Jean Mackay – Mushroom Explosion in Watercolor (Online); Thursdays, August 10 & 17, 2023

Date: Thursdays, August 10 & 17, 2023
Time: 3:00-5:00 PM Pacific Time, 6:00-8:00 PM Eastern Time
Level: All, though some experience with drawing and painting is helpful
Medium: Ink and Watercolor

This two-session class celebrates the amazing world of mushrooms in all their forms and colors. In the first session, we’ll explore and paint the anatomy of a mushroom from spore print to veil to cap and stem. In the second session, we’ll create a piece with multiple mushrooms with an emphasis on composition, forms, and conveying the diversity and beauty of fungi. Optional homework and posting of class work will allow Jean to offer individualized feedback.

Jean Mackay is an artist, educator, and naturalist. She has been keeping an artist journal for more than nearly 20 years a way to study and share the beauty and diversity of nature, as well as to record the art of everyday living. Working in all kinds of settings, from tide pools to farm fields to her own backyard, Jean’s journals reflect a keen eye for detail and profound sense of wonder. Jean teaches at the Hog Island Audubon Camp in Maine and at the Art School of Columbia County in New York. Her blog, Drawn In, shares the ordinary, yet extraordinary things that she encounters close to home and farther afield. www.jeanmackayart.com