6 Lessons • $72
Class Dates: March 25 – April 4, 2025

There’s something really cool about children’s art. It comes from such an intuitive place. For a child art is about having fun. The process takes precedence over the final product, whereas for adults it’s usually all about the final result.

The desire to succeed in creating something good often will cause us to overthink things and tighten up. Because of this I’ve been working hard to get back to that place I was at as a child where I was creating intuitively, focusing on the process, and just having fun. As a result my art has become even looser, my creativity has increased, and most importantly my days have become more fun!

This class should help you get back to creating art with child-like intuition, curiosity, and playful creativity. The lessons are based on different aspects of children’s art that make it so interesting to look at.

Lewis

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A selection of Lewis’ loose, child-inspired art!

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Class Itinerary

Lessons are prerecorded and are instantly available upon signup.

Lesson 1: Get a Grip!
For this lesson I’ll start by showing you some of the tools that I like to use. Although, for these lessons I really believe that you should work with whatever tools you already have. I’ll also demonstrate some different grips that will help you loosen up your mark making by giving you less control of your tools. The assignment will have you trying out these grips to see which ones work best for you personally.

Lesson 2: Process Over Everything in the Whole Wide World
This lesson may be the hardest one for some of you because it’s all about divorcing yourself from the final product. What the art looks like here isn’t nearly as important as the process. I’ll show you how I get into this headspace, and some ideas to create a drawing where process trumps product.

Lesson 3: Draw What You Know (Not What You See) 
Children almost never use references. They don’t need to because they have vivid imaginations. Plus they don’t need to look at a photo of a butterfly because they’ve already seen one so they get the gist of it. For this lesson I’ll demonstrate how we can draw what we know instead of what we see. The assignment will ask you to draw a  picture completely from your mind.

Lesson 4: Popcorn Hierarchy
There’s quite a few different ways you can create hierarchy within your art, including color, contrast and size. However, for the most part children rely almost exclusively on size. And they do so in a non-realistic way. Have you ever seen a children’s drawing of their family where the mother is twice as big as everyone else? Does the child view the mother as a monster? No. It’s just that the mother is the most important figure in their life so they’re the biggest. For this lesson we’re going to draw a scene where what’s important to us is extremely obvious to the viewer because of the exaggerated size differences. Realistic dimensions are out the window for this one.

Lesson 5: Pickles & Problem Solving
My favorite part of children’s art is the lack of planning. They figure things out as they go, and you can sometimes see that in the finished piece. Because they’re working fast without much thinking they have to stay in a creative mindset where they’re ready to solve problems as they arise. The lesson here is about how we can solve problems that arise in our art. We may even create problems on purpose.

Lesson 6: Floating Elements for Fun & Profit
For this final lesson we’re going to think about the lack of grounding that takes place in a lot of children’s art. There may not be a horizon line, and things may seem to be floating, but we usually can still tell what’s going on. We’re going to have fun here with some floating elements, as well as trying to combine the other aspects we’ve talked about through the first five lessons without getting bogged down in overthinking.

Hello and welcome!

Cats, cats, and more cats in your home and sketchbooks! We will create a menagerie of imaginary cats with watercolors, markers, acrylics, and fabric! Each lesson includes a short drawing assignment and a main mixed-media lesson.

The following supplies are recommended for this class (though please feel free to substitute with supplies you already have):

• pen and sketchbook
• 1-2 pieces of watercolor paper cut or torn down to about 7″ x 10″
• watercolors
• #12 round brush
• 1″ flat brush
• pencil
• white paint pen
• selection of markers (can be water soluble or permanent, or both)
• a soft pastel or a piece of vine charcoal
• light-colored acrylic paint
• watercolor paper

Let’s get started!

LESSON 1 – Watercolor & Imagination

LESSON 2 – Markers & Life

LESSON 3 – Acrylics & Fabric

Cats! Bonus Lesson!

I wanted to invite you to join me for the rest of 2025 at a 50% “mid-year” discount!

Note: EU + UK followers will be redirected to our licensing partner, Brave Art Academy and they will have the class up and available by Wednesday, May 7th. We are sorry for the delay!

Carla’s Art Club link

https://www.carlasonheim.com/online-classes/carlas-2025-art-club/ 

Code for discount:

ArtClubSpecial

Thank you!

