Events
All workshops are listed in Eastern Time.
Unless specifically noted, our programs are free, virtual and suited for participants ages 16+. For further details about what to expect from our workshops, including accessibility options, and registration & Zoom instructions, click here.
Sea and Sun Meditations — A Visual Arts Workshop with Kate Sinclair
This workshop uses the seascape as a way to practice focus and relaxation through art. I will demonstrate with oil pastels on watercolor paper, but you are welcome to use any medium you prefer, such as watercolor, acrylic, colored pencil, or soft pastels. We’ll work with simple techniques—repetitive mark-making, color layering, and basic shapes—to build a seascape. The goal is to see how these elements create depth and space in your picture while enjoying the process.
Suggested Supplies:
- A color medium of your choice: oil pastels, watercolor, acrylic, colored pencils, or soft pastels
- A surface to work on: watercolor paper, canvas, sketchbook paper, etc.
- Two to three reference photos of the ocean that include a horizon line, sea, and sky (any time of day, with or without clouds or beach). Choose photos that are personally meaningful or connected to good memories. Kate will also provide a selection of my own favorites as downloadable options to use.
- Optional: Painters’ tape and pencil
Kate Sinclair is a painter and sculptor based in Annapolis, MD. She earned her MFA in Painting from the New York Academy of Art and has taught ceramics at the Capitol Hill Arts Workshop in Washington, DC. Alongside her art practice, she works as a veteran advocate with The Veterans Consortium. Congruently, she leads drawing and painting classes for veterans and their families with an emphasis on mindful wellness through the process of drawing from life. Kate thinks that the shapes, forms, and colors found in nature are endlessly fascinating; so much so that beauty is found in the everyday. Her work finds the ethereal in the ordinary and she enjoys the evolving process of observing life through making.
About CBAW Visual Arts Workshops
Join Veterans and Artists, Valerie Acosta, Shaun Smith, Joe Merritt, or a special guest to learn new art techniques on Wednesdays at 7pm EST. Come hang out in a collaborative group setting and bring what materials you have. No experience necessary! To register, click the link below.
This program is funded in part by Creative Forces®: NEA Military Healing Arts Network, an initiative of the National Endowment in partnership with the U.S. Departments of Defense and Veterans Affairs. Creative Forces Community Engagement Grant program is managed by Mid-America Arts Alliance.
