Watercolor and Creativity Workshops
February 4-7, 2020
Two separate workshops
or combine them for a
4-Day Watercolor Intensive
Watercolor: A Fresh Start- February 4-5, 2020
Advancing Your Watercolor, February 6-7, 2020
Amarillo Art Institute
Amarillo TX
Registration through the Amarillo Art Institute here.
June 8-9, 2019
Explore your creative voice through art making!
Finding Your Artist Voice in Mixed Media at River Arts
River Arts Art Center
Prairie du Sac, WI
(Register and description River Arts Art Center here)
June 21-23, 2019
Never frame a watercolor under glass again!
Painting With Watercolor on Canvas
Shake Rag Alley School for Arts and Crafts
Mineral Point, WI
(Register and description Shake Rag Alley School for Arts and Crafts here)
July 14th-28, 2019
Make art and explore your creative voice in the beauty of Alaska!
Fairbanks Summer Arts Festival
2 week-long workshops
Week 1: Watercolor: A Fresh Start to Advance Your Watercolors
Week 2: Finding Your Inner Artist Voice in Watercolor
University of Alaska-Fairbanks
Fairbanks, Alaska
(Register and description the Fairbanks Summer Arts Festival here.)
August 11-16, 2019
Registration closed
Watercolor: The Expressive Medium at Björklunden
Lawrence University's Björklunden
Bailey's Harbor, WI
August 17, 2019
Developing a Sustainable Studio Practice
Peninsula School of Art
Fish Creek, WI
(Register and description Peninsula School of Art here.)
August 25-31, 2019
Fun and exploring your creative in the north woods of WI
Finding Your Art Subject In Any Media
Dillman's Art Resort
Lac du Flambeau, WI
(Register and description Dillman's Art Resort here.)
September 15-20, 2019
Learn the basics and explore wet-into-wet processes in watercolors
Watercolor: A Fresh Start at Björklunden
Lawrence University's Björklunden
Bailey's Harbor, WI
(Register and description Bjorklunden coming soon here.)
October 20-24, 2019
Do a deep dive not your creative through art processes!
For artists in all disciplines and non-artists!
Re-Vision Mixed Media Art & Creativity Intensive at Björklunden
Lawrence University's Björklunden
Bailey's Harbor, WI
(Register and description below)
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Don't see what you want?
Contact Helen about private lessons or to bring a workshop to your community.
Nature Journaling Workshop
Inspired by the current exhibition at the James Watrous Gallery
Uprooted: Plants in a Changing Climate
Sponsored by the Wisconsin Academy of Science Arts and Letters
May 19, 2019, 10:00 and - 1:00 pm
UW Arboretum Visitor Center-Madison
Workshop full, Registration Closed
4-day Watercolor Intensive at the UW-Arboretum
Combining two 2-day workshops of
Two-day: Watercolor: A Fresh Start - May 28-29, 2019 (registration closed.)
Two-day: Advancing Your Watercolors - May 30-31, 2019 - (A few spots remain)
UW-Arboretum
Madison, WI
(Register and description below-)
4-day Spring Guided Watercolor Studio
A unique opportunity for watercolor painters to take the next step in their art in this workshop, critique, and guided studio experience.
See below for longer description.
(Discount for past workshop participants.
Space is limited to no more than 12 to allow for more in-depth work. )
March 25-28, 2019
or
Sign up for Individual Art Critiques
Evenings March 25-28 and daytime Friday, March 29, 2019
Common Wealth Gallery
Madison, WI
(Registration and longer description below)
4-day Guided Watercolor Workshop, Critique and Studio
A unique opportunity for watercolor painters to take the next step in their art.
Space is limited to no more than 12 participants to allow for in-depth work.
Some experience with watercolor is expected.
The exact curriculum will be determined by the needs and interests to those who sign up for the workshop. Mornings will include demos and exercises designed to move the participants artworks forward. Each participant is encouraged to bring samples of their past and current work for the supportive group critique designed to get you the feedback you need to go deeper into your own art process. Afternoons will be open painting studio and critiques with feedback on your work from Helen and the other participants
(bring your own lunches and drinks please.).
