Mark Making: Ruth Asawa with Melanie Lan
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Saturday, January 24, 11am - 12:30pm PT
This is an online workshop held via Zoom.
Ruth Asawa was a Japanese-American artist known primarily for her abstract wire sculptures inspired by natural and organic forms. Despite her fame as a sculptor, she was also a prolific painter and explored many types of media, including watercolor.
In this workshop we will practice the art of watercolor glazing to explore the way Asawa layered her sculptures. This class is a wonderful way to play with layering and painting from light to dark. We will also observe her beautiful paintings of the natural world.
"Art is not a series of techniques, but an approach to learning, to questioning, and to sharing." – Ruth Asawa
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 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!
- Watercolor paints (especially colors that have a richness and depth, dark colors like indigo are great for this.)
- 2 or more pieces of watercolor paper
- Water
- Mixing palette
- Brushes, any that you have! Flat brushes are great for this one
- Paper towel
- Optional: tape, for sealing edges
- Optional: hair dryer for speeding up drying time
- 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 visual arts 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!!
