Services
Art lessons + art therapy
With over a decade of experience working with individuals and groups alike, Carmelita integrates all the wonders of artmaking, helping to open inmense posibilities of expression and creativity within students and clients of all ages. With a BFA and an MFA in Visual arts, as well as a Postgraduate degree in Art Therapy, she has been dedicated to sharing her knowledge and gifts for the past 15 years.
Workshops are available either virtually or in person.
Art lessons
Carmelita can teach you from the basic techniques of drawing, painting mediums (Acrylic, Oil, Watercolor, Ink) and color theory with both simple and complex exercises that will help you to portray your interests and have all the tools you need to keep creating even after the lessons.
Explore the many possibilities offered by the most versatile of painting techniques and create a composition from start to finish. A class tailored to your needs is the perfect way to transfer what you see and feel to the canvas, it's also an opportunity to find your signature style.
Group lessons are available upon request.
Individual: 2 hours / $125 USD
Art therapy sessions
The Art Therapy session is a space where together with Carmelita you use unique artmaking tools as therapeutic practices, utilizing the creative process, medium techniques, and external artwork to support and develop self-awareness, explore emotions, and address unresolved conflict or trauma.
While working together this space Carmelita seeks to help you connect to emotional or psychological challenges and achieve a greater sense of personal wellbeing. This is a space where you tap into the unconscious through intuitive creative and constructive exercises, giving voice, space and communication to what lies within.
Group sessions are available upon request.
Individual: 2 hours / $125 USD
Experiences
Sofia is a high school student, Rebeca is a manufacturing engineer, both having long Zoom classes, meetings. Thanks to COVID pandemic we are isolated and physically separated. We took Carmelita´s art lessons as a way of connection (self-connection and between us). The process was relaxing, good fun, mind clarifying, triggered creativity. It was very good for mental health. We learnt some technical skills like: how to use and combine colors, how to use different pencils and inks, all the textures that can be used in a painting. Some historic and contextual facts were also discovered.
We completely recommend the sessions. They meant communication and relation improvement during social isolation. We found a new way of expression through art. The only drawback is that time flied
P.S. We actually wrote this together.
— Sofia, 14 and Rebeca, 32
When I was learning how to paint, I could trust her not only with developing my very beginner level, but also with speaking very naturally about insecurities or lack of skills. This helped me with feeling more comfortable with how I was doing my work.
She is an experienced artist with a very transparent attitude and friendly vibe.
— Claudio, 34