CPT 036-1-S24 | Watercolor Paint From Stones

Course Objectives:

In a time of global environmental crisis, how do we continue to engage in art-making with the recognition of our impact? This workshop will introduce you to a different way of thinking about the supplies we use to express ourselves, through the making of sustainable biodegradable (and beautifully nuanced) watercolor paints. This workshop is for those who wish to create work that is grounded in reverence for the earth and the mindful use of our materials. Learn the process of foraging for a stone and transforming it from a raw material into a workable pigment for paint making. You will leave with a set of three paints that you made yourself from raw stone powder.

The workshop will cover:

• Discussion on sustainability in making: why make our own paint?
• Demonstration on transforming a foraged stone into a workable pigment for making paints
• Demonstration on making watercolor paints (recipe provided)
• You will make three of your own watercolor paints at the provided stations
• Trying out freshly made paints in your sketchbook!
• Demonstration of how to make watercolor binder (recipe provided)

Who is this course for? 

Anyone interested in investigating and being a part of the origin of their materials.

6/28 (one day workshop) 9:00am-2:00pm, Friday

Tuition: $65 + $15 studio fee

CEUs: n/a

522 Congress Street Room 502 

Faculty:

Deanna Jacome is an interdisciplinary painter making physical through paint and textiles the embodiment of interconnectedness. She received her BFA from Montserrat College of Art in Book Arts and Art Education in 2015 and her MFA from MECA&D. Jacome works with sustainably sourced materials that are found, gifted or foraged within her environment and makes her own oil paints, inks, and dyes, from quarry stones, freshly picked wildflowers and kitchen remnants. Living with chronic pain and illness has provided Jacome with a sensitivity to the world and a recognition of our inherent connections, depth of suffering, and gratitude for moments of slowness. Through the repetitious, slow-ritual processes of paint making, painting, natural dyeing, patchworking, quilting, embroidery, and weaving, her work accumulates to create grounded physical works of contemplative presence. Her life as an artist and arts educator fuels her passion of activating the innate creativity within others and love of the process of making. She has taught children and adults on the spectrum, run workshops across artistic disciplines, co-run a nature art preschool, been a Teacher's Assistant in the Painting and Textiles & Fashion departments at MECA&D, and now is thrilled to be part of the Continuing Studies faculty.