Hyunmee Lee | Unfolding Technique into Creative Process

Instructor: Hyunmee Lee

Workshop: Unfolding Technique into Creative Process

Dates: May 13-16, 2027

Hours: 9:30am - 4pm

Level: Intermediate and Advanced

Class Size: 12

Tuition: $1750

Includes: Complimentary lunches and drinks served daily in studio

This class emphasizes technical learning and diverse approaches to developing creativity. It encourages curiosity,

experimentation, and play, as well as the courage to explore different rhythms of making.

By the end of the course, students will begin to understand how technical processes can evolve into a personal expression

in abstraction.

Reviews

"Confronting the paintings of Hyunmee Lee, what impresses is their celebration of gesture and depiction of a nearly

unlimited sense of space. Abstract and intuitively painterly, her aesthetic is one of immediacy perpetually seeking its own

nature. Her marks as gesture, either as broadly applied brush strokes or swiftly rendered lines applied with an oil stick or china marker, weave in and out of amorphous fields of paint. Scale is important, and in her recent paintings, the square

format of her canvases (either eight foot or one foot) suggests other than merely a window view into the seen world."

—Jim Edwards (Utah’s Art Magazine): “Hyunmee Lee “ Intimacy Without Restraint”

"The gestural abstractions of Korean-born artist Hyunmee Lee balance dark and light tones, calligraphic marks, and a sense

of calm. Her imagery subtly references the Taoist, Buddhist, and Confucianist ideas expressed through various artistic

traditions of calligraphy as well as Western-oriented painting aesthetics. She explores the ways in which contrasting visual

elements create a sense of harmony."

—Santa Fe New Mexican

Website

https://hyunmeelee.com/

Instagram

https://www.instagram.com/hyunmeelee/?hl=en

Supply List

While I’ll provide some shared materials and mediums for experiments, it’s important that you bring the supplies noted

here, as well as pre-prepared materials (such as canvases and sketches) from your studio.

Note: The main canvas size of the current works is 36 × 36 inches, with some slightly larger pieces. However, this can be

adjusted and combined with larger works if needed.

I will update the information by February 1, 2027.

If you have any questions, please feel free to email me at hmleestudio@gmail.com

CANVAS & SURFACES

Experimental Studies

Canvas boards (pre-gessoed) or canvas, 10 pieces (If thick paper is used, it needs to be primed with masking tape and

gesso.)

Size: between 9”×12” and 12”×12”

Main Work

Rolled or stretched canvas (12–15 oz)

Preparing Canvas: If bringing rolled canvas, please cut and stretch it on your panel or wall, apply at least two coats of

gesso in your studio in advance, then remove the staples and roll it for transport. Do not bring raw (unprimed) canvas. If

you prefer to use pre-stretched, commercially manufactured canvas, please apply a layer of professional gesso in your

studio beforehand (any brand — Golden, Liquitex, or Utrecht).

Size: minimum 36”×36” or larger sizes (4 pieces)

Please bring preliminary sketches with paints, pastels+ water color, or collage

Problem-Solving Work (1 or 2 pieces)

Bring previous works in progress or finished pieces - the instructor willobserve each artist’s working habits and identify

areas where they encounter challenges.

MATERIALS

Paints:

Acrylic Paints: Bring your preferred colors plus a range of basic hues.

Recommended Brands: Utrecht Acrylics, Liquitex Heavy Body and Flow Acrylics,

Golden Heavy Body and Flow Acrylics, Nova Acrylics PaintsMediums:

Gesso

Acrylic Medium: Matte Medium, Glazing Medium, Gel Medium, Modeling Paste

Your own mixing mediums to achieve unique textures, finishes, and effects.

Additional Drawing & Mark-Making Tools:

• Oil pastels, oil sticks, soft pastels

• Acrylic markers, 4B pencils, colored pencils

• Drawing pencils and any interesting mark-making tools

BRUSHES & TOOLS

• Bring your favorite brushes

• A variety of sizes, including 2–4 inch brushes for backgrounds

• Large brushes (3–5 inches) for broader techniques

• Palette knives (3” long, several)

• Texture tools, scrapers (1” and 3” flexible types)

• Scissors, gloves, masking tape or 2” blue painter’s tape

MISCELLANEOUS

• Palette: Foam plates or your preferred palette surface

• Glue (any brand including Yes)

• Quart-size containers or Tupperware with lids for saving paint

• Rags or towels (bring many old rags)

• Large clear bread bags (several) to keep paint from drying out

• Sketching Materials (and for Experimental Studies)

• Mixed-media sketchbook (approx. 9”×12”, max 12”×12”)

• Inexpensive sketch paper for compositional studies

• Collage Elements: Cardstock or any matte papers, including your own painted papers and painted rice papers (avoid shiny magazine pages), can be used for experimenting with composition, layering textures, or cutting and pasting shapes before working on canvas. You may also bring additional thick white or colored papers, cardboards, threads, and other textured materials to incorporate if you wish. Please select items thoughtfully — bringing too many materials can become overwhelming.

• Scraps of previous artwork for collage or cut-and-paste exploration