In this workshop, we’ll play with intuitive landscape making, focusing specifically with ideas about cloud-making and the lines and curves of rivers and water in a landscape inspired by the gorgeous landscapes of “Georgia O’Keefe’s New Mexico”. I’ll help you lose inhibitions and trust your own instincts about what your images can be. 

We’ll create a cloud diary, meditate on the twists and turns of water and river, explore what the “weather" of a painting might be, and paint a landscape born from your imagination all while practicing new ways to make marks, and work through techniques such as layering, dry-brush and wet-on-wet technique. We’ll work in much the same way Georgia O'Keefe realized her landscapes: seeing color, form and feeling our way through intuitive image-making as a way to meditate on ideas about land and sky.

All materials provided and all skill levels welcome!

Deborah Stein lives, paints and writes in NYC and the Embudo Valley in New Mexico. She teaches visual narrative workshops, runs twice a year artist residencies. Deborah studied the passing on of traditional arts with a toymaker family in Northern India, worked with NYC school kids as a museum educator at the Museum of Arts & Design and has traveled and taught alternative arts education workshops about seeing and translating the world in new ways for adults and children for a lifetime. 

Saturday, May 25th
12-3 pm
Class limit: 8

La Petite Ecole
717 Canyon Road Unit C
Santa Fe, NM 87501