Imagining Flowers: A Watercolor Workshop with Deborah Stein 3/1/26
Imagining Flowers: A Watercolor Workshop with Deborah Stein 3/1/26
Join us for an intoxicating flower-filled Sunday in the studio surrounded by gorgeous live specimens to welcome the Spring. You’ll get to use the beautiful handmade colors for which LDBA is renown and try the Petal Palette Deborah designed for LDBA in 2024 and has been a best-seller ever since.
Flowers are perfect for studying nature, form and the rainbow of colors a flower contains but you’ll also be invited to consider the personality of a flower, exploring the many ways to express a flower in water and color. You’ll experiment with color mixing, loose wet techniques, drawing, and word games to loosen your hand and energize your imagination. In addition to watercolor we’ll enchant our paintings by painting with tea, flower infusions and ink to make vibrant paintings that bloom with life. We’ll also play with cut paper forms if you wish, turning our paintings into actual flowers.
You’ll leave with an array of beautiful paintings, a handful of flowers and tons of inspiration for the months ahead. Come on your own or bring someone dear to you to enjoy an afternoon of beauty and fun.
All materials provided and all skill levels welcome!
Deborah Stein lives, paints and writes in NYC and a small mountain town in Northern New Mexico. She’s known f0r her playful visual narrative workshops and her watercolor works on paper. She has written and made art for Khôra and Royawat journals and her own Substack, Sometimes a Ghost. She studied at the Museum School in Boston and with toymaker families in Northern India, worked with NYC school kids at the Museum of Arts & Design and has taught alternative arts education workshops about seeing and translating the world in water can color for over 25 years.
Sunday, March 1
1-4pm
Class limit: 10
LDBA STUDIO: La Petite Ecole
717 Canyon Road, Unit C
Santa Fe, NM 87501