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Urban Sketchbook for Non-Drawers taught by Tara Tieso
September 22, 2024 @ 10:00 am – 1:00 pm
Multi-Session Class
2 session, Sundays, September 22nd+29th from 10am-1pmIN PERSON CLASS
Real Doesn’t Have to Be Realistic.
Let’s re-conceptualize the urban sketchbook experience! Teaching artist Tara L. Tieso did and has never looked back.
She learned that you don’t need to know how to draw, have specialized art materials, understand architecture, or walk to exotic urban locales to keep an urban sketchbook!
Summer is the perfect time to venture out (or observe from a favorite window) with your favorite sketchbook and materials and fill pages exploring themes, form, color, movement, feeling, pattern, mapping and more with fun, free-form exercises and representational elements that will make your urban sketchbook uniquely yours.
NOT a learn-to-draw class, instead we will capture moments and locations in this learn-to-discover-how-anything-in-your-urban- environment-can-be-used-to-prompt-your-creativity-in-the-moment class!
The urban sketchbook is also a great way to discover and capture ideas that can lead to other artwork, writing, and moments of meditative beauty.
SUPPLIES:
From your instructor Tara Tieso:
Truly, the materials are not the most important thing. You could do this whole class with a golf pencil, a Bic pen, and Crayola crayons or markers.
But you will have the most fun in a sketchbook, and in the class if you love your materials!
If you need to economize, pick a few fun things to use, OR if you are interested in experimenting, add some new things you’ve never tried.
Paper
Heavier -mixed media type pads – white or toned, any convenient portable size will work… think 8×10 or 6×8 or square or landscape dimension such as: Pentalic Nature Sketch, Strathmore Mixed Media Vision, Strathmore Visual Journal (mixed media or watercolor), or Stillman and Birn Toned Mixed Media pads.
A Pen for sketching.
If you need to purchase one, Tara recommends these:
Faber Castell Pitt artist brush pens
Fine line permanent pen –such as: Faber Castell, Pentel Finito, Pigma Micron, Platinum fountain pen with carbon ink cartridges(waterproof)
Bring colors/media of your choice plus brush if using water soluble.
Suggestions:
– any small portable watercolor set and Aquash water brush
– water soluble colored pencils and Aquash water brush
– Marabu Art Crayons with Aquash water brush.
– oil pastels (no brush needed)
Ticket Instruction: You must choose a quantity to activate “get tickets”. To pay for a class registration with a Wet Paint gift card, please call 651-698-6431
About the artist:
Tara L Tieso is an abstract artist who lives and paints in the historic arts Lowertown neighborhood of Saint Paul, on the mighty Mississippi. She works in encaustic, an ancient beeswax and resin medium fused to its substrate with a torch. Tara also works in pen and ink, and loves water soluble colors of any type.
Tara is Past Board President of nationally celebrated WARM, Women’s Art Resources Minnesota – where she worked with other women in the arts to steward the rich 40-year feminist legacy of Minnesota’s brilliant women artists. She currently serves on the Board of The Show Non-Profit, which brings artists of all abilities together in creative community.
As teaching artist, Tara facilitates Eagan Artist Connect, Wet Paint’s Book Club, and Creative Circles from her loft studio.
A grateful recipient of the McKnight Foundation-funded Metropolitan Regional Arts Council’s Next Step Grant, and a Minnesota State Arts Board Artist Initiative Grant; she is one of 30 ArtSage Minnesota Artists, and a winner of North Hennepin Community College Award of Excellence in Memory of Lance Kiland from the Minnesota State Fair Foundation. Her work hangs in private collections in the Twin Cities, greater Minnesota, and Philadelphia.
