Painting Classes and Live Paintings

Artful Soul is a Santa Fe-based company that does a variety of experiences, such as painting classes and live event art painting. They have a high level of expertise and enjoy meeting people.

Bring extra pizzazz to your event weekend with one of their art classes (maybe even while enjoying a glass of wine)… or make your event shine and always something to remember by having them capture a moment from your wedding or event.

About Artful Soul

Laura Tarnoff is a full-time fine artist and studio art instructor living in Santa Fe, NM. She holds a formal education from the American Academy of Art in Chicago and a current NM Level 2 Art Education License. She has been teaching art since 1995, that’s 25+ Years!

Laura’s work is vibrant and painterly ranging from tight realism to wild non-objective abstractions.

To see her work go to her website at OutsideInArtStudios.com.

Most of Laura’s body of work is what she calls “Figurative Abstractions,” where she expresses herself through emotionally charged colors, figurative distortions, and expressive brush strokes.

Laura is very passionate about community, sharing, collaborating, and creating. She has been a very active member of the visual arts community in Santa Fe for many years and is the former founder and executive director of a local non-profit 501-c3 art center that thrived for 8 years.

Mickey Bond paints in acrylic using found-object resists such as flat rocks and tile. With more than thirty years of teaching experience, Bond who is largely self-taught likes to experiment in the studio.

“Finding new techniques based on happy accidents is still my go-and the basis of my inspiration. Passing on that excitement is what matters to me as a teacher,” explains Bond. “Technique is easy to teach. What keeps an artist going is something else. For me, it’s a sense of discovery and feeling energized to keep exploring new and old media.”

Bond works in two main series: experimental abstracts and lyrical mixed media collages often depicting animals in the Southwest landscape.

Live Paintings

Live painters offer a unique form of entertainment. You’ll see the creative process unfold before your eyes capturing the spirit of your event in a way a photograph cannot. The finished product makes for a beautiful and unique keepsake, heirloom, art for a corporate boardroom, charity auction, or prize.

They bring all of their own materials including a high-quality gallery wrap canvas 30 x 40 inches (2.5 ft x 3.33 ft) in size and non-toxic acrylic paint. They always work as a team so you’ll have two artists painting together, Laura Tarnoff & Mickey Bond. On the day of the event, they arrive 2-3 hours ahead of time to set up and block in the painting. As entertainment for your guests, we paint throughout the ceremony, reception, or corporate gathering. Our total painting time is about 6-9 hours.

With the landscapes at BHR, it would be a painting not to be missed and always remembered fondly.

You have the choice to either have Laura and Mickey paint the painting or you can have your guests partake in the painting class.

Pricing for Live Painting:
1. $3,250 for a 30×40 inch canvas.
2. $3,500 for a 36×48 inch canvas.