Carla’s 2025 Art Club
• 26 Zoom Work Sessions
• Monthly Downloadable Art PDFs (Club Swag!)
• Community Forums
• Special Price of $120
• 10% Off Online Classes + Etsy Offerings

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Hi everyone!

I would like to invite you to join me in 2025 for a year of creative art making and community!

I think a big part of our energy to make art comes from the inspiration and camaraderie from the people around us. And we are going to celebrate that with our live, yearlong community by sharing  and working together. A positive group based on support is really important right now and that is what “Carla’s 2025 Art Club” is all about!

By joining us this year you will receive:

• Bi-Monthly Live Work Sessions. We will gather via Zoom twice a month to draw together, share ideas, show our work and spend time working together. The recordings of each session will be available in your class account by the Monday after each scheduled day. Once the video is up, you can access it on your own time schedule.

• Monthly Downloadable Art PDFs (Club Swag!). Drawing Worksheets! Art Prompts! Sidewalk Cracks! ‘Zines! Digital Art Prints! Printable Postcards! and… Who knows?! I’m planning on making a whole lot of stuff this year and you will get at least 24 digital, downloadable PDFs as part of your club membership.  Sample PDFs HERE!

• Community Forums. We will have two dedicated forums to share our work and be inspired by the work of others (Facebook and Padlet). Upload your work, get ideas, and ask questions of our community. What are you working on this year? What new markers are people enjoying right now?  Who was that artist we talked about during Zoom last week? Etc.

My name is Carla and I love PUBLISHING stuff!

I love making books, ‘zines, worksheets and more. This year I plan on spending my creative time making stuff to publish, and you will receive digital PDFs of all of it! Here are some “categories” of PDFs you might receive during the year, and I promise to get you at least two per month.

I hope you like these samples… click on the links and print… and please join Carla’s 2025 Art Club this year for more!

Even if you can’t join us this year, please download and print the following PDFs and I hope you enjoy them! And thank you so much for supporting us over the years!

Carla

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• Art Prints
https://images.carlasonheim.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/30095201/bluebirddigitalprintfinal.pdf

I have a lot of drawings and paintings I’ve done over the years and in 2025 plan on selecting some and making downloadable art prints. Here’s “The Blue Bird of Happenstance,” an illustration created in Fall 2024 inspired by Aris Moore’s class. I plan on making a new print each month. Click the link, and print out on photo paper or other nice paper, then frame!

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• Creativity Worksheets
https://images.carlasonheim.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/30105518/sparksummer7worksheets.pdf

I love making drawing and creativity worksheets for adults… I even created a book — The Art of Silliness — that was based on my first worksheets! In 2025 I hope to revisit this format and make more! Here is a set of six “Journal Diving” worksheets that I made as part of a 2015 class, Year of the Spark, which I co-taught with Lynn Whipple, and below is a 5-page drawing worksheet made for 2014: Year of the Fairy Tale!

https://images.carlasonheim.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/30105450/FTS5wesfull.pdf

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• ‘Zines
https://images.carlasonheim.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/30095155/01_JulyAugust2015_JD.pdf

I have a goal of making 20 of these little kinds of ‘zines before I stop making stuff (die)! I’ve only done three so far, so I have a bunch more to do. I plan to get more made this year and you will receive a digital PDF like this one of each of them!

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And…

• Valentines & Gift Tags

• Postcards

• Collage Pages

• Art Prompts

• and more!

I’m looking forward to taking time in 2025 to go through my art files and past online classes and see what I can publish!

Thank you for considering joining me this year for 2025 Art Club!

xoxo

Carla

Hello!

Thank you for being a part of Sketchbook Revival 2024!

Below is the PDF for 20 Fast & Fun Drawing Exercises. I hope you enjoy them!

PDF LINK TK

Thank you so much again. Please sign up for our newsletter if you want to receive notices of our monthly Free Zoom Work Sessions with Guest Artists and for all of our sales and promos on our catalog of online classes.

And here are some links to some free videos right here!

1. TK
2. TK
3. TK

Have a wonderful, creative month!

Carla

Hello!

This is a really fun exercise (I think!) to do when you are stumped as to what to draw in your sketchbooks.

