Case for Making Naturalist Studies: Dolphins with Melanie Lan

THURSDAY, JUNE 25, 6:30 - 8:30pm PT This is an in-person workshop that will be held outside at CfM Art Room: 4035 Judah St, San Francisco, next door to our shop! In part three* of our three part series on watercolor basics, we will play around with surface tension, loosening up and how to intentionally use wet on wet techniques to achieve amazing effects in our watercolor paintings. You will leave with a series of wet-on-wet studies, and a stronger understanding of how to create depth and atmosphere in your work. * You do not need to have attended Part 1 or Part 2 to join Part 3!

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Saturday, July 18, 11:00am - 12:30pm PT This is an online workshop held via Zoom. Mother Nature continues to be one of our best muses! Butterflies have been a popular motif historically in art and design, perhaps for their fleeting beauty and fragility, and watercolour is the perfect medium to explore their iridescent wings. In this session we’ll be studying butterflies & moths and observing their wide range of patterns and textures - their symmetry allows for repetition and practicing techniques.

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Wednesday, July 1, 5:00pm - 6:30pm PT This is an online workshop held via Zoom. Just in time for summer vacation, this class explains everything you need to know to make quick and expressive watercolor landscapes while traveling. We will discuss materials set up, building a simple palette, and pro tips for painting plein air. Working from reference and memory, our exercises will demonstrate how to break down what we see to efficiently capture the memories of places we visit! All levels are welcome.

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SATURDAY, JULY 25, 2:00pm - 5:00pm PT This is an in-person workshop at CfM Art Room: 4035 Judah St, San Francisco, next door to our shop! Join Case for Making shop owner Alexis Joseph a 3-hour watercolor paint-making class in our new space! We’ll cover what goes into watercolor medium and why it works so well, along with all the tools and processes necessary to make your own watercolors. We'll also explore synthetic, earth and mineral lake pigments and see how different pigments respond to the paint-making process.

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Thursday, June 25, 5:00pm - 6:30pm PT This is an online workshop held via Zoom. What if understanding how watercolor is made completely changed how you use it? In this watercolor primer, CfM founder Alexis Joseph starts at the very beginning -- demonstrating how a batch of watercolor paint is made from pure pigment. Once you understand the material, everything else starts to click into place. From there, we'll build together: color wheel, basic brush handling, color mixing, and a series of color charts where you'll practice creating gradations of tints and shades to keep as reference.

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THURSDAY, JULY 2, 6:30pm - 8:30pm PT This is an in-person workshop at CfM Art Room: 4035 Judah St, San Francisco, next door to our shop! Join us in a relaxed and supportive creative space where we'll explore how drawing and watercolor can interact in our work. This casual, open-format class is designed for artists of all levels to experiment with integrating line work and color layering. Still life setups will be available to spark inspiration, and loose, guided instruction will be provided based on the work that emerges. Bring your own projects or start something new!

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Sunday, July 12, 11:00am - 12:30pm PT. This is an online workshop held via Zoom. Inside every fruit is the potential for a Big Bang! In this summer harvest-inspired watercolor workshop, we’ll explore fruits as symbols of abundance and nourishment, portraying them as cosmic portals to the stardust within us all. In addition to painting fruit forms, this class will look at how to create starry slices of the universe, using a monochromatic palette.

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Wednesday, July 22, 5:00pm - 6:30pm PT This is an online workshop held via Zoom. Do you love birds and painting? Come explore these funny little shapes with Sophie. We will look at some source images before diving into a composition of cute birds. You’ll find Sophie’s instructions easy to follow no matter what your experience level. Join Zoom 15 minutes early for an informal meet and greet with the instructor and class participants! Class will begin promptly at 5 minutes past the hour, so everyone has plenty of time to create!

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Saturday, July 11, 11:00am - 12:30pm PT This is an online workshop held via Zoom. Celebrate the vibrant colors and organic beauty of summer produce with this session focused on heirloom tomatoes. Whether you're a beginner or an experienced painter looking to refresh your skills, I will guide you through the process of capturing the rich textures, subtle color variations, and unique shapes of these seasonal gems. You'll learn essential watercolor techniques such as wet-on-wet blending, layering, and color mixing to bring out the juicy, sun-kissed essence of tomatoes in all their forms.

