Join us on Wednesday, December, 3rd at 7 PM Eastern Time for Sea and Sun Meditations 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. Click here to RSVP.
Sea and Sun Meditations by Kate Sinclair
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. Find Kate on Instagram at @sinclair_kate.
About Mission Belonging Visual Arts Workshops
Join Veteran Artists Valerie Acosta-Gonzalez & Joe Merritt, along with special guests to learn new art techniques on Wednesdays at 7 PM ET. Come hang out in a collaborative group setting and bring what materials you have. No experience necessary!
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.