Gather about 10 drawing utensils (markers, colored pencils, etc.) and limit yourself to just those colors. Then, CLOSE YOUR EYES and draw four circles on your page, leaving enough room to later add bodies, etc. Now, open your eyes and began adding hair, eyes, noses, cheeks, and shading to your circles to create your character.

Now that you have a sense of who your character is, you’re ready to add the body. CLOSE YOUR EYES AGAIN, do your best, then have fun solving the puzzle of how to finish off your characters!

I have found over the years that I often prefer drawing done partially with my eyes closed, as the line quality and shapes can be imperfect and wonky, almost childlike… a style that really inspires me. I hope you like it, too!

Carla Sonheim

Chasing Rabbits
Non-fiction: Illustrated Memoir & Creativity
96 pages • full color
+ bonus 24-page “Girl, Grandma” ‘zine

Purchase here on this website! $28.00 + $5.00 shipping (U.S. only at this time)

Hi Everyone!

“Chasing Rabbits” is an assignment I give while teaching (and to myself) that is about being free to discover what happens, rather than be intentional about the end product . . . a time to chase ideas, maybe not ever quite catch them but have a wonderful time in the process. And so for a long time now I have wanted to create a publication that had the FEELING of chasing rabbits.

In the beginning I thought it was going to be a really big book filled with every single piece of artwork I’ve made and every single thing I’ve ever written in my journals and blog posts and newsletters over the years!

Ha! That was never going to happen . . . . So instead I began to think of it as more of a serial book/magazine hybrid that includes drawings, paintings, sketches and scribbles as well as notes, musings and stories divided into three sections: Life, Creativity and the Pursuit of Happiness (with an emphasis on the word “pursuit” because, you know, life is hard). This is the first issue.

I really hope you like it!

Carla

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Inside Peek:

Section 1: Life

The first section includes writing and images that tell the story of my childhood and adulthood (Incomplete! More to come!). It includes an annotated map of my childhood home, Greeting Cards to People from My Past, a selection of illustrated journal pages, and more.

Section 2: Creativity

I am tremendously lucky to be able to teach my passion: art and creativity. This section includes three mixed-media how-to projects and some other fun ways to think about our art.

Section  3: Pursuit of Happiness

I am a chronic documenter of my feelings, with hundreds of completed journals that I’ve kept on and off since high school.  In this section I’ve paired artworks with various journal excerpts, blog posts and other writings. 

And don’t forget that this issue includes a “Girl, Grandma” Board-Book ‘Zine!

Here’s the Happy New Year 2025 Zoom Session!

And here’s the link to the “Bluebird of Happiness” PDF mentioned toward the end of the video:

https://images.carlasonheim.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/30095127/bluebirdworksheetsmall.pdf

And…

Scroll down for past “Talk and Draws” with Lewis Rossignol,
Michelle Allen, Cat Bennett,  Kara Kramer, Julie-Liger Belair and Lendon Noe!

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October 15, 2024

Hi everyone! Thank you to those of you who made it to our time with Lewis Rossignol! Here is the recording… if for some reason you can’t play the video screen below, HERE is a link to play it and HERE is a link to download it. See you next month! (Details soon.)

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October 14, 2024

Hi everyone! Please join us for our next

FREE  Zoom Work Session

Tuesday, October 15th at 11am – 12:30pm PT!

Topic: FREE Zoom Session: Talk & Draw with Lewis Rossignol!
Time: Tuesday, October 15th at 11am-12:30pm PT
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81054485974
Meeting ID: 810 5448 5974

October’s guest is Lewis Rossignol!

Lewis Rossignol is a visual artist and adjunct illustration professor at the Maine College of Art and Design. He works in all kinds of mediums for clients including Tyler the Creator, Drew Taggert, HBO, Frankie Muniz, and Johnny Colt of the Black Crowes and Lynyrd Skynyrd. AND… he’s taught five classes with us! Website: www.lewisrossignolart.com Instagram: @lewisrossignol

Lewis will lead us through some fun doodling ideas first and then we will have our light interview (while you doodle). There will be sharing at the end, so come with some paper or a sketchbook and some pens (2-3 colors).

I’m really looking forward to talking and creating with Lewis and hope you can join us!

