Paint with Gayle & Jennifer - People and Gardens

Join us for a fun and creative painting workshop

Saturday, May 11, 1-3:00 pm EST.

Join us for a spring-inspired Zoom workshop : People and Gardens. This might look like a woman in a garden, a woman wearing a dress with a garden pattern, or a garden with multiple people in it... we always explore lots of ideas before we land on the idea that feels best to paint with you! After our painting demo, we always show this process of deciding what we will paint - giving you a peek into our creative process.

We love keeping these Zoom workshops donation-based so they are accessible to everyone. Please do keep in mind that we work hard to give you great classes, so we appreciate that those of you who can afford to pay more will do so, and this helps those who can afford less!

We suggest a minimum of $20, but we understand that may not be possible for everybody. Please be honest and pay what you can afford.

ARE YOU TRYING TO BOOK VIA THE EVENTBRITE PHONE APP?!

We have been in touch with Eventbrite, and they have informed us that you cannot book tickets to online events in their app. It's very frustrating and we have been assured they are working on a solution. In the meantime, we recommend that you delete the phone app or book tickets to our events outside of the iOS app - either via a web browser or a desktop.

Note: EVERYONE who signs up, for live or video only will get the video.

This class will focus on painting one or a few people and (maybe even some animals!) incorporated into a garden. The workshop will begin with a short show and tell from each of us, showing what we're working on currently as well as our sketchbooks. For each of our 40-minute painting demos, we will show different ways that we paint people in scenes, using photo reference. You'll get our photo reference a few days before the workshop.

You will have the opportunity to see our painting process, and either paint along with us or just watch. Everyone will have access to the recording later. You will have a chance to ask us questions in the chat. While Gayle is painting Jennifer will monitor the chat and relay questions and Gayle will do the same while Jennifer paints. You’re welcome to either simply watch or you can paint along with us.

We want these classes to be accessible to anyone who'd like to take them, and we’re so happy that this donation-based model is working so well. Pay what you can! NOTE: whatever your donation, you will also be charged the Eventbrite fees.

If you can't make it on May 11 there is a video-only option. EVERYONE from the live class will also get the video. It takes about a week for us to have the video edited after the class.

WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING:
I get inspired every time I watch Gayle and Jennifer paint! I learn so much from seeing their mastery of color and composition firsthand in workshops and retreats. There is no such thing as mistakes when you paint with Gayle and Jennifer and that has given me confidence to be creative and take chances in my own art.
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An inspiring workshop filled with helpful painting tips led by 2 charming and talented illustrators. They happily share all their art secrets and clearly are having a great time. So much fun! I am a repeat customer.

Gayle Kabaker
Gayle Kabaker is an award-winning illustrator, writer, and visual storyteller. She graduated from the Academy of Art in San Francisco and began her career as a freelance fashion illustrator. After moving to Western Massachusetts she expanded from fashion illustration and this led to projects for a variety of major clients in advertising, editorial, and animation. She had her first New Yorker magazine cover ‘June Brides’ celebrating gay marriage in 2012 and has had a total of eight covers since then. Her work tends to be very feminine, exploring beauty in all forms. Gayle uses her sketchbook to document her life and her current favorite muse is her granddaughter Mona. She had an ongoing column in the Washington post Called 'Sketching My Way Through Crisis' showing how keeping a sketchbook practice can be therapeutic for anyone even if you're not an artist. Gayle illustrated 100 portraits for the book Vital Voices - 100 Women Using Their Power to Empower and it came out last year to rave reviews. The companion exhibition was the longest-running show in the history of the Kennedy Center. Gayle lives in Western Massachusetts with her husband, artist Peter Kitchell and their dog Charlie.
https://www.gkabaker.com
https://www.instagram.com/gaylekabaker

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Jennifer Orkin Lewis / Augustwren
A deep love of color, pattern, and nature is the foundation of Jennifer's work as an artist, illustrator, author, and teacher. Her joyful gouache paintings of flowers, random objects, people, and occasional meditative abstract musings open a colorful and enticing window onto a detail of the day one might ordinarily overlook. In 2010 she made the move to switch careers from textile design to illustration, to fulfill a long-held goal, and began a rigorous daily sketchbook project, doing a 30-minute painting every day. The looseness and intuitiveness of those paintings became her signature style and they are the source of much inspiration to herself and others. She is endlessly amazed and satisfied to see her shelf filling up with completed sketchbooks. Jennifer's work has been featured on many products and brands worldwide, including Anthropologie, Abrams Books, Chronicle Books, Eeboo, Kate Spade Home, Tocca, Seattle Chocolate Company, Roger LaBorde as well as many others. Her books include two inspirational sketchbook journals published by Abrams that encourage and inspire people to develop their own daily drawing practice. Jennifer studied at Rhode Island School of Design and spent the first half of her career as a textile designer and stylist in NYC.
https://www.augustwren.com/
https://www.instagram.com/augustwren