Autumnal Mixed Media Watercolor with Lois Bender
Workshop | Available
Autumnal Mixed Media Watercolors
Keeping the vibrant Autumn seasonal spirit in mind, experimenting with more dry and wet media in our watercolors can add exciting contrasts with wax crayons, oil pastels, watercolor crayons, acrylic ink or regular inks. They offer fun elements of “resist" textures of beading, ragged sensitive linear edges, inky lines and bright colorations, etc,…including happy accidents.
Subjects will vary in the class according to your preference but Autumnal topics plus being adventurous with mixed media will inspire your spontaneity in making fluid discoveries which can expand your personal artistic style.
Open to all levels
Please bring a snack or a quick lunch (if needed) that you can enjoy on a quick break.
Workshops are confirmed one week prior so please register as soon as possible.
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Wax crayons
Oil sticks or oil pastels
Color inks (any kind)
Pencils, color pencils or markers
Watercolor crayons
Watercolor Set, Brushes, water container
Watercolor paper, Board and masking tape
Bring any of the above materials handy you’d like to try…..
You don't have to bring all of the above. The instructor will have
Some materials to work with….
Lois Bender
Lois Bender has an extensive background in drawing and painting flowers in watercolor. She teaches floral painting in various venues in New York (The Salmagundi Club) and the Hamptons (Baker House 1650), etc. Lois' current art practice featuring garden and nature themes started in 1996 with her retail design brand "TeaQuotes & GardenSpirits." which grew out of her art direction career in the gift industry for the Godiva Chocolates Brand. Celebrating the healing and aesthetic beauty of gardens, her brand sold art, stationery and textiles to gift shops nationally and internationally. This success led also to becoming a product designer for the NY Botanical Garden Gift Shop.
Lois' love of flowers is inspired by her mother Flora Bloom, and nana Hortense Bloom (from hortis, garden in Latin), both garden lovers! She attended Carnegie- Mellon University, graduating from Hunter College (BA) and Boston University (MFA). Lois' art practice continues today as "GardenSpiritsNY" primarily in painting and printmaking mediums and exhibits her work at various venues in metro New York and the Hamptons.
additional samples of Lois Benders work can be seen at https://www.gardenspiritsny.com