Carla

P.S. Here is the Zoom Info Again!

Topic: FREE Zoom Session: Talk & Draw with Lewis Rossignol!
Time: Tuesday, October 15th at 11am-12:30pm PT
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81054485974
Meeting ID: 810 5448 5974

P.S.S. The session will be recorded and we will be available right here within about a day after the event. Thank you!

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September 17, 2024

Hi everyone! Thank you to those of you who made it to our time with Michelle Allen! Here is the recording… if for some reason you can’t play the video screen below, HERE is a link to play it and HERE is a link to download it. See you next month! (Details soon.)

September 10, 2024

Hi everyone! Please join us for our next

FREE  Zoom Work Session

Tuesday, September 17th at 11am – 12:30pm PT!

Topic: FREE Zoom Session: Talk & Draw with Michelle Allen!
Time: Tuesday, September 17th at 11am-12:30pm PT
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81054485974
Meeting ID: 810 5448 5974

After a summer break in August, our Guest Artist for September is Michelle Allen!

I first met Michelle Allen years ago when we both taught at Teesha and Tracy Moore’s Artfest Retreat. From her bio:

Michelle is the sole, creative talent behind Allen Designs. She has never found anything completely flawless in life and yet she finds beauty everywhere. She loves the imperfect, slightly eccentric, witty quality of the world she sees around her. It’s the unpredictability of even the most mundane things that she tries to recreate in her art. Often, if something seems too perfect, she will skew it towards the unrealistic to capture the essence of a whim. Although the pieces she designs are practical, her hope is that her art will never become so serious that she betrays the uniqueness that inspires her.

Websites: www.michelleallenartist.com and www.allendesignsstudio.com
Instagram: www.instagram.com/michelleallenart

The Zoom Session will last 1.5 hours. Michelle and I will talk for a bit, and then Michelle will share a creative exercise. Then, we will work together in community where can continue your creative projects. At the end of the session, there will be time for sharing and questions!

Michelle will lead us through a “Simon Says” assignment… Bring the supplies below but remember this is a very loose list, whatever you have will work!

• Sketchbook or a couple sheets of paper
• Pencils
• Pens
• Acrylics/acryla gouache
• Different size brushes
• Rubbing alcohol
• String
• Something sharp

I’m really looking forward to talking and creating with Michelle and hope you can join us!

Carla

P.S. Here is the Zoom Info Again!

Topic: FREE Zoom Session: Talk & Draw with Michelle Allen!
Time: Tuesday, September 17th at 11am – 12:30pm PT
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81054485974
Meeting ID: 810 5448 5974

P.S.S. The session will be recorded and we will be available right here within about a day after the event. Thank you!

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July 16, 2024

Hi everyone! Thank you to those of you who made it to our time with Cat Bennett! And double thanks for hanging with us during all of the technical difficulties. Here is the recording… if for some reason you can’t play the video screen below, HERE is a link to play it and HERE is a link to download it. See you next month! (Details soon.)

July 1, 2024

Hi everyone! Please join us for our next

FREE  Zoom Work Session

Tuesday, July 16th at 11am – 12:30pm PT!

Topic: FREE Zoom Session: Talk & Draw with Cat Bennett!
Time: Tuesday, July 16th at 11am-12:30pm PT
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81054485974
Meeting ID: 810 5448 5974

Our Guest Artist for July is Cat Bennett!

Cat worked as an illustrator/designer for about thirty years. Her illustrations have appeared in The Boston Globe, The New York Times, The Atlantic Monthly, The Wall Street Journal, The Baltimore Sun and Time Magazine, Houghton Mifflin, Scholastic, Harcourt Brace and many other publications. She has also made short animations for CBC-Sesame Street, Nickelodeon TV, WHDH-TV, WGBH-TV and various non-profits. She has exhibited her art in group shows in Boston, New York, and Tokyo. Learn more about Cat and her work at www.catbennett.net/

The Zoom Session will last 1.5 hours. Cat and I will talk for a bit, and then Cat will share a creative exercise. Then, we will work together in community where can continue your “Cat” explorations or work on your own creative projects. At the end of the session, there will be time for sharing and questions!

A Mini “Bloom” Accordian Book
with Cat Bennett

I’m really looking forward to talking and creating with Cat and hope you can join us!

