Floret

The class starts with a single bloom…. You gather a few favorite flowers, sketch them in charcoal, and paint them in luminous layers of color until the canvas holds everything you noticed: the shape of a petal, the light along its edge, the mood a color carries.

Over six projects, you'll paint soft atmospheric backgrounds, mix glazes the way the old masters did, work with natural pigments, and finish with small romantic florals on linen that could have come from a French flea market. 

The pace is the luxury. Renee gives you room to slow down, pour a cup of tea, spend a whole afternoon, and make something more beautiful than it needs to be, just because you can. 

If you've wanted a reason to indulge in your practice, this is a lovely one.

Gathered Moments

There is a particular kind of quiet that happens when you stop to really look at a place. The way the light falls. The shape of a leaf you have walked past a hundred times. The smell of damp earth after rain.  

I've been excited to share our latest class, Gathered Moments, with Nicole Warrington for quite a while. 

This nature journaling class is an invitation to slow down and respond to the land around you, in drawings, monoprints, poetry, and watercolor. Nicole guides you through gathering what you notice on a walk, composing a visual story from what you collected, and closing with a small offering of gratitude. Three lessons that gently build on each other.

This is not a class that asks you to work faster or make more. It asks you to pay closer attention, and to let the land teach you its own language. Your journal becomes a record of a season, a mood, a morning.

One Page Wonders

Our first Live Creative Class of the year has arrived! One Page Wonders with Kiala Givehand is open for Early Registration.

Kiala has a rare gift for making you feel like creativity belongs to you. In this live creative class, Kiala will guide you through the art of transforming a single sheet of paper into three intimate, handmade book forms. Not precious objects. Companions. Small books for your sketches, your fragments of poetry, your morning symbols, your quiet discoveries.

You don’t need any experience with bookmaking. You don’t need to think of yourself as an artist. All you need is one sheet of paper and a willingness to see what happens when you fold it with intention.