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A Galentine's Day Celebration with Pen, Ink & Watercolors

With local artist Casi Fordham

Gather your girlfriends and join us for a delightful Galentine's Day afternoon filled with creativity, beautiful blooms, sweet indulgences, and a little bubbly! 🌸🥂

We're celebrating the joy of friendship, creativity, and connection with a special edition of Modern Florals with Pen, Ink & Watercolors — complete with fresh flowers, locally crafted chocolates, and sparkling wine to sip as we create!

Whether you're coming with a gal pal or treating yourself to a little creative time, this afternoon is an invitation to slow down, explore something new, and enjoy the simple pleasure of making art in good company.

Local watercolor artist Casi Fordham will guide you through the art of loose, expressive botanical illustration, beginning with simple observational sketching inspired by fresh flowers at your table. No drawing experience is needed! Casi will share approachable tips and techniques for capturing the essence of flowers through relaxed lines and playful marks, rather than striving for exact representations.

From there, we'll bring our sketches to life with beautiful layers of watercolor, exploring color mixing, wet-into-wet techniques, dry brushing, and the interplay of light and dark values. You'll discover how to build shape, depth, and movement while allowing the watercolors to flow, mingle, and surprise you along the way.

Throughout the afternoon, Casi will offer demonstrations and gentle guidance as you experiment, build confidence, and discover your own expressive approach to painting florals. You'll create several practice pieces before bringing everything together in a larger botanical artwork to take home.

A Little Something Sweet

Because Galentine's Day deserves a little extra celebration, we'll be sharing delicious locally crafted chocolates and sparkling wine as we gather around the creative table. Non-alcoholic sparkling refreshments will also be available.

What to Expect:

• Beginner-friendly guidance in botanical sketching and watercolor painting

• Fresh flowers to inspire your creative explorations

• Playful experimentation with pen, ink, color, and expressive mark-making

• Locally crafted chocolates, sparkling wine, and non-alcoholic refreshments

• All art materials provided, with beautiful creations to take home

• A warm, welcoming afternoon celebrating friendship, creativity, and connection!

PLEASE BRING: A small vase for your flower(s), which you'll arrange at your table as a visual reference.

All art materials are included. No prior experience is necessary.

Come with a girlfriend, sister, daughter/ mom; bring someone you'd love to spend more time with, or come on your own and make some new creative connections!

After all, Galentine's Day is about celebrating the wonderful women in our lives — and what better way than an afternoon of beautiful flowers, colorful paints, chocolate, bubbly, and creative play?

Come sip, savor, connect & create! 💗✨