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PROCESS + PREPARATION
Creative processes, planning and preparation to support your practice.
Simple suggestions about setting up your studio space before you jump into a new project.
How to think about your art and the art of other artists, to support you in making your art even more 'you'. I share reflections on my art and that of other artists.
SKILLS + DEMO'S
demonstrations of different techniques and approaches to support your creativeĀ
An accessible and fun class for finding new ways to express a face! Use the prompts as a starting point, and find your own voice.
A light introduction to Cressida Campbell, Henri Matisse and Helen Frankenthaler. Work from the still life image provided by Natalia or use your own references. A friendly class that will get you thinking!
SUNDAY SESSIONS
Likened to Creative Church, these sessions are guided by Natalia and are an opportunity to dive deep, connect and ask questions. Expect reflective and explorative exercises based in art and writing. The overlap between life and art is showcased in these nourishing calls.
Exploring Death. Special Guest Cara Walker from Walker Family Funerals talks about preparing for death well, ritual and ceremony for the living and the deceased. Photographer Clare Wise shares a docuseries of a death ceremony in Varanasi on the river Ganga. Accompanied by friend Keshav, Indian tattoo artist who explains Moksha.
Amie McNee - writer and creative badass joins us for a Q+A about creative living and her new book We Need Your Art.Ā
Natalia gives a brief introduction to the colour wheel, an exercise in colour swatching (so you can broaden your colour palette) and then a reflective exercise about you as a colour wheel.
Autumn edition includes a little warm up exercise with Jarrah blooms, an intuitive adventure paint, followed by some journalling to reflect on the change of season, and a little light hearted destruction to end the session!
We went off plan today and did a light hearted potato print class. Limit your colours, and challenge yourself to find fun, and your own expression within the simple limitations (or endless possibilities?) of the humble spud. You might be surprised!
For those days when you need to centre and ground, Natalia shares two different meditative and relaxing art-based exercises. Which one do you prefer?Ā
Taking stock of 2024. Bring a journal, art materials and perhaps some tissues. Natalia goes through a few different exercises to reflect on the year that was - and a novel way to help you know how to thrive in 2025.Ā
REFERENCE
The place to visit when you don't know what to draw, or when you want to feel like you are plein-air painting but from the comfort of your studio.