(discount for past workshop participants)
March 25-28, 2019
10:00 AM-3:00 daily
Want some feedback on your artworks but can't participate in the Guided Studio?
Sign up for Individual Art Critiques
Common Wealth Gallery, Madison, WI
Email Helen for availability before you sign up <Helen(at)Klebesadel.com>
There are a very limited number of evening spots for those who need them. One hour @$50.00
2019 4-day Spring Guided Watercolor Studio for first timers
$300.00
March 25-28, 2019, Commonwealth Gallery, Madison, WI. Price for first time workshop participants with Helen Klebesadel.Mornings with demos and exercises, afternoons with critiques and open painting studio.
2019 4-day Spring Guided Watercolor Studio for past workshop participants
$275.00
March 25-28, 2019, Common Wealth Gallery, Madison, WI. 4-day Spring Guided Watercolor Studio price for past art workshop participants with Helen Klebesadel. Mornings with demos and exercises, afternoons with critiques and open painting studio.
4-Day Watercolor Intensive
May 28-31, 2019
Your choice of two Watercolor Workshops or combine them into a
4-day Watercolor Intensive at the UW-Arboretum
Watercolor: A Fresh Start
An introductory watercolor workshop designed for absolute beginners as well as for those who have had some experience painting with watercolor but need a refresher to gain the confidence to start again. Join Helen to learn or re-learn the basics of watercolor as well as experimental wet-into-wet watercolor techniques that will give you a good enough understanding of the medium to start working on your own. This workshop does not require a lot of drawing skills. (May be combined with Advancing Your Watercolor for a four-day intensive).
May 28-29, 2019, UW-Arboretum, Madison, WI
Advancing Your Watercolor
A watercolor workshop for intermediate and advanced watercolor painters. Designed as a watercolor workshop for artists with some experience, interested in advancing their creative and technical approach to watercolor painting, and in expanding their subject matter. Build upon the skills you have acquired to create stronger artworks. Participants learn how to improve what they already know how to do for the best possible effects. Learn new strategies for expanding your work to find you own authentic content and approach as an artist.
May be combined with Watercolor: A Fresh Start for a four-day Intensive).
May 30-31, 2019, UW-Arboretum, Madison, WI
Watercolor: A Fresh Start Workshop. and the combined 4-day Watercolor Workshop are full.
There are still a few spaces in the Advancing Your Watercolors Workshop, May 30-31. Please register below.
If you would like to be placed on a waiting list for contact if there are cancelations, email Helen@Klebesadel.comAdvancing Your Watercolor - 5/30-5/31, 2019, UW-Arboretum Madison, WI$195.00
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Join us and register for this fall Creativity Workshop in Door County
Re-Vision Mixed Media Art & Creativity Intensive
October 20-24, 2019
ARTISTS AND NON ARTISTS WELCOME!
October 20-24, 2019 ~
Re-Vision Mixed Media Art & Creativity Intensive three days and four nights at the beautiful Björklunden Lodge in Bailey's Harbor, Door County, Wisconsin.
Stay at Bjorklunden or commute for the workshop.
Private or shared lodging. Your spouse is welcome to come along and enjoy Door County too.
The Re-Vision Mixed Media Art & Creativity Intensive is an arts-based creativity expanding experience for artists and non-artists. Spend three days and four nights in beautiful Door County at a lakeside lodge in the off season. Arrive Sunday evening and have supper with the other Intensive participants (commuters invited for Sunday evening meal too), The workshop will take place 9:00 AM - 4:00 PM daily October 21-23, (with a 2 hour break at lunch to walk or nap before the afternoon activities). Leave after breakfast on Thursday, October 24, 2019.
Fees:
May 28-31, 2019
Your choice of two Watercolor Workshops or combine them into a
4-day Watercolor Intensive at the UW-Arboretum
Watercolor: A Fresh Start
An introductory watercolor workshop designed for absolute beginners as well as for those who have had some experience painting with watercolor but need a refresher to gain the confidence to start again. Join Helen to learn or re-learn the basics of watercolor as well as experimental wet-into-wet watercolor techniques that will give you a good enough understanding of the medium to start working on your own. This workshop does not require a lot of drawing skills. (May be combined with Advancing Your Watercolor for a four-day intensive).
