Ayesa Kaur
Artist and educator in the greater Seattle area. Founder of Science Artistry LLC.
When people create, something shifts
Ayesa Kaur is a professional artist and educator in the greater Seattle area — and the founder of Science Artistry LLC.
She began teaching art because she believed something simple and powerful: when people make things with their hands, something shifts. It doesn't matter if you're six years old or eighty-six. Creating gives you access to a version of yourself that doesn't get much time in the rest of daily life.
Her sessions bring together science, culture, and artistic technique — but the science is just one lens she uses. When she's teaching watercolor to a group of seniors, the focus is on color, water control, the quiet pleasure of watching pigment bloom across paper. When she's with a kindergarten classroom, it might be orcas and ink, or moon phases and oil pastel. The art shifts. The care doesn't.
She has served as artist-in-residence for elementary STEAM art programs, and every lesson she develops joins the studio's growing lesson library.
Three guiding principles
The room shapes the session
Every workshop is built around the actual people attending: their age, energy, skill level, what they're there for. No two sessions are identical.
Everyone leaves with something real
Not a half-finished craft. Finished, meaningful artwork — something worth framing, keeping, or sharing. Work that makes people proud.
Art and curiosity belong together
Whether the context is science, culture, or pure technique, great art starts with genuine interest in the world. Curiosity makes the work sing.
Techniques, in her own work
Every piece below came out of her own studio.
Watercolor
Wet-on-wet, glazing, and water control — loose color that is still asked to describe something exactly.
Pastel
Blending and layering stick over stick, until the color sits thick enough to glow.
Ink & Wash
Pen for the structure, watercolor for the air around it — the drawing stays visible under the color.
Acrylic
Opaque color built up in layers, each one covering the last — bold shapes, flat ground, hard edges.
Gouache
Watercolor’s water with acrylic’s body: velvet-flat color, crisp edges, and room to paint light over dark.
Cyanotype
Sunlight, iron salts, and whatever you lay on the paper. The chemistry does the printing — this is the science lesson that hangs on a wall.
Ceramics
Hand-built clay, carved line, and glazes that hide their real color until the kiln opens.
Mosaic
Cut glass set piece by piece. Slow, deliberate, and the picture only arrives at the very end.
Mixed Media
Hand-made paper, collage, metallic ink and paint on one surface — where the experimenting happens.
Texture & Resist
Salt, wax, and lifted paint. The controlled accidents that become feathers, foam, and grass.
Cardmaking
Small paintings with somewhere to go — a whole sky worked out at the size of a postcard.