Practice your drawing and painting skills with this free workshop with exhibiting artist Elisa Albrecht!
Within this workshop, participants will learn more about Elisa’s process of working with surrealist techniques such as decalcomania to create newly imagined landscapes and figures. Working with the spontaneous patterns of inkblots on paper participants will create various inventive finished works of their own through painting with ink.
Please reach out to imani@waterlooarts.org with any questions or for more details about the workshop.
About Elisa Albrecht
Elisa Albrecht is from Cleveland Ohio, she was born in 1991 and studied Fine art with a focus on drawing and painting at Kent State University graduating in 2015. She has mainly participated in a number of group juried shows, most recently winning second place in one in 2022. Currently, her work is focused in styles from surrealism, using the techniques of decalcomania. An inventive mode of drawing with either ink or thick paint on canvas creating blots and patterns on a surface. Using these as a starting point, Elisa finds shapes within or of the entire blot itself to work from, adding lines and other various gestural marks to create entirely new figures, and spaces.
Linear Worlds will be open from June 6 through July 19 during regular gallery hours on Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays from 12 p.m.-4 p.m., and by appointment on weekdays. To request an appointment, email info@waterlooarts.org or call 216.692.9500.
Image: “Nests” by Elisa Albrecht
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