COMING IN JUNE! Registration & more information available in mid-May
I zipped home and thinned out my peaches according to Kate’s instructions. Thanks Kate!
Then I zipped inside read my comments from yesterday’s blog post and gasped when I read Michele’s comment about the class name. “Oh My Gouache!” Thanks Michele! It’s fabulous and I love it. I knew if I waited long enough the name would arrive via special delivery into my nutcracker. Once again DFLA peeps to the rescue!
The new class is going to be very much like SKETCHBOOKERY in that it’s really about the art of making & keeping a sketchbook. This is the special gouache edition.
I started experimenting with gouache in my sketchbook back in 2013. It’s a fantastic medium and produces velvety rich pages. I’m crazy about it and think you will be too once you get your sketchbook made, your palette prepared, and your brushes loaded. I’ve got a nifty new bookbinding stitch to teach along with a long stitch alternative for those who need something easier. 4-5 weeks of unbridled OMG sketchbookery! The pages in the photo above are similar, but not identical to the ones we’ll be making in class. Plus…of course, I have plenty of other brand new tricks up my sleeve. I think you’ll be pleased. As noted above, more specifics will be coming in a couple of weeks. I’ve got about a few more weeks of videotaping & class blog building to go. Due to my day job as a schoolmarm I’m moving at a snail’s pace, but I anticipate registration to open somewhere in the next few weeks and class to get underway in mid-June. Give me a couple of weeks and I’ll be able to nail down the dates.
See you soon!
So excited!!!!
I definitely want to take this class at a future date. Right now, I am just too busy with portraits. Your sketchbooks make it all look like so much fun. The colours are always just so luscious! I love the title too!
Ooh! I can’t wait!
Me too Diane! This’ll be great… I may just go to the library and take out another Maira Kalman !
Wow. Glad to hear about your new class. I’m looking forward to hearing more. I also saw the comment on the suggestions for names for the class and loved the title you picked. I guess we’re all on the same wavelength. What a wonderful place to be!
Lmao about monkey whisperer. Then I got even more tickled by the word “schoolmarm “. More reasons why I love you. Or maybe it’s the vicodin?? MUST sign up for this as a reward for getting out of immobilizer sling post rotator cuff repair. Can’t wait, but then again, I will have to do just that!!! Dancing inside with joy, cuz dancing outside would result in neighbors calling police.
So excited for this! I’ve been trying to get into gouache and have failed so bad until now! I am moving to Beijing this summer and will once again have the time to immerse myself in your world MAM! I can’t wait xxx
Do you have to have taken a previous sketchbookery class to follow this one?
… I mean… to take this one (never sure about my English…)!
joanne – i would highly recommend taking SKETCHBOOKERY first if you don’t already have a foundation in drawing & painting with watercolor as i’ll be doing both in OH MY GOUACHE! but won’t be teaching either skill. make sense? if you already draw & paint with watercolor you’ll be good to go!
Thank you for your quick answer. I have to tell you that I’ve been following you for quite a while now and I love your work – so inspiring to me! You have some kind of a soul sister in Québec City…
Oh how exciting!! I can’t wait!!! Your classes are my favorite and make me feel so inspired–like candy for my soul. xo, sbtc
Yaaayyy!
How exciting and fantastic. Your classes are always the bombest of the bombs. Can’t wait.
Yup, the name is PERFECT! Mary Ann can you make any recommendations on gouache (brands and colors) prior to class? I will need to order some, since I just have a super cheap I brand. Pretty much that is all they sell at the craft stores near me. I know you also mix some of your own, so I will refer back to some of your previous gouache blog posts. I’m sure excited to take the class, since I am not very familiar with it. Yippee!!!
the instant people are registered peeps can go to the class blog and watch a gouache paint video i’ll have up explaining EXACTLY what to get and giving lots of options…registration will start at least 4 weeks prior to start of class. since i like to complicate matters it’s a longish explanation of what to get and why….
Thanks Mary Ann! You’re a peach! Oh…one of the peaches that was NOT thinned from the tree:). Cannot wait to get started, but no pressure…
WooHoo!
OMG ! perfection! can’t wait!
Monkey Whisperer! Ha ha. Love it. I too was a Monkey Whisperer, to 4 and 5 year olds, for many years. Your new class sounds great. Perfect name.
Real water-soluble gouache… not the acrylic gouache, right? I have one but not the other. What a great way to play this summer!
yes indeed the REAL thing. personally i can’t understand why the other stuff is labeled gouache. seems silly. it’s acrylic!
I totally agree!!! Can’t wait… is it May yet?
Yay! That’s amazing. I can’t wait.
Yay! Love the title and can’t wait. Hurry up MAM?
Yeah!!!! I’m so excited to have another MAM class to look forward to. Will be spending the summer at a lake house in Maine and I will take my gouache, that I don’t know how to use, with me!!!
Holy moly- oh my gouache! I am so excited! Can’t wait
Can’t wait, Mary Ann!!!!
Can’t wait for the new class to start!! Playing with gouache in a sketchbook – Gouache, what could be bad about that!!
That’s quite perfect – yay Michelle! I am looking forward to it ?
Super title. Looks like a lot of fun! Here we come! Sorry couldn’t resist.
Sure sounds like fun!
So looking forward to your new class. It’s been way too long!
Sounds fantastic, Mary Ann! I love the title, too! People are so funny and clever, aren’t they?!
You remind me how important it is to have a sense of humor in “this thing called life”.
Hugs from Minneapolis, Minnesota
-Briana
I’m looking forward, and the naam is Fantastic!! I think Michele is also happy 🙂
Yay, now I have something I can look forward to when I come back from Sverige!!! And the name is just perfect!
Yesterday I started to prepare my travel journal. Today in 4 weeks I am taking the night ferry, can’t wait! Stockholm and Gotland, travelling with a 49 years old Volvo….
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I will be on Gotland early June!!!!!!
Oh my gouache!! CAN’T WAIT!! 🙂 !!
OK, that just has to be the BEST name for a class EVAHHHHHH! Kudos to Michele for nailing it! I cannot wait to hear all the details. I adore your gouache paintings and sketchings and meanderings.
Could not think of a better name! Looking forward to it. Thanks Miss M.
that is THE perfect title!
xoxo
Yay,yay and yay! Great name! So fun to take your classes. Your sketches are wonderful and for gouache sakes I can’t wait!
Can’t wait! I’ve never really “understood” gouache, so this class will be very interesting!
Happy Dance, Happy Dance!!! Ya-hooo! I needed something to look forward to, I now I have found it! Thanks MAM, this couldn’t have come at a better time.