In-Person Class: The Red Poppy in Watercolor

Inspired by Georgia O’Keeffe’s red poppies, join us at the O’Keeffe Museum Creativity Studio to paint the iconic red poppy in watercolor this spring!

Through engaging painting demonstrations and individualized interaction, teaching artist Sudeshna Sengupta will break down the concept of negative-painting the background of floral compositions using the wet-in-wet technique. You will also be introduced to the theory and practice of utilizing complementary colors for logical and predictable color mixes by using a palette that’s arranged like a color wheel with cyan, magenta, and yellow as primaries. The clean and vibrant color mixes that result from using this re-energized color palette will help you achieve the fresh and fluid look associated with the medium of transparent watercolor.

Participants are welcome to bring their own flowers or flower photos for reference during the class, or they may follow along with the poppy flower setup and reference images used during the in-class demonstration.

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This class is suitable for youth ages 12 and up. Children are welcome to participate alongside their adults.

This class will meet at the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum’s Creativity Studio, which is located on the corner of W Marcy Street and Sheridan Avenue, Santa Fe, NM. Registrants will be notified 24 hours in advance if the lesson is to be canceled.

About the Instructor:

Sudeshna Sengupta’s career as a teaching artist spans multiple decades, continents, and cultures that inform her pedagogy for decolonizing studio art. She earned her Master of Fine Arts degree in 1985 from Visva-Bharati University, founded by the first non-European Nobel Laureate (1913) and humanist poet Rabindranath Tagore.

After teaching art and design at the college level in New Delhi, Seattle, and California, she taught at New Mexico State University-Alamogordo, where she established its first intaglio printmaking studio in 1995. Besides the O’Keeffe Museum, Sengupta teaches credit courses with the School of Art & Design of the Santa Fe Community College.

Her etchings and lithographs from the permanent collection of the National Gallery of Modern Art in New Delhi have been featured in a landmark exhibition on Women Printmakers of India at the NGMA-New Delhi in India. Her work is in the permanent collection of the National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi; Association Musée d’Art Contemporain, France; Kala Institute, Berkeley, and more.

Sengupta also conducts workshops, short courses, lectures, and community-based art events focusing on multicultural and intercultural experiences that emphasize human, cultural, and environmental connectedness through creativity.

To learn more, please visit notes-and-doodles.com and visit her Instagram @santafe_online_art_studio

Registration

All supplies are included: Members $40 | Non-members $50