Yesterday, May 1st, I took a morning color class with TANSY HARGAN.
We were focusing on mindful painting. Hmm, my blobby sample…
Class description : We will cover: how to choose a colour palette, finding shapes, clearing your mind,
Watching water,
Colour mixing, moving slowly, building compositions, Tansy makes & sells her brilliant hand-made watercolor pans.
Leaving spaces between colors. Places are strictly limited.
All materials provided.
Do you know the mindful eating a raisin exercise?
It’s about slowing down, really looking 👁️ at your food, savoring the colors, the odors 👃, the shape etc. And not doing anything else while you do this, like listening to music 🎵 or reading on your phone 📱
Our first exercise - painting rows of rectangular colors to see how they interacted with each other.
I let Tansy know she could find colored rectangles in chocolate 🍫 at Sadaharu Aoki. Some people’s minds 🙄 have trouble focusing on matters at hand…
One person did not do so well with her rectangles 😳
Tansy shared her sketchbooks full of beautiful Thumbnails.
I took Tansy’s online Thumbnail class last year and loved it. My homework.
Tansy’s nifty travel kit. Tansy lives in the UK, but will be returning to Paris to work on her new Color book 📕 with Bloomsbury, so there will be more Paris classes 👏 Stay tuned 👍
You can follow Tansy on Instagram at @Palimpsestparade .
There is a special online class May 12 - 25. Tansy is one of 14 artists participating for just $78. Read more about it at Tansy’s site.
If you enjoyed this post you can support it by buying Paris letters and watercolors.
Where I found beaucoup mindfulness.
🐎 ALLEZ, ALLEZ, ALLEZ !! 🐎
Those thumbnail sketches were awesome.
ReplyDeleteTansy is the master of THUMBNAILS !
DeleteYou cracked me up with your comment about the colorful chocolates! Tansy's classes look like fun. Of course, it always helps to have talent, as you do, to make the most of these art classes.
ReplyDeleteTansy’s classes are open to all skill levels KIWI 🥝
DeleteThey are about forgetting the fear and focusing on color & playfulness.
You are fabulous, Carol…always learning…always perfecting your art. Looks like a great class with a great teacher. Yikes! the size of the thumbnails in Tansy’s sketchbook. Quelle artiste !
ReplyDeleteYes she can draw ✍️ very small with great ease and insight
DeleteThat red gingham picnic blanket is classic Carol Gillot! I’m surprised that you didn’t plop yourself down there and spend the afternoon…or did you?! Horses are gorgeous.
ReplyDeleteI really prefer your thumbnails!!! Much more intersting to look at. We don't need to stay in the lines!
ReplyDeleteI’m too rebellious to stay inside the lines, always have been ✏️
DeleteOf course you would find chocolates in color.
ReplyDeleteAh, my memory bank is filled with Paris desserts…even if my mouth is not Suki.
DeleteThis sounds like my kind of day! I'm already enrolled for the online Coloriflora class and greatly looking forward to it!
ReplyDeleteTerrific Jeanie 👏👏👏
DeleteI have 3 friends and myself are meeting once a month to try watercolors. I got the Emily Lex workbooks. But I have added some just a few too expensive the Carand’ache luminance pencils. We will see. 🤞
ReplyDeleteWhat a good idea Marilyn
DeleteBon chance 🍀
What a wonderful blog post, Carol, thank you so much! I love your sense of colour humour, loose painting style and rebellious nature. You were a joy to have at the workshop. How lovely that you managed to get to the races afterwards (Sophie is sweet). Hope to see you again in the summer 🥐🌻🍰
ReplyDeleteSuch a terrific class Tansy.
DeleteThank you 🙏
Oh my goodness!!! What a dream to attend a watercolour class in Paris!!! I’m sure everyone appreciated your comic relief! Wish I could have been there as I so rarely have time to paint anymore. I’m bringing a fancy new paintbrush with me to Italy on Tuesday so we shall see! Thank you for the inspiration! ❤️from 🇨🇦
ReplyDeleteYay for you Nicole! Bon chance 🍀 with your new paint brush. Are you taking a class?
DeleteNo, just taking a few art supplies with me in the hopes that we will have some downtime!! Not likely with Jane as our tour guide!!!!🤣
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