A Taste of Tiny Sketchbook Time! For Absolute Beginners! taught by Tara Tieso (Multi-Session)
August 23 @ 10:00 am – 12:00 pm
Multi-Session Class
Meets VIA ZOOM 2 Sundays- August 23+30 from 10am-12pmVIRTUAL CLASS
It’s An INTRO To Tiny Sketchbook Time! For Absolute Beginners!
New to sketchbooks? Curious but a little nervous? This playful, zero pressure class is designed specifically for first-timers, the creatively rusty, and anyone who thinks, “I definitely can’t draw!”
Together we’ll explore the magic of working small: tiny sketches, tiny pages, tiny moments of attention. We’ll use simple foolproof prompts, ordinary objects, gentle encouragement, and a healthy dose of permission to lower creative anxiety and make sketching doable, personal, and fun.
No experience needed. No perfect drawings expected. Just bring a small sketchbook, something to draw with, and a willingness to make a few small, imperfect, new marks.
This is a class for people who are a little intimidated by drawing, or those who used to draw stick figure horses and people in the margins of their math book and would like to meet that part of themselves again.
Come scribble, scrawl, remember, invent, and make a tiny happy racket on the page.
Ok, Tiny counts. Tiny is kind. Tiny might be just your size!
Classes have a limited space available and some fill quickly. Decisions about whether to cancel a class or add another session are typically made one week prior to the start of a class. If a class you are interested in is full we will have a waiting list and will contact you if a space opens up. If a class is cancelled due to low enrollment (fewer than 4 registrations) all registrations will be promptly refunded.
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
Tara L. Tieso is an abstract artist residing in the historic Lowertown arts district of Saint Paul along the mighty Mississippi. She works in encaustic, an ancient beeswax and resin medium fused to its substrate with a torch, as well as pen and ink – and loves every kind of water-soluble media! 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 as Board Chair of The Show Non-Profit, which supports artists with disabilities. Tara brings a love of community from her experience in social work and therapy, and as a teaching artist, she facilitates Wet Paint’s Book Club (free on zoom!), Creative Circles from her loft studio, and a myriad of Wet Paint classes that require no art experience of any kind, ever! 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.
