Celebrating Me: Online art workshop – Abstract Self Portrait
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In this week's workshop, artist Tash Brennfleck will provide a space for attendees to explore their inner creative spirit and create an abstract self-portrait. Reflecting appearance, feelings, and/or experiences by experimenting with variety of different contemporary drawing techniques. These methods include, ‘Mindful Marking’, ‘Blind-Contouring’, and understanding the importance of composition in abstract works.
This workshop will create an opportunity for audiences to Celebrate Themselves, as people, and as makers as the workshop will provide provocations to attendees to interpret their experiences into drawn marks that reflect themselves in a self-accepting and positive light. The workshop will provide art-historical information and examples surrounding self-portraiture, and the roots of abstract drawings to inform and inspire audiences prior to working on the practical elements of the workshop.
For this workshop you will need:
- A selection of pens, coloured pencils, markers/coloured textas. Attendees can opt to have multiple drawing materials used throughout workshop
- A small mirror (bathroom stand size or smaller)
- 3 – 5 sheets of A4 and A3 plain paper
About your teaching artist – Tash Brennfleck
Tash Brennfleck is a visual artist and facilitator, based in Springvale, Melbourne. She is currently exploring the accessibility of art, in not only the physical, but also the conceptual, through her drawing practice. Creating bright, colourful abstract images, Tash’s works look like entire microcosms of imagined galaxies under a microscope, with inter-related forms and beings existing within the confines of each piece of paper.
Tash aims to remove barriers from contemporary art, celebrating the freeing nature of drawing for not just the institution, but for the individual. Rejecting the exclusionary relationship of artist and viewer, Tash aims to educate, explain, and inspire communities; fostering communication, collaboration, and connection. Social Media – IG: @tash.brennfleck
Celebrating Me - Online Workshop Series
- Abstract Self Portrait, Thursday 25 November 2021
- Collage, Thursday 2 December 2021
- Flower Crown, Thursday 9 December 2021
- Poetry Writing, Thursday 13 January 2022
- Mixed Media Art, Thursday 20 January 2022
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