ART/Cologist KATSTYLE, Unearthing Your Journey to Creativity
with Kat Cunningham
A NEW SERIES – 4 CLASSES December 1, 5,8,12 Monday, Friday
Time: 10:00AM – 12:30 PM
Fees: $150, 4 classes or $40 a day FRAA Member
Non-member $180, or $45 a day,
Class material Fee $10
Being an Art/Cologist is not about pretty art. It’s revealing and collecting lost ideas and road-testing them. It’s exploring concepts and systems with a twist to unblock your core. Each stage digs deeper to regenerate “YOUR PASSION”, the inner artist. It’s exciting “trial and
error” discovery. Beginner or advanced artist, this journey of ideas works for any media. Creativity explodes when ideas are envisioned through 4 stages of change.
GOAL: Dig through 4 traps that block you – “I’m not creative, I’m not good enough, I don’t know how, someday. Find what you lost. Re-discover your passion.
IDEATION MAPPING Think Archaeologist
Introducing the “Creator Compass” to guide you. As an Art/Cologist Brainstorming, Mind Mapping and Storyboarding lets you sift through a full spectrum of possible solutions. Enjoy group exploring in a fun, judgment-free environment. Unblock and let go Katstyle.
Week 1 Monday: Arti-Fact 1 Dec 1- The Visionary Stage
Ideation strategies: As an Art/Cologist, your tools are: Time, Place and Space. A “Six-Sense Grid” reveals your color story, shapes, with emotional symbolic messages to focus your idea quickly. Record your time capsule in a BLISS Journal. Each week innovate and grow your project themes.
Week 1 Friday Arti-Fact 2 Dec 5- The Manager Stage
Idea Management: Disorganization leads to procrastination. Quick organizing and cataloging systems save time and grow creativity. This strategy is taught at Disney University. An Art/Cologist needs to sift through idea debris, catalog, multi-task, retrieve, and synthesize their finds. Kat’s project management systems guide projects easily. Keeping fresh means never be stuck for ideas again.
HOLIDAY IN NATURE IS OUR CORE INSPIRATION.
Use these ideas for making holiday cards, gifts or give Art/Cologist as a gift.
MODULAR DESIGN: Think Explorer
It’s time to gather your tools and use your new ideation systems as building blocks to divide space as layers of your senses. Use color combinations that identify your expression. Tell your story your way.
Week 2 Monday: Arti-Fact 3 -Dec 8 The Producer Stage
Color Blocking: Demystifying Color
Kat’s No Fail ” Color Blocking System” excavates color a new way. No painting is needed. Open symbols and messages to co-create with others. Build composition emotionally. Discover the color palettes that grow your style and story.
Week 2 Friday Arti-fact 4 -Dec 12 The Mentor Stage
An Art/Cologist is an Explorer. Journey through “Modular Design”, uniformly dividing space with Placement, Shapes, Emotional Connections and Dimension. Your “Six-Sense Grid” and color blocking systems guide how to creatively fill in your 3 Layer Composition layouts. Open your time-capsule.
BENEFFITS OF THIS SELF-DISCOVERY DIG:
Solve problems in unique ways. Create new systems for expansion. Allow innovation with
organization to guide elements of surprise. Turn distraction into passion. Find your answers inward, not outward.
Supply requirement: A Mix-Media journal, Try Beaux Arts. Aqua Bee 93 Lb., 6×9, or Strathmore 5X8, 90Lb. (no smaller) Spiral bound preferred. This will become a life treasure. A kit of your existing materials; glue stick, scissors, color pencil options, water brush etc.
Other supplies to be discussed as needed.
(3 student minimum per course, no maximum)
Students at all levels welcomed.
Pre-registration is required at the FRAA Art Gallery (120 Maple St) in person, via phone or online. Payment required when registering. Click here to register for this class online.
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About Kat:
Kat Cunningham, has made a living as a professional artist for 58 years. From her commercial art days to publishing a textile magazine, she has taught school, commercially trained industry and coached fine art internationally in most media. This expansion allows her to meet each student at their level of expertise. Kat found without the basic foundations of art building, blockages take place. Confidence wanes and the artist plateaus. Because of her commercial and product marketing background she has developed her own unique easy systems to excite, reenergize and inspire creators. Using nature as inspiration, she has found ways to ground her students to feel flow and freedom to grow. Her whole purpose is to inspire a student to find their story.