Re-Connect: A New Year’s Virtual Art Retreat 2022
Re-Connect: A New Year’s Virtual Art Retreat 2022
This is now a self-paced workshop, and links to recorded videos will be emailed after purchase.
It’s easy to become disconnected from yourself, your creativity, and your artmaking throughout the year, and the New Year is a perfect time to rejuvenate yourself and your making.
You’re invited to spend a weekend making, creating, reflecting, and sharing from the comfort of your own home or studio. Explore words, images, and art materials as you open yourself to your inherent creativity and reconnect with yourself and the ideas that are important to you. Envision what the New Year can bring for you, and engage in structured exploration, independent inquiry, and quiet contemplation as you dive deeply into your inner world.
Join a community of other creative souls for this unique experience as you deepen your artistic practice, learn more about yourself, and look forward to what the future holds. Walk away feeling reconnected to yourself and your art.
This was originally a live class where we met through Zoom. It is now a self-paced workshop.
This is pay-what-you-can workshop, so please select what you would like to pay below. Once you pay, I will email you with links and a password to the archived videos, typically within 24 hrs of purchase. This will be a separate email that I send out personally, and it is different from the order confirmation that you will receive automatically after purchase.
The schedule for each day will be structured as follows:
10-11am — Whole Group Instruction
11-12am — Independent Work
12pm-1pm — Whole Group Instruction
1-2pm — Lunch
2-3pm — Whole Group Instruction
3-4pm — Independent Work
4-5pm — Whole Group Instruction
Supplies Needed:
A visual journal, sketchbook, or loose paper - A mixed media journal is a good choice since it has paper designed to withstand a wide variety of paints, but use whatever works for you. It does not need to be a new book. Or use a number of loose pieces of paper to make individual works of art.
Paint - Watercolor and acrylic will both work. I’ll be using watercolor paint and watercolor pencil
Mark making items - It’s always great to create interesting marks and textures with paint. I love using plastic mesh, bubble wrap, cardboard, string, and even my fingers to play with how I apply paint.
Variety of paint brushes
Scissors
Glue Stick - I like UHU, but if you’re using acrylic paint, acrylic medium is suitable
Markers, pens, and pencils - a variety of waterproof and water-soluble writing and drawing materials; paint markers are great to use
Papers - I like having a variety of loose papers to use in my journaling, and I always have tracing paper, drawing paper, and colored papers on hand.
Collage materials - We’ll be using an assortment of items to glue into the journal, but try to find things that are personal. I love using movie tickets, mementos from travel, post cards, bottle labels, and other ephemera that I accumulate in day-to-day life.
What you get:
Access to the recorded Zoom class to revisit anytime
Access to the private Journal Fodder Junkies Online Workshop group to share work, ask questions, and get feedback
Email and direct message support
Refunds and Cancellations:
Life gets busy, and unexpected things come up, but due to nature of this class, no refunds will be issued. Individual retreat sessions will be recorded and accessible anytime through multiple devices for at least 60 days.