Learn to make marks and create beautiful collage papers with Oil Pastels. Mimi’s Art Labs are short 90 minute workshops where we explore one new technique and art application that you can add to your “Making” cache.
We will play with combining oil pastels and creamy oil crayons with some paints, then learn how to seal them for art projects. Take home a small simple 6×6″ artwork made with your papers.
BENEFITS:
Students get an inexpensive fast workshop where they focus on one art technique and because the class is short, they loosen up and play.
FORMAT:
In-Person – Classroom
- Workshop
- Adults 18+
- Novice
INSTRUCTOR BIO
Growing up with a very creative mother and sisters meant that art and cooking projects were a constant in our home. When I declared, at 9 years old, that I wanted to learn to sew, my mom promptly sent me to the Singer sewing shop at the mall. One bungled tennis dress later, the foundation of my self-taught style and business was laid out.
The next layer would be added that same year, when I took art lessons at the Toledo Museum of Art where I learned my primary and secondary colors. The inklings of a business were planted! That lead to my whimsical style of painting, stitching, drawing & hand-cut wobbly designs.
As I go through my life, I appreciate more and more how to edit and make my life less complicated. I am getting back to basics and simplicity. I see objects in their simplest forms and my style is all about editing what I see down to recognizable images. I am simply striving for good design. In a world that can be so busy and overwhelming, I hope that my artworks are pleasing and joyful to look at.
I am inspired always by looking around me…the sidewalk cracks, the way old bricks lay out, the colors of tulips on a farm in the pacific northwest, the mountain scenery driving through the west, and any cows and horses that I see along the road on those trips.
