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The Artist's Journal Workshops

Art Workshop Descriptions, Schedule, and Testimonials

"Keeping a visual creative journal helps you to live life more deeply.
In your travels it helps you to experience place on a connected and more meaningful level,
helping you to awaken your senses and experience the world through artists eyes"

The Artist's Journal Workshop 1 *
Techniques and inspiration for creating
and keeping a visual art journal

 In this one day workshop we will learn about various techniques and materials used in creating a visual journal such as drawing, watercolor, lettering and page design., using creative prompts and ideas that will be sure to inspire you. Workshops are held in a non judgmental environment to encourage curiosity and discovery.
* (The Artist's Journal 1 & 2 are also taught
as a 2 day workshop)

The Artist's Journal Workshop 2 *
More Techniques and inspiration for deepening
the process of keeping a visual art journal

This workshop is for those who have taken The Artist's Journal 1 Workshop and want to further their knowledge and abilities in drawing, writing, color and page design, with more techniques for a fuller toolbox of image making ideas and inspiring prompts. We work with values, color, writing, layering, and loosening up your drawing style. Workshops are held in a non judgmental environment to take you even deeper into your authentic creative selves.
* (The Artist's Journal 1 & 2 are also taught as a 2 day workshop)

Drawing From Nature Workshop
at the Charco Botanical Gardens

Drawing from nature is a wonderful way to develop your sense of observation and intentional curiosity to the natural environment. Open your eyes and your senses and discover the magic of plant forms and meditative seeing through working with color,  pattern and composition, as well as deepening your connection and relationship to the natural world.

Viva Mexico ! Art Journal Workshop
Art Journaling Inspired by Mexico

This workshop focuses on using The Artist's Journal to explore themes specifically related to Mexico. We will engage all of our senses to explore Mexican culture as well as our own insights and relationships to Mexico using a variety of new materials, including toned and textured papers, watercolors, colored pencils and layering processes. Inspired by magical realism, retablos, light and shadow, patterns, folk art, and a surreal imagination, we will  learn to work with materials and processes that are site specific to culture and place.

Urban Sketching Workshops
Taking it to the Streets

In this workshop we learn how to focus our sketching on the urban landscape of buildings, vehicles, and people. Taking advantage of the portability of the sketchbook to capture our experiences quickly, we will learn  how to work with focal points, compositions, intuitive perspective, picture planes, and the relationship of stationary and moving shapes.

Fearless Mixed Media
Art Journal Workshop
Stretching the imagination with mixed media art journaling

In this workshop we will be experimenting with a variety of materials and techniques to inspire and ignite your imagination through the medium of the art journal, with exercises that will push your imagination to a level that will surprise and delight. We will work with drawing and water based painting mediums as well as collage, image transfers, lettering, texture, page design, and layering to obtain a variety of effects so that you will come away with a toolbox full of techniques and inspiration

Water Color Focus
Watercolor techniques and color theory to bring your paintings and sketchbook pages to life!

A day long intensive in various ways to use watercolor to unify and create harmony in your sketchbook pages through use of color mixing,, values, color relationships, understanding color theory and paint qualities, as well as tips to loosen up your painting style.

Customized Private and Group Workshops

PRIVATE SESSIONS: An intensive one on one private workshop to focus on aspects of drawing or painting that interest you can be a jump start for beginners and offer breakthroughs for experienced artists alike through use of materials, techniques and concepts designed especially for your needs.

WANT TO HOST YOUR OWN GROUP? 
I will teach your group at the location of
your choice. A great opportunity for you
and your friends and family or existing art group.
Perfect for beginners and experienced artists alike.
Contact me for more info.

WORKSHOP SCHEDULE 

Currently there are no classes or workshops scheduled.
Check back or email me at susan@susandorf.com to be on the mailing list
​for upcoming workshops.
Private individual and group sessions available by appointment-
​email me for more info.

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Testimonials

The Artists’ Journal workshop opened me up to a certain level of depth that a final closure of an old wound was able to come through and be healed. I've worked on that wound for years, so the healing was happening already, but somehow doing the writing exercises with the painting and being in the company of women, brought it together in such a way that it gave the wound a wider breadth for it to just dissipate and soften my heart." -Nitsa
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"Despite my tendency to be repressed creatively, I produced - a lot (writing, drawing, even water coloring).  Some of the exercises were provocative - "memory mapping" for example.  I even shared my work, which always scares me. I guess the main thing that struck me, was the safe space{Susan} created. Things never got competitive and judgment seemed to be suspended.
I was impressed by how openly those women expressed themselves.  Initially, I was feeling vulnerable, but soon got over it." -Kat
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“Susan Dorf's  Art Journal Workshop is such a delight. She opens our hearts and has spiritually inspired her students to see all our gifts in a whole new way. One is fortunate to be aligned with this artistic teacher. What a gift!!!” - Linda Beatham
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“I signed up for Susan Dorf's "The Artist's Journal Workshop" not because I was interested in journaling but because I loved her painting style, having seen her work in Open Studios. I hoped to learn something about her use of color, images and the freedom and imagination that comes through in her work.  The workshop did not disappoint me!  Susan led us though a variety of artistic processes in an intimate and nurturing setting that was at the same time intense and challenging.  There was nothing cute or tricky, no cutting and pasting or looking through magazines -- just using what came from our hearts and imaginations as we put pencil, pen and paint to paper. Since the workshop, I have sketched something almost everyday, which is a huge step for me.  I highly recommend Susan's "The Artist's Journal Workshop" for anyone interested in exploring and enhancing their creativity and having a great time while doing so.” -Christine Hirsch
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