Energized Abstract Landscape Using Unconventional Mark Making with Suzette Lebenzon

Loosen up your mark making and gain confidence in your painting and drawing through creative play on paper. These will NOT be your grandma’s sketchbooks! We will be capturing familiar landscape using inks, pencils, graphite, charcoal, collage and paint. We may use a combination of paintbrushes, or sticks, or dried perennials as mark making tools. The exercises have us working fast and loose and carefree. I’ll show you the rules; the number one rule being we break rule one! Though there are a few must have items on the materials list, bring what you have in your kit but are afraid to try… we will use everything. I will demonstrate and show step by step exercises. Then you will be set free with guidance! The sketchbooks will serve you as resource material for more developed pieces or, you can work on single sheets and admire them as finished beauties!

About the Instructor: Suzette Lebenzon

Suzette Lebenzon has painted since her childhood in Scituate, MA. She has kept a studio and shown in galleries most of her adult life. Her home and studio are in Wellfleet.

Suzette was a recipient of the Mass Cultural Council’s Unrestricted Artists’ Grants. In 2023, Suzette was inducted to the National Association of Women Artists, as a Signature Member. Her work has been curated into shows at the Art Complex Museum in Duxbury, the Scollay Square Gallery in Boston’s City Hall, and the Galatea Fine Art Gallery in SOWA.

She is represented by the  AMZehnder Gallery in Wellfleet, MA; and the BBLG Gallery in Smithtown, NY.

Materials List:

• Willow charcoal
• 6B graphite- lyra good brand
• Soft pencil of your choice
• Sketchbook or heavy paper that will take ink and/or watercolor. Smooth is best.
• Gum eraser
• Stupidly larger, cheap, craft or house painter’s brush, 2-4 inches
• Brush for fine detail
• 1 inch flat brush
• one bottle paine’s gray acrylic ink
• Glue stick
• Water container, paper towels, old plastic lid you can use to put ink into
• optional: Any watercolors or gouache or acrylic you fancy, watercolor crayons

I’ll supply the spray fix

After week one you will understand the process and find materials that interest YOU!