8 Sep 2024
Urban Lichen Sketch Walk! Please RSVP via my CONTACT PAGE!
Category: Workshop/Class
Price: Free
Venue:
CORE Gallery, Prefontaine Place South, Seattle, WA, USA
Art and Lichen, what’s not to like?
Activate your senses with artist Andrea K. Lawson and naturalist Katherine Darrow as we explore, observe, and sketch the microworld of lichens in the Pioneer square area of Seattle. We’ll meet at Core Gallery where you will have the opportunity to view Andrea’s lichen inspired Symbiotica art exhibit. Andrea and Katherine will demonstrate a few nature journaling tips and spend a short time looking at lichen samples, learning what makes them unique. We will then venture forth in search of lichen on city sidewalks, buildings, rocks, and trees. We’ll observe and notate their color and shapes in our sketchpads and create our own mini field guides and lichen color palettes. Find new ways to see and appreciate the beauty of these tiny organisms found growing in unexpected and seemingly hostile places!
Core Gallery open 1PM. Arrive between 1 and 2 PM to view the art exhibit.
Sketch walk 2-4 PM
RSVP preferred. Limited to 20 people. Please contact Andrea to sign up on my contact page.
Meet by 1-2 pm at Core Gallery to view exhibit, walk starts 2 PM.
117 Prefontaine Place South
Seattle WA 98104
Google Map to Core Gallery
Leisurely walk/easy pace. No previous art or lichen experience necessary.
We will provide: mini art painting kits, lichen bingo cards, field guides to share, art journal starter guides. Mini art kit samples provided by arttoolkit.com: https://arttoolkit.com
Optional supplies to bring:
Water bottle, your favorite sketchbook, drawing/painting tools,: simple as a pencil and pad or more complex with watercolors, brush, pens.-or simplify with our arttoolkit samples. Also useful: a small magnifying glass, sunhat, a pad or portable folding stool to sit on.
Andrea’s solo show includes textured prints which speak of the symbiotic nature of lichen and how lichen relate to our human exhistance. Composing with oil on canvas and intaglio etchings, Andrea’s art chronicles atmospheric rhythms, luminous patterns and the symbiotic nature of community On view at Core Gallery Seattle, Washington, September 4-28, 2024.
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