Join Deborah for a lovely winter morning in the studio, where warmth, color, and creativity come together. Using LDBA’s handcrafted watercolors on paper as well as Deborah’s handmade inks, we’ll create images inspired by the hush and beauty of winter.

We’ll begin by closely observing winter’s subtle palette—mixing our own colors and practicing brushwork and techniques to bring your images to life. Our table will be scattered with bits of winter flora to try our hand at observational drawing and painting, a chance to blend close noticing with our imaginations. From there, we’ll paint simple winter landscapes, letting white space glow on white paper, and exploring opaque watercolor and LDBA’s newest metallics on black paper to capture falling snow, soft light, and long blue-tinged winter shadows. 

Together, we’ll paint the unique beauty of New Mexico winter—quiet, luminous, and full of life. You’ll leave with new skills, new friends, and a collection of glowing winter paintings to carry the season with you.

Sunday March 8, 2026
1-4pm
Class limit:10

Deborah Stein, based in Northern New Mexico and NYC, is an artist and writer known for her visual storytelling and free-wheeling watercolor workshops. Her work is shown in Santa Fe at LDBA and Hecho A Mano and her words and pictures have been published by Khôra and Royawat journals. Deborah’s perspective was shaped by studies at the Museum School in Boston, the University of Iowa and a year with a family of toymakers in Northern India. She was Artist in the Schools through the Museum of Arts & Design, and has taught workshops, salons and retreats for artists and illustrators about seeing and translating the world with art and pictures at Milkwood, the Highlights Foundation and her own rogue art school, the Storycamp Disco.