Gentle Reminder: Workshop next Saturday!

Self-Exploration Self-Portrait

Dear Creative’s

SELF-EXPLORATION PORTRAIT PAINTING WORKSHOPS PRESENTS:

Natasja guides participants through a series of self-portrait exercises, by exploring the external presentation of the internal exploration of the Self.

Attached is a photo of an ‘intuitive’ portrait painting in acrylic on canvas.

DATE OF WORKSHOP:  30 July 2016

Time: 10:00 - 14:00

Duration of Workshop: 4 hours including a half an hour tea break

Venue: Kirstenhof, Cape Town, South Africa

Fee: R650.00 for 2016 (ZAR South African Rand) - excluding materials (Participants need to provide their own materials)

Refreshments: Tea and Chocolate-Brownie Cake

Please be so kind to deposit fifty percent (50%) of the amount two (2) weeks before the workshop and the balance three (3) days before the workshop and email proof of payment with your name as reference a.s.a.p. Deposit non-refundable

FEEDBACK FROM WORKSHOP PARTICIPANTS:

I loved the workshop! Thank you. - Christine.

Thanks again for an eye-opening (and jaw-dropping – the fireworks) workshop that helped me to let go of some more of my preconceived ideas around art making. You've also taught me how accessible art is and how enjoyable and enriching it is. – Russell de la Porte.

The class was good, going crazy with the pencil helped me . . . Thanks so much. – Langa Nesani.

LIST OF MATERIALS NEEDED:

Format of canvas: one or two stretched or loose sheets of canvas (not smaller than 50X70cm)

Range of brushes (different sizes: thick thin flat round etc.)

Palette

Palette knife

Container with lid (ice-cream container)

Spray bottle (for water)

Acrylics (at least the primary, secondary, black and white colours PLUS ANY OTHER COLOURS YOU HAVE)

Apron

2 plastic containers for water

3 sheets of A3 cartridge paper

Pencil

Kitchen Towel

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PS: Please use my new email address in future - art@natasjadewet.com

SELF-EXPLORATION PAINTING:

SELF-EXPLORATION PORTRAIT PAINTING WORKSHOPS: Natasja guides participants through a series of self-portrait exercises, by exploring the external presentation of the internal exploration of the Self. Participants need to provide their own materials.

SELF-EXPLORATION PORTRAIT PAINTING AND MIXED-MEDIA WORKSHOPS PRESENTS:

SELF-EXPLORATION PORTRAIT PAINTING WORKSHOPS: Natasja guides participants through a series of self-portrait exercises, by exploring the external presentation of the internal exploration of the Self. Participants need to provide their own materials.

DATE OF WORKSHOP:  30 July 2016

Time: 10:00 - 14:00

Duration of Workshop: 4 hours including a half an hour tea break

Venue: Kirstenhof, Cape Town, South Africa

Fee: R650.00 for 2016 (ZAR South African Rand) - excluding materials

Refreshments: Tea and Chocolate-Brownie Cake

Please be so kind to deposit fifty percent (50%) of the amount two (2) weeks before the workshop and the balance three (3) days before the workshop and email proof of payment with your name as reference a.s.a.p. Deposit non-refundable

LIST OF MATERIALS NEEDED:

Format of canvas: one or two stretched or loose sheets of canvas (not smaller than 50X70cm)

Range of brushes (different sizes: thick thin flat round etc.)

Palette

Palette knife

Container with lid (ice-cream container)

Spray bottle (for water)

Acrylics (at least the primary, secondary, black and white colours PLUS ANY OTHER COLOURS YOU HAVE)

Apron

2 plastic containers for water

3 sheets of A3 cartridge paper

Pencil

Kitchen Towel

 30 July 2016

FEEDBACK from Saturday's Mother and Child Workshop!

Saturday's Workshop organically became a "downloading' and process Workshop. It was definitely the most creative and awe inspiring time I have ever experienced with my Workshop participants. I have rediscovered my love for working and sharing with individuals and am so grateful for this experience. Thank you so much to Langa, Rose, Rachel and Umphile for joining me! As I have mentioned before DRAWING is my first love!

Langa experimenting with 'mark-making'

Omphile 'downloading' and enjoying the experience!

'The class was good, going crazy with the pencil helped me . . . Thanks so much'. – Langa Nesani.

SELF-EXPLORATION PORTRAIT PAINTING AND MIXED-MEDIA WORKSHOPS PRESENTS:

MIXED-MEDIA ART WORKSHOPS: Exploring basic art techniques through a variety of media, with the emphasis on developing art-making skills at your own pace. Acrylic and water-based paint and drawing materials, such as charcoal, pencil, ink, pastels, graphite and many other experimental and unconventional mixed media.

Aim of the workshop: We start by working with, and applying different media and doing a series of mixed-media exercises; then we create a mixed-media artwork, combining all or some of the media. In so doing, we learn, share and create together. Thus we push our own boundaries gently by exploring and awakening our inner creative world.

SELF-EXPLORATION PORTRAIT PAINTING WORKSHOPS: Natasja guides participants through a series of self-portrait exercises, by exploring the external presentation of the internal exploration of the Self. Participants need to provide their own materials.

PAINTING WORKSHOPS: This painting workshop is free and expressionistic, by exploring different painting techniques on canvas, with an open mindset. The application and combination of thick opaque bold paint, subtle layering and sensitive brushstrokes, using various brush sizes, sponges, spray bottles with water-based paint (acrylic), and/or different vehicles on a surface is a subtle but mindful approach to contemporary art making. The aim is to explore and push the media, and learn through the creation of an abstract work with some recognizable images or objects.

DRAWING WORKSHOPS: Pencil drawing on paper is my first love, and I would like to share different techniques with inexperienced and experienced workshop participants. By using a broad range of pencils and graphite from hard F and H pencils to soft B pencils (up to B8 or B9), as well as using an eraser and pencil shavings as drawing tools, one can create an evocative, sensitive but also dramatic work. This is best achieved by exploring and letting go of the preconceived idea that one has to create a masterpiece. The aim of this workshop is to explore different techniques through a series of exercises and to create an artwork through learning in a safe environment where there is no right or wrong way of creating.

Dates: One Workshop monthly, during 2016

Time: 10:00 - 14:00

Duration of Workshop: 4 hours including a half an hour tea break

Venue: Kirstenhof, Cape Town, South Africa

Fee: R650.00 for 2016 (ZAR South African Rand) - excluding materials

Refreshments: Tea and Chocolate-Brownie Cake

Please be so kind to deposit fifty percent (50%) of the amount two (2) weeks before the workshop and the balance three (3) days before the workshop and email proof of payment with your name as reference a.s.a.p. Deposit non-refundable

DATES FOR WORKSHOPS: 2016-2017

Painting Workshop 28 - May 2016 - postponed

Drawing Workshop - 25 June 2016

Self-Exploration Painting Workshop - 30 July 2016

Mixed-Media Workshop - 27 August 2016

Painting Workshop - 24 September 2016

Drawing Workshop - 29 October 2016

Self- Exploration Mixed-Media Workshop - 26 November 2016

Mixed-Media Workshop - 28 January 2017

Painting Workshop - 25 February 2017

For more information contact Natasja here

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