Best Season Expressions: Five Day Art & Creativity Retreat with Jenny Doh

For this workshop Muses is accepting deposits of 50% of total balance due at time of booking, with the remaining 50% due 60 days before workshop start date. Please contact info@musessantafe.com directly for financial arrangements.

Gather with us where the light is rich, the land vast, and the potential for creative breakthroughs ripe. For five full days, unplug from your everyday and say yes to art in the company of those who are ready to take the time to see, to discover, to create, to practice, to revise, and to bask in the joy of this very season.

DAY ONE: Morning Meet Up and Excursion to the Randall Davey Home and Studio

• After a morning meet up at the studio we will venture to the end of Canyon Road for a private tour of the historic home and studio of Santa Fe artist Randall Davies. A vanguard of modern art, Randall Davey was an important part of the Santa Fe Art Colony, and was a skilled painter, printmaker and sculptor. His home, a truly inspirational residence, is now administrated by the Audubon Society and set in 135 acres of striking landscape including trails and gardens. Students are invited to spend the remainder of the afternoon touring the galleries of Canyon Road, exploring Santa Fe on their own, or just settling in to the slower pace of the week.

  DAY TWO: Art Journaling & Expressive Watercolors & Expressive Hand Lettering

• Jenny will teach how to create an art journal using the Teesha Moore method with Fabriano Artistico hotpress watercolor paper. Jenny will also teach her methods of expressive watercolor painting and expressive hand lettering, where we practice both within the constructed art journal and on papers apart from the art journal. Jenny will facilitate prompts that inspire poetic expressions that can be combined with the watercolor and hand lettering work.

  DAY THREE: Acrylic Intuitive Under Painting

• Jenny will demonstrate and teach a maximalist approach with numerous ways to help you manipulate and apply paint onto a canvas so that you can build up layers, causing the canvas to transition from a “young” canvas to a “mature” canvas. The first part of the class will move quickly on purpose, to get you to stop over-thinking and simply try the methods out quickly. For the rest of this day, as we start to digest the methods and as we potentially discover new ones together, we will rely more on our intuition as we each make decisions, solve problems, and wrestle with the resounding “what next?” when it comes to building layers on a canvas.

  DAY FOUR: Representational Drawing & Value Painting

• On the third day, we will embark on selecting one of our canvases from the first day to deliberately paint a subject, using a photo reference. I will bring photo references that you can use or you can bring references that you have collected. We will first start with a sketch that we make on top of one of the canvases from the previous day, then spend most of this day to paint values of the subject. On this day, you may decide to take one of the other canvases to coax out stories or concepts that the canvas may be projecting out, through the marks that were made. As time allows, you may be able to do both.

  DAY FIVE: Adding Color & Finishing

• On this final full day, we will add color to the value painting from the previous day, add finishing touches, and allow ourselves to toggle back and forth from the assorted canvases that we have worked on, and also to have final creative interactions with our art journals to document our entire experience together as we identify breakthroughs within our painting practice, along with our best season selves.

Thursday June 6- Monday June 10, 2024

@ MUSES Santa Fe / 1512 Pacheco St. #D204 Santa Fe NM 87505

Workshop Info:

• Tuition $1275 (includes field trips)

• Lodging, transportation and meals not included

• Max 12 students

• All skill levels welcome

• Please see notes on supplies below

• This workshop has a minimum enrollment requirement. It is good idea to purchase travel insurance if planning on making immutable travel arrangements.

Please note our cancellation policy: After registration and payment, students have 48 hours to cancel with a 15% admin fee deducted from their refund. After the 48 Hr cancellation period and up until 3 weeks before the workshop begins a refund will be given (-a 15% admin fee) only if the spot can be filled by another student. Please understand our cancellation policy is necessary to properly accommodate our guest artists who go to great lengths to be here!

Student Supply List for DAY 1:

• Bring your assorted pens and markers and colored pencils that you can use to beautify your art journal. (I will be brining my favorite copic markers and fine micron permanent black pens and Prismacolor colored pencils.)

• Watercolors: I love the Kuretake Tambi 36 color set

• Watercolor brush: I love big round-pointed tip brushes made of synthetic sable as well as short flat brushes

• Watercolor palette: I like small ceramic dishes, or any shallow dish that I can easily load up my brushes with with water

• Bring some favorite quotes, maybe a little photo of yourself or a little photo of something you love that could be incorporated to the cover of your journal.

Student Supply List for DAYS 2, 3, & 4:

• 2 stretched canvases: 18x24 inches is a good size or something slightly smaller (but not larger)

• Fluid Acrylic paints by Golden:

• Titanium White

• Carbon Black

• Titan Buff

• Raw Umber

• Ultramarine Blue

• Pyrrole Red (or Cad Red)

• Diarylide Yellow

• Fluorescent Pink (heavy body)

• OPTIONAL: Naples Yellow, Prussian Blue, Green Gold, Teal, Phthalo Green,

• Heavy Body acrylics by Holbein

• Jaune Brilliant

• Aqua blue

• Acrylic inks: Golden High Flow acrylics in black and white

• Fineline precision applicators (gauge 20)

• Stabilo-All pencil (black)

• Palette knife, any size

• SUBJECTS: Reference photos of subjects to that you’d like to paint stored on your smart phone or tablet (like an iPad), devises fully charged. If you have an old family photo, take a photo of that photo and store it onto your devise. Sharp, crisp photos with strong shadows contrast is recommended. If you don’t have a photo, I will have many photo references that you can use.

• PAINTBRUSHES: I use short flat brushes. They are also called “brights.” Do not bring long flats, which look like short flat/brights. I recommend the Dick Blick Scholastic Wonder White brushes. The Blick Scholastics have long blue handles and white nylon bristles and are available on dickblick.com.

• Blick Scholastic Wonder White Brushes (long blue handles)

• One size 12

• One size 20

• EASEL: If you have a collapsible table easel (aluminum or wood) please bring it. If you don’t have an easel, bring a large roll of paper towels.

• Palette paper

• MISC: Paper towels, baby wipes, apron, container for water

KIT FEE:

For each student, I will provide Fabriano artistico hotpress watercolor paper (22x30 inches), unwaxed polyester thread, embroidery thread, sumi ink and dip pen. The kit fee is $20 to be paid by each student to Jenny during class.

If you bring paints as recommended and use your own paints, there is no additional fee. If you bring paints but don’t bring the ones I recommend and you end up using my paints, the fee will be $30 (to be paid to the instructor by cash or check at time of class).