About this Event
This is your invitation to sip, snack, paint and play with so many Seattle favorites:
Join us for an evening at Westland Whiskey in the Sodo district of Seattle, enjoy tasty vittles from Ashley Rodriguez @ashrod as she shares preview bites from her much-anticipated new book Rooted Kitchen, and learn the foundations of the watercolor art with Sarah Simon @TheMintGardener from her BRAND NEW book in her Watercolor Workbook series, all while enjoying sips and creative moments in good community. Come enjoy this creative fête, take a mindful evening to celebrate new recipes and new paintings - and step inside the welcoming Westland tasting room as you sip and soak in the slow beauty of painting, whiskey and good food.
The Painting
Come and paint with Sarah in her BRAND NEW book in her Watercolor Workbook series: Café in Bloom ! You will receive your signed copy of the book almost a month ahead of everyone else! After this class with Sarah, you will be skilled and knowledgeable, with the new ability to see and recreate the watercolor art process, layer by layer. During our time together, you will learn the techniques Sarah uses for watercolor, and see how she uniquely teaches the foundations of this art as a transferable and mindful skill. Sarah teaches you step-by-step in her new book, Watercolor Workbook: , and once you know how to paint a few flowing washes, that knowledge can be used to paint a fabulous project together from the book. The possibilities are endless with this beautiful art form. Once you work through the foundations together, learn the steps to paint in her new book, together with Sarah. You will work on the pre-drawn template of the project in the book, so no drawing is required.
With this class registration, you will receive all of the materials you need to continue to paint at home: brushes, paints and of course…your own signed copy of Sarah's NEW Watercolor Workbook. The official pub date isn't until May 28th, so you get to paint and play in your new book early! Sarah cannot wait for you to join us; to fall in love with the flowing freedom of watercolor, and the beauty of watching paint and water dance along your pages.
The Food
Be among the first to taste seasonal recipes from Ashley’s new cookbook, Rooted Kitchen! Ashley believes that through food we can deepen our connection to the earth to help heal ourselves and the earth. At a time when we urgently need to connect with the earth, Rooted Kitchen offers a fresh way to appreciate nature and the treasures it provides. Talk foraging, forest bathing, and living rooted with Ashley as you taste:
Smoked Trout Dip
Winter Vegetable Crudite with Yogurt and Chaat masala
Rooted Reubans
Roasted Cauliflower with Mushroom Mole and Cilantro Radish Salad
Grapefruit, Bitters and Olive Salad
Buckwheat Carrot Cake
Pine and Pistachio Linzer Cookies
Seedy Bark with Puffed WIld Rice
The Whiskey
Guests will enjoy several whiskey beverages over the evening’s festivities. Think: something to welcome you, something to sip and savor as you paint and snack, and a final ‘cheers’ for a wonderful night’s time!
Located in the SoDo district of downtown Seattle, the 13,000-square-foot space of Westland boasts 40-foot ceilings, exposed original wood beams and wide open spaces. This lovely Tasting Room will serve as our entertaining area of the evening as we soak in the incredible atmosphere and enjoy the countless award winning American Single Malt Whiskeys that Westland proudly distills - and will be sharing with us as we mingle, enjoy and create.
Photos of Westland Distillery credit to Carson Artac
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About Sarah:
Artist and author Sarah Simon, a.k.a. @themintgardener, has taught thousands of people how to watercolor and with her teaching talents, has made it such an approachable and enjoyable art form, both for the experienced and novice alike. Her book series: Watercolor Workbook provides everything you need to know about the art of watercolor and has been the #1 best-selling watercolor book in the world for the past three years! And now, in this NEW workbook, Sarah offers 25 MORE watercolor projects that you can sit down and enjoy painting today.
About Ashley:
Ashley Rodriguez is a Seattle-based award winning food writer and photographer. She is the author of three cookbooks; Date Night In, Let’s Stay In, and Rooted Kitchen (Spring ‘24). She is the host and co-creator of the James Beard nominated series, Kitchen Unnecessary. Ashley is a graduate of Seminary of the Wild through the Center for Wild Spirituality and a certified Nature and Forest Therapy guide. When not eating, or talking and writing about food you can find her foraging, fly fishing, feeding her sourdough starter and spending as much time outside as possible. She believes the outdoors is a place to be fed both physically and spiritually.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Westland Distillery, 2931 1st Avenue South, Seattle, United States
USD 185.00