Carla

P.S. Here is the Zoom Info Again!

Topic: FREE Zoom Session: Talk & Draw with Cat Bennett!
Time: Tuesday, July 16th at 11am – 12:30pm PT
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81054485974
Meeting ID: 810 5448 5974

P.S.S. The session will be recorded and we will be available right here within about a day after the event. Thank you!

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June 12, 2024

Hi everyone! Thank you to those of you who made it to our time with Kara Kramer! Here is the recording… if for some reason you can’t play the video screen below, HERE is a link to play it and HERE is a link to download it. See you next month! (Details soon.)

May 29, 2024

Hi everyone! Please join us for our next

FREE  Zoom Work Session

Tuesday, June 11th at 11am – 12:30pm PT!

Topic: FREE Zoom Session: Talk & Draw with Kara Kramer!
Time: Tuesday, June 11th at 11am-12:30pm PT
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81054485974
Meeting ID: 810 5448 5974

Our Guest Artist for June is Kara Kramer!

Kara is one of my favorite people and artists! She has taught two awesome classes with us and has recently been exploding on the children’s book scene with four picture books to her name, including new picture book, Erno Rubik and His Magic Cube (authored by Kerry Aradhya and illustrated by Kara) that will be released tomorrow! (We get to celebrate with her on the book-release day!)

The Zoom Session will last 1.5 hours. Kara and I will talk for a bit, and then Kara will show us two creative exercises. Then, we will work together in community where can continue your “Kara” explorations or work on your own creative projects. At the end of the session, there will be time for sharing and questions! You will be making…

Drop and Draw!
Idea-Generating Exercises

Here are the supplies to bring to our Work Session:

• Gather a piece of string, a bent paper clip, cut rubber band or some other small objects, including collage paper bits cut into various small shapes.
• some paper (can be your sketchbook, loose paper or watercolor paper)
• glue stick
• your favorite pen
• your smartphone camera or similar

(Note: Please don’t worry if you don’t have the exact supplies… just come as you are and with what you have!)

I’m really looking forward to talking and creating with Kara and hope you can join us!

Carla

P.S. Here is the Zoom Info Again!

Topic: FREE Zoom Session: Talk & Draw with Kara Kramer!
Time: Tuesday, June 11th at 11am – 12:30pm PT
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81054485974
Meeting ID: 810 5448 5974

P.S.S. The session will be recorded and we will be available right here within about a day after the event. Thank you!

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May 8, 2024

Hi everyone! Thank you to those of you who made it to our time with Julie Liger-Belair! Here is the recording… if for some reason you can’t play the video screen below, HERE is a link to play it and HERE is a link to download it. See you next month!

May 2, 2024

Hi everyone! Please join us for our next

FREE  Zoom Work Session

on Tuesday, May 7th at 11am-12:30pm PT!

Topic: FREE Zoom Session: Talk & Collage with Julie Liger-Belair
Time: Tuesday, May 7th at 11am-12:30pm PT
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81054485974
Meeting ID: 810 5448 5974

Julie Liger-Belair is an artist living and practicing in Toronto, Canada. For the past 25 years she has been making collage and assemblage work using vintage photos, Japanese paper, found objects and ephemera as well as acrylic and gouache paint, colour pencils and ink. She works in her garage studio where she sometimes allows her husband, three children and little black dog Frida, to visit. Her website is: https://www.julieligerbelair.net

The Zoom Session will last 1.5 hours. Julie and I will talk for a bit, and Julie will show us her project and then we will create together in community. At the end of the session, there will be time for sharing and questions! You will be making…

Mini Spirit House Collages!

Here are the supplies to bring to our Work Session:

Carla

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April 18, 2024 – Thank you to everyone who came! Here is the recording of Lendon’s Interview and our Zoom session together. See you next month! (Details soon.) -Carla

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April 4, 2024

Hi everyone!

I hope you will join us for a

FREE  Zoom Work Session

on Tuesday, April 16th at 11am-12:30pm PT!

