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Several times throughout the year, TotalLink welcomes guest artists to our Art Lab classes. Our guest artists are professional artists from our community who come to share their art styles and inspire collaborative art pieces with our TotalLink artists. In January, we welcomed back Anastasia Mak - a Chicago-based expressionist artist who has collaborated with our artists before. Our artists were excited and inspired when we looked at Anastasia’s website together, and they soon devised a plan for the collaboration piece.
Together, TotalLink artists selected a color palette and subject matter that they were most interested in working on. The following week, Anastasia came to class with a 36 x 36-inch canvas that was prepped with the “Coastal Poppies” scene our group had brainstormed. Our artists enjoyed gathering around the canvas alongside our guest artist to fill the canvas with color.
Aside from learning how to work together to make a piece of art, Anastasia shared skills and knowledge, such as the benefits of using longer-stemmed paintbrushes for looser and natural-looking brushstrokes and how to layer shades of colors for maximum depth and beauty. This valuable artistic collaboration with a professional artist from our community promoted inclusiveness and provided an educational space for artists to create and grow. In the end, our artist made a magnificent piece of art.
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