Mushroom Magic with Melanie Lan
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Saturday, October 19, 11:00am - 12:30pm PT
It's mushroom season!! 🍄 If you've ever taken the realistic Fabulous Fungi workshop with Melanie before, this is the more playful technicolor counterpart!
In this mycology inspired workshop, we’ll be learning how to successfully layer our watercolors to illustrate mushroom caps, gills, and stems. We'll be painting mushrooms in a whole new way in order to create a world where fungi can bloom and blossom in a variety of shapes, colors, and configurations.
There are so many different kinds of fungi, so we’ll be looking at multiple varieties, exploring their shapes and forms. In her spare time Melanie has grown her own culinary mushrooms, and is fascinated by their colors, textures, aromas, and how fast they grow!
Join zoom 15 minutes early (10:45am) for an informal meet and greet with the instructor and other class participants! Session instructions will begin promptly at 11:05am PT so that everyone has plenty of time to join!
SUGGESTED MATERIALS
- All your favorite watercolor paints
- Watercolor paper (for paintings that involve a lot of wet-on-wet technique like this one, Arches cotton paper is preferred, but any will do. Work with what you have!)
- Brushes - one smaller, one larger
- Mixing palette
- Cup of water
- Paper towel
- Pencil + eraser
- (Optional) white gouacheÂ
- (Optional) mushrooms, if you have them!  🍄
- Reference photos will be provided
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ABOUT MELANIE
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.
View more of Melanie’s work at melanielan.com and Instagram: @melanie.lan
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All workshops are recorded and the replay will be automatically available the day after class to everyone who paid for a spot! The link to the recording will expire 30 days after the date of the workshop.
* Zoom links are emailed 24 hours before the workshop starts; 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 prior to the class, please check your spam folder first and email friends@caseformaking.com
** If you’d like to cancel, please let us know as soon as possible so that we can open up the spot! We are only able to refund if we’re notified at least 48 hours prior to the workshop.Â
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Thank you so much for taking our workshops. We do ask if you are planning on teaching in the future by using anything you’ve learned from us, to please credit Case for Making + the individual instructor where applicable.
