New! Sea Shapes with Melanie Lan
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SUNDAY, JULY 13, 11:00am - 12:30pm PT
This is an online workshop held via Zoom.
This workshop focuses on nautical linework. Together we will distill marine life into their most basic forms, including seashells, coral, seaweed, and other coastal elements, using simple and minimal brushstrokes to depict these subjects with clarity.
In addition to painting sea life and ocean treasures, this class will utilize a monochromatic palette, inspired by traditional blue & white porcelain, such as Qinghua ceramics and Dutch Delftware. Limiting a piece to a single color and theme may seem restrictive, but it often opens up unexpected creative freedom – encouraging deeper focus, refined expression, and inventive use of contrast, texture, and form.
This class is open to all levels and will result in a cohesive composition of marine studies using a limited blue-toned palette.
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 or ink (Melanie will be painting monochromatically, using just one color: blue)
- 2-3 pieces Watercolor paper
- Brushes
- Cup of Water
- Mixing palette
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Studio Cloth or Paper Towel
- Optional: Pencil + eraser
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Optional: Washi, Artist's, or Nichiban masking tape
- Any beachcombing treasures you might have that you want to paint!
- 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!!
