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We just finished up our final week of the Slow Drawing and Mindful Mark Making through Mount Wachusett Community College Continuing Education. And these ladies crushed it!

From the moment they stepped into the door of the Glimmerbug Art Studio, these artsy folks were ready to let go, de-stress and enjoy the fluidity and calming exercises we did in class. Starting off with a worksheet and samples to get us warmed up, we dove into the first project, which was working with black and white to create a piece that was filled with patterns and eye-catching designs.

This past class, we introduced color, using watercolors and colored pencils. And they hit the nail on the head! Check out some of the work:

Tonight is our first class for the Slow Drawing and Mindful Marks artists and I am looking forward to getting started with them!

Slowing down in today’s hectic world can be tough. It’s hard with all the barrage of information in our media and tech heavy world to just shut off and slow down. I get it. But you absolutely need the down time to relax your brain, get a little more grounded and be present with you. Slowing your mind and brain down with repetitive patterns and mark making has helped me lower my blood pressure and give me a calm source of creativity to relax with.

Slow drawing and mark making is similar to Zentagle but a little bit more relaxed, in my opinion. It’s almost like “glorified doodling” that allows you to be creative while using simple patterns that you can either copy from some you find online or invent your own. Plus, there’s really no incorrect way to do it!

And it also allows you to use some fun colorful supplies if you want to do that. Break out your watercolors, markers, gel pens, colored pencils, crayons… whatever you have in your stash! By adding color to your project, you can totally transform the look and feel. Plus, it sure is fun breaking out the coloring tools! I especially love to add marker and colored pencils to my slow drawing.

Week 2 of our Introduction to Whimsical Watercolors is not one to disappoint! These ladies are fabulous! I’m so impressed by their eagerness to learn, try out new techniques and see where the process takes them! It’s always so much fun to watch the process unfold with each painter and see their excitement when they really start getting their own style and building their confidence!

The Mount Wachusett Community College watercolor class has already covered a lot of exciting ground, exploring techniques like wet-on-wet blending, layering transparent washes, and mastering brush control. Each session has brought new discoveries about how water and pigment interact, allowing students to develop a deeper understanding of color mixing and texture creation. Now, as the class approaches its final phase, everyone is gearing up to apply these skills in a series of six vibrant landscape paintings.

What fun! We started another Introduction to Watercolors session last night for Mount Wachusett Community College and we had such fun last night getting to know each other, chatting away and getting to know our painting tools and techniques.

Thursday nights are for Introduction to Watercolors for the Mount Wachusett Community College folks and we’re enjoying our time painting in my studio. It’s another great group of folks in this 3 week class!

Last night we focused on use of color, line and texture in our class projects. I think it can be intimidating for people to draw using one continuous line, but this group of learners was up to the challenge and painted some gorgeous pieces. Take a look:

Happy Thursday!

Thursday means Introduction to Watercolors Class night and I wanted to share with you the wonderful work of the art students in last weeks class:

We learned about using household items to create wonderful texture, how to create a color palette and basic doodling using found patterns in the painting. It’s always so fabulous to see all the variations on concept and interpretation when working on this lesson. I love the variations and imagination!

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