FREE New Year’s Day Workshop!

A free online drawing & writing workshop with exercises & making sessions. Playful & interactive. Set intentions for the year. Make art!

Hi Everyone! This past year I’ve had the pleasure to work with writing instructor Chris Wells. I’ve been part of a weekly writing group and also attend his show “The Secret City Daily with Chris Wells” as often as I can, as he and the community he brings together never fails to begin my day on a positive, hopeful note. Chris and I decided it would be fun to co-host a mini drawing/writing workshop to begin the New Year. It’s a 3-hour workshop, and free (but you need to get a ticket HERE). I hope you can join us! — Carla

About this Event

Carla Sonheim and Chris Wells host this free online workshop designed to waken and inspire the creative self. Carla leads art workshops that are playful and warm and reminds everyone that drawing and painting can and should be fun. Chris leads writing workshops that are dynamic and deep; he prompts people to explore their creative selves and to dive into the practice of writing. This free online workshop will be part drawing exercises/part writing exercises with the first two hours toggling back and forth between the two, and the third hour dedicated to creating something new of your choosing in a timed session with live music accompaniment.

We’ll begin by reflecting on what the past year has been like and we’ll leave with some intention setting for making 2021 a creative year.

Special guests:

Bobby Lucy will share a few of his paintings.

Jeremy Bass will perform guitar music in the third hour.

You’ll be sent a zoom link closer to the date of the workshop.

Click HERE to sign up!!

Registration is now OPEN for Our 2021 Yearlong Class!

2021: Carla’s Yearlong Class
24 Lessons & 12 Zoom Work Sessions
$168.25 (15% Off the regular price of $198)
Begins January 8, 2021

Hi!

Wow, this is our 9th yearlong class! Over the past eight years we’ve drawn and painted giraffes, illustrated fairy tales, looked for the “spark” with Lynn Whipple, worked from daily prompts, collaged with Lynn and Anne Marie Grgich, worked on a series in “Y is for Yellow” and, most recently, combined words and pictures!

This year’s class has three main parts.

The first will be a monthly Mixed-Media Lesson via recorded video from my studio. To me, mixed media is mostly about experimenting! And not just experimenting with materials (which we WILL do!), but also with concepts, styles and ways of expressing ourselves. The goal for each assignment is that it will be fun to do and also maybe give you some new tools and ideas to take into your next piece. We’ll work with watercolor, ink, colored pencils, markers, fabric, ribbons, thread, photography, acrylics, charcoal, pastels and etc. and etc.!

The second part will be a monthly Zoom Work Session where I will lead you through one or two warmup drawing exercises and then we will all spend an hour creating together in real time. Imagine sitting all together at a coffee shop, all doing our own thing together. It is surprisingly fun to work alongside each other even virtually!! (These will be recorded and accessible later if you need to miss.)

The third part of the class is about finding ways to stay motivated and inspired. We are constantly changing as people and as artists, and one of my biggest challenges is to keep myself feeling like I’m capable of making something NEW. This is where we need to reach outside of ourselves, so in this class I will be bringing Guest Artists to interview and maybe some studio visits when we can travel again. This is similar to what we did in our (feat.) class. We will also be talking about other sources of inspiration: books, the world around us and even our inner lives. I really want to create a master list of sources of inspiration based on what we can all bring to the table, a sort of “stone soup” of motivation!

I anticipate this to be a busy and ABUNDANT year of creating! I’m really looking forward to it, and hope you can join in! Click HERE for details and to sign up!

Carla (and Steve)

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Nuts & Bolts

• Lesson Videos will go live the first and third Fridays of each month.

• Zoom Work Sessions will be on the first Friday/Saturday of each month, there will be a 1.5 hour Zoom session.

• Community Forum. We will have a private forum to share our work and be inspired by the work of others.

• Cost: Only $168.25 for 24 lessons (15% off the regular price of $198)

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Important Information!

1. Scholarships available HERE.

2. If you sign up before December 31, 2020, you will qualify for a free $25 Gift Card to give yourself or a friend… follow the instructions at checkout!

3. And for the first time, all the recorded video lessons will include Closed Captioning.