Topic: FREE Zoom Session: Talk & Draw with Lendon Noe
Time: Tuesday, April 16th at 11am-12:30pm PT
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81054485974
Meeting ID: 810 5448 5974

Our Guest Artist for April is Lendon Noe! Lendon is a native of Jackson, Tennessee, where she has been a Professor of Art at Lambuth University, Head of the School of Arts and Communications, and Chair of the Visual Art Department. She taught primarily, drawing, painting and design, and has taught three wonderful classes with us!

Lendon and I will talk for a bit, and then we will draw and create together in community. At the end of the session, there will be time for sharing and questions! Lendon will lead us in a pattern making exercise—circles in rows of varying sizes and playing with the positive/negative space:

Supplies to Have Ready:

• a piece of paper that is any color but white or black (if you don’t have any on hand, you can tone a piece of white paper with watercolor or acrylics)
• a black marker, medium or fine point
• a white gel pen or white colored pencil

(And if you don’t have these exactly supplies, don’t worry! Bring what you have and just play along!)

Here is the Zoom info again:

Topic: FREE Zoom Session: Talk & Draw with Lendon Noe
Time: Tuesday, April 16th at 11am-12:30pm PT
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81054485974
Meeting ID: 810 5448 5974

I’ll send a reminder out to the newsletter list on Monday, April 15th as well!

Thank you and we look forward to working with you on Tuesday, April 16th!

Carla

Note: The session will be recorded and we will have more information on how to access future recordings soon. Thank you!

Hi everyone!

Here is a little clip from Lesson 3 of Anita Lehmann’s new class, Creative Printmaking 2! We wanted to give you a little preview in case you’ve never seen Anita’s teaching style!

Class begins October 17th… join  us! CLICK HERE for more info. Thank you!

Steve & Carla

Hi, and thank you for being here!

The Online Class Intro Videos are listed here in alphabetical order. Just scroll down, click on the link and a screen should open up, then click play to start.

Thank you so much again for your interest in our classes!
Carla

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NEW Class Begins March 5th

Urban Sketchbooking with Lewis Rossignol

If for some reason the video doesn’t play, CLICK HERE and it should open up right away!

Also

Sign up Anytime!! 2024 Yearlong Class: Creativity Lab

If the above video won’t play, click the link below and a screen should pop up!
2024: Creativity Lab (Yearlong Class with Carla

7 Essentials
Abstraction: Diving Deeper
Art Journaling
The Beauty of Composition
Big Bold Bloom 2
Big Bold Bloom Wild Painting!
Big Juicy Watercolor
Bleed-Through Picture Making
Blobimal Artist Books
Bright Color Scribble Painting
Buttonhole Stitch Journal
Cats!
Collage with Carla
The Collage Techniques of Anne Marie Grgich
Creating Simple Characters
Creative Illustration Workout
Creative Printmaking with Anita Lehmann
Creative Printmaking 2
Doing More with your Gelli Plate
Drawing Workshop
DRAW!
Dream Bubbles, Scrappy Blablahs & More
The Essence of Still Life
Fairy Tale Illustration
Fine Art Collage
Gelli Plate Plus
Gelli Plate Printmaking
How to make Abstract Art That
How to Paint a Mouse
Imaginary Creatures
Improv Collage
Intro to Abstract Painting
Intro to Encaustic Painting
Joy Stuff
The Magic of Colored Pencils
Making Art a Practice
Making Faces
Meaning Making
Mixed-Media Girls with Cori Dantini
Mixed-Media Paintings with Lewis
Painting with Junko Yamamoto
Paper Mache Sculpture
Portraits with Lewis Rossignol
Procreate with Lewis Rossignol
Seeded Notebook
Spark!
Sketchbooking
Symbolic Portraits
Three Flower Paintings
Translating Landscape
Urban Sketchbooking
Watercolor Workshop
Weaving!
Wordplay Painting
Words and Pictures
Y is for Yellow
Year of the Collage
Year of the Rabbit

Facebook & Padlet Forums. The Forums are open! Participation is completely optional but can be the best way to stay connected with the lessons and each other. We’ve gotten feedback over the years that ours are one of the nicest forums around, so please join in if you can!

Our main group is at Facebook, but there is a small group for those not on Facebook who can interact via Padlet. (Please just choose one forum to post in to avoid double postings.) Here are the links!

