What a busy and wonderful start to September! The kiddos are leaping into the academics and all that stuff with great persistence and energy and their hard work is already showing. It’s certainly a wonderful feeling in our house despite the newer early mornings and fuller Monday-Wednesdays.
A variation on last week’s lesson (week one in September).
I’m most enjoying journalling together and that we are making real space for art and creating. I think I am finally finding a groove that suits us and we are sticking to it too!
Last week we played with gesture drawing and the grid method plus tie dying canvas bags. This week we have been making lino cuts. My youngest made the most awesome owl which we test printed onto some fabric yesterday.
B’s Linocut Owl Print on Cotton Fabric.
My new, monthly watercolour class has started (1st week in September) and I am getting some amazing support, lovely feed back and seeing people having a go and popping up their work is a great feeling!
I wanted it to be affordable and set a price of £5 for a month(it’s £6 with VAT if you pay it even though I’m too small a business to pay VAT because it’s digital it’s automatic). You get a lovely PDF where I chat about the theme, mindfulness, my supplies, my practice of mindful watercolour and links to the 4 monthly videos and the bonus page.
Every month you get a guaranteed full taught video lesson and 3 speed lessons. Some months these speed videos may be real time or even taught sessions (October is going to have 3 videos that have taught elements with me talking you through and all real time as it really suits the pages and techniques). You will also get bonus videos so far this month there are 2 but I have one more videoed showing what i do with my leftover paint.
In the facebook group each week I post up the lesson finished page picture on Monday then throughout the week I pop up two more pages showing where I went next. These show how to change it up with a different colour, shape, focus in on a part or some other interesting variation on the Monday page.
This means that members of the group who don’t have the paid for class can still join in, which was important to me, using the photos as inspiration.
We also have weekly threads for ‘Whooping’ and celebrating where we’ve been especially successful or mindful that week, a gratitude thread and a weekly Q and A. Q and A is where you can ask anything you need to about watercolours, mindfulness and I will give you my best answer as will others in the group.
If you want to check it out, the Face Book Group is here and the class is over on Etsy which you can find here.
I’ve been digging into my thoughts about mindfulness and judgement the last couple of days and I’m starting to get a better handle on what it really means to me which might make an interesting blog post, but not today!
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