June 26-30 Dear Present Moment, Is It You? Art Journaling and Intuitive Painting Retreat with Jenny Doh

Gather with us where the light is rich, the land vast, and the potential for creative breakthroughs ripe. For five full days, unplug from your everyday and say YES to art in the company of those who are ready to take the time to see, to discover, to create, to practice, to revise, and to bask in the joy of this very season.

DAY ONE: Morning Meet-Up and Excursion to the Randall Davey Home and Studio

At the morning meet-up at the studio, Jenny will facilitate discussions related to selected poetry and introduce the concept of poetic correspondence. The group will then venture to the end of Canyon Road for a private tour of the historic home and studio of Santa Fe artist Randall Davies. A vanguard of modern art, Randall Davey was an important part of the Santa Fe Art Colony, and was a skilled painter, printmaker, and sculptor. His home, a truly inspirational residence, is now administered by the Audubon Society and set in 135 acres of striking landscape including trails and gardens. Students are invited to spend the remainder of the afternoon touring the galleries of Canyon Road, exploring Santa Fe on their own, or just settling into the slower pace of the week.

DAY TWO: Art Journaling & Expressive Watercolors & Expressive Hand Lettering

Jenny will guide students in creating an art journal using the Teesha Moore method with Fabriano Artistico hotpress watercolor paper. Jenny will also teach her methods of expressive watercolor painting and expressive hand lettering, where we practice both within the constructed art journal and create individual pieces on paper. Jenny will facilitate prompts that inspire art journaling and poetic correspondence which can be combined with the watercolor and hand lettering work.

DAY THREE: Acrylic Intuitive Under Painting

Jenny will teach a maximalist approach to help you manipulate and apply painting canvas to build up layers, causing the canvas to transition from a “young” canvas to a “mature” canvas. The first part of the class will move quickly, to get you to stop over-thinking and simply get moving! For the rest of this day, as we start to digest the methods and as we potentially discover new ones together, we will rely more on our intuition as we each make decisions, solve problems, and wrestle with the resounding “what next?” when it comes to building layers on a canvas.

DAY FOUR: Representational Drawing & Value Painting

On the fourth day, we will embark on selecting one of our canvases from the first day to deliberately paint a subject, using a photo reference. I will bring photo references that you can use or you can bring references that you have collected. We will first start with a sketch atop of one of the canvases from the previous day, then spend most of this day painting values of the subject. On this day you may decide to take one of the other canvases coaxing out stories or concepts that the canvas may be projecting through the marks that were made previously.

DAY FIVE: Adding Color & Finishing

On this final full day, we will add color to the value painting from the previous day, add finishing touches, and allow ourselves to toggle back and forth from the assorted canvases that we have worked on. It is a final day to have creative interactions with our art journals and to document our entire experience together as we identify breakthroughs within our painting practice, along with our selves.

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Workshop Info:

• Tuition $1250 (includes field trips) **For this workshop Muses is accepting deposits of 50% with the remaining balance due after 90 days of initial deposit. All accounts must be paid in full by April 1, 2025. Please select 50% Deposit to reserve your spot in class. We regret that deposits are not refundable.

• Lodging, transportation and meals not included

• Max 12 students

• All skill levels welcome

• This workshop has a minimum enrollment requirement. Please purchase travel insurance if planning on making immutable travel arrangements.

Please note our cancellation policy: After registration and payment, students have 48 hours to cancel with a 15% admin fee deducted from their refund. After the 48 Hr cancellation period and up until 2 weeks before the workshop begins a refund will be given (-a 15% admin fee) only if the spot can be filled by another student through Muses Santa Fe. Please understand our cancellation policy is necessary to properly accommodate our guest artists who go to great lengths to be here!