Drawing for Good: Sharing Support and Finding Flow in the Creative Process
If you follow my art on social media, you know that on January 1, 2024 I started the 'Drawing A Day For Good' project. With the start of the last new year I offered the public unframed watercolor...
View ArticleReflective Drawings / Responsive Poems: Almost a Year of the Drawing A Day...
I am delighted to have an exhibition of twenty watercolor and ink drawing from my Drawing a Day for Goodproject on display at the UWM at Waukesha library in collaboration with poet Margaret Rozga in...
View ArticleWatercolor on Canvas and Board …………………. Still Learning!
Spiral Cactus, my first watercolor on canvas, 12x14, ©2011 Helen Klebesadel It was 2011. I remember sitting in an RV camper in Arizona at the beautiful Patagonia Lake State Park and wildlife area. I...
View ArticleStill Teaching in Beautiful Places in 2024
Are you considering taking one of my watercolor classes in 2024? In addition to my on-line workshops I am lucky enough to teach at a number of wonderful venues throughout the summer and autumn, and...
View ArticleA Drawing A Day For Good
Lately I have been drawing almost every day as a visual meditation aimed at inducing a sense of 'flow'. I have found its a lot of fun to draw into the watercolor teaching samplers I create as a part...
View Article‘Tis the Season for Art and Gratitude
High Summer Prairie I, Watercolor, (original 30x 40, giclée print, 15x20) On display in Watercolor Wisconsin 2023 at the Wustum Art Museum, showcasing Wisconsin artists using aqueous materials on...
View ArticleStill Teaching In Beautiful Places
Are you considering taking one of my watercolor classes in 2023? In addition to my on-line workshops and the face-to-face watercolor and creativity workshops I organize I teach at various venues...
View ArticleFull Spirals Podcast Interview
Spiral Branch, watercolor, 30x40 Stacy Parish and I share a love of Spirals as a metaphor for the journeys we can find ourselves taking as we negotiate life. I was delighted to of being interviewed by...
View ArticleTo Gicleé or not to Gicleé: Making Prints of Original Watercolors
Vanilla Orchid and Melipona Bee a limited edition giclee print of an original watercolor “To Gicleé or not to Gicleé “ is a question I answered for myself in the early 2000s, when I made my first set...
View ArticleArt Emerges with Spring Flowers in 2022
Snowdrops, 30x40, watercolor, In the collection of UW Health and Clinics, Madison As spring 2022 breaks over the land and snowdrops harken that spring is really coming. COVID -19 numbers are dropping...
View ArticleCheck out Art on Display ~ Fall 2021
Preview in new tab Butterfly Effect: Wild Lupine and Milkweed, by Helen Klebesadel, watercolor, 22x24, on display at the Miller Art Museum until November 8th, 2021. After so much time sharing my art...
View ArticleHang on a Little Longer: Art is Springing Up all Over the Place
Blue Moon III, 9x13, watercolor, 2021 Hang on a Little Longer: Art is Springing Up all Over the Place Gauging by the small flowers I see emerging in my yard, spring is starting to show up, leaving...
View ArticleUsing Art to Create A Better New Year for 2021: Online Watercolor Workshops
Blue Lake in Moonlight, watercolor, 4x6 Like so many of us I have been working to stay safe, healthy , and connected with those I love during the pandemic. I am one of the lucky ones who can stay home...
View Article‘Tis the Season….for art
Everything is Connected, 22x15, watercolor at Women Artist Forward Fund My hope is that this finds you and yours safe and healthy during this pandemic that is touching our lives in so many ways. We...
View ArticleForce of Nature: A Virtual Art Exhibit by Georgia Weithe and Helen Klebesadel
[caption id="attachment_4757" align="aligncenter" width="600"] Force of Nature, a virtual exhibition with Georgia Weithe and Helen Klebesadel Oct. 1- Dec. 26, 2020[/caption] The one thing artists can...
View ArticleCabin Fever Creative Community: Art and Social Media in a Pandemic
[caption id="attachment_4458" align="aligncenter" width="1024"] Front Page of Cabin Fever Creative Community[/caption] I have reacted to finding myself living through a global pandemic by trying to...
View ArticleOceans A Rising ~ Virtual Collaborative Art and Climate Justice Exhibition
[caption id="attachment_4379" align="aligncenter" width="817"] Collaboratively Painted Watercolor by Helen Klebesadel and Mary Kay Neumann, 22x30, 2020[/caption] The Flowers Are Burning…...
View ArticleVisual Art and Creativity This Fall ~ Wisconsin and Beyond
[caption id="attachment_3990" align="aligncenter" width="692"] Queen Ann's Lace, watercolor on paper, 22 x 30, © Helen Klebesadel[/caption] I feel very lucky to have had a summer filled with visiting...
View ArticleArt and Learning In Beautiful Places
[caption id="attachment_1977" align="aligncenter" width="756"] Vanilla Orchids, watercolor on canvas, 20x28. Learn fun and experimental ways to paint with watercolor on canvas and other non-paper...
View ArticleCelebrate Sharing Art: An Exhibition and Upcoming Workshops
[caption id="attachment_3819" align="aligncenter" width="616"] Disappearing Prairie I, 40x30, watercolor, © Helen Klebesadel 2019[/caption] I am experiencing pre-event nervousness as I plan to head...
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