May 28-29, 2019, UW-Arboretum, Madison, WI
Advancing Your Watercolor
A watercolor workshop for intermediate and advanced watercolor painters. Designed as a watercolor workshop for artists with some experience, interested in advancing their creative and technical approach to watercolor painting, and in expanding their subject matter. Build upon the skills you have acquired to create stronger artworks. Participants learn how to improve what they already know how to do for the best possible effects. Learn new strategies for expanding your work to find you own authentic content and approach as an artist.
May be combined with Watercolor: A Fresh Start for a four-day Intensive).
May 30-31, 2019, UW-Arboretum, Madison, WI
Watercolor: A Fresh Start Workshop. and the combined 4-day Watercolor Workshop are full.
There are still a few spaces in the Advancing Your Watercolors Workshop, May 30-31. Please register below.
If you would like to be placed on a waiting list for contact if there are cancelations, email Helen@Klebesadel.comAdvancing Your Watercolor - 5/30-5/31, 2019, UW-Arboretum Madison, WI$195.00
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Join us and register for this fall Creativity Workshop in Door County
Re-Vision Mixed Media Art & Creativity Intensive
October 20-24, 2019
ARTISTS AND NON ARTISTS WELCOME!
October 20-24, 2019 ~
Re-Vision Mixed Media Art & Creativity Intensive three days and four nights at the beautiful Björklunden Lodge in Bailey's Harbor, Door County, Wisconsin.
Stay at Bjorklunden or commute for the workshop.
Private or shared lodging. Your spouse is welcome to come along and enjoy Door County too.
The Re-Vision Mixed Media Art & Creativity Intensive is an arts-based creativity expanding experience for artists and non-artists. Spend three days and four nights in beautiful Door County at a lakeside lodge in the off season. Arrive Sunday evening and have supper with the other Intensive participants (commuters invited for Sunday evening meal too), The workshop will take place 9:00 AM - 4:00 PM daily October 21-23, (with a 2 hour break at lunch to walk or nap before the afternoon activities). Leave after breakfast on Thursday, October 24, 2019.
- Spend mornings, 9:00-12:00, enjoying mixed-media, watercolor, and/or other drawing and painting media in guided exercises designed to explore your creativity and help you move yourself forward as a person and an artist.
- Lunch, nap or take a walk to enjoy the Björklunden grounds, 12:00-2:00
- Spend afternoons in additional open studio and arts activities with coach/instructor Helen Klebesadel until 2:00-4:00 daily.
- You will have 24 hour open studio access to the art studio.
- Guided exercises are designed to help you bring your most authentic voice to your life and your art and to discover, re-mind, re-cover, and re-member your vision for yourself as a creative person. Artists will discover new motivation and content for their artwork, and non-artists will better define their life visions for themselves as creative people.
- Embrace your greatest vision for yourself as an artist and a creative and join us in pursuing the goal of imagining your next action steps toward that vision of yourself as the most whole person you can be.
- Guests may join you and share a room for the cost of double lodging and meals. Ask Helen about this option.
- Registration is being handled by Helen. Register coming soon. Questions? email <Helen@Klebesadel.com> or call her at 608/262-3056 for other options. A supply list will be sent with registration confirmation.
Fees:
- Single occupancy in your own room for four nights in the beautiful Bjôrklunden Lodge, all meals from supper Sunday through breakfast Thursday, 9:00-3:00 workshop. and 24 hour access to the art studio: $895.00
- Double occupancy, Sign up with a friend for a shared room for four nights in the beautiful Bjôrklunden Lodge, all meals from supper Sunday through breakfast Thursday, 9:00-3:00, workshop. and 24 hour access to the art studio:: $725.00 @
- Commuters special, three days of workshop 9:00-4:00, supper Sunday night and three lunches included, as well as 24 hour access to the art studio Monday-Wednesday: $425.00
- Bring a guest: Do you have someone who wants to come with you but not take the workshop? Include a guest/spouse registration for someone not taking the workshop while you enjoy the daily Revision Creativity Workshop. Shared lodging and meals only. Share your room for four nights in the beautiful Bjôrklunden Lodge, and enjoy all meals together from supper Sunday through breakfast Thursday. For both: $1130
- Join us for the fall Creativity Workshop in Door County
Re-Vision Mixed Media Art & Creativity Intensive
October 21-25, 2018
ARTISTS AND NON ARTISTS WELCOME!
