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Repeat Session: “Flower Crazy” Begins October 28

04 Friday Oct 2013

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I had planned to be able to bring a new online class to you this fall (Gelli Plate Printmaking “Plus”), but I have decided to offer it in January 2014 instead (it will be a two-week class beginning Monday, January 6th, if you want to mark your calenders!).

Instead, I am offering a third session of “Flower Crazy,” one of my most popular classes. Click here for all the details!

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As always, if you have previously signed up for “Flower Crazy” and would like to join the fun this time around at no additional cost, just email me and I will get you on the list!

Flower Crazy Class Starting Next Week

26 Tuesday Feb 2013

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A quick advertisement about the “Flower Crazy” painting class that starts next Monday (March 4th). Five weeks of watercolor, gesso, and mixed-media tips. The class produced the most beautiful work last year! Check some of it out here: http://www.flickr.com/groups/1910487@N25/

And here’s a little 15-second video:

I hope you can join us!

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Animals, Faces & Flowers: Three Repeat Classes Open for Registration

16 Wednesday Jan 2013

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Hi! I’m repeating three of my favorite online classes in February and March. There are two one-week sessions, and one five-week session. I hope you can join us!

Note: If you previously signed up for Imaginary Creatures, Faces 101 or Flower Crazy, you are welcome to jump in to this session as well. Just email me and let me know! carla[at]carlasonheim.com

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Imaginary Creatures

February 11-15, 2013

Find and create your own zoo of imaginary creatures from random watercolor marks, blobs of paint, sidewalk cracks, peeling paint and more. But mixed in with this nonsense is a healthy dose of “real” drawing exercises and lessons to help you imbue personality and life into your imaginary animals.

We will draw from life, from photos, and from our imaginations. Then you’ll learn my no-fail watercolor tricks to create a series of your own imaginary creatures on paper. You’ll put the finishing touches on with pen, ink, pencil, gesso, charcoal, marker, collage, or whatever else the piece “needs.” We’ll also cover line quality, shading & dimension, and composition.

One-Week Intensive; $35.
CLICK HERE FOR MORE INFORMATION AND TO SIGN UP.

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Faces 101

February 25- March 1, 2013

In this fast-paced class we will focus solely on drawing and painting the human face. We will work through dozens of different assignments that allow you to approach your subjects fast, slow, messily, neatly, realistically, abstractly — all to help ferret out your own unique and personal style.

We will draw from live models, from photos, and our imaginations. We’ll use ink, watercolor, pencil, ballpoint pen, charcoal, pastels and more. End goal: You don’t want to draw faces like me or anyone else — you want to draw like YOU!

One-Week Intensive; $35.
CLICK HERE FOR MORE INFORMATION AND TO SIGN UP.

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Flower Crazy

March 4 – April 6, 2013

It’s cold and rainy in my neck of the woods, but NOT here inside my studio!

If you want to take Spring into your own hands with gesso, watercolor, and a healthy dose of flower fun, join me for an extended five-week long play time — set to finish just when the REAL flowers start to come in!

This painting class (which will also include both drawing and collage assignments) builds week-by-week, so that by the end you can take your new-found tips, tricks, and flower love to your journals, paintings, altered books, and even your furniture, if you like!

Five-Week Painting Class; $100.
CLICK HERE FOR MORE INFORMATION AND TO SIGN UP.

FLOWER CRaZy “Live” Class in Seattle

02 Friday Mar 2012

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Hello!

(This post is mostly for Seattleites!)

I am opening my studio up for some “LIVE” teaching fun (to coincide with the online Flowers class in April/May).

If you decide to join the live version, you will be signed up for the online class as well, so you can share your work and be inspired by others! Check out the online description for more details and samples.

• Draw, paint and play in my Pioneer Square Studio for five consecutive Sundays from 1-5pm.

• First session starts April 8, 2012 and last session is May 6th. (On sunny days we will meet part of the time OUTSIDE.)

• All supplies provided. (Just show up!)

• Healthy snacks provided.

• Join me?

Cost: $350 Click here to sign up!

“Flower Crazy” Online Class

01 Thursday Mar 2012

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Hello! Lately I’ve been FLOWER CRAZY!

I’ve been hosting online classes for almost two years now, and have long wanted to offer a more in-depth painting class, showing the techniques I’ve developed the last 15 years with watercolor, gesso, collage, and other fun stuff… With the flowers emerging these last two months, everything “clicked.” So here we go!

Five-week class begins April 9th. Go HERE to find out more!

Abstracted Flowers Painting Tutorial

22 Wednesday Feb 2012

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Hello!

When I posted the above flowers a few weeks ago, many of you expressed an interest as to how I made them! So following is a quick tutorial (though, after several weeks of experimenting, I still haven’t been able to replicate the above flowers exactly… oh well! Just remember to have fun and not worry about the end product very much; because it is such a fast and loose process, you won’t be able to control it that much anyhow!)

SUPPLIES YOU’LL NEED

• #140 hot-pressed (smooth) watercolor paper (or similar), cut or torn to any size
• watercolors (pan or tube, either is fine)
• white gesso (I use Golden brand, because it is a bit thicker than some of the other brands)
• one or two flat brushes (between 1/4″ – 3/4″)
• pencil (I use a cheap mechanical pencil)
• eraser (I prefer kneaded rubber erasers)

STEP-BY-STEP DIRECTIONS

Step 1. Randomly “splotch” 3-6 different colors of watercolors onto your paper. This can be done in one step, and it’s okay if the colors overlap and run a bit. (I usually use a half-inch flat watercolor brush.) Leave some whites spaces. Let dry completely.

Step 2. Once your watercolors are dry, get out your white gesso. Using a DRY brush (or one that you’ve squeezed most of the water out of), start painting gesso circles around areas of the watercolor, as shown above. Once you paint a circle, immediately turn the brush around and “draw into” the gesso with the brush handle. Draw lines for petals, circle-y scribbles, etc.

Here it is at the next stopping point. Notice I covered the in-between areas with white gesso, too. (Also, the white “stars” above are made by putting a dollup of gesso in the middle of a color patch, and then turning the brush around and drawing into it.) Let gesso layer dry completely.

Step 3. Next, add pencil to pull out your flower shapes even more. Keep your hand as loose as possible.

Step 4. I went back in with gesso and added a few more star shapes, as it seemed a little bare after step 3.

Step 5. Fill in the areas between the flowers with a light layer of pencil. Vary your directions a bit, and then smear with your finger to soften.

Step 6. This is hard to see here, but this step involves lightly going back in with an eraser here and there. (This is an optional step; I just felt I was a little too heavy-handed with my pencil in Step 5, so I wanted to soften it a bit.)

Step 7. Finally, I gave the entire piece a VERY LIGHT layer of sepia brown watercolor to unify the piece. (Again, an optional step for you!)

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These last few weeks I have been FLOWER CRAZY! As I got into trying to get this tutorial ready for you, things kind of exploded and I found I could approach the flowers in many different ways on many different surfaces, using all the layered painting techniques I’ve been sort of making up the last 15 years. (Gesso plus watercolor? Yes! And on wood? And collage, too? Yes and yes!)

Some of you have requested a longer, more in-depth online painting class, so I’m working to have FLOWER CRAZY! ready to start April 9, 2012 (we’ll finish up just in time for the “real” May flowers)!

Watch for details and registration info March 1st (or sign up for my newsletter to get a note in your in-box).

Thanks for visiting!

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