Breathstrokes with Deanna Camp
Friday, September 5, 9 a.m.-12 p.m.
Friday, October 10, 9 a.m.-12 p.m.
Friday, November 14. 9 a.m.-12 p.m.
Friday, December 5, 9 a.m.-12 p.m.
$42 per class. $154 for all four classes
Breathstrokes teaches artists and non-artists how to create intuitive art using alternative methods like yoga and breath work. After a guided stretch and meditation on how you can visualize in your head, we’ll practice making marks to breath with thick hunks of black charcoal or pastel. Exploring techniques to express energy or emotions and maybe relieve stress, we will work from small to large with the artist incorporating their own body shape into the large piece while on the floor. No drawing skills required at all. Just willingness to literally get into your work and explore what you can create.
Please bring:
- Charcoal
- yoga mat
- wear clothing you can get dirty
Meet Your Instructor
Deanna Camp
Working in advertising and design for over 40 years, I have had an adventurous history of creating things. Fine art was my starting point. It was clear I could draw stuff at an early age thanks to my mom who was an amazing oil painter and teacher. I grew up and moved away, wanting to be a “commercial” artist or art teacher. I discovered the perfect place to hone my creative skills was at Burnley Professional Art School in Seattle, cohort 1978-80, on the advice of my uncle who also went there. The advertising business became my career. First in Wenatchee, then Spokane, then Bellevue, then Seattle, Honolulu, back to Seattle and now Spokane. Being exposed to all parts of the creative process and managing creative people has given me a toolbox that can help artists or non-artists find creativity and new ways of thinking within themselves. Breathstrokes is an immersive class that guides you as you fill up a large sheet of paper with marks, strokes, dots, wiggles, doodles, using charcoal–and hands, feet, arms and your own breath rhythm.
