Workshops With Helen Klebesadel
Currently Available Online
Virtual Offerings in 2023
See options for ongoing creativity and art career coaching here.
(Inquire about full or partial scholarships if see you something you should be doing that is beyond your means.)
Virtual Watercolor Workshops On-Demand
Go At Your Own Pace For A Year
Watercolor: A New Beginning -6 lessons
Advancing Your Watercolors - 6 Lessons
Combined Year-long Watercolor Intensive- go at your own pace
The Process
Originally a 12 week online watercolor intensive developed the winter of 2021 made up of two 6-lesson workshops. Now available as on-demand lessons with individualized feedback from instructor Helen Klebesadel.
Workshop Curriculum:
Module 1 - Basic Washes and Mark-making
Module 2 - Controlling Wet-into-Wet
Module 3 - To Resist is Good.
Module 4 - Texture and Adulteration
Module 5 - Photo Reference and Image Transfer
Module 6 - Application Approaches to Color Mixing to Avoid Muddy Colors
Module 2 - Watercolor with Mixed Media
Module 3 - Positive Shape Painting
Module 4 - Negative Shape Painting
Module 5 - Inspired By Chance I
Module 6 - Inspired By Chance With Intention
Or combine both workshops and go at your own pace for a year of guided watercolor fun! (2 to 5 guiding videos per lesson with personalized feedback online)
The on-demand combine workshop watercolor intensive covers a curriculum similar to Helen's past college level watercolor classes. Materials are not provided. A supply list (with links to where they can be purchased) will be provided upon registration
Module 6 - Inspired By Chance II ~With Intention
Go At Your Own Pace For A Year
Watercolor: A New Beginning -6 lessons
Advancing Your Watercolors - 6 Lessons
Combined Year-long Watercolor Intensive- go at your own pace
The Process
Originally a 12 week online watercolor intensive developed the winter of 2021 made up of two 6-lesson workshops. Now available as on-demand lessons with individualized feedback from instructor Helen Klebesadel.
- Both recorded workshops are now available as self-guided text and video based lessons, with individual feedback from instructor Helen Klebesadel via email or online on the workshop website.
- Each workshop is made up of 6 scaffolded lessons.
- Each lesson contains one or more videos introducing the technique followed by one or more videos demos of suggested paintings that can be created using the techniques.
- Participants will share their work on the workshop website and/or on an optional private Facebook Page for group feedback from past workshop participants
- These are designed to be a ‘go at your own pace’ workshop. Sign up and take up to a year to complete all of the lessons.
Workshop Curriculum:
- Watercolor: A New Beginning for beginners and a good review for more experienced painters and self-taught who have been away from watercolor for a while and are ready for a refresher.
Module 1 - Basic Washes and Mark-making
Module 2 - Controlling Wet-into-Wet
Module 3 - To Resist is Good.
Module 4 - Texture and Adulteration
Module 5 - Photo Reference and Image Transfer
Module 6 - Application Approaches to Color Mixing to Avoid Muddy Colors
- Advancing Your Watercolors for intermediate or advanced painters, including anyone who has taken a beginning workshop with Helen before.
Module 2 - Watercolor with Mixed Media
Module 3 - Positive Shape Painting
Module 4 - Negative Shape Painting
Module 5 - Inspired By Chance I
Module 6 - Inspired By Chance With Intention
Or combine both workshops and go at your own pace for a year of guided watercolor fun! (2 to 5 guiding videos per lesson with personalized feedback online)
The on-demand combine workshop watercolor intensive covers a curriculum similar to Helen's past college level watercolor classes. Materials are not provided. A supply list (with links to where they can be purchased) will be provided upon registration
Module 6 - Inspired By Chance II ~With Intention
Watercolor: A New Beginning Virtually
$490.00
$325.00
A 6 lesson on-demand watercolor workshop appropriate for beginners or review for experienced painters.Personal online critiques and support by Instructor Helen Klebesadel. Take a year to complete.
Advancing Your Watercolors Virtually
$490.00
$325.00
This 6 lesson watercolor workshop is for intermediate or advanced and set-taught watercolor painters, and those who have taken face-to-face workshops with Helen. Sign up and take up to a year to complete
Combined Virtual Workshop Year-long Watercolor Intensive
$900.00
$600.00
Combines the two virtual workshops into a year long watercolor intensive with monthly lessons, Go at your own pace, but commit to complete at least one lesson a month with individualized on-line feedback from instructor Helen Klebesadel
Ongoing Individualized Offerings
Individualized on-line workshops, classes, and consultations
Art Mentoring:
An Independent and Personalized Art Exploration
in the media of your choice.
