Creative Workshops to Beat the Winter Blues - theHumm January 2020
Creative Workshops to Beat the Winter Blues - theHumm January 2020
MERA Schoolhouse in McDonalds Corners has an exceptional lineup of Saturday classes for winter ????. In Painting Birch Trees (Jan. 18), artist Monica will provide you with ideas about background colour, texture and light. Everyone will take an original painting home (not a copy). On February 1 Reiki master Carolyn Lunn will introduce you to the meditative practice of Beginner Dot Mandala on your choice of card stock or canvas, using acrylic paints and basic tools. At the Intro to Acrylics: Sunflowers on February 15, artists Jan Griffiths and Heather Vriends will explore technique, light and shadow and colour theory. You will complete a painting of a sunflower in this all-day class (lunch is potluck). February 29 brings Pass the Painting, in which illustrator Lynn Shwadchuck will lead a fun, collaborative, fast-paced workshop for inexperienced artists and experts alike. There will be a colour exercise with surprising results and you go home with a landscape painting!
At the March 14 Introduction to Islamic Geometry, graphic designer Sebastien Bacharach will introduce you to different families of Islamic geometric patterns. Learn traditional methods craftsmen have been using across the Islamic world for centuries. No math involved! March 28 is for Telling Your Story, where author Jean Rae Baxter will help you to create a memoir that captures a memory of a special person, place or time. “A memoir is a story from a life, not the story of a life.”
All the times, costs and instructions can be found at meraschoolhouse.org/mera-calendar and on Facebook. Register soon, as class sizes are limited.
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