Rosemaling Classes
Growing the art of Norwegian rosemaling, one class at a time.
Online Classes - 2023
Lise Lorentzen
Continuing Basic Strokes of Rosemaling: Hallingdal Style
August 26-27, 2023
Vesterheim Museum Folk School
Decorah, IA
If you have already tackled one of the Introduction to Basic Strokes of Rosemaling classes with Lise (Telemark or Hallingdal Style), we welcome you back with fun sessions to continue your journey and learn basic stroke work with a new pattern and project! Join us for more S and C scroll painting. Keep on dipping your brush in the paint and toe in the waters with other rosemalers. Develop your technique further and meet new friends. The class will include demonstrations and plenty of hands-on practice. Students will be provided with all the supplies and materials needed to practice strokes and complete a project on a wooden board, including brushes, paints, medium, the project board, sandpaper, and a palette knife. The class will be taught using acrylic paint.
Instructor
Lise Lorentzen
Price
$165-150
Telemark-Style Rosemaling Welcome Sign
October 28-29, 2023
Vesterheim Museum Folk School
Decorah, IA
Welcome! (Or should we say Velkommen?) Come try your hand at the Telemark style of rosemaling and make a welcome sign to greet visitors to your home! In this class that includes demonstration and plenty of hands-on practice, you will have the opportunity to choose between making a sign reading "Welcome" in English or the Norwegian "Velkommen." This class is designed for beginning painters with previous experience, as well as more advanced painters and will be taught using acrylic paints.
Instructor
Lise Lorentzen
Price
$145/160
Linework and Strokework in Rosemaling: Painting Without a Pattern
Tuesdays, November 21-Dec 5, 2023
Vesterheim Museum Folk School
Decorah, IA
Challenge your rosemaling skills and hone your linework skills by exploring your freehand painting abilities in a fun Christmas-themed project. We will push aside patterns and use examples provided by the instructor as inspiration while you develop your linework and strokework.
This class is designed for experienced rosemalers to improve on their linework and strokework.
Instructor
Lise Lorentzen
Price
$160/145
Lise Lorentzen
Rosemaling Artist and Instructor
Lise Lorentzen currently resides in Bel Air, MD, after spending most of her life as a resident of Staten Island, NY. Lise grew up in a household with strong ties to the Norwegian-American community, which included her church, Sons of Norway, and family back in the “old country”. She was a child that always played with paints, so it was natural for her parents to enroll her in a rosemaling course given at her local Sons of Norway lodge.
Lise has been rosemaling since the age of 12 and covers over 30 years of experience, specializing in custom painting of woodenware, furniture and home interiors. Her work can be found throughout the United States and Norway due to the business she had with her father in her teens and early twenties, as well as her commission work that she continues to present day.
Her rosemaling expertise covers the Hallingdal, Rogaland, Vest Agdar and Valdres styles, specializing in Telemark Rosemaling. While living on Staten Island, she was also known as a muralist, decorating many an interior with her other painting skills throughout the five boroughs of NYC.
Lise is also a professional educator with a BA in Art History, and a MS in Special education. She was a GED Special Ed. High School teacher with the NYC Board of Education for many years until the time she and her husband began their family, which now includes three lovely children. They are happy to call Harford County Maryland their home, and Lise enjoys sharing her art form with her community.
