Elements of Nature and Texture in Watercolor, Part 2 with Anji Grainger May 1, 2, 3 9:30 AM-3:30 PM Location: Upstairs Studio May 1-3, 2020
9:30 am - 3:30 pm
While this workshop builds on the Elements Workshop, Part 1, Part 2 stands on it’s own and it is not necessary to have taken Part 1.
Watercolor, by its inherent fluidic nature, lets us explore in a way that no other medium allows. In this sequel to her Elements of Nature and Texture Workshop, artist and teacher Anji Grainger will revisit techniques from the first session and add additional techniques to build on our texturing foundation. Using demonstration and hands-on exercises.
Day One will focus on preparation of textured paper foundations. Learn to impart unique under-patterns on the paper and learn about using texture to plan a composition. We’ll also explore new ways to apply texture with deli wrap and tissue paper: Not what you’re thinking! Day Two we’ll continue our exploration with pouring of paint and other texturing substances. We’ll also begin to build texture into the composition plan by creating our own personal stamps and stencils. Day Three, the focus will be on completing one or more of these textured starts.
https://www.bluepansycottage.com
Watercolor from the Heart with Carol Carter Location: Upstairs Studio June 12-14, 2020
9:30am - 4:30pm
Learn how to paint with fluidity in watercolor.
Carter will demonstrate her technique of wet, loose watercolor through
demonstration.
Each day begins with a uniquely tailored lesson to inspire. She will discuss
color, water, design, and value.
The brilliance of color and the purity of paint application will be
emphasized. She will talk about juxataposing colors to make them vibrate.
Imagery, content, and point-of-view are a focus.
The afternoon will be devoted to individual instruction and group critique.
Classes are informal and discussions are lively and entertaining.
She will talk about marketing and using social media to build your career.
Questions, curiousity and camadarie are a must!
Carter strives to build an atmosphere of learning by support,
encouragement, permission to take a risk, and answering all questions
Learn how to paint with fluidity during this watercolor workshop. You’ll work on brilliance of colors and purity in paint application as you practice your skills. Can you juxtapose colors to make them appear to vibrate? You’ll be inspired by Carol’s daily demonstrations and experiments to create wet, loose watercolors while you learn about color, water, design, and value. Carol will focus on imagery, content, point of view, and taking risks. Afternoons will include individual instruction and group critique, and Carol will discuss and take questions on marketing and using social media to build your artistic career. Intermediate to advanced painting level
www.carol-carter.com
Alla Prima Portrait Painting with Joanne Mehl Jun 26, 27, 28 9:30 AM-4:30 PM Location: Upstairs Studio June 26-28, 2020
9:30am - 4:30pm
Join Joanne for this workshop where you’ll develop the fundamental skills of alla prima portrait painting. You’ll apply oil paint to the canvas wet into wet, mixing most of the color on the canvas. From seeing and blocking in a quick and accurate drawing to mastering warm/cool balance and lifelike flesh tones, you’ll develop the skills for creating evocative alla prima portraits. You’ll be immersed in creating paintings from start to finish and will benefit from demonstrations, personal attention, and painting a live model. All skill levels welcome, but Some previous oil painting experience would be helpful.
www.joannemehl.com
Add Structure to your Pastel Landscape or Cityscape with Nancie King Mertz Location: Upstairs Studio July 10-12, 2020
9:00 am - 4:00 pm
Whether you’re a big-city or small-town fan, this pastel workshop will turn your favorite views of buildings and structures into dramatic, expressive paintings. Examine space, perspective, and design through practical hands-on lessons that will help you build confidence. Nancie will start each day with a short demonstration clarifying techniques and sharing pointers on perspective and composing a scene. From there, you’ll have one-on-one guidance from Nancie as you complete two or more paintings each day. Open to all levels.
nanciekingmertz.com Price: Member $ 350.00 | Non-Member $ 410.00
Painting Life with Life with Bev Jozwiak Location: Upstairs Studio July 18-19, 2020
9:30am - 4:30pm
In this no-nonsense watercolor workshop, you’ll learn to paint boldly, think outside the box, and paint outside the lines. You’ll get the answers to many questions that artists often ask, like “Why is my work muddy? How can I loosen up?” No matter what your skill level, Bev’s demonstrations and individual attention will help you master techniques of strong composition, design, values, and color. Bev will show examples of basic color mixing, including creating luscious greens, glowing white, great grays, rich blacks, and a variety of skin tones. The subject matter will be primarily human figures, birds, and animals, but you can use your own photo references.
