DRAWING/PAINTING – SUMMER SESSION 7
August 11-16, 2024 (4 STUDIO DAYS)
Vessna Scheff
Radiant Watercolors and Luminous Drawings

In this exploratory workshop, we will experiment with intuitive mark making, movement-inspired activities, blind drawing, and drawing from observation—with the goal of self-expression and developing an understanding of light. Fun and playful approaches will build comfort with drawing and watercolor, reveal tools and techniques for refining work (it is actually possible to “erase” watercolor!), and provide prompts for seeing. This workshop is for beginning-to-advanced students hoping to find enjoyment and ease in mark making and watercolor painting and/or to enhance their skill in drawing/painting from observation. As an instructor/artist/person who values silliness and play as critical components of grounded artistic living, I look forward to diving in with you. All levels. 

Vessna Scheff creates poetic paintings, portraits, performances, sounds, and installations that use watercolors, movement, vocals, and projections as mediums of inquiry. Grounded in watercolors, her work reclaims a medium that is often described as “difficult” and “sketch” for its uncontrollable qualities, and conceptualizes the freedom of watercolor as an expression of Black liberation: always being, responding, and adapting despite the confines of oppression. Scheff’s works dance with time and fall to gravity; they blend, bleed, and bloom. They stretch, they resist, they flood, they drip, potent in texture, heavy in meaning, and rich in nuance.

vessnascheff.com/visuals | @vessnascheff
Jan 15 – Regular enrollment opens