Color Play with Mindy Lacefield and Carissa Paige
When: February 2-3, 2013 10am to 5pm both days
Registration: $385 (includes catered lunch both days and snacks and beverages throughout)
Note: Class is limited to 18 participants so early registration is encouraged.
*Coming from out of town or wanting to make a weekend out of it? Details about the area here.
*Review Refund/Cancellation policy information here
In a land where Dr. Suess meets Tim Burton, Carissa and Mindy will offer keys to unlock your self-expression. Neon color will dance and swirl across your page like medicine, in just the right dose, to reclaim your childlike wonder.
Discover you own limitless, carefree, inherent self-expression. Dig deep inside and find you have all the tools you need to express yourself and your story through the canvas. Carissa and Mindy will guide you to unearth your most raw and authentic bits that piece together and form your story. You will discover massive amounts of freedom in letting go as you open your heart and leave your head behind.
Take a journey through the magical land of mistakes. Discover treasure troves of your own unique language through marks, symbols, words, and colors. Carissa and Mindy will help you explore and discover deeper meaning in your art through this colorful self-dialogue and offer you creative prompts to take home and use over and over again.
Come explore with like-minded souls, savor the group energy, and enjoy this magnificent ride!
Materials list:
- A set of water soluble oil pastels - we like portfolio or caran d’ache neocolor II
- Acrylic paints - bring your favorite colors (think bright and/or pastel color palette.
- Also, bring a heavy body white acrylic paint
- Bristol paper - 100 lb smooth 11"x14"... Bring a few sheets
- Gessoboards - 9x12 or 11x14" - bring 2
- An 8x10 sketchbook with thin paper or scrap pieces of paper
- Palette knife or old credit card
- Brushes - a variety of sizes (we prefer the cheap hogs hair variety pack)
- A couple adirondack alcohol inks
- Soft graphite pencil - 9B
- Paper bits for collage - magazine pages, old maps, ledger paper, etc.
- Palette paper - several paper plates is fine.
- Spray bottle
Optional:
- Craft heat tool
- Stamps
Teachers will bring these items to play with:
- Golden GAC 100 acrylic polymer
- Foam stamps
- Neon paint
- Ephemera
When: February 2-3, 2013 10am to 5pm both days
Registration: $395 (includes catered lunch both days and snacks and beverages throughout)
Early Bird Registration: Register by 12/1/2012 using the code COLOREARLY for $20 off
Note: Class is limited to 18 participants so early registration is encouraged.
*Coming from out of town or wanting to make a weekend out of it? Details about the area here.
*Review Refund/Cancellation policy information here
About Mindy & Carissa:
Mindy Lacefield is a mixed media artist who draws inspiration from the nostalgia of her childhood. Creating from the heart of a 7 year old, rainbow colors find themselves mingling among bursts of neon. Intuitive mark making with oil pastels tell the story of the child that still resides so vividly in the soul. Working quickly, letting go, and allowing spontaneous splashes of color just happen has been her approach to facing the blank canvas. Being in the moment and enjoying the process of painting with no specific plans of the outcome continues to thrive as Mindy's method of creating. Exploring the duality of nature, the dark against the sweet side - evolve and marry together - to awaken the dream-state that resides in layers of the soul.
Mindy is a full time artist living in central Arkansas with her hubby and two pooches. When she’s not in the studio, she loves to watch independent films and is inspired by the movies of Tim Burton, Alfred Hitchcock, and Stanley Kubrick. Find out more on her website.
Carissa Paige is an artist enamored with self-exploration, inner-child work, and finding the joy in all things. She believes simply being alive is the ultimate creative act and everyone has the bones of an artist. She has a gift for feeling deeply, seeing, and hearing the unspoken, and is now empowering others to uncover these same gifts in themselves through Living The Art and Owning Your Story. Carissa is an artist, writer, animal lover, and one woman circus continually unfolding. Her work has been described as “dreamy artwork in pastel colors that haunt and inspire…ethereal, mysterious, like a dream that you can't quite catch, as it slowly slips from your waking mind”. She has a wild collection of vintage dresses, and often dresses up and takes documentary style self-portraiture as a form of healing and expression. She is a full time artist living in Central Florida with 5 furry people and 1 partner-in-crime.
When she’s not in her studio, she’s out in the woods exploring the Florida wilds, or gathering vintage treasures and sharing them with the world through her alter-ego, Jack & Tilly. Find out more on her website.
