Ink and brush are fast and sensitive materials that you can use, for example, to express different emotions, the other way around, the material often also clearly shows how you feel and what comes out of your fingers at that moment.
In my workshops, I try to let you enjoy this material with exercises that allow you to handle the material better technically, but also to get into the feeling of the expression itself. In this way, painting e.g. energy full lines also give you energy.
To connect the workshops naturally, but also to maintain the possibility to visit them separately, they follow the seasons. Every day different but still with a continuous movement.
WORKSHOP / Ink & Brush / Be a flower / Treehouse NDSM / 2,5 h / Esther Kin / (Dutch & English) /
available dates Sat March 22, Sat April 12, Sat May 17 / 14.00 – 16.30
Als je met zwarte inkt schildert, geef je je werk energie, niet door je onderwerp te verbeelden, maar door het uit te drukken. De kunst is om één te worden met wat je op papier zet. Het geschenk is dat dit gevoel bij je terugkomt. Daarom proberen we ons in deze workshop lekker te verbinden met de aankomende lente. Dat lukt met schilder oefeningen van opengaande bloemen, maar ook met open houdingen van mensen of energieke abstracte vormen.
When you paint with black ink, you energize your work, not by imagining your subject, but by expressing it. The trick is to become one with what you put on paper. The gift is that this feeling comes back to you. That is why we try to connect with the coming spring in this workshop. This works with painting exercises of opening flowers, but also with open postures of people or energetic abstract shapes.
Book a place with an email to sterkinbeeld1@gmail.com
Costs €40,- per person incl. tax, tea and cookies
Costs €35,- ( p.p persons from 10 participants )
Costs €30,- ( p.p persons between 15 and 20 participants )
Costs €25,- ( p.p persons from 20 participants )
Location NDSM Treehouse T.T. Nevertitaweg 55-57 Amsterdam
Language; Dutch and/or English
WORKSHOP / Ink & Brush / I see y0u / Treehouse NDSM / 2 h / Esther Kin / (Dutch & English) /
bookable on request from 6 persons (Dutch or English spoken)
Workshop /Esther Kin
Line portrait with ink and brush
from 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Costs €40,- ( p.p persons with 6 participants )
Costs €35,- ( p.p persons from 10 participants )
Costs €30,- ( p.p persons between 15 and 20 participants )
Costs €25,- ( p.p persons from 20 participants )
Location NDSM Treehouse T.T. Nevertitaweg 55-57 Amsterdam
Language; Dutch and/or English
Ink and brush are fast and sensitive materials, with which you can express different emotions. On the other side, these materials often show your feelings and thoughts as they flow from your fingers onto the canvas.
In my workshop you will have the chance to explore and enjoy these materials with a number of exercises to improve your technical skills while working on self-expression.
In the workshop a line portrait, you look for a minimal line game to capture the person opposite you on paper. How do you see this person and how do you translate that into a line. Resolute, set down with certainty or very carefully scanning with searching lines? In this workshop you can also discover that being able to draw well is absolutely not a requirement to enjoy working with ink and brushes.
book a place with an email to
Ink workshop; human being versus human doing/
bookable on request from 6 persons (Dutch or English spoken)
Doing things with a lot of power and energy can give a change but can also destroy, exhaust and give a big mess. In this brush & ink workshop we will research ways to conserve energy when we transform our ideas into material and still walk out with a powerful art work as a result.
Treehouse Pavilion NDSM
2 uur / kosten 40,- p.p
Costs €40,- ( p.p persons with 6 participants )
Costs €35,- ( p.p persons from 10 participants )
Costs €30,- ( p.p persons between 15 and 20 participants )
Costs €25,- ( p.p persons from 20 participants )
location; artist playground NDSM Treehouse T.T. Neveritaweg 55-57, 1033 WB Amsterdam
please mail me if you are interested
DE SCHOONHEID VAN BEWEGEN / THE BEAUTY OF MOVING
bookable on request from 6 persons (Dutch or English spoken)
Day workshop with brush & ink;
bookable on request from 6 persons (Dutch or English spoken)
Forget the world around you and enjoy moving your brush across the paper. Sometimes graceful and flowing, other times, full of strength and determination. Capturing an image in one or a few lines requires stylization and simplification, until only the essence or a suggestion of it remains.
During this course we look for different ways to give as much expressiveness as possible to the lines that you eventually put on paper. The emphasis is not only on transferring knowledge and skills, but there is also attention for your individual creative process, which can provide a nice insight into your own way of moving.
What do you practice;
Finding the essence of an image. / using different brushes and associated technique to bring intention, variety and emotion to brushstrokes. / Enjoying non-result-oriented work.
Everyone comes in here with their own curiosity and intention. But what you take home is always a surprise. You don’t have to be able to do anything but be open to what presents itself.
practical information
Location; artist breeding ground NDSM Treehouse T.T. Neveritaweg 55-57, 1033 WB Amsterdam
costs 1 day workshop, lunch, material € 80,- p.p incl btw. (ask for discount when you come in a group)
Please sent me an email if you want to be informed or join upcoming workshops sterkinbeeld1@gmail.com
Inkt workshop specials 2 uur/ ink workshop specials 2 hour
bookable on request from 6 persons (Dutch or English spoken)
Theme related Workshops, different for every occasion! Accessible to groups or individual participants.
costs € 35,- p.p incl.materiaal ,tea, fruit and cookies
location; artist playground NDSM Treehouse T.T. Neveritaweg 55-57, 1033 WB Amsterdam
Please send an email with the number of participants, preferred date or request a group related theme.
ASK THE ART
Have you ever tried asking a piece of art for advice?
Esther Kin, artist, trained in Art Based Learning, loves to bring you in contact with an artwork that gives you a creative view on the things that might keep you awake at night.
You can make an appointment for Thursday, Friday, Saturday or Sunday between 12.00 and 18.00
by sending an email to Esther Kin, sterkinbeeld1@gmail.com with your desired date/time and number of participants. We love to see you soon at At NDSM Fuse, Amsterdam North http://www.ndsm-fuse.eu/
Costs: Private session costs: 50 euros p/p for 1,5 to 2 hours, two persons pay 35 p/p
*Groups from 4 people pay 25 p/p