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Scroll down further for our May Recording with Julie-Liger Belair!
Scroll down even further for our April Recording with Lendon Noe!

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 is artist and author. In her Saturday Morning Drawing Club, she teaches drawing as a way to meet the true creative self. Her book, The Confident Creative: Drawing to Free the Hand and Mind, published by Findhorn Press 2010, was a gold medal winner in the 2011 Nautilus Book Awards.

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

We will make a small accordion “book” based on the theme “BLOOM” and sized to fit into an envelope, 2 3/4″ x4″ (Of course, you can work bigger if you like but not much time so small is good!). We’ll use brush and watercolor and work from imagination. I’ll talk about how we get ideas and tell a “story.”

SUPPLIES:

-small round brushes

-watercolors

-mixed media or watercolor paper cut to 2 5/8″ x 3 7/8″

-scrap paper to hinge panels together

-glue stick

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:

• Playing card (or paint chip cards would work too)

• Paper scraps (mix of patterned paper and someone or something to inhabit your house ie. images of people, animals etc), anything goes, whatever scraps of paper you have will surely work for this project!

• Glue stick

• Scissors

• Optional: gouache paint, gel pens, colour pencils

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

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!