Description
This class has been cancelled.
All Ages – Children under 15 must take the class with an adult. Each must register and submit the fee.
If the class is full and you’d like to be on a waiting list, please contact Education Director Jill Neumann at jneumann@watermarkartcenter.org
Day/Time: FRIDAY, October 20, 2023
9:00am – 1:00pm
Fee: $42 member | $45 nonmember
Please print and sign the Spearhead Accident Waiver and Release of Liability. Bring it with you to the class.
Join Shoreview, MN artist and amateur naturalist Tammy Nara for this four-hour drawing, painting, and hiking class as we partner with the Neilson Spearhead Center, a 466 acre preserve located 11 miles southwest of Bemidji. Students will learn about watercolor techniques, color theory, drawing from life, as well as the flora and fauna seen during their hike. Students will also create drawings and paintings in response to what they experienced in nature that day.
- Materials Fee (paid directly to instructor): $22 – Or bring your own supplies
- Included in materials fee is watercolor paper and a clipboard, watercolor paint, palette, and brush, water container, paper towels, permanent ink pen, and a string backpack.
- Students should pack a snack and a water bottle. Water will also be provided.
The class will meet at the Neilson Spearhead Center.
Tammy Nara is a hiking artist and art teacher based in Shoreview, Minnesota. She enjoys using pen, watercolor, and acrylic to create responses to the natural world. “Experiencing and protecting the natural world is important. Creating art and connecting with other humans also enriches our lives in important ways. Let’s make time for what is important.”
She started the website paintandhike.com in 2018. Her education includes a master’s degree in art education from the University of Minnesota. Her art can be seen at Studio 321 in the Northrup King Building in Minneapolis.
You may have also seen her art at the Owatonna Hospital, the Red Wing Center for the Arts, Studio 176 in Park Rapids, Silverwood Park in St. Anthony, on the cover of the book, “Now We Will Speak in Flowers” by Micki Blenkush, or at Centennial United Methodist Church in Roseville.
Educational programming is supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts and the Bemidji Area Arts Endowment.
