NYP02) Inspirational Art Making (Age 18+)

About this class

This course is a spontaneous art making workshop. It is an hour of stress-free and mindful art practice. We will be creating an abstract painting with your desired paint medium. It is a quiet class. It is you, the music and your paint brush. We will start by a basic exercise of bringing our awareness to our senses and directly dive into it. Hopefully this class will be recharging to start the work week in a better renewed state. There will be no judgement or critique on your art. It will be a safe therapeutic practice.

Class Outline

4:00 – 4:10: Introduction 

4:10 – 4:15: Mindful meditative exercise

4:15 – 5:00: Painting time

Materials needed

Please note: VCUQatar reserves the right to cancel classes for which not enough participants are registered. Already paid fees will be refunded.

Please do not purchase materials until VCUQatar has sent final course confirmation.

Items to buy for this class

Students can bring any material they would like to work with:

• acrylic paint
• gouache paint
• oil paint
• oil mediums
• water color
• drawing ink
• paint brushes
• paper
• canvases

On occasions, there may be some more materials to be bought and brought in if and when advised by the instructor.

Where to buy your materials

Most of the materials are available from any art supply shop, for example:

• Cass Art (Fire station): Community Classes students get a 15% discount upon presenting the registration ticket
• Jarir Bookstore: on Rayyan Road or Salwa Road
• Color Note: on Al Nasser Street
• Ibn Al Qayyim: at Markhiya Roundabout
• Al Rawnaq

Schedule

Start: Sat, 21 Jan, 2023
End: Sat, 21 Jan, 2023
Lessons: 1
Days: Saturday
Time: 4:00pm – 5:00pm
Location: VCUQatar
Cost: FREE

Instructors

Salma Awad

Salma Awad is a practicing interdisciplinary artist who earned a BFA in Painting & Printmaking and a minor in Art History at VCUarts Qatar. In 2020, she explored jewelry as an art medium, and succeeded in selling her pieces online and at Farmers Market. In her recent studio practice, she paints and prints as a form of therapy. Salma has been active in her university years working with the VCUarts Qatar gallery and instructing her own workshops (on campus and at Fire Station Museum). She has engaged in group exhibitions at VCUarts, Art 29 and Al Hosh Gallery. Now she is working as an admissions counselor & a teacher assistant with the Painting & Printmaking department at VCUarts Qatar.

Register

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