Painting Fire with Melanie Lan
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Saturday, November 7, 11:00am - 12:30pm PT.
This is an online workshop held via Zoom.
As the days grow shorter, fire becomes a welcome source of light and warmth. In this workshop, we’ll explore the phenomenon of fire through the medium of watercolor. Painting fire can be surprisingly tricky: it glows, flickers, shifts, and seems to resist being captured. Rather than aiming for a photorealistic representation, we’ll explore how to loosely translate the glow into paint.
Painting fire with watercolor might seem almost contradictory: fire and water are natural opposites. But the fluidity of watercolor lends itself well to the movement of flames. We’ll pay attention to the balance between control and spontaneity that makes watercolor so well suited to a luminous subject that is constantly in motion.
Reference images will be provided, and you’re also welcome to bring your own sources of inspiration. All levels welcome.
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 – yellows, oranges, reds, and dark blues! Neons / fluorescent paints are great here too if you have them.
- Watercolor paper
- Brushes
- Cup of Water
- Mixing palette
- Studio Cloth or Paper Towel
- Pencil + eraser
- Scrap paper to swatch paints and warm up
- Optional: isopropyl alcohol
- Optional: compass or something to trace a circle
- 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
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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.
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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!!