This is a distance critique and advising course which provides one-on-one guidance to visual artists no matter where they live (Face to face versions of this workshop are available for people in the Madison area). Artists receive detailed feedback and focused help to develop a cohesive body of work.
(This can be a great follow up experience for those who have taken Helen's workshops and would like to continue receiving feedback on their art.)
Enjoy individual guidance from an experienced teacher, coach, and artist.as you create art. What is your next step as an artist? Is it a new medium or a more cohesive portfolio of work? Do you desire improved drawing or painting skills; support for color, composition, or content development; feedback on your current work in any media, with guidance for next steps? Do you have an activist art project you would like to launch, but would like help planning it through?
You choose! Collaborate with the instructor on designing a five-lesson plan focused on what you want and need plus a sixth overview session to discuss where you will go next. Submit art by mail or online for feedback. Work at your own pace and take up to a year to finish. (Artists living in the Madison area can inquire if face-to-face sessions are possible for some of the feedback.)
(This can be a great follow up experience for those who have taken Helen's workshops and would like to continue receiving feedback on their art.)
Enjoy individual guidance from an experienced teacher, coach, and artist.as you create art. What is your next step as an artist? Is it a new medium or a more cohesive portfolio of work? Do you desire improved drawing or painting skills; support for color, composition, or content development; feedback on your current work in any media, with guidance for next steps? Do you have an activist art project you would like to launch, but would like help planning it through?
You choose! Collaborate with the instructor on designing a five-lesson plan focused on what you want and need plus a sixth overview session to discuss where you will go next. Submit art by mail or online for feedback. Work at your own pace and take up to a year to finish. (Artists living in the Madison area can inquire if face-to-face sessions are possible for some of the feedback.)
Register for Art Mentoring: Independent and Personalized Art Exploration
$
350.00
~Creativity Coaching through Art ~
Finding Your Voice as an Artist-Mixed Media
Enjoy individualized guided creative process oriented exercises using collage and mixed media designed to help you identify and expand your creative voice. Using step-by-step lessons and ongoing communications by email, blog, or mail, Helen will guide you through a series of exercises aimed at helping you find and expand your creative thinking and learn what you need to support you voice as an artist. Helen teaches 'Finding Your Voice Mixed-Media as a series of guided exercises using image-making and short writing exercises and mixed-media collage. There is an introductory get-to-know-each other session followed by five guided lessons to the workshop. The final lesson develops an individualized mixed-media artwork. Work at your own pace and take up to a year to finish.
Register for Finding Your Voice As An Artist-Mixed Media
Participate in individualized guided creative process oriented exercises using collage and mixed media designed to help you identify and expand your creative voice.
Initial review and six guided mixed-media lessons , including final project, aimed at expanding creative thinking and developing personal artistic voice.
$
350.00
Eight Weeks to Advance Your Watercolor Paintings
This is not your everyday watercolor workshop. It is a commitment to yourself to focus on advancing your watercolors for the next two months.. During that time I will not be teaching you to paint like me. Rather, I will support you to build on whatever foundation you have now for your art and advance to the next level This workshop is a focus on improving your painting process, and resulting work, quickly with focused attention and studio practice. This is an opportunity to have a personal art instructor, coach and/or mentor working with you for eight weeks from your chosen starting date.
Do any of these creativity roadblocks sound familiar?
This can be your personal online class for learning, coaching, mentoring and accountability. You will create a painting a week (I recommend no larger than 22x15), photograph it and email it to me for comment by the end of the week. I will have 3 days to share a supportive critique of your painting in writing, outlining its strengths and possible directions for improvement as you tackle your next painting. We will do 8 paintings in 8 to 10 weeks (wiggle room) from the start date. Building on consistent studio practice, accountability, feedback, and coaching around creativity and learning strategies for overcoming what holds us back, you will complete the workshop with a series of eight new paintings through which you will be able to see and feel your own improvement. Are you ready to challenge yourself?
Do any of these creativity roadblocks sound familiar?
