Remember how fun it was when we were kids who just liked to play with color, try stuff out, and enjoy expressing ourselves with color,  texture, and creativity? Now imagine doing that with really beautiful paints and materials!

Karen is great at creating community and will guide you with simple prompts, demonstrations, and tips from her own art explorations. Let’s make friends and make stuff ( i.e. 3 to 4 medium-sized birch board pieces), together!

If you have art supplies you enjoy like: watercolor, acrylic paint, brushes, stenciling items, book pages, cloth scraps, printing stamps, and canvas or board, great, bring them.

Otherwise, art materials including apron, brushes, and birch panel will be provided.

Karen Willemsen is a retired elementary teacher and enthusiastic creator of intuitive, abstract, and mixed media art. She makes art classes playful, spontaneous, and fun for every age, and encourages her students to explore color and texture beyond the “rules” of painting. She graduated from UC Santa Cruz, yay Slugs!