Come discover how drawing can help us more fully experience the world of nature. During this day in the garden we will practice an approach to the drawing process that will enhance our ability to see. Both the novice and the experienced artist will discover the pleasure and the meditative calm that comes from slow, responsive observation.
$15.00 materials fee or you can bring your own unlined journal and colored pencils.
Saturday, December 5, 2009
Sketching & Watercolor: Journal Style
with Jane LaFazio
Be inspired to record your life, your trip, or your daily adventures in an illustrated journal as you spend a meditative day drawing and sketching in the healing gardens. Jane will guide you through basic drawing, inking and watercolor painting. You’ll choose simple objects, vignettes or vistas to draw and paint, and then journal your thoughts right onto the drawings. See Jane’s journal here. At the end of the day you will create a small portfolio to hold your artwork. The class is geared for beginners, but all levels are welcome. Fifteen dollar materials fee includes everything you’ll need: watercolor paper, ink pen, pencil and watercolor set with special Niji Waterbrush.
SoulCollage is the process of creating a deck of collaged cards from both found (magazines) and personal images (photos) for the primary purpose of self-exploration and self-acceptance. Suits include dimensions of your life such as: inner personalities, archetypal influences, community and more, working in a 5x7" format, with a playful use of imagery.
All materials are provided but you can bring a couple of photographs or images you want to include. No previous art skill necessary.
Feb 13, 2010
Create Your Own Heart: Hearts of Stone Workshop
with d. Goth
Come learn the contemporary fresco process on natural stone as we celebrate the beauty in our own hearts. Using broken mosaic we will be adding paint to decorate, celebrate and discover the intrinsic beauty in the cracks, crevices and the multi faceted surfaces of the stone and the heart. "Broken hearts may be mended, nailed, screwed or left slightly readjusted. Sometimes it's in the breaking that one finds the necessary pieces to put their heart together", says d.goth.
(materials fee $10)
March 13, 2010
Women, Anger and Empowerment
with Ellen
This ever-popular workshop empowers us as women to explore
the full range of our emotions, from joy to grief, from
delight to anger. Have you been socialized to be sweet,
gentle and quiet, while a part of you would like to scream?
How easy is it for you to say "NO"? Here's a chance for
you to assert your power. Come try out the exhilaration
of claiming your full voice in this fun-filled workshop.
For women only, sorry guys!
April 17, 2010
Spirit Sticks: Painting on Silk
with Lauren Lee and Ellen
Connection and loss are both essential elements in our
lives. While painting with vibrant dyes on yards of pure
white silk, stretched on a circle of bamboo poles, we
celebrate our connections with others and with the beauty
of nature. As we create "spirit sticks " with the silk and bamboo, we also acknowledge
the grief of loss, death and separation and the power
of the spirit to move us forward. (Please note, a $10.
materials fee will be added to the cost of this workshop.)
What relationship is more complex than that of mother
and daughter? The process of creating affirmation dolls
is handed down from African American slave mothers, who
practiced this tradition with their daughters as a way
to preserve a sense of dignity, hope and survival of spirit.
This will be a day dedicated to our mothers, daughters
and sisters and will be enriched if you can come with
either one from your own family or someone who has been
like a "mother", "daughter" or "sister" to you. Through
the use of yarn and cloth you will learn to create dolls
which preserve the strength and dignity of life, countering
the critical voices from the past that have held us back
from embracing our full creativity and self confidence.
All participants are required to preregister. A $25.00,
nonrefundable deposit is required for each workshop you
plan to attend. Deposits are due prior to the workshop.
To download a workshop information, schedule and registration
form click the button below.
Location:
California Center for Creative Renewal
1905 Crest Drive Encinitas, CA 92024
Time:9:00am
to 5:00pm
Cost: $95.00 per workshop ~some work scholarships
are available ~$10 discount
if registered 2 weeks early ~$5 discount
for each additional workshop
Bring: ~comfortable clothes
(to get good and messy in) ~a journal to write in ~bag lunch
Gourmet breakfast provided in the garden
Image at left: Hildegard von Bingen
Workshop Leaders :
Irina Gronborg is an artist and illustrator, recognized for her botanical drawings in color pencil, artists books, and her Solana Beach home garden. With degrees in studio art from Stanford University and many years teaching drawing in community college, Irina currently teaches at the Athenaeum School of Art. She keeps a daily sketchbook. Irina taught me to draw and continues to be my mentor.
Jill Fitzgerald is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and Registered Art Therapist, specializing in issues of grief and loss. Jill is also an artist who continues to engage in her own creative process.
Jane LaFazio is a mixed media artist working in
paper and cloth. She 's worked in watercolor
since 1992, and her work can be seen on www.PlainJaneStudio.com and her blog JaneVille.blogspot.com
Lauren Lee is a silk artist, jeweler and poet.
She has been the artist in residence at the Center for
the past five years, bringing beauty, creativity and a
great sense of humor to our workshops.
Ellen Speert, director of the California Center
for Creative Renewal, is a Board Certified and Registered
Art Therapist as well as a Registered Expressive Arts
Therapist. She is a founding member and past president
of the San Diego Art Therapy Association. Ellen leads
workshops for groups, organizations and spiritual communities.
For more information on Ellen click
here
d.goth is a professional artist and published poet, has developed programs, taught art and poetry and is the founder of Hearts of Stone and d.goth contemporary frescoes. Her work has received numerous awards and is in many collections.
"Sowing
the Seeds of Creative Renewal since 1981. "
