The Kitchen Table Atelier supports you in

• Honing your voice and style

• Sharpening your technical skills

• Growing in a community with other artists

• Prioritizing a regular practice

• Identifying where you want to be as an artist, and figuring out how to get there

Details

A Technical Skills Workshop Every Month

• Often live over zoom, occasionally pre-recorded

• Always recorded and available to studio members for 3 months to watch or re-watch during that time

• Usually an hour to an hour and a half

• Puts technical skills in conversation with your own personal voice and style

• Topic Examples: figure drawing, perspective, composition, expressions, landscapes, drawing animals and objects, voice and style, topics requested from students

• Focus is on drawing skills as they are a core skill for making visual images of all types. They develop your mind-hand-eye coordination, help you think through your ideas and they are the base for drawing, cartooning, painting, storyboarding, sketching and other forms of visual arts.
  
  
  

A Live Open Studio Artist Hang Every Month

• Live on Zoom

• An hour a month to hang out with other artists in the community while working on your own project or a prompt

• Share your work, check out what other people are working on, get inspired, get out of your head

  
  
  

A Group Critique / Work or Project Review - twice a year

• A chance to look at everyone’s work and get personalized feedback on yours (open to anyone with at least a 4 month commitment to the workshop)

  
  
  

An Ongoing Community Chat - on WhatsApp

• A place during the week to share what you’re working on, see other people’s work, get inspired, find motivation

• A place to respond to optional prompts

Students can sign up for a year at a time, or month-to-month. Open to all skill levels.

Virtual studio doors open in September!

Save the date for

Our first Open Studio Artist Hang

• Sunday September 21st - 2pm PST/ 5pm EST - 1hr - Zoom

• Bring a project or draw from a prompt

• It’s a casual hang - drinks, snacks, pets etc encouraged

Our first Technical Skills Workshop - “Leaning into your Voice and Style”

• Saturday September 27th - 11am PST/ 2pm EST - 1.5hrs - Zoom

• Full of drawing and writing prompts, it'll be a dive into your personal voice and style, to investigate with what's already there and concretely imagine your next steps to embody it even more fully. We'll look at how your opinion and personality comes out in line, composition and ideas and how to harness that in your work to keep it vibrant, alive and powerful. 

• Recorded to watch or rewatch for 3 months