- The weeks go by without you scheduling time to paint
- You want technical help on how to improve but you do not have access to knowledgeable people you feel comfortable asking for advice
- You are not yet comfortable showing your paintings to other artists in workshop or organizational critiques
- You would like to have help and encouragement beyond the usual 2 days of watercolor workshop instruction
- You want your own unique style, and subject matter to come through - not just to learning how to paint like the instructors available to you
- You want to move beyond perfecting techniques and create works of art that have deeper, richer, and more personally meaningful content
This can be your personal online class for learning, coaching, mentoring and accountability. You will create a painting a week (I recommend no larger than 22x15), photograph it and email it to me for comment by the end of the week. I will have 3 days to share a supportive critique of your painting in writing, outlining its strengths and possible directions for improvement as you tackle your next painting. We will do 8 paintings in 8 to 10 weeks (wiggle room) from the start date. Building on consistent studio practice, accountability, feedback, and coaching around creativity and learning strategies for overcoming what holds us back, you will complete the workshop with a series of eight new paintings through which you will be able to see and feel your own improvement. Are you ready to challenge yourself?
Register for the Personal Eight Week to Advance Your Watercolors Challenge
This workshop is a focus on improving your painting process and resulting work in watercolor. You will work quickly with focused attention and begin to develop a regular studio practice. This is an opportunity to have a personal art instructor, coach and/or mentor working with you for eight weeks from your chosen starting date. Dates to be determined in consultation
$
390.00
Eight Weeks to Advance Your Art in Any Media
Personal on-line workshop
This is not your everyday art workshop, it is a commitment to yourself to focus on advancing your creative work over the next two months through learning, coaching, mentoring and accountability. During that time I will not be teaching you to make art like me, Rather, I will support you to build on whatever foundation you have now for your art and advance to the next level This workshop is a focus on improving your art process and resulting work quickly with focused attention and studio practice. This is an opportunity to have a personal art instructor, coach and mentor working with you for eight weeks from your chosen starting date.
Do any of these creativity roadblocks sound familiar?
- The weeks go by without you scheduling time to paint
- You want technical help on how to improve but you do not have access to knowledgeable people you feel comfortable asking for advice
- You are not yet comfortable showing your paintings to other artists in workshop or organizational critiques
- You would like to have help and encouragement beyond the usual 2 days of workshop instruction
- You want your own unique style, and subject matter to come through - not just to learn how to make art just like the instructors available to you
- You want to move beyond perfecting techniques and create works of art that have deeper, richer, and more personally meaningful content
You will create an artwork a week (3-d artists and oil painters may want to focus on maquettes or studies), photograph it and email it to me for comment by the end of the given week. I will have 3 days to share a supportive critique of your artwork in writing outlining its strengths and possible directions for improvement as you tackle your next art piece We will do 8 artworks in from 8 to 10 weeks (wiggle room) from the start date. Building on consistent studio practice, accountability, feedback, and coaching around creativity and learning strategies for overcoming what holds us back, you will complete the workshop with a series of eight new artworks in which you will be able to see and feel your own improvement.
Are you ready to give yourself this challenge?
Register for Personal Eight Week to Advance Your Art Challenge
This workshop is a focus on improving your art process and resulting work quickly with focused attention and studio practice. This is an opportunity to have a personal art instructor, coach and mentor working with you for eight weeks from your chosen starting date.
$
390.00
Helen Klebesadel (MFA 1989). In addition to teaching workshops nationally and internationally, Helen has taught for UW-Madison, Beloit College, and Lawrence University, where she taught for ten years, earned tenure and periodically chaired the art department. Helen has taught contemporary theory, art foundations, and a broad range of 2-D and 3-D art courses and workshops for over 30 years. In addition to her expertise in watercolors and other painting media, she has taught all forms of printmaking, as well as drawing, mixed media, computer aided imaging and book arts.
Helen is also a certified Creativity Coach through the Creativity Coaching Association. In addition to traditional 'talk' coaching, she regularly uses mixed media and collage as part of her arts-based creativity coaching workshops. Helen believes art-making is a form of pre-verbal thinking and problem solving that can be applied to our work to enhance and expand the place of creativity in our lives.
Helen also has a line of fabric and wallpaper based on her watercolors for sale at http://www.spoonflower.com/profiles/helenklebesadel
Helen is also a certified Creativity Coach through the Creativity Coaching Association. In addition to traditional 'talk' coaching, she regularly uses mixed media and collage as part of her arts-based creativity coaching workshops. Helen believes art-making is a form of pre-verbal thinking and problem solving that can be applied to our work to enhance and expand the place of creativity in our lives.
Helen also has a line of fabric and wallpaper based on her watercolors for sale at http://www.spoonflower.com/profiles/helenklebesadel