Painting Sacred Hearts - Inspired by the Japanese tradition of Kintsugi

Hello, my friend! Welcome to class.

In this class, we are going to get creative with our paints and create some beautiful hearts with an inspiring meaning behind them.

Kintsugi is the Japanese art of mending ceramics with gold dating back to the 15th century, a metaphor for embracing your flaws and imperfections.

And in my favorite mystery series, Louise Penny has a theme that she brings up though out the books that I love. In “The Great Reckoning,” our hero Armand Gamache says: “ Things are strongest when they are broken. We are all marred and scarred and imperfect.

I thought it would be fun to embrace these and create some art with these in mind. Using different colors to represent the things we have gone through, and using gold to highlight the cracks and scars. Symbolizing that we have come through it all and are stronger.

This class is for you if:

• You love learning new techniques for your art
• You are interested in creating some art with meaning behind it that you can share
• You love experimenting with art supplies
• You love watching how others approach their art practice

Supplies: I encourage you to use the supplies you have on hand to do your projects. Look around at the supplies you already have, and check out the supplies I'm showing you in class to see what you can substitute, and what you'd like to experiment with. I give you lots of choices and suggest substitutes.

• Watercolor paper - 140lb watercolor paper is perfect for this project
• Acrylic inks in your favorite colors, or watercolor paints in your favorite colors. I'm using the inks in class since I am currently obsessed with them and this was the perfect project to play. Watercolors would be just as good. So use what you have already.
• Kuretake Mica Paste - this is my very favorite gold to use in art projects. You can use any gold metallic you have - craft paints work great or Posca gold paint pen is a good choice too
• Heart paper cutter - I am using this to cut out my mini hearts. You can also use the template I provide in the resources area and cut your hearts out by hand.
• Random Stencils or Punchinella if you want to use the stencils as I do in class.