Welcome!
Our October 15th Session with Lewis Rossignol went great… see just below for the replay!
Scroll down for past “Talk and Draws” with
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 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!
• Upon registration, you will receive an email within 48 hours confirming your sign-up. On the Friday before your session begins, you will receive your class codes.
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Krista Peel Starer is an artist, art entrepreneur and longtime developer of creative projects. She received her degree from the School of the Art Institute in Chicago, IL in painting and drawing.
