Art Journaling Course

If you're looking for creative hobbies, explore art journaling in this NYC art course! Art journaling provides a stress-relieving, inspiring, and safe space to experiment, explore, and express your inner world through a variety of materials, colors, layers, and subject matter.

In this class, you will learn how to tap into meditative states through authentic art-making and practice creative mindfulness while allowing stress to melt away while creating meaningful artwork. You'll also learn a wide variety of artistic techniques and creative approaches in painting, drawing, collage, and mixed-media as you create artwork that expresses your unique voice and perspectives.

This is an opportunity to express yourself, as you learn how to layer and intuitively collage, express yourself with paint and meditative marks, use watercolor to channel your mood, tap into drawing with expressive marks, and explore the addition of writing, inspiring quotes, pictures, textures, and other details to personalize your art journal pages.

This art journaling course provides a safe, encouraging, and inspiring space to explore and express your feelings through color, texture, words, and art.

In this nurturing class, you will:

• Express your authentic self-expression while learning endless artistic techniques in painting, drawing, collage, mixed-media, and a wide variety of art supplies
• Enjoy weekly demonstrations and artistic exercises that will teach you artistic fundamentals and techniques
• Receive customized, one-on-one expert art instruction based on your personal needs and interests
• Feel welcomed as you are while you learn with our encouraging, intimidation-free, non-judgmental art studio community
• Explore and improve on foundational art techniques, including color, tone/value, texture usage, traditional and non-traditional materials usage, composition, glazing, brushwork, personal imagery, paint application, the art of combining art mediums, and more
• Feel inspired by subject matter, such as abstraction, realism, landscape, the human figure, motivating prompts, and personally chosen subject matter
• Create finished pieces of artwork and experience a sense of accomplishment
• Enjoy the added bonus of daily connection and community in our private community Facebook group for our students only
• Receive the data-driven health benefits of art classes, including stress relief, boosted self-esteem, anxiety and depression reduction, increased focus, better moods, and enhanced problem-solving skills

• Watercolor or Mixed Media Pad of paper (preferably in a spiral bind and at least 90 lb paper weight)
• Watercolor paints (any brand and colors)
• Pencil
• Eraser
• Glue (Mod Podge or Matte Medium)
• Craft or Paint Brushes
• Black Marker (Sharpie Ultra point, Posca fine point, or Pigma Micron Pen)
• Scissors
• Collage elements (old letters, beauty magazine, National Geographic, tissue paper, etc.)
• Optional: Acrylic Craft Paints (white and a few of your favorite colors)
• Optional: White Paint Marker (Posca fine point or Sharpie)

This class series runs over 8 consecutive sessions, at the same time every week.

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