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Modern Watercolor Botanicals: A Creative Workshop in Watercolor, Gouache, & Ink. If you’re looking for a relaxing and stress-relieving pastime, look no further. Watercolor painting is the perfect hobby to pick up if you’re looking for a creative outlet. Let the gentle strokes and graceful designs wash over you as you focus solely on what you’re creating. Sarah Simon brings all of the information from her sold-out watercolor workshops to one cohesive guide in Modern Watercolor Botanicals. This beginner's guide to watercolor includes all of the information you need to get started.

by Lauda · Tacoma, WA

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Emily Lex Studio's Watercolor Workbooks are a fun and easy way to explore painting. Each workbook includes 12 full color animal examples, step-by-step…

by Kitchen Kapers · Cherry Hill, NJ

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15-Minute Art Watercolor explores the art of watercolor with fifty 15-minute projects. From fruits and fish to flowers, animals, and anatomy, Jola encourages you to explore this craft in a relaxing, free, and fun way. Each project can be completed in no more than six steps and includes practice pages, colour swatches, and helpful hints to make light work of the artwork. Featuring traceable templates of all 50 projects, Jola helps you to get over the fear of the blank page and proves that painting doesn’t have to be intimidating.

by Local Nomad · Phoenix, AZ

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The classic composition notebook reimagined! We love these fun and funky color combinations that keep us inspired! Emilio Braga sketchbooks are our favorite, and have been handmade in Portugal since 1918! They are perfect for drawing and writing, even on the go! Every sketchbook has an elastic band and comes with a cardstock sheet that is lined on one side and grid on the other to use as a writing guide since all pages are blank. Size 12cm x 17cm (approx. 4.72in. x 6.69in.) Size 17cm x 23cm (approx. 6.69in.

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We love Art Toolkit palettes for their sleek, all-metal design and ultra-portability! We're so excited to offer two sizes and colors of these adorable, pocket-sized cases, each in its own screenprinted canvas drawstring bag. Build your own dream set with our handmade paints in Art Toolkit's Standard and Mini sized pans—you can find them all here ! Art Toolkit's Pocket Palette can fit up to 12 Art Toolkit Standard Pans or 24 Mini Pans (pans sold separately). The case measures 3-5/8" x 2-1/4" x 1/4" (~92mm x 64mm x 7mm) when closed.

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This latex-free, black eraser is a staff favorite and works to limit the amount of eraser shavings that collect on your work surface into one big shaving for easy clean up! Sakura Sumo Grip Erasers feature a microporous, open-cell foam technology that works like ultra-fine sandpaper to get into the grooves and pits of the paper surface. Measures: about 2"…

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Our lovely letterpressed watercolor swatch cards! Fits our small tin perfectly and has 14 blind debossed squares to color swatch your CfM watercolors with space below to write the color names! Comes free with the purchase of a premade set.

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We love our letterpressed watercolor swatch cards - they're fun and cute and oh so useful! This debossed swatch card features 12 indentations for color swatches - made to fit in our Simple Travel Palette. This card comes free with all travel size premade watercolor sets.

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The home stretch of our complete collection! With our Core Collection 48 Palette and The Max Feels 48 Blends Palette , this set adds the final 14 colors to span our full line of handmade paints! This set comes in our CfM Small Palette , which we love for its handy mixing wells and easy-to-clean design. Our premade sets also include a swatch card letterpress printed by our friends at Aesthetic Union —what better way to get to know your new colors than a meditative swatching session?!

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This slim and sturdy palette fits up to twenty-four of our handmade watercolors ! It's slightly wider and flatter than our standard Medium Palette , so it's even easier to slide in your backpack with your paint journal! Includes an empty palette with a white lid and silver base. Medium swatch card is also included. Measures approximately 9" x 3.5" x 1/2" when closed. Imported from Germany.

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Cultivate your dream garden with this botanical stamp set! Includes 25 stamps and a 2-color pink/green ink pad.

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A soothing collection of natural pigments found all around the place we all call home, Mother Earth! With pigments derived everywhere from the Blue Ridge Mountains to the Luberon region of France, this palette is a tour of our planet's rich mines of color. This set comes in our CfM Small Palette , which we love for its handy mixing wells and easy-to-clean design. Our premade sets also include a swatch card letterpress printed by our friends at Aesthetic Union —what better way to get to know your new colors than a meditative swatching session?!

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The tiniest pocket architecture scale ever! A great straightedge to keep in your toolkit! You'll never know when you're going to need one!

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Mono Jumbo Eraser - for all your biggest eraser needs, this one will last you forever! Measures: about 3.25" x 1.5"

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CfM Oxalis captures the cheery yellow of the California wildflower also known as Woodsorrel, which Bay Area locals might remember from childhood as Sourgrass. Here in San Francisco, Oxalis seems to pop up from every available patch of soil in mid-February, and we wanted to celebrate this annual harbinger of spring! Oxalis flowers make a wonderful, potent natural yellow dye, and CfM Oxalis was inspired by the flower and the slightly more orange dye bath.

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