An Invitation to Paint a Hummingbird
The first Guest Creative session at The Hummingbird Nest. Coming Saturday, June 13.
Before we go anywhere, arrive for a moment. Close your eyes. Drop your shoulders. Slowly take a breath.
Something is happening in The Creativity Studio next Saturday, June 13, and I wanted to make sure you knew.
This is the very first Guest Creative session at The Hummingbird Nest. And it felt right that we begin with this.
We’re going to paint a hummingbird.
Artist and watercolor coach Chris Vabre will guide us through a 45-minute watercolor session. We’ll begin with a short arrival practice to settle in, and I’ll share a little about the symbolism of the hummingbird before we pick up our brushes. Chris helps students who don’t think they’re very good become confident painters. She believes your uniqueness is your superpower.
You don’t need any experience. You just need to show up.
Saturday, June 13. 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm MDT. Free and open to everyone.
Can’t make it live? The replay will be available afterward.
What to bring
Watercolor paints. Chris will be using mostly pink and aqua, with some brown or gray.
Watercolor paper, preferably 140 lb / 300 g. Chris will be using a 5 x 7 sketchbook. Very small sizes can be tricky for beginners.
A medium round watercolor brush, about three-quarter-inch bristles.
A pencil and eraser for sketching. A polymer or kneaded eraser works best.
One or two cups or jars for water rinsing.
Paper towels or a rag to wipe your brush.
About the Guest Creative Series
Once a month, I open the doors of The Creativity Studio and invite a guest artist, maker, or creative practitioner to lead us through something hands-on. A skill to learn. A process to explore. Something to make together.
Think of it less as a class and more as an afternoon in someone’s studio, where you are welcome to pull up a chair and try.
Some sessions will be live on Zoom, where we gather in real time. Others will arrive as a recorded video you can return to whenever the moment is right. Either way, the studio is open, and something is always being made.
For the creatives who join us, it is also an opportunity to share their work with a warm and growing community of women who appreciate handmade, thoughtful, and beautiful things.
If you are a maker, an artist, a teacher of something creative, and you would love to be a guest in the Studio, I would love to hear from you. Reply below and tell me a little about what you do.
Guest Creative sessions like this one will be a regular, once-a-month offering inside The Hummingbird Nest membership, launching soon. This first one is my gift to everyone.
I hope to see you there.
Warmly,
Kathy
A little about me
Hi, I’m Kathy. A guide, a gatherer, a maker of sacred space, and a woman who found her way home to herself after years of putting everyone else first.
For years, I wore many hats at once. Single parent, community manager in a role I was promoted into before I believed I deserved it, event organizer. And later, a family caregiver. Learning all over again how to give without losing myself in the giving. Caring for everyone, in every direction, all at the same time. What I had to learn, slowly and imperfectly, was that I mattered too. What I found on the other side of that, through stillness, creativity, and the women who gathered around my table, became everything I now offer.
There’s a place at the table with your name on it.
Ellie is very talented...just like her Grandmother. xox
Your guest artist once a month is a great idea. Enjoy!
Always great to see Ellie's artistry.