Learn to Paint Leaves with Ruby Silvious

Participants will learn to paint patterns on dried and pressed leaves using acrylic gouache and fine-point pens. Art supplies are included but students are welcome to bring their own dried and pressed leaves. Bring your imagination and have fun! 

Ruby Silvious is internationally recognized for her miniature paintings and collages on the used tea bag. On January 3, 2015, she started a project called 363 Days of Tea, a visual daily record of her impression of the moment, using the emptied-out tea bag as her canvas, and altering it to create a new work of art every day for 363 days. She draws, paints, prints, and collages moody, evocative, and sometimes whimsical art on used teabag paper. She is the author of 363 Days of Tea: A Visual Journal on Used Teabags (Mascot Books, 2016), and Reclaimed Canvas: Reimagining the Familiar (Mascot Books, 2019). Ruby wants viewers to keep an open mind and think beyond the boundaries of what they may consider traditional art.

Her paintings on tea bags, some inspired by her travels around the world, have been featured in numerous publications including CNN Travel, Vogue Italia, Cosmopolitan China, Disney Malaysia, The Guardian, Der Spiegel, North American Review, National Geographic Kids, Good Morning America/ABC News, and the internationally syndicated Ripley’s Believe it or Not. Silvious was educated in the U.S. and Asia; she currently lives and works in New York’s Hudson Valley. Her art is exhibited internationally and is featured in public and private collections.

Registration is $10 for non-members and free for members. Class size is limited and registration is required.