APRIL 2024

Reconnecting with the Natural World: Elemental Landscape

5 Tuesdays in April: 4/2, 4/9, 4/16, 4/23, 4/30 10am-12pmEST via ZOOM @ Concord Art

Re-emerging into the outdoors after wintering offers us the chance to be inspired by the beauty of the world around us again. This month-long landscape sketching workshop is done on your own terms, from your window, in your backyard or further afield. Your visual interpretation of the landscape will be supported by weekly on-line demonstrations covering key concepts related to creating successfully expressive landscape imagery. Prompts related to simplification, structure, compositional dynamics, creating depth, value and a limited palette will be offered each week. Meditative journaling exercises will deepen your connection with a sense of place. Weekly sharing of imagery, supportive dialogues and suggested readings will strengthen your interpretation of the landscape in any medium. All levels welcome.

Register: @ https://concordart.org/class/online-reconnecting-with-the-natural- world-elemental-landscape-3/

JULY/AUGUST 2024

Simplifying the Landscape: Temporality & Color: The Quick Sketch

In Person July 29th - August 2nd @Truro Center for the Arts at Castle Hill 4 sessions M 9am - 12pm & T, W & TH 8am - 12pmEST

Come spend mid-summer sketching and painting the fleeting light of Truro, Wellfleet and Provincetown. Simple meditative hikes will take us to tidal marshes, ocean beaches and the Provinceland dunes to visually explore the landscape. Initial emphasis will be put on drawing the inner structure of the landscape, its compositional dynamics as well as the clean, successful use of value and color in portable water-based media. Accumulating quick sketches and visual data will allow us to react to the ever changing colors and atmosphere of the Outer Cape. Journaling and simple meditation exercises on location will open us to the possibilities of deepening our ability to see and connect to nature. All levels of experience are welcome.

Register :

@ https://www.castlehill.org/2024-workshops/wynne

SEPTEMBER 2024

Creating A Sketchbook Journey

September 9th-13th Residential @ For the Soul Retreat in NH

Join artist Amy Wynne for an Art + Adventure experience that will have us roaming all around some of the beautiful sites near our retreat location. You’ll capture landscape vistas from lakes and mountains as well as the charm of a New England town as you paint with gouache in a travel sketchbook. Amy will help participants improve their skills in painting on location, and teach fundamentals about shape, composition and depicting perspective. You’ll discover how to simplify a vista into clean color shapes, letting go of the seduction of detail. Your sketchbook will become a beautiful personal journal, serving to later inform paintings back in our retreat studio if you choose to work independently the final day. Our creative practice will focus on storytelling through your sketchbook, learning to silence your inner critic and emphasizing process over product. Meditative walks and kayaking will enhance a mindful reconnection with nature, liberating the artistic process. Slowing down and witnessing the beauty of the natural world is the gateway to soulful inspiration, and this workshop with Amy will give you the permission you need to let go and immerse yourself in these beautiful surroundings. The supportive environment that Amy creates makes this session perfect for makers at all stages of their practice.

Register/INFO:

forthesoulretreat@gmail.com

SEPTEMBER 2024

Drawing as Meditation @ Snow Farm

September 18th-22nd Residential Wellness

Retreat Meditation and drawing practices can be profoundly grounding. Weaving these practices together creates tactile, immediate ways to arrive in the present. Each morning, basic meditation techniques and expressive drawing prompts will deepen connection to the creative process and to presence in everyday experiences. Collectively the class will create a space for sharing work and ideas. With a “beginner’s mind,” the integration of drawing and meditation will enrich creative practice for any level of experience.

Register:

https://canvas.snowfarm.org/classes/2614

OCTOBER in ITALY!

Creative Practice Residency Save the Dates: Saturday October 12th - Sunday October 20th

Devote a week to deepening your creative practice in the beautiful Tuscan hills of the Maremma. Whether you are a painter, sketcher, sculptor, photographer, writer, musician or multimedia artist, this is an opportunity to gain inspiration from this ancient part of Southern Tuscany. Join a small group of artists for process-based making. The 11th Century property of Pieve di Caminino, your private self-catered apartment and our communal loft studio will be ideal places for your practice. Days devoted to an open exploration of your chosen medium will be followed by evenings of delicious food, ancient hill town sunsets, and creative conversations allowing for cross-pollination of ideas in a supportive environment. Yoga & walking the land will deepen a connection to the beauty of the Maremma and liberate your artistic process.

Our host: www.caminino.eu

For more INFO contact Amy:

@amyelizabethwynne11@gmail.com

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