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I hope you will join me and journey with me as we create and find our tender pieces together, through the imagery and stories buried within us and help them find their way onto our canvases, into our journals and into our clay.  

Class is available!

Much love,  Jeanne-Marie

xoxox

OBJECTIVE of {Held}Captive

 I want to focus a lot on painting and sharing my creative process intuitively as well as how I work with references.  How I learnt to understand the face, things I've tried and failed with and how my passion for the emotion emerged over the understanding.  After painting 1FaceADay for 2 years running, I realised it wasn't the face I was trying to capture, it was the soul I was after and the story behind each new person that showed up on my canvas.

I would like to share how I'm inspired and how I do research which will lead me back to my canvas.

I want to focus on finding the love, emotion and tenderness in each piece.

Introduction

• Understanding different substrates and problem solving with canvas

• Testing papers based substrates

• DIY Substrates - paperclay canvases and plaster boards

  - making your own plaster board journey with a paperclay face

• Understanding and choosing brushes

• Supplies we will use in this class and talking about Acrylics

Projects - we will do a some drawing projects, listed below to get us comfortable with the face

LET'S PAINT

I want to spend a lot of time painting with you.

Section 1 - Portraiture

Finding emotional tenderness in single portraits

• Emotional portraits - working from small to BIG

• Emotional portrait - working intuitively

• Emotional self portraiture - monochromatic

• Emotional portrait inspired by a reference, including expressive hand

• Bonus - Painting Teeth (adds emotion)

  - Adding flowers

  - Expressive hands

  - Playing with Neocolors

Projects - 5 portrait projects in this section

Section 2 - Tenderness Togetherness

I am totally in love with the tender bond between women... whether it is be between MothersDaughterLove, SisterLove or FriendshipLove - the connection intrigues me.

I want to spend a bit of time looking and studying emotive togetherness.  Studying various artists work who have captured tender emotion in togetherness.

• A MotherDaughterLove Series - looking at painting this connection. Learning from the Madonna, the ultimate MotherLove story to our own MotherLove stories. This is something very dear to my heart and I can't stop painting it.

MotherLove Painting x 2

We will be paining one small Madonna inspired painting and then a larger MotherLove Painting

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SisterLove Paintings x1

• A SisterLove Painting - I do believe there is a longing in all of us to have beautiful connection with our sisters, whether we have a blood related sister or not. I think there is a longing in all of us for it. I am always looking at ways to capture this story. We will be painting SisterLove Painting on a solid red background painted first.

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FriendshipLove Painting x1

• A FriendshipLove Painting - As I'm getting older, this is something I am loving and appreciating so much in my own life. The power of soul sister connections. It's a beautiful thing and I want to paint it. This is the biggest painting demo I will do. Working intuitively and BIG, this painting includes 7 friends and I wanted them to be really connected to each other emotively. I hope I achieved that and I loved sharing this with you.

A bonus FriendshipLove painting at the closing page to wrap up the FriendshipLove lessons.

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Section 3 - PaperClay

• Introduction and understanding your clay

• Finding emotion in individual figure

• Finding emotion with hand gestures and posture

• Painting our clay sculptures in a way that completes their stories.

Projects x2 using different clays

- Noun {Japanese}

Section 4 - Lomography - Instant Photography

• Finding tender emotion in your lens.

• Finding ways to capture daily tenderness.

• Keepsakes

Playing with our instant cameras / cell phones, with instant printers

Projects - to take our cameras with us wherever we go and capture moments in time - finding beautiful ways to see, feel and love your life, one capture at a time

It's going to a full to the brim class and I'm so excited to share this with you.

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Supply List

I will supply a more comprehensive list closer to the time.

Variety Canvases and/or substrates

Acrylic paints of your choice - I'll post a list soon.

Brown Stabilo / Black stabilo

Inks / Neocolors / Inktense

Journals / Watercolor paper

(Will give more details closer to the time).

Paper Clay of your choice

Basic Clay Tools

Stamps / Stencils

Fuji Instant Camera Mini or Wide / Fuji Instant Printer (details to follow)