October 21-25, 2018 ~
Re-Vision Mixed Media Art & Creativity Intensive three days and four nights at the beautiful Björklunden Lodge in Bailey's Harbor, Door County, Wisconsin.
Stay at Bjorklunden or commute for the workshop.
Private or shared lodging. Your spouse is welcome to come along and enjoy Door County too.- The Re-Vision Mixed Media Art & Creativity Intensive is an arts-based creativity expanding experience for artists and non-artists. Spend three days and four nights in beautiful Door County at a lakeside lodge in the off season. Arrive Sunday evening and have supper with the other Intensive participants (commuters invited for Sunday evening meal too), The workshop will take place 9:00 AM - 4:00 PM daily October 22-24, (with a 2 hour break at lunch to walk or nap before the afternoon activities). Leave after breakfast on Thursday, October 25, 2018.
- Spend mornings, 9:00-12:00, enjoying mixed-media, watercolor, and/or other drawing and painting media in guided exercises designed to explore your creativity and help you move yourself forward as a person and an artist.
- Lunch, nap or take a walk to enjoy the Björklunden grounds, 12:00-2:00
- Spend afternoons in additional open studio and arts activities with coach/instructor Helen Klebesadel until 2:00-4:00 daily.
- You will have 24 hour open studio access to the art studio.
- Guided exercises are designed to help you bring your most authentic voice to your life and your art and to discover, re-mind, re-cover, and re-member your vision for yourself as a creative person. Artists will discover new motivation and content for their artwork, and non-artists will better define their life visions for themselves as creative people.
- Embrace your greatest vision for yourself as an artist and a creative and join us in pursuing the goal of imagining your next action steps toward that vision of yourself as the most whole person you can be.
- Guests may join you and share a room for the cost of double lodging and meals. Ask Helen about this option.
- Registration is being handled by Helen. Register coming soon. Questions? email <Helen@Klebesadel.com> or call her at 608/262-3056 for other options. A supply list will be sent with registration confirmation.
Fees:- Single occupancy in your own room for four nights in the beautiful Bjôrklunden Lodge, all meals from supper Sunday through breakfast Thursday, 9:00-3:00 workshop. and 24 hour access to the art studio: $875.00
- Double occupancy, Sign up with a friend for a shared room for four nights in the beautiful Bjôrklunden Lodge, all meals from supper Sunday through breakfast Thursday, 9:00-3:00, workshop. and 24 hour access to the art studio:: $695.00 @
- Commuters special, three days of workshop 9:00-4:00, supper Sunday night and three lunches included, as well as 24 hour access to the art studio Monday-Wednesday: $395.00
- Bring a guest: Do you have someone who wants to come with you but not take the workshop? Include a guest/spouse registration for someone not taking the workshop while you enjoy the daily Revision Creativity Workshop. Shared lodging and meals only. Share your room for four nights in the beautiful Bjôrklunden Lodge, and enjoy all meals together from supper Sunday through breakfast Thursday. For both: $1090
- Re-Vision Watercolor/Mixed Media Art & Creativity Door County Intensive, Single Occupancy, October 2018
$
875.00
- Re-Vision Watercolor/Mixed Media Art & Creativity Door County Intensive, Double Occupancy, October 2018
$
695.00
- Re-Vision Watercolor/Mixed Media Art & Creativity Door County Intensive, Commuter Special 2018
$
395.00
- Bring a Roomate to Re-Vision Watercolor/Mixed Media Art & Creativity Door County Intensive, October 2018
$
1090.00
- Re-Vision Watercolor/Mixed Media Art & Creativity Door County Intensive, Single Occupancy, October 2018
2018
Check it out!
Watercolor, Creativity, and Career Workshops
Scroll down for descriptions and links Helen's workshops, classes
Save the dates or register now and save your space.