www.bevjozwiak.com
Summer Art Camp, Session 1 Jul 20, 21, 22, 23, 24 9:00 AM-4:30 PM Location: Upstairs Studio Session 1: July 20 - 24, 2020 | 9am - 4:30pm
Ages: 8 – 13
$325 (camp fee increases to $375 after June 1) | fee includes supplies and snacks
Daily Schedule
9 - 10:30am | Drawing: Michelangelo Meets Marvel
10:45am – 12:15pm | Painting
1 – 2:30pm | Printmaking
2:45 – 4:15pm | Collage: Experimental art making
End the Week with an exhibition of the week’s creations.
Check back soon for more details
Price: Member $ 325.00 | Non-Member $ 325.00
Summer Art Camp, Session 2 Jul 27, 28, 29, 30, 31 9:00 AM-4:30 PM Location: Upstairs Studio Session 2: July 27 - 31, 2020 | 9am - 4:30pm
Ages: 8 – 13
$325 (camp fee increases to $375 after June 1) | fee includes supplies and snacks
Daily Schedule
9 - 10:30am | Drawing: Michelangelo Meets Marvel
10:45am – 12:15pm | Painting
1 – 2:30pm | Printmaking
2:45 – 4:15pm | Collage: Experimental art making
End the Week with an exhibition of the week’s creations.
Check back soon for more details
Price: Member $ 325.00 | Non-Member $ 325.00
Location Sketching in Watercolor: A Plein Air Workshop with Shari Blaukopf Location: Upstairs Studio August 14-16, 2020
9am - 4pm
If you want to paint successfully outdoors, this plein air workshop is for you. You’ll learn a variety of skills to help you feel confident while sketching on location — capturing people, places, and things in drawings that evoke the time and the place. You’ll return home with your own book filled with fresh and colorful sketches. As part of a small group, you’ll watch plenty of demonstrations and receive individual attention while working on value, color, composition, ink work, vignettes, lettering, simplifying a scene, and keeping watercolors fresh. Each day of capturing urban scenes in the city of Portland will end with a review and a critique.
www.blaukopfwatercolours.com
Beginners Guide to Pastel Painting with Susan Kuznitsky Aug 23 10:00 AM-4:00 PM Location: Upstairs Studio August 23, 2020
10 am - 4 pm
This one day workshop is the perfect opportunity for artists who are curious about the pastel medium. It is a day to explore the joys of pastels to see if you want to dive in further. All you need to bring is a drawing board to accommodate a 9 x 12 piece of sanded pastel paper.The rest will there for you to ‘play’ with.
There will be a demo first. Then you have the option to paint along using the same image as the demo or use your own photo reference. You will try an underpainting technique and then practice layering with hard and soft pastels.
https://susankuznitsky.com/
Price: Member $ 95.00 | Non-Member $ 115.00
The Figure Demystified with Terry Miura Location: Upstairs Studio
September 10-13, 2020
9am - 4pm
The human figure is arguably the most difficult subject matter for an artist. The complexity and the unforgiving nature of the motif is intimidating for many artists. This workshop aims to demystify figure drawing and painting using a live model, and presents a logical process to allow you to tackle this subject matter with a much deeper understanding and confidence.
In the first part of the workshop, the emphasis will be on capturing the gesture and depicting form using dry media. Working with short poses, you will focus on analyzing and translating what you see onto paper. In the second half, you will apply this knowledge to painting. Using oils, students will cover techniques to communicate simply, logically, and effectively. Controlling values, colors and edges will be the primary emphasis, as you sharpen your skills and gain a deeper understanding of painting the figure. All skill levels welcome.
