Embark on Art: Paris, France
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Paint Like Monet: Take a Virtual Trip to Paris 🎨✈️
Embark on Art: Paris includes a 4 day itinerary. We explore Paris (think architecture, museums, food and people watching) and make art inspired by our virtual excursions.
Each day has a handful of art activities that include photo references, video clips and demonstrations to hold your hand or loosely inspire your art. (Work in any medium!)
The feature workshop of our Paris trip is “Paint Like Monet,” where we copy a piece by the master himself (This demonstration will be in acrylic).
Who is it for? You!
👶The beginner
🖌️The mixed media enthusiast
📗The art journaler
🗼The tourist taking a trip to Paris soon…
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Your Instructor
Carrie is a visual artist, and has had work displayed in short term exhibitions at The Smithsonian and The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Her solo exhibition, “Anonymous Woman,” at the Shenkman Arts Centre in Orléans, Canada won her a grant through Arts Network Ottawa. Her artist practice is about elevating women, highlighting and addressing gender norms, and perfectionism. You can see her work at www.carriebrummer.com.
Trained as an artist and professional educator, she taught for years around the world before creating Artist Strong, an online artists’ community and school. She’s now taught in schools and online for nearly 20 years. You can build your skill and develop your unique artist voice at www.artiststrong.com.
Everytime I go on a trip I think I’m going to do something with my photos when I get home, or even actively make art ON the trip.
It’s never quite what I imagine.
So I thought, what if I could recreate the experience of traveling to these amazing places with a specific focus on making art in response to our "travel"?
Do you want to join me?
It’s called Embark on Art and think of it as a mashup of art challenges, courses, urban sketching, and cultural excursions from the comfort of your home.
Frequently Asked Questions
Travel isn’t all rainbows and butterflies
Have you traveled on a plane lately? I recently returned from a trip where I felt more like a sardine and less like a person about to have a two week holiday. And we paid for checked luggage!
Taking big trips isn’t always easy. We can get nervous about different languages, navigating transportation, currency, and more.
Even when we overcome those fears things are bound to go wrong, and we have to adjust to those changes and roll with the punches.
On my first international trip as an American, I was hospitalized for 6 days with an unknown illness that required a blood transfusion. When I got home I told myself I’d never travel again.
Ha.Ha.Ha.
I was only 18 when I said that and really the opposite happened. I studied abroad in Sweden, moved to Dubai, and then stayed in the Middle East for 9 years before moving to Canada for 3.
(Here I am, gobbing on an entire meringue by myself in Bourdeaux, France:)
I guess when you do face a worst-case scenario, you realize there is nothing left to hold you back.
But another thing I learned about travel that one of you wisely shared with me is the following:
Travel means being able to leave where you are currently, even if it’s just in your mind.
That is why I created Embark on Art.
No lost luggage.
No planes or boat rides.
No boarding your fur family.
Embark on Art is a chance to explore somewhere new from the safety of your home OR take with you if you’re ready to take flight!
Embark on Art: Paris has a 3.5 day itinerary that includes architecture, churches, museums, and more paired with art activities inspired by the virtual excursions we take. (Itinerary is here).
You can leave where you are (in your mind), learn something new, and make some art.
Travel isn’t all rainbows and butterflies.
But we only have rainbows because of the rain.
I hope this inspires you to get outside of your comfort zone and explore more of the wonderful world around you.
All aboard!
Carrie