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Tiny Sketchbook Time! : Mellifluous, Mirage and Mosaic Edition (Multi-Session)taught by Tara Tieso
May 2 @ 10:00 am – 11:30 am
Multi-Session Class
Meets 4 Saturdays, May 2-23 from 10am-11:30am Central TimeVIRTUAL CLASS
New and Returning Students Welcome!
New to Tiny Sketchbooks? Read on!
Come explore the magic of working tiny – both in our sketch size, and the size of our sketchbooks!
The big benefits to scaling down? Time – tiny sketches are quick, adding creativity time into almost any day! Productivity – more tiny sketches = fuller (small) sketchbooks! Exploration – any object, theme, idea, feeling, color is sketch-able when working small! Technique – hone observational skills with attention to tiny details! Reduce creative anxiety by simplifying – rather than tackle the entire landscape, capture the bud; not the whole eye, just an eyelash; instead of the bouquet, the petal. Uniquely you – dinky drawings help reveal your artistic style! Motivation – the best sketchbook is a well-used sketchbook – small sketchbooks are portable, flexible, usable, and most important, fun!
May Theme: Mellifluous, Mirage and Mosaic Edition
Returning Student? Get ready to explore some new tiny techniques, brand new prompts, and fresh and unique ways to utilize your media and materials!
Can’t wait to see you all!
No art experience necessary, just an openness to experimentation, discovery and delight in the beauty of all things small!
Materials: Your favorite tiny sketchbooks and art supplies.
Small/Tiny Supplies suggestions:
JOURNALS Hahnemuhle D&S Sketchbook, Talens Art Creations Sketchbooks(12x12cm or 9x14cm), Clairefontaine Goldline Sketchbooks, Handbook Journal Pocket Travel Sketchbooks(3.5×5.5”landscape, portrait or square), Stillman&Birn Softcover Sketchbooks,(Beta is best for mixed media),
COLOR Richeson Mini Watercolor Set, Caran d’ache Fancolor mini watercolor pencil #6 sets are back!
BRUSHES Sakura Koi Travel + Pentel Water brushes(mini sized available in the store) or treat yourself to a nicer travel watercolor brush by DaVinci Casaneo Extra Short or Casaneo Travel , Silver Brush Black Velvet or Richeson Grey Matters Pocket Brush and the Daniel Smith Try-It Sheet of 66 Colors.
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.
