Monochrome Painting: Texture, Form and Wabi Sabi

4 Saturdays · 10:00–13:00

This four-Saturday course explores the power of monochrome painting through the lens of wabi-sabi philosophy — the Japanese aesthetic that finds beauty in imperfection. By removing color from our palette, we sharpen our focus on texture, tonal values, and composition. Students will journey from experimental abstraction to contemplative representation, working with diverse materials ranging from delicate ink washes to heavy impasto textures.

Each session builds technical skills while encouraging a mindset of acceptance and creative freedom. We'll embrace drips, cracks, and rough edges not as mistakes but as evidence of authenticity and the human hand. Through mixed media collage, sculptural surfaces, fluid portraiture, and quiet still lifes, participants will discover how limitation (working only in greys, blacks, whites, and earth tones) paradoxically opens up infinite creative possibilities.

This course welcomes all levels.

Our models are contemporary dancers, actors, professional models, and plus-size models. Their unique energy, movement, and charisma make each session an inspiring creative experience.

We encourage artistic freedom—use pencils, ink, pastels, pens, watercolor, gouache, or even collage. You can work at a table or an easel, whichever suits your style.
This is more than just drawing—it’s a meditative practice that enhances observation skills, calms the mind, and unlocks your creative potential. Join us!

You can attend a course of four sessions for a discounted price 35900 HUF, or one session is 10900 HUF.