Business Workshops
Business Skills For Artists
Save the Dates
November 10-11, 2018, Arts Lab, 143 S. Washington, Spring Green, WI
10:00-3:00 daily
Cost: Only $25 for one or both days.
Thanks to Wisconsin Arts Board co-sponsorship.
Day 1 ~ Envisioning or Re-Visioning The Art Career You Want To Have
and
Day 2 ~ Portfolio and Social Media for Artists Co-sponsored by Arts Lab, Spring Green Area Arts Coalition, Sauk County Arts and Culture Committee, Shake Rag Alley Center for the Arts, Mineral Point, and the Wisconsin Arts Board Registration Through Shake Rag Alley Center for the Arts HERE
Watercolor and Creativity Workshops
Re-Vision Mixed Media Art & Creativity Intensive
(There are still a space in this workshop. Sign up today!)
Enjoy three days and four nights in beautiful Door County
Björklunden Lodge in Bailey's Harbor
October 21-25, 2018
Register Below
4-Day Watercolor Intensive
Two watercolor workshops (Watercolor a Fresh Start, and Advancing your Watercolor)
Can be taken separately or combined for a 4-Day Watercolor Intensive
Wyoming Valley School and Cultural Center, rural Spring Green, WI ~ September 20, 21, 22, 23, 2018
Complete
(Ask about next year's workshops in Madison and Spring Green)
Advancing Your Watercolors
Dillman's Bay Resort and Workshops
Dillman's Bay Resort
Description below~ Great for those with some experience with watercolor
- Lac du Flambeau, WI
~September 3-7, 2018~Completed
(Ask about next year)
Watercolor: A Fresh Start
Mobile Design Box, Milwaukee, WI
Description below~ Great for absolute beginners and those who could use a refresher.
Participants in this workshop are also contributing to GoFundMe Rebirthing 53206
an effort to support Milwaukee artist, Evelyn Patricia Terry's mission to replace the badly leaking roof and deteriorating porches of the Terry McCormick Contemporary Fine and Folk Art Gallery (TMC Gallery).
Join us for the workshop or support the projecy directly. More information below.
~August 25-26, 2018~Complete
Watercolor The Expressive Medium
Plan to spend a week at Lawrence University's Björklunden Lodge
in Bailey's Harbor, Door County, WI
~August 12-18, 2018~Completed
SCROLL DOWN TO REGISTER AND SAVE YOUR SPOT IN AN UPCOMING WORKSHOP
4-Day Watercolor Intensive
or your choice of two 2-Day Watercolor Workshops
September 20-23, 2018 at the Wyoming Valley School, Spring Green, WI
Watercolor: A Fresh Start Wyoming Valley School Cultural Center, Wyoming Valley, WI (just across the river from Spring Green) Thursday & Friday, 9/20-21, 2018 10:00 AM-3:00 PM daily
Designed for the absolute beginners and those desiring a refresher in basic watercolor techniques and wet-into wet techniques. (May be combined with Advancing Your Watercolor for a four-day intensive), In September at the Wyoming Valley School (designed by Frank Lloyd Wright) near Spring Green This workshop will be offered in Madison at the UW-Arboretum in May, 2019. Contact Helen to save you a spot. Advancing Your Watercolor Wyoming Valley School, WI, Saturday & Sunday, 9/22-23 10:00 AM-3:00 PM daily Designed as a watercolor workshop for artists with some experience, interested in advancing their creative and technical approach to watercolor painting, and in expanding their subject matter.
May be combined with Watercolor: A Fresh Start for a four-day Intensive). In September at the Wyoming Valley School (designed by Frank Lloyd Wright) near Spring Green This workshop will be offered in Madison at the UW-Arboretum in May, 2019. Contact Helen to save you a spot.
-There are still a few places left in the September Wyoming Valley 4-day workshop. Sign up now!
Watercolor: A Fresh Start - Spring Green, 2018
$
195.00 Advancing Your Watercolor - Spring Green, 2018
$
195.00 Combine for a 4 day Watercolor Intensive - Spring Green, 2018
$
350.00
SPACER
Drawing the Landscape
This workshop offers a unique approach to landscape drawing that will interest artists of every level of experience. Study techniques will help you draw what you see and feel about a particular scene. Designed to build on the time tested guidance of Victorian social thinker, philanthropist. and artist John Ruskin, who emphasized observation and connections between nature, art and society. He regularly sketched rocks, plants, birds, landscapes, and architectural structures and ornamentation to better see the world he lived in, and you can too.
