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Online Classes

Lise Lorentzen, VGM

Decorah, IA

Continuing the Basic Strokes of Rosemaling

March 22-23, 2025

Vesterheim Museum Folk School

Decorah, IA

If you have already tackled the Introduction to Basic Stroke Work of Rosemaling class with Lise, 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, and learn how to prepare your surface, apply a base coat, and transfer a pattern. 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. The class will be taught using acrylic paint.

Instructor

Lise Lorentzen, VGM

Price

$150-165

Bel Air, MD

Basic Round Brush Techniques, Part 2 - Cs and Ss

March 24, 2025

Art of Lise

Bel Air, MD

The C and S brushstrokes are the core of all styles of rosemaling and here is a class that is great for beginners and for all levels of rosemalers/painters who wish to develop a strong technical foundation and brush control for their artwork.

Lise will demonstrate the brushstrokes up close, focusing in on how to hold your brush, direction of your bristles for proper flow of the stroke, mediums, brushes, etc. Worksheets/practice sheets, supply information, etc. will be provided via pdf files. There will be general discussions about styles of rosemaling, palettes, acrylic and oil paints as well. This class will focus on using the round brush for the strokework.

Instructor

Lise Lorentzen, VGM

Price

$27

Bel Air, MD

Telemark and Landscape

April 17, 2025

Art of Lise

Bel Air, MD

Join Lise Lorentzen for a fun online zoom rosemaling class for beginners and beyond. This will be a great class for those that are interested in learning more about the Telemark style and creating a simple landscape using a paper technique developed my Lise. Lise will discuss design aspects, brushstroke technique, line work, and much more in this class. This is a one night class.

Instructor

Lise Lorentzen, VGM

Price

$37

Decorah, IA

Telemark-Style Rosemaling Welcome Sign

July 7, 14, 15, 2025

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, VGM

Price

$155/170

Bel Air, MD

American Rogaland Ornament

March 11 & 13, 2025

Art of Lise

Bel Air, MD

Join Lise Lorentzen for a fun online zoom rosemaling class for advanced beginners and beyond. This will be a great class for those that are interested in learning more about the Amerian Rogaland style of Rosemaling and creating a lovely Christmas ornament for years of enjoyment. Lise will discuss design aspects, brushstroke technique, line work, and much more in this class. This is a two sided design project. This 8 1/4" x 6 1/8th" Round ornament may be purchased form DePalma's Custom Woodcrafts (HS-ORLL). Email DePalmascw@gmail.com to order or You may also bring your own item to paint for this class! This is a great shape for a small plate or handheld mirror.

Instructor

Lise Lorentzen, VGM

Price

$43

Bel Air, MD

Introduction to Rosemaling Basics, Part 3 - Detailing and linework

March 31, 2025

Art of Lise

Bel Air, MD

Welcome to a continuation of the introduction of rosemaling with this class that focuses on Detailing and Linework. This is a class that is great for beginners and for all levels of rosemalers/painters who wish to develop a strong technical foundation and brush control for their artwork. We will be building upon the stroke work from the previous class.

Lise will demonstrate the brushstrokes up close, focusing in on how to hold your brush, direction of your bristles for proper flow of the stroke, mediums, brushes, etc. Any worksheets/practice sheets, supply information, etc. will be provided via pdf files. There will be general discussions about styles of rosemaling, palettes, acrylic and oil paints as well.

Instructor

Lise Lorentzen, VGM

Price

$27

Decorah, IA

Introduction to the Basic Strokes of Rosemaling

May 31-June 1, 2025

Vesterheim Museum Folk School

Decorah, IA

If you’ve ever thought about trying rosemaling, here’s a great opportunity to take the brush in hand! Rosemaling is the wonderful folk art of Norway that is based on the flowing scrolls and flowers that are made up of "C" and "S" strokes. This class introduces students to these basic strokes that are the foundation of rosemaling, as well as the detailed line work that completes a rosemaling project. The class will include demonstrations and plenty of hands-on practice while students learn the strokes and complete a project on board.

The class will be taught using acrylic paint. If you’ve painted with oil, this would be a good opportunity to explore acrylics. This will be a fun class that will give anyone who is interested in trying rosemaling the opportunity to dip your toe in the water, or actually tip your brush into the paint!

Instructor

Lise Lorentzen, VGM

Price

$140-155

Decorah, IA

Introduction to Os-style

September 10, 17, 18, 2025

Vesterheim Norwegian-American Museum Folk School

Decorah, IA

Join Lise for a fun exploration of the Os style (Hordeland) of rosemaling with this colorful design. This pattern will be painted on a base-coated Bristol board that will be great for framing and hanging on the wall once the class is complete.

Instructor

Lise Lorentzen, VGM

Price

$130-150

Bel Air, MD

Introduction to Rosemaling Brushstrokes, Part 1 - C and S strokes with a Flat Brush - Evening

March 17, 2025

Art of Lise

Bel Air, MD

The C and S brushstrokes are the core of all styles of rosemaling and here is a class that is great for beginners and for all levels of rosemalers/painters who wish to develop a strong technical foundation and brush control for their artwork.

Lise will demonstrate the brushstrokes up close, focusing in on how to hold your brush, direction of your bristles for proper flow of the stroke, mediums, brushes, etc. Worksheets/practice sheets, supply information, etc. will be provided via pdf files. There will be general discussions about styles of rosemaling, palettes, acrylic and oil paints as well. This class will focus on developing brush technique with the Flat Brush.

Instructor

Lise Lorentzen, VGM

Price

$27

Bel Air, MD

Freehand Telemark Flower and Detailing, Part 4 - all levels

April 10, 2025

Art of Lise

Bel Air, MD

The combination of C and S strokes and detailing will be covered in the class in the creation of Freehand Telemark Flowers.

This is a class that is great for beginners and for all levels of rosemalers/painters who wish to develop a strong technical foundation and brush control for their artwork.

Lise will demonstrate the brushstrokes up close, focusing in on how to hold your brush, direction of your bristles for proper flow of the stroke, mediums, brushes, etc. Any worksheets/practice sheets, supply information, etc. will be provided via pdf files. There will be general discussions about styles of rosemaling, palettes, acrylic and oil paints as well.

Instructor

Lise Lorentzen, VGM

Price

$27

Decorah, IA

Family Handcraft at Home: Rosemaling Animal Crackers

June 1, 2025, Available all month

Vesterheim Museum Folk School

Decorah, IA

This class is for the young and new-to-rosemaling with a focus on basic strokes used in Telemark-style rosemaling. The class begins with practice scrolls, basic color mixing, and blending on a practice board before painting with acrylics on the animal cut-outs. Emphasis is on having fun!

Instructor

Kristine Barton

Price

$30-35

Decorah, IA

Family Handcraft at Home: Rosemaling Rocks

On-demand

Vesterheim Norwegian-American Museum Folk School

Decorah, IA

Join beloved rosemaling instructor Lise Lorentzen to explore basic rosemaling techniques and paint rocks that you can use in your garden or give to friends! Inspired both by a painted rock in Vesterheim's collection and by the groups that paint rocks to hide in nature, this class is the perfect way to explore the traditional handcraft of rosemaling as a family.

Instructor

Lise Lorentzen, VGM

Price

$30

Lise Lorentzen, VGM

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.

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