Wabi Sabi Ink Painting with Sherrie Lovler
October 13 @ 10:00 am - 4:00 pm
$140.00 – $175.00
Wabi Sabi Ink Painting with Sherrie Lovler
Sunday, October 13, 2024 10 am – 4 pm with ½-hour lunch break
$175 non-member / $140 OHCA member
materials fee: $15 + supply list
Wabi Sabi is the Japanese aesthetic of finding beauty in life’s imperfections. This is a great concept for letting go of the desire for perfectionism and freeing ourselves to explore the uncontrolled parts of life — even purposefully getting there with our art. A great example of this is experiencing the magic that happens when ink meets water, or gestural marks that are made without planning.
We will work with Asian brushes and ink to make calligraphic lines that express both movement and stillness. Watercolor will be added as accents. Beginning with meditation and centering ourselves, we will get our whole body involved as we work from the heart to paint the ensō (the Zen practice of drawing a circle). From the East, we will incorporate the concepts of empty space — allowing the painting to breathe, and qi — the living energy of the painting.
From the West, we will work with line, color, shape, movement, rhythm and other elements and principles of design. Here, our guiding themes will be value and contrast. The conversation with our pages will be “What is already happening, and what do I do next?”
Embrace the unknown as we explore abstract art from both Eastern and Western perspectives to create several finished paintings. No experience is needed.
Recommended materials to bring to the workshop, please click on this link: Wabi Sabi Ink Painting 2024 Supply List
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Sherrie Lovler has a BA in Studio Art and has been teaching calligraphy and related arts for several decades. She is well known in the western calligraphy world, having taught at several international calligraphy conferences, Ghost Ranch, Friends of Calligraphy in San Francisco, Society of Scribes in New York City, LaRomita School of Art in Italy, accredited classes at Northern Arizona University and the O’Hanlon Center for the Arts. She is the author, illustrator and designer of On Softer Ground: Paintings, Poems and Calligraphy, which won a gold medal for Most Outstanding Book Design from Independent Publishers Book Awards, 2016. Sherrie exhibits her work regularly, loves teaching both online and in person. www.artandpoetry.com |