2011

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December 3, 2011

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.  

($15 materials fee)

2012

January 14, 2012

Day of Creative Renewal

Start your year off by enjoying a lightly structured open-studio day. Allow your creative juices to simmer, spark your imagination and rejuvenate your senses as we enter 2012.

I will provide clay, paint and all the other art materials, You can sketch, write, photograph, sculpt or just sit quietly in an alcove and soak in the calming environment. We will end the day with a ritual to release the old year.

Many of you have asked to bring friends to see the garden so this is your chance. (Register with someone new to the Center and you can come free.)

(materials fee $15)

March 10, 2012

Affirmation Dolls

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.

(materials fee $15)

April 21, 2011

Reclaiming our Bodies

Would you like a day to honor your body as the temple of your soul? Join us in letting go of old voices that said we had to look a certain way to be what others wanted and come celebrate the strength of who we really are. This workshop will open us to the power and pleasure of being in our bodies without judgement or shame.

(materials fee $15)

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.

Workshop Leaders

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.

Diáne Mandle is a nationally known Tibetan Bowl recording artist, author and healer who operates a private practice and a school in Encinitas.

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.