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/781761990070610

Padlet: https://padlet.com/Carla_Sonheim/mixed-media-painting-with-lewis-rossignol-76ac8sgq3llblwx2

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Facebook & Padlet Forums. The Forums are open! Participation is completely optional but can be the best way to stay connected with the lessons and each other! We’ve gotten feedback over the years that ours are the nicest forums around, so please join in if you can!

Our main group is at Facebook, but there is a small group for those not on Facebook who can interact via Padlet. (Please just choose one forum to post in to avoid double postings.) Here are the links!

Facebook: www.facebook.com/groups/2057183177815685
Padlet: www.padlet.com/Carla_Sonheim/trxa2ioo00eeu6ab

Facebook & Padlet Forums. The Forums are open! Participation is completely optional but can be the best way to stay connected with the lessons and each other! We’ve gotten feedback over the years that ours are the nicest forums around, so please join in if you can!

Our main group is at Facebook, but there is a small group for those not on Facebook who can interact via Padlet. (Please just choose one forum to post in to avoid double postings.) Here are the links!

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1094921028047032
Padlet: https://padlet.com/Carla_Sonheim/xwxaj50916sfv5zx

Facebook
https://www.facebook.com/groups/698508044782557

Padlet
https://padlet.com/Carla_Sonheim/g1h8fup8uz30yc69

Facebook & Padlet Forums. The Forums are open! Participation is completely optional but can be the best way to stay connected with the lessons and each other! We’ve gotten feedback over the years that ours are the nicest forums around, so please join in if you can!

Our main group is at Facebook, but there is a small group for those not on Facebook who can interact via Padlet. (Please just choose one forum to post in to avoid double postings.) Here are the links!

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/592237328449023
Padlet: https://padlet.com/Carla_Sonheim/wyxfaylei2or5f0h

Facebook & Padlet Forums. The Forums are open! Participation is completely optional but can be the best way to stay connected with the lessons and each other! We’ve gotten feedback over the years that ours are the nicest forums around, so please join in if you can!

Our main group is at Facebook, but there is a small group for those not on Facebook who can interact via Padlet. (Please just choose one forum to post in to avoid double postings.) Here are the links!

Facebook:  www.facebook.com/groups/644374410149744
Padlet:        www.padlet.com/Carla_Sonheim/jwtgg92cyjn1qtyg

• Facebook & Padlet Forums. The Forums are open! Participation is completely optional but can be the best way to stay connected with the lessons and each other! We’ve gotten feedback over the years that ours are the nicest forums around, so please join in if you can!

Our main group is at Facebook, but there is a small group for those not on Facebook who can interact via Padlet. (Please just choose one forum to post in to avoid double postings.) Here are the links!

Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/groups/386874526454411
Padlet:        https://padlet.com/Carla_Sonheim/bzv9tvx2ezlg6w7u

Hi!

Thank you so much for submitting your patterns!

Here is what the pages will look like… I am going for squares but will work with what you send me, so don’t worry! Upload your images and fill out the form below.

Thank you again and email us if you have any questions: [email protected].

Carla

Hi Sketchbookers!

I hope you enjoyed the one-liner drawing session at Sketchbook Revival 2021! A huge thank you to Karen Abend for having me as part of it.

Below is a link to sign up for the free video… “More things to do with One-Liners!” Just “add to cart” and go through the checkout process… it’s free, so there will be no credit card information required and you will not be charged!

It is about 20 minutes long and includes three more ideas for One-Liners:

1. Drawing from Life.
2. Finding “the one.”
3. Oaxacan-inspired animals.

The link is HERE.

Thank you for being part of Sketchbook Revival and please consider joining my newsletter list by clicking below! Thanks again,

Carla

Sign up for the Newsletter!

NEW Zoom Class! Do you like to use the Gelli® Plate? Then join a live workshop via Zoom on Saturday, March 27th! Details HERE!

Facebook Class Forum
https://www.facebook.com/groups/436100544201130

Padlet Class Forum
https://padlet.com/Carla_Sonheim/b3c0r3x8m81tssfs

You can (optionally) share your work with via the class Facebook or Padlet forum pages. Our groups are lively and supportive, and you will find friends there!)

Lewis will be present regularly during the two-week class and will comment on uploaded work! Due to the large number of students enrolled, it’s possible that he might miss a post here and there… if you have posted and would like feedback from Lewis but it’s been a day or more, please email him with a head’s up that you have posted and he will look for your post! 

