The Organic Artist – Crafting and creating artworks with selfmade natural colours

From 80 C$ /h

The workshop teaches participants how to create selfmade painting and drawing materials from natural pigments and colours (vegetables, plants, soils etc.) and different painting and drawing techniques with these natural colors (watercolour, oil painting, crayon drawing etc.). The workshop has two parts: First, we will experiment together with different ways to craft our own colours from natural ingredients. Then, artworks on paper or canvas will be created.

Extra information

Materials you need for the course: PC, stable Wifi connection, foil to protect your table, painting paper or canvas, brushes, mortar and pestle, old cloth, ca. 6 containers for paints, plate, spoon, water, from supermarket: red cale (small cut), lemon, natron or baking soda, curcuma, spinach.

Location

Online from Finland

About Me

Hello, my name is Helena and I'm a visual artist and art lecturer. I studied visual arts with focus on (oil) painting as well as art teaching and absolved an Erasmus semester and 3 years of private lessons in 2D animation. As artist and environmentalist, it is very important for me to know where my work materials come from, thus I am crafting my own paints from natural plant and soil pigments.
Start your creative journey with my guidance in painting, animation, and natural color crafting. I'm happy to share my knowledge and experience with you, support you to reach your personal goals and help you finding your own style and expression. Let’s transform your artistic vision into reality!

Education

Diploma in fine arts with focus on painting (Art University Linz, Austria), Erasmus semester in 2D animation (Art Academy Turku, Finland), Bachelor in art education (LMU Munich, Germany)

Experience / Qualifications

I have 3 years of teaching experience. My teaching experience includes workshops in oil painting, 2D (hand and digitally drawn) animation and natural colour crafting, as well as coachings on the intersections of arts and sustainability.

Selected Workshops:
- My colour garden: Dying and painting with plants, workshop in collaboration with Kartoffelkombinat and Tierparkschule, Munich
- Analogue Animation workshop as part of the eduart k art education program, Gabriele Space, Munich
- oilpainting workshops, nodepressionroom Munich
- The Voices Of The Silent, art educational workshops on human-animal relations; Kulturbunt, Tierparkschule and secondary school Allach, Munich
- Coaching & workshops on art / education for sustainable development (ESD), Arts of Change, at art universities in Austria

Age

Teenagers (13-17 years old)

Adults (18-64 years old)

Seniors (65+ years old)

Student level

Beginner

Intermediate

Advanced

Duration

60 minutes

90 minutes

The class is taught in

English

German

Skills

Art

Arts and crafts

Sustainability

Availability of a typical week

(GMT -04:00)

New York

Online via webcam

Mon

Tue

Wed

Thu

Fri

Sat

Sun

00-04

04-08

08-12

12-16

16-20

20-24

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