About this Event
We’re excited to announce our third Holiday class! As always, it’s a donation-only class and we will donate a % of our profits to our local food banks. This class is about creating some fun, non traditional holiday-themed art. We will each paint something festive and wintery, possibly a still life, or scene of festive tiny people, or pattern of holiday themed things, or maybe a few of each! We work on lots of ideas for you and then decide right before the class which would feel the most fun to paint with you.
This will be extra accessible, with some really simple ideas for all of you new painters.
Bring the kids!
Gather some blank cards and envelopes, or just paint/draw on paper - anything is fine. We give you our supply list but you can can paint or draw with anything you have on hand. The recording of the class is offered to purchase as well if you can't make it on Dec. 15th. Everyone receives the replay within a week of the class.
See our supply list You do not have to buy anything from this list. You can use what you have around the house, no need to purchase anything!
Reference and zoom link will be emailed to you a few days before the class.
During this workshop, we will begin with a brief show and tell, a short explanation of our materials, our process, and how we choose and mix colors. Then we will each paint for 40 minutes. For this class, Jennifer will do a short technique demo showing how to use acryla gouache. While you are welcome to use any materials you want, we will be painting with acryla gouache.
You will have a chance to ask us questions in the chat. You’re welcome to either simply watch or you can paint along with us. At the end we will have time for some participants to show their work.
We want these classes to be accessible to anyone who'd like to take them, and we’re so happy that this donation based model is working so well. Pay what you can! NOTE: whatever your donation, you will also be charged the Eventbrite fees. Do keep in mind that we work hard to give you great classes, so we appreciate that those of you who can afford to pay more will help those who can afford less!
If you can't make it on December 15th, there is a video-only option. EVERYONE from the live class will also get the video. It takes about a week for us to have the video edited after the class.
Do not try to purchase tickets through the Eventbrite app, it will not work. Use a browser and it’s easier on your computer or iPad. Please let us know if you have any issues.
We hope to see you there!
Gayle & Jennifer
WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING:
'The benefits of having two teachers!'
-- I like Jennifer's deliberate marks, colors ways and figurative work. I like Gayle's easy flowing, loose expressive style. Both styles are unique and encourage me to hone my own style of painting.
-- For this session, I liked how Jennifer started with painting an outline first. It was an easy way to get my feet wet! I liked the loose way Jennifer sketched - esp with the markers. I liked Gayle's filling in the background first and her marks to depict the landscape and vegetation. I am drawn to the muted colors Gayle uses too.
-- This workshop with Jennifer and Gayle was wonderful! I really enjoyed following along as they painted and sketched - giving us details about their process, ideas and materials used. They graciously answered questions and had encouraging words for us all. These ladies are lovely and offer a very inspiring class. I'm looking forward to participating in many more!
--I feel blessed to have come across you and am very excited to continue my painting, drawing, sketching (and traveling) journey with such lovely, kind and generous women!
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Gayle Kabaker
Gayle Kabaker is an award-winning illustrator, writer, and visual storyteller. She graduated from the Academy of Art in San Francisco and began her career as a freelance fashion illustrator. After moving to Western Massachusetts she expanded from fashion illustration and this led to projects for a variety of major clients in advertising, editorial, and animation. She had her first New Yorker magazine cover ‘June Brides’ celebrating gay marriage in 2012 and has had a total of eight covers since then. Her work tends to be very feminine, exploring beauty in all forms. Gayle uses her sketchbook to document her life and her current favorite muse is her granddaughter Mona. She had an ongoing column in the Washington post Called 'Sketching My Way Through Crisis' showing how keeping a sketchbook practice can be therapeutic for anyone even if you're not an artist. Gayle illustrated 100 portraits for the book Vital Voices - 100 Women Using Their Power to Empower and it came out last year to rave reviews. The companion exhibition was the longest-running show in the history of the Kennedy Center. Gayle lives in Western Massachusetts with her husband, artist Peter Kitchell and their dog Charlie.
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Jennifer Orkin Lewis / Augustwren
A deep love of color, pattern, and nature is the foundation of Jennifer's work as an artist, illustrator, author, and teacher. Her joyful gouache paintings of flowers, random objects, people, and occasional meditative abstract musings open a colorful and enticing window onto a detail of the day one might ordinarily overlook. In 2010 she made the move to switch careers from textile design to illustration, to fulfill a long-held goal, and began a rigorous daily sketchbook project, doing a 30-minute painting every day. The looseness and intuitiveness of those paintings became her signature style and they are the source of much inspiration to herself and others. She is endlessly amazed and satisfied to see her shelf filling up with completed sketchbooks. Jennifer's work has been featured on many products and brands worldwide, including Anthropologie, Abrams Books, Chronicle Books, Eeboo, Kate Spade Home, Tocca, Seattle Chocolate Company, Roger LaBorde as well as many others. Her books include two inspirational sketchbook journals published by Abrams that encourage and inspire people to develop their own daily drawing practice. Jennifer studied at Rhode Island School of Design and spent the first half of her career as a textile designer and stylist in NYC.
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