Envisionation~ Engage Your Imagination!

New and surprising ways to enhance your spatial awareness with Vicky C. Balcou.

Blind Contour Drawing example

If you have experienced changing vision and have more limited eyesight than before, you can still create art!

Lifelong Artist and Instructor, Vicky Balcou has continued her endeavors as an artist, even while experiencing macular degeneration. She has found new ways to use other senses and intuitive drawing exercises to create works of art, when eyesight alone is not n option. Join her in the class and find new possibilities in creativity.

This workshop will consist of several exercises and techniques to put pencil to paper and draw forms”. All supplies are provided.

• Warm Up Preparation
• Linear Drawing Exercises
• Expressive Linear Marks
• Blind Contour Drawing
• Guided Imagery Drawing
• Drawing Geometric Shapes
• Drawing From Touch
• Drawing a Straight Line
• Drawing with Your Eyes Closed

Vicky moved to Bastrop in 2009, after a lifelong career in commercial art, publishing and product design in Dallas, Tx. In Bastrop’s vibrant art community, Vicky returned to her first love~ painting. Her parent’s, both artists, encouraged her early art education. She attended Fort Worth’s unique Reeder Children’s School of Theater and Design where her mother taught art.

When Vicky was diagnosed with Acute Macular Degeneration, she immediately returned to the easel and created looser, more spontaneous paintings and drawings. Her new vision inspires her, rather than hinders her creativity. She wants to pass along this message of hope for others.

Vicky C. Balcou