Grades: Course open to rising 6-8th grades.

Dates: July 15 through July 18, 2024

Meets: Monday through Thursday, 9 AM to 12 PM

Cost: $470 early bird pricing; $490 after March 31

Instructor: Allyson Seal

Course Description: 

Do you love to play with color? Is your pen constantly moving in the margins of your notebook? Messy Art is about making big and experimenting with everything creativity has to offer. We will gather inspiration from the natural world around us and inside our own hearts. We will take up a lot of space and bring exciting ideas alive to the canvas. You don’t need to “know how to draw” to be an artist, to make a mess, to experiment with your creative vision. This workshop plays big and small on paper and canvas with a variety of media like ink, paint and collage. We will be working with abstract artist practices as well as drawing from life. While most of our time will be spent in the studio, we will take advantage of the natural world around us to adventure into nature.

Instructor Bio:

Allyson Seal is a teacher, an artist, and a nurturing guide whose creative process and enthusiasm has touched thousands of lives. She has taught at Branson for 16 years. Creating is the way she likes to move through the world. She values curiosity, experimentation, and vulnerability as essential components to the process of becoming fully alive. She helps students express the wholeness of who they are in all their funk and flavor. She believes fluorescent is always a good color choice.