Star Fruit with Melanie Lan
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Sunday, July 12, 11:00am - 12:30pm PT.
This is an online workshop held via Zoom.
Inside every fruit is the potential for a Big Bang! In this summer harvest-inspired watercolor workshop, we’ll explore fruits as symbols of abundance and nourishment, portraying them as cosmic portals to the stardust within us all.
In addition to painting fruit forms, this class will look at how to create starry slices of the universe, using a monochromatic palette. Participants are welcome to paint with more than one color, but limiting a piece to a single color and theme often opens up unexpected creative freedoms – encouraging deeper focus, refined expression, and inventive use of contrast, texture, and form.
This is a space for reflection, not perfection. No experience necessary, 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!
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Watercolor paints – Melanie will be using just one color (blue) but participants are welcome to paint with as many colors as they'd like!
- If you'd also like to work with blue, feel free to use as many as you'd like and mix them up!
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Watercolor paper – A pad or block of cold press paper, or individual sheets (8"x10" recommended, but any approximate size will do!)
- Brushes
- White Gouache
- Mixing palette
- Optional: table salt
- Optional: Drawing from life is encouraged if you happen to have some fruits with you!
- Optional: isopropyl alcohol or vodka (fun but absolutely optional if you don’t have this!)
- 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!!
