Classes, Workshops
& Retreats
The subjects I teach can be adapted to accommodate any environment whether it is an outdoor sketchbook setting, in-person, hands-on workshop, online class or demonstration.
Online Classes
The Art of Miniature Painting & Lettering
Learn how to simplify and render fine detail for creating your own tiny masterpieces.
Learn the techniques in a step-by-step method using various tools and materials to draw and paint in colored pencil, pen and ink, watercolor and gouache.
We begin working large and gradually reduce in size to miniature. The focus of this class will be on miniature painting.
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Watercolor & Ink
In this fun, painterly workshop we will create…
Playful color explorations using line, washes, glazes, blooms, and more with watercolors and ink.
- Using a layered approach, we will paint with vibrant color, create depth, texture and encourage loose-line work on sampler cards.
- Expand your floral color palette in the four seasons through Janet’s exercises, methods and techniques.
- Embellish your next project with seasonal blooms!
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Upcoming Classes & Workshops
THIS & THAT
Lettering, Drawing, Floral Essences
and a Journaling Jamboree
Saturday May 21, 2022
8:30am – 4:30pm
Jackson, WI
Explore fun drawing, creative lettering, playful watercolor painting, and journaling for sketchbooks.
For all levels.
HERE & THERE*
LOCATION, LOCATION, LOCATION!
Sketchbook travel journaling
for journeys near and far
Sunday, May 22, 2022
1:30pm – 4:30pm
Jackson, WI
*This workshop requires attendance in This & That. With Day-1 as a foundation, we will explore finding inspiration and linking text and image in a sketchbook.
Yosemite National Park – Outdoor Adventures
DRAWING & WATERCOLOR
JOURNALING
October 5 – 8, 2022
Yosemite National Park, California
Augment your sketchbook with drawings and watercolor sketches inspired by the colors, texture, and light of autumn in Yosemite in this three-day art retreat.
TRAVEL SKETCHBOOK JOURNALING ART RETREAT
VIAGGIO TOURS
April 11-17, 2022
Postponed Due to Covid
Lake Como, Italy
Explore the process of creating miniature works of art accompanied with calligraphy.
Inspired by the beautiful miniature paintings of the illuminated manuscript of 16th century Joris Hoefnagel in Mira Calligraphiae Monumenta and 20th century calligrapher Marie Angel, we will create modern miniature illuminations.
Learn how to simplify and render fine detail for creating your own tiny masterpieces.
Yosemite National Park – Outdoor Adventures
Art Retreat: Historic Architecture of Yosemite
October 11 – 14, 2022
Yosemite National Park, California
A three-day immersive art retreat in Yosemite Valley combining the skills of urban sketching and landscape art.
TRAVEL SKETCHBOOK JOURNALING ART RETREAT
VIAGGIO TOURS
April 18 – 24, 2022
Postponed Due to Covid
French Riviera
There’s so much to do on the French Riviera on this six-night Travel Sketchbook Journaling Art Retreat based in the lovely, lively, waterfront city of Nice, France. The area is a perfect base as we explore some of the Riviera’s most-loved towns and villages in the footsteps of where many greats of the art-world lived and painted.
In-Person Class Descriptions
Sketchbook
From A-Z
Bring your journaling to life in this workshop as you work your way through the twenty-six letters of the alphabet using many techniques and creative ideas.
Participants will fill their pages with a series of explorations.
Sketch-Trek
ON LOCATION SKETCHING
Exercises and techniques for sketching on the spot. Selecting potential subjects to sketch, setup, composition and note-taking.
Journaling
Create an artful sketchbook to record your memories and observations. Increase your sketching experience with a minimum of materials to use for everyday and travel adventures.
Calligraphy, Cursive Handwriting & Hand Lettering
Italic, Uncial, Gothic Blackletter, Pointed Pen, Brush, Cursive Handwriting, Sign Graphics and Letters of Whimsey.
Creativity
CREATIVITY WORKSHOPS
Discover your creativity through Letters of Whimsey, in Nature and in the company of inspiration.
Meet your Muse!
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Online Class Offerings
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Class Formats
CLASSES, WORKSHOPS & RETREATS
Class formats vary according to the subject being taught.
ABILITY LEVELS
BEGINNING LEVEL students have no or very little knowledge of the mediums and techniques explored within a class or workshop.
INTERMEDIATE LEVEL students have some working knowledge of the mediums and techniques explored within a class or workshop.
ADVANCED LEVEL students have a working knowledge of mediums and techniques explored within a class or workshop.
ONLINE FORMAT
MINI CLASS – a one-hour introduction to an in-person or online class, course or workshop.
ONLINE CLASS – comprised of 2 or more hours for 1 or more days.
COACHING SESSION – Individualized instruction for a minimum of 30 minutes. These sessions are designed for those who want to improve and grow their craft.
TESTIMONIALS
What Students are Saying…
Janet is the consummate artist – from her commercial illustration work and gilding expertise and her published journaling book to the breadth of knowledge that she brings to her teaching methods. Her creativity and enthusiasm for her art and for her students bring them back again and again to her innovative workshops.
Cindy H - Houston, TX
Sketch-Trek Workshops
Janet’s workshops are some of the most delightful workshops I’ve attended. Her demonstrations and exercises provided new combinations of letters and images; it was just the inspiration I needed. I felt like I left a two-day workshop with at least a year’s worth of new ideas!
Mary D
Letters of Whimsey
Get In Touch
Let's Create!
jtartmaker@earthlink.net
Phone
(310) 722-7360
Address
PO Box 1277
Tustin, CA 92781