The four units of the course focus aspects of landscape. Work at your own pace and take up to a year to finish.
The four units of the course focus aspects of landscape. Work at your own pace and take up to a year to finish.
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Re-Vision Watercolor/Mixed Media Art & Creativity Door County Intensive, Single Occupancy, October 23-27, 2016
Single occupancy in your own room for four nights in the beautiful Bjôrklunden Lodge, all meals from supper Sunday through breakfast Thursday, 9:00-3:00 workshop. and 24 hour access to the art studio
$
875.00
Re-Vision Watercolor/Mixed Media Art & Creativity Door County Intensive, Commuter Special, October 23-27, 2016
Commuters special, three days of workshop 9:00-3:00, supper Sunday night and three lunches included, as well as 24 hour access to the art studio Monday-Wednesday:
- Door County in October 2016
Re-Vision Watercolor/Mixed Media Art & Creativity Intensive ~ Registration Below
ARTISTS AND NON ARTISTS WELCOME!
Register by October 3, 2016
October 23-27, 2016 ~ Re-Vision Watercolor/Mixed Media Art & Creativity Intensive three days and four nights at the beautiful Björklunden Lodge in Bailey's Harbor, Door County, Wisconsin.
Stay at Bjorklunden or commute for the workshop.
Private or shared lodging. Your spouse is welcome to come along and enjoy Door County too.- The Re-Vision Watercolor/Mixed Media Art & Creativity Intensive is an arts-based creativity expanding experience. Spend three days and four nights in beautiful Door County at s lakeside lodge in the off season. The workshop will take place 9:00 AM - 3:00 PM daily.
- Spend mornings enjoying mixed-media, watercolor, and/or other drawing and painting media in guided exercises designed to explore your creativity and help you move yourself forward as a person and an artist.
- Spend afternoons in additional optional open studio and arts activities with coach/instructor Helen Klebesadel until 3:00 daily. You will have 24 hour open studio access to the art studio.
- Guided exercises are designed to help you bring your most authentic voice to your life and your art and to discover, re-mind, re-cover, and re-member your vision for yourself as a creative person. Artists will discover new motivation and content for their artwork, and non-artists will better define their life visions for themselves as creative people.
- Embrace your greatest vision for yourself as an artist and a creative and join us in pursuing the goal of imagining your next action steps toward that vision of yourself as the most whole person you can be.
- Guests may join you and share a room for the cost of double lodging and meals. Ask Helen about this option.
- Registration is being handled by Helen. Register below or email <Helen@Klebesadel.com> or call her at 608/262-3056 for other options. A supply list will be sent with registration confirmation.
Costs:- Single occupancy in your own room for four nights in the beautiful Bjôrklunden Lodge, all meals from supper Sunday through breakfast Thursday, 9:00-3:00 workshop. and 24 hour access to the art studio: $875.00
- (with guest $1075)
- Double occupancy in a shared room for four nights in the beautiful Bjôrklunden Lodge, all meals from supper Sunday through breakfast Thursday, 9:00-3:00 workshop. and 24 hour access to the art studio:: $695.00
- (with guest $1075)
- Commuters special, three days of workshop 9:00-3:00, supper Sunday night and three lunches included, as well as 24 hour access to the art studio Monday-Wednesday: $395.00
- Include a guest/spouse registration for someone not taking the workshop. Shared lodging and meals only. Share your room for four nights in the beautiful Bjôrklunden Lodge, and enjoy all meals together from supper Sunday through breakfast Thursday. Ask Helen how to register your guest.
- Re-Vision Watercolor/Mixed Media Art & Creativity Door County Intensive, Double Occupancy, October 23-27, 2016
Double occupancy in a shared room for four nights in the beautiful Bjôrklunden Lodge, all meals from supper Sunday through breakfast Thursday, 9:00-3:00 workshop. and 24 hour access to the art studio
$
695.00