Currently Available
Virtual Watercolor Workshops and Classes
With Helen Klebesadel
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.)
Ongoing Individualized Offerings
Individualized on-line workshops, classes, and consultations
On-Demand Virtual Watercolor Workshops
Go At Your Own Pace For A Year
Virtual Watercolor: A New Beginning -6 lessons, 2-5 videos per lesson - Description
Virtual Advancing Your Watercolors - 6 Lessons, 2-5 videos per lesson - Description
Combined for a 12 Lesson On-Demand Watercolor Intensive- going at your own pace, take a year to complete. - Description
Go At Your Own Pace For A Year
Virtual Watercolor: A New Beginning -6 lessons, 2-5 videos per lesson - Description
Virtual Advancing Your Watercolors - 6 Lessons, 2-5 videos per lesson - Description
Combined for a 12 Lesson On-Demand Watercolor Intensive- going at your own pace, take a year to complete. - Description
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
Art Mentoring Opportunities
Independent and Personalized Art Exploration
This is an opportunity to do a deep dive with a professional artist to explore your ambitions for your art and career and to gain support in how to to build upon your strengths and artistry to develop effective strategies for bringing your art to the world.
Supportive studio critique may focus on important themes and narratives in our work or focus on the methods and materials we use to tell our visual story. An art career involves many creative challenges. It can make a huge difference when we can communicate our challenges with another artist who can help pull out our own deep knowledge of what matters most to us. It often leads to solutions that otherwise might be overlooked.
An hour long session. Longer description here.
Supportive studio critique may focus on important themes and narratives in our work or focus on the methods and materials we use to tell our visual story. An art career involves many creative challenges. It can make a huge difference when we can communicate our challenges with another artist who can help pull out our own deep knowledge of what matters most to us. It often leads to solutions that otherwise might be overlooked.
An hour long session. Longer description here.
Virtual Supportive and Individualized Studio Critique
$
200.00
Art Mentoring:
Independent and Personalized Art Exploration
6 Personalized Art Lessons 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. (A great follow up for after Helen's virtual or in-person workshops)
Longer Description
Longer Description
Register for Art Mentoring: Independent and Personalized Art Exploration
$
350.00
~Virtual Creativity Coaching through Art ~
Finding Your Voice as an Artist-Mixed Media Exercises
Enjoy individualized guided creative process oriented exercises using collage and mixed media designed to help you identify and expand your creative voice. Helen teaches 'Finding Your Voice Mixed-Media as a series of guided exercises using image-making and short writing exercises and mixed-media collage.
Longer description
Longer description
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