Mark Making: Etel Adnan with Melanie Lan
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Saturday, September 27, 11:00am - 12:30pm PT
This is an online workshop held via Zoom.
Etel Adnan was a Lebanese-American poet, essayist, and visual artist who called the Bay Area home. Her paintings of vivid, abstract landscapes feature bold, simplified forms: mountains, suns, and horizons, rendered with a clarity and resonance that belies their minimalism. Her works exude a sense of immediacy and intimacy, utilizing a bold palette that suggests both place and feeling without literal representation.
In this workshop we'll be emulating her luscious use of color and observing how she made bold, simplified shapes to represent landscapes. There is a glorious sense of play in Adnan's paintings. In this class we will do our best to nurture that same simple spirit of joy in our creative practice.
“Colors exist for me as entities in themselves, as metaphysical beings.” - Etel Adnan, 1925 - 2021.
Join Zoom 15 minutes early for an informal meet and greet with the instructor and class participants! Class will begin promptly at 5 minutes past the hour, so everyone has plenty of time to create!
SUGGESTED MATERIALS
These guidelines are here to help you gather supplies from home—feel free to use alternate options you love or have on hand!
- Your favorite Watercolor paints
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2-3 pieces Watercolor paper
- Optional: grid paper
- Optional: grid paper
- Scrap piece of paper for swatching colors
- Brushes - Flat brushes are my favorite here!
- Cup of Water
- Mixing palette
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Studio Cloth or Paper Towel
- Pencil + eraser
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Optional: Washi, Artist's, or Nichiban masking tape
- Reference photos will be provided
ABOUT INSTRUCTOR
Melanie Lan is an artist, illustrator, and mama bear based in NYC. She earned her MFA in painting at the Burren College of Art in Ireland, and has an interdisciplinary background in painting, cross-cultural studies, and somatic psychology. Her work explores the intersection of healing, meaning-making, and the natural world. In her free time Melanie is a selenophile who loves tide pools, stargazing, big trees, and long walks with good snacks.
melanielan.com / @melanie.lan
THINGS TO KNOW
Zoom links are emailed 24 hours prior, and again 15 minutes prior, to the workshop start time. Please check out using the email address to which you’d like the link sent. If you have not received the link within 24 hours of your class, please check your spam folder first, then email friends@caseformaking.com.
Workshop recordings are sent automatically the day after class to everyone who paid for a spot, and are available for 30 days after the date of the workshop.
If you need to cancel, please let us know as soon as possible so we can open up your spot! We are only able to refund if we’re notified at least 48 hours prior to the workshop.
If you are planning to teach in the future using anything you’ve learned from us, we kindly ask that you credit Case for Making + the individual instructor where applicable.
Thank you so much for taking our workshops!!
