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Urban Sketchbook for Non-Drawers taught by Tara Tieso
July 16, 2023 @ 10:00 am – 12:00 pm
Multi-Session Class
Meets Sundays, July 16-30 from 10am-12pm at Wet PaintIN 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.
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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.
