Mark Making: Monet's Water Lilies with Melanie Lan
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Saturday, May 24, 11:00am - 12:30pm PT
This is an online workshop held via Zoom.
Claude Monet was the founder of Impressionist painting, as well as the creator of the iconic Water Lilies series. These paintings are famous for their dynamic interplay of analogous colors and rich textural qualities. From afar, the paintings appear as serene lily-ponds, yet up close they are an explosion of energetic lines, marks, and brushwork.
In this workshop, we'll explore the gestural quality of Monet's brushstrokes, translating the visceral oil paint markings into watercolors. We'll study his signature color palette using blues, greens, purples, and pinks, and create water lily filled ponds of our own. “I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.” – Claude Monet
Mark making describes the different lines, dots, marks, patterns, and textures we create in an artwork. It can be loose and gestural, or controlled and neat. We each have our own unique way of mark making, and discovering the limitless possibility of making marks is part of what makes art so immensely joyful!
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 - primarily shades of blues, greens, purples, pinks, and a touch of yellow!
- 2-3 pieces Watercolor paper
- Brushes – one larger, one smaller (Melanie loves mop and round brushes for this class)
- Cup of Water
- Mixing palette
- Studio Cloth or Paper Towel
- Scrap paper to swatch paints and warm up
- Optional: Washi, Artist's, or Nichiban masking tape
- White gouache
- Reference photos will be provided
ABOUT INSTRUCTOR
Melanie Lan is an artist and illustrator 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!!