[email protected]

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Instagram Hashtags
#sketchbookingwithlewis
#carlasonheimpresents

Facebook Class Forum
https://www.facebook.com/groups/426871115130815

Padlet Class Forum

Current:

https://padlet.com/Carla_Sonheim/h5bnsff0b1qmncul

Past:

https://padlet.com/Carla_Sonheim/2021yearlongclass
https://padlet.com/carla_sonheim/6y4j4cb04ows3939

You can (optionally) share your work with via the class Padlet or Facebook forum pages. Carla will be there to see what you are doing, but due to the large number of students enrolled we can’t guarantee commenting on each one. (However, our group is lively and supportive, and you will find friends there!) If you have any questions, you will be able to email the Carla anytime.

Please note: We have healthy and enthusiastic forums… hurray! If you are new to our year-long classes, you might find it a bit chaotic or overwhelming at first…. but please don’t worry! Pop in here and there, and in time things do calm down. 😀

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Instagram Hashtags
#2021carlasyearlong
#carlasonheimpresents

Hi Everyone!

Over the past 6 years we have hosted our forums Facebook for two main reasons: it has provided a space for a community of artists to learn, collaborate, grow and enjoy each other, and it has been accessible to everyone around the world and is easy to use.

However, we also recognize that Facebook is more than just an objective platform and is controlled by people who have abused their power through breaches of privacy and even ethical standards.

This puts us in a difficult position because, while we do not support the leaders of Facebook, we would never want to exclude the users that rely on this platform as a method to connect and communicate. For that reason, are working on creating our own custom community app that provides security and is easy to use for everyone.

We hope to have this ready to go early in 2021. Please be patient with us as we make this change.

Carla and Steve

Hi!

We understand hard and unusual times!

Let us know if we can help you get access to this class by emailing us at [email protected]. A limited number of scholarships are offered on a sliding scale, so please let us know how much you are able to pay in your email.

Thank you!

Steve & Carla

https://images.carlasonheim.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/30103916/CSP_ArtPrompts-2.pdf

Hi everyone!

Steve and I recently sent an email out to our teachers asking for ideas to get through these next strange months. We loved Kara Kramer’s idea of a downloadable PDF of teacher’s art prompts, so we did it!

Here is a 40-page “Creative Care Package” from 12 of us! Each teacher created 2-5 pages.

CSP_ArtPrompts

You can print it out (many pages are meant to be drawn on), or just keep it online and do the prompts in your sketchbooks.

Please feel free to share widely… use in your classrooms… and share your pages on the Carla Sonheim Presents Facebook Group!

Thank you!

Please take good care,!

xoxo

Carla Sonheim

and

Kara Kramer
Cori Dantini
Karine Swenson
Alison O’Donoghue
Cat Bennett
Dar James
Lynn Whipple
Anne Marie Grgich
Nelleke Verhoeff
Anita Lehmann
Diane Culhane

😉

Click the links below to print out each worksheet.

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JANUARY 2020 Sidewalk Crack:

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What to Do? Here’s a Step-by-Step:

1. Click the link above for the JANUARY 2020 Crack of the Month.

2. The photo PDF will begin uploading in your browser window. It might take 20-30 seconds to load.

3. Print the photograph on heavier paper, such as card stock or watercolor paper.

4. Now, look at the image while you slowly turn the photo around and around.

5. Did you see something? An animal? A face? A monster?

6. “Finish” the drawing using markers, colored pencils or anything else you have on hand.

7. Post your completed image at the Carla Sonheim Presents – Share Your Work Facebook Group Page!

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What to Do? Here’s a Step-by-Step:

1. Click the link above for the DECEMBER 2020 Crack of the Month.

2. The photo PDF will begin uploading in your browser window. It might take 20-30 seconds to load.

3. Print the photograph on heavier paper, such as card stock or watercolor paper.

4. Now, look at the image while you slowly turn the photo around and around.

5. Did you see something? An animal? A face? A monster?

6. “Finish” the drawing using markers, colored pencils or anything else you have on hand.

7. Post your completed image at the Carla Sonheim Presents – Share Your Work Facebook Group Page!

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