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Make Your Mark
December 4, 2025 @ 6:30 pm - 9:00 pm
$147.00An 2-Day In-Studio Workshop!
Thursdays, December 4 and 11, 6:30-9pm
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About this Workshop:
Explore mark and pattern making as the start for developing art pieces. Mark-making is the most essential form of committing an idea to a surface. In the spirit of our ancestors who first took a tool and made a mark, this class will focus on intuitive exercises using a variety of simple tools to generate many types of marks. See where your marks may take you, with further exploration of possibilities for both abstract and figurative drawing, painting and collage.
Level: Beginner – no experience necessary
Registration extended to December 1, 2025. Material fees are included with your registration to cover the supplies provided in class. Students may/will need to gather/purchase additional materials for class (see the materials list below). This list will also be provided with the registration confirmation email.
Sample image by Sharon Robinson
CLASS MATERIALS LIST:
Registration includes a $15 materials fee to cover consumable materials provided in class, including matboard, additional paints and pigments, stencils, stamps, and access to more collage/magazine materials. Students will need to bring additional supplies of their own, including:
- Two or more markers/pens—fine and wider tip (Sharpies, Pentel, Faber-Castell, Ad Markers, etc.)
- Small bottle of black sumi ink or other black India ink
- Assortment of inexpensive acrylic paints
- 4- 6 Assorted sizes of inexpensive acrylic or watercolor paintbrushes, including both flat and round between ½” and 1” or #6 – #10;
- Choice of paper—8”x10” or larger pad/book of any of the following: 140 lb. watercolor paper; 98 lb. mixed media paper; Bristol paper; Stonehenge drawing paper; Other heavier weight (90 lb) drawing paper
- (optional) Any other types of paper you’d like to experiment with, such as rice paper
- (optional) Any other mark-making tools you’d like to experiment with, such as acrylic paint markers, pastels, acrylic inks, etc.
- (optional) Personal apron (we’ll have extras) and/or wear clothes that can get a little messy
- (optional) Notebook/sketchbook to take notes in
YOUR INSTRUCTOR:
Sharon Robinson is a mixed media artist specializing in abstract collage and assemblage currently residing in the Washington, D.C. area. She earned a master’s degree in urban design and community development from MIT and worked in the urban transit and development field for 20 years in Los Angeles and Portland, OR., prior to becoming a full-time artist in 1999. She has also been a muralist, instructor, gallery manager and arts program administrator. She exhibits her work in the Washington DC/Maryland area as well as other cities and teaches mixed media classes at the Smithsonian, The Torpedo Factory in Alexandria, VA, Pyramid Atlantic Art Center in Hyattsville, MD and other regional art centers, as well as in her personal studio. Her community activities include serving on the board of Pyramid Atlantic, the Mt. Rainier, MD Arts Commission and SCRAP-USA, a network of nonprofit creative reuse centers.. Learn more about her work at www.therobinsonstudio.com.