Kaleidoscope Taster Week 2024

 Kaleidoscope Taster Week 2024 


This is my second summer participating in this week-long art workshop, and sadly, it is the last year that it will be offered. Classes are offered by —- participating artists in an incredibly wide variety of styles and mediums. Last year I tried them all, even ones out of my comfort zone and ones that were a complete mismatch to my usual style. It helped me narrow down my interests and refine my repertoire. 

The first day included three artists, but I chose to tackle only one project because I really liked the artist last year. Introducing Dove Delight by Eulalia Mejia, an artist and illustrator living in rural Columbia. Her art is always nature-based, magical, colorful, cheerful, and whimsical. This one was interesting because it involved a negative painting technique. In this case, the whole paper was filled with watery acrylics that, with an already wet paper, bloomed like watercolors. Then the wings, feathers, breast, beak, and eyes were created with gel-printed deli collage papers and decorated with acrylic markers. Finally, yellow acrylics were used to paint the background around the dove (that’s the negative painting aspect), and deli collage papers were added. Her lesson last year was Dream Birds.



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