Marina Soria - Inner Garden Letters - Nov 14, 21 & Dec 5, 12, & 19, 2026

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This class is not hosted by John Neal Books. Please contact the instructor for more information.

Live (Also recorded for later viewing)

November 14 & 21, and December 5, 12 & 19, 2026
11:00 AM - 1:00 PT (Pacific)

Class Cost : $145 USD

Intermediate and Advanced

Registration Contact Email: info@imaginariumartstudio.com

Registration Link:
www.imaginariumartstudio.com

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Description

Description

What happens when a garden becomes a world of letters? Step into Inner Garden Letters with Marina Soria, a five-session online workshop where calligraphy, memory, color, and imagination come together to tell your story. Inspired by Marina’s 2019 visit to Monet’s gardens at Giverny and her exploration of his later garden paintings, this workshop invites you to discover new ways of expressing emotion, mood, and memory through lettering and artist books.

Together, we’ll explore:

• Creating original alphabets inspired by nature

• Experimenting with watercolor, gouache, and pastels

• Transforming words into personal works of art

• Playing with abstraction, paper cutting, illustration, and simple pop-up bindings

• Exploring the possibilities of calligraphy and artist books Perhaps you remember a garden from childhood, the scent of a favorite flower, a place where you once wandered—or a garden that exists only in your imagination.

- Bring those memories with you. Let them grow into letters, colors, and stories that are uniquely yours.

- Recordings available for 90 days after the final session

Inner Garden Letters
Marina Soria, Hosted By Imaginarium Art Studio

Live (Also recorded for later viewing)

November 14 & 21, and December 5, 12 & 19, 2026

11:00 AM - 1:00 PT (Pacific)

Class Cost : $145 USD

Intermediate and Advanced

Registration Contact Email: info@imaginariumartstudio.com

Registration Link: www.imaginariumartstudio.com

Supply List:

Medium-size brushes (# in between 3 and 6), a couple of Japanese brushes small and medium and a thin one for contours.
ruling pen, cola pen, folded pen, and a variety of smaller sized edged pens, copperplate nibs and Speedball B series.
Sumi or walnut ink for sketching. 0 White gouache professional or semi professional. If you want to use a white or off white paper, then you will need watercolour, either in pans or tubes.
Your favorite layout paper
Couple sheets of translucent paper
Our final piece will be a book so we will need a good quality paper, size 22” x 30” (56cm x 76cm). If your media is watercolour then you will need two sheets of Rives BFK or similar. Weight over 160gs/98Lb and under 300gs/140Lb Characteristics when choosing your watercolour paper · Color, Natural white or off white. · Surface, medium or smooth texture. · If you go for a block and the sheets are glued in four sides, separate them before the class.
If your media is pastels, then you will need two sheets of dark color paper either; Fabriano, Strathmore, Arches or Canson Mi Tientes or similar, same weight as before. For the covers you can bring printed, marbled, echo printed or paste paper or decorate the paper yourself.
Two pieces of cardboard, 2 or 3mm thick, not too hard. Binding glue, a brush to apply it onto the covers, a ribbon 1mt length if you wish
For a simple Japanese binding we will need a needle, thread (matching your color palette), awl and a long straight edge metallic ruler.
Chalk pastels in various colors and colored pencils if you already have them. Fixative varnish Black pencil, fiber tip pens, a palette for mixing colors, paper towels or rags, double-tape, scissors, X-Acto knife, glue stick, eraser and adhesive stencil film to create stencils.
As for the text, it would be desirable that you could tell your own story, most of it will be probably illegible. However, if you don´t rely on writing you can bring a selection of poems, haikus or short quotes that reflect your feelings or a story
You will also need at least three images of the garden you want to work with. Either your own photos from your garden, images from a book, magazine or painting. Size A4 at least in color.