kirah van sickle : the workshops
"I learned more in a week with Kirah than ten years of classes."
Kirah offers a variety of educational opportunities. As a certified Golden Artist-Educator, Marabu USA Artist-Educator, and Silver Brush Educator, Kirah has tremendous insight and experience with materials, and professional history in both traditional and contemporary processes. She teaches acrylics, watercolors, oils, pastel, mixed media, monoprinting (gelli arts), and creates custom programming for the individual or small groups.
CRITIQUE PUNCHCARD
Interested in a critique or consulting session? Perhaps a painting session to work on a specific issue or technique. The punchcard is $60, can be used to get insights/advice on up to three works in progress, or a painting session, juried show submissions, grant proposals, art biz advice, materials questions, or push past blocks.
This can be in person or virtual. Available in the art "store."
ONLINE WORKSHOPS
Connecting to MIND • BODY • SPIRIT with ART JOURNALING
BEYOND ORDINARY MASTERMIND SERIES is a powerful group of seven inspiring women sharing their passions and pathways to a more radiant mind, body and spirit.
Kirah embraces the power of expressive mark-making by tapping into what she believes is an innate,creative spark within us all. Through art journaling, Kirah helps set a foundation for reconnecting to the artist within, that radiant, creative and playful self.
A simple daily proctice of 10 - 15 minutes a day of visual creativity, often referred to as art journaling, provides a sense of play, joy, meditation, emotional processing, gratitude and connection to Self.
The BEYOND ORDINARY MASTERMIND SERIES
introductory series offers a 30-minute segment from Kirah and the six other masterminds, with hands-on techniques that bring vitality, inspiration, and real whole- health pathways to mind, body and spirit.
Check out the introductory videos to meet these soul warriors... and join us!
2021 ART + TRAVEL WORKSHOPS
Caves of Painted Dreams (France) - FULL
September 2021 (Stay tuned for official dates)
Dordogne Valley, France
All Levels
"What gives this art its power is that it makes us dream." -Jean Clottes
Dreams, Symbolism and Art in the Painted Caves of France with Carol Aalbers, PhD and Kirah Van Sickle. Explore archetypal images in the caves, in our dreams, and in the beautiful landscape and villages of the Dordogne Valley, France. The painted caves of southwestern France are the perfect metaphor for the internal journey to the unconscious we experience each night in dreams. Relying upon art as a visual language of symbol and metaphor - the language of humans since the first dawning of consciousness, we will explore multiple forms of artistic expression in the context of connecting to our prehistoric artist ancestors.
Fee: $3,050 Per Person Double Room; $3,775 Private Room
Fees include all breakfasts, all lunches at outstanding restaurants, and 3 dinners prepared at the B&B, all site admissions and tour guide services. Dinner other nights is a pot-luck of local market finds hosted each night by a different room. Email kirahart@yahoo.com to be added to wait list.
More info, visit Caves of Painted Dreams
2022 ART + TRAVEL WORKSHOPS
44th Annual Artist Week at Sea View Inn
April 22 - 29, 2022
Sea View Inn, Pawley's Island, SC
All Levels
It’s time to put the Spring Artists’ Workshop at Sea View Inn on your calendar. The annual workshop continues its 42nd year of combining great painting locations with gorgeous spring weather. The charming shabby chic inn serves three meals a day of low country cooking by Myrtle and Vertrella, adding to the ambience of a most enjoyable workshop.
Kirah takes the artists to a new location each day, having scouted out delightful spots for plein air painting at area plantations, Brookgreen Gardens, and historic cottages on the island. The week is informal and relaxed. Students are encouraged to do as much or as little as they desire. The groups are small enough to get individual attention. All levels are welcome as long as you feel comfortable painting outside. If not, you can work on your own at the inn, or avail yourself of her instruction that focuses on values, color, and the principles of design. Kirah has a natural positive approach to helping individuals achieve their personal goals. She encourages exploring mark-making and improving visual acuity. She always includes handouts and historical context, and will demo in watercolor and acrylic. Kirah is well versed in all painting mediums and happy to work with you in your preferred process. The group winds down by discussing each day’s paintings before supper. Evenings may include videos or slides of other artists’ work. We also reserve a time for painting the wait staff/models.
Paint Maine!
June 11 - June 18, 2022
Portland, Bar Harbor and Acadia National Park
All Levels - All Painting Mediums Welcome
For details, Paint Maine!
Coastal Maine and Acadia National Park are an artist's dream!
With amazing coastal topography we will explore landscape and
seascape colors and composition, building confidence through
"quick" sketching and alla prima plein air painting. For all levels,
this workshop is rich with cultural history, unique painting locales and creative inspiration.
We will enjoy boutique hotels, local insider guides, explore Portland's art district, sunset cruise through Casco Bay, lighthouses, lobster boats, sketching and painting techniques, naturalist guide at Acadia, and both a welcome reception at a Portland art gallery and farewell dinner in Bar Harbor. Kirah will provide handouts, demos, historical context and plenty of painting prompts each day, closing out with informal critique sessions each afternoon to discuss the day.
Price includes: 7 nights hotel, 7 breakfasts, 3 lunches, 1 dinner, sightseeing, insider experts, roundtrip airport transfers, taxes, and hotel space for art class meetings and supply storage. $300 refundable deposit due by November 1, 2021. Final payment due April 12, 2022.