https://terrymiura.com/
Selecting Surfaces for Watermedia with Linda Aman Location: Upstairs Studio September 18-20, 2020
9am - 4pm
If you’re tired of the same surfaces and materials for your watermedia paintings and are ready to explore alternatives, this workshop is perfect for you. Come explore painting on many surfaces and learn how differences in surfaces affect paint saturation, texture, color balances, and luminosity. Watching demonstrations and experimenting on many surfaces using watermedia, you’ll expand your painting possibilities. Which surfaces work well with absorbent grounds, molding pastes, and other textural media? By the conclusion of the workshop, you will have created representational or abstract images and will know how to finish your pieces with varnishes, acrylic sprays, and cold wax. As part of your registration fee, you’ll receive a kit containing all the surfaces, a $50 value. All skill levels welcome, but participants need their own painting supplies.
https://amanarts.com/
Mitch Albala's "Color Harmony in Landscape: Understanding and Working with Color Strategies" Sep 25, 26, 27 9:30 AM-4:30 PM Location: Upstairs Studio September 25-27, 2020
9:30am - 4:30pm
To capture the qualities of color and light, landscape painters must modify the colors they see. To guide these color choices in an informed way, painters rely on a color plan or strategy. In this workshop for artists working in oil, acrylic, or pastel, you’ll learn how the colors you see in nature or a photo are just the first step toward a complete color strategy. Through a combination of exercises and small paintings, you’ll learn the practice of color grouping; how to create palettes “tuned” to the particular harmony you are after; how relationships like analogous or complementary colors are just one part of a complete strategy, and the importance of neutral harmonies to help create unified light. This is not a workshop for first-time painters but, is ideally suited for those who work either en plein air or in studio and want to expand their color knowledge. This workshop is open to oil, acrylic and pastel painters.
https://mitchalbala.com
Here is a link to Mitch Albala's Book "Landscape Painting: Essential Concepts and Techniques for Plein Air and Studio Practice": https://mitchalbala.com/landscape-painting-the-book/
Landscape Painting; Chinese Brush Techniques with Cindy Lommasson Location: Upstairs Studio October 3-4, 2020
9:30am - 4:30pm
Create unique landscape paintings with Chinese materials and brush strokes during this workshop. Using photo references, you’ll explore numerous ways to depict rocks, mountains, trees, and the ethereal qualities of mist and clouds. You’ll experiment using Sumi ink, Chinese watercolor, and various brushes and papers. You’ll use split brushes for textures of trees and cliffs and coated Chinese papers for wet-in-wet ink and paint application. You’ll also learn an ink monotype technique for abstract backgrounds to complete with brushes and color. Cindy will give daily demonstrations, and everyone will have lots of hands-on practice. All skill levels welcome
https://cindylommasson.com
Textures in the Landscape with Tom Christopher Location: Upstairs Studio October 16-18, 2020
9:30am - 4:30pm
Understanding value, color, and texture in landscape painting is at the core of this pastel workshop. Bring in your favorite landscape photographs and plein air sketches to use as reference material. Reference photos will be available, too. Tom will begin each day of the workshop with a demonstration of pastel painting using various textural techniques for underpainting on gator board. He’ll show you how to prepare your own textured surface for pastel painting. Throughout the workshop, you’ll receive instruction on plein air and studio techniques and will be encouraged to bring in previous work for critique. Tom will also discuss networking, gallery representation, and advertising your work. Open to current pastel artists and those new to pastels.
tomchristopherartist.com
Price: Member $ 385.00 | Non-Member $ 445.00
New to You: Watercolor Basics with Susan Spears Location: Upstairs Studio
October 24-25, 2020
9am - 4pm
If you want to learn the fundamentals of watercolor painting, this workshop is for you. You’ll learn how to set up a palette, use the color wheel as a guide, and paint with a variety of brushes. Susan will show you how to use the elements of design to compose strong paintings, and you’ll practice using value, harmony, layering, shape, line, and repetition in your work. Learning how to simplify a scene for painting will also be a goal. Susan will provide demonstrations, step-by-step painting instruction, and individual guidance so you can gain confidence using paint, materials, and water.
https://www.susanspearsart.com
Intuitive Acrylic Painting with Joan Fullerton Location: Upstairs Studio November 5-8, 2020
9:30 am - 3:30 pm
Learn how to coax hints of reality from an abstract background, to integrate collage imagery, to control values and colors for emotional emphasis, and to suggest rather than delineate in this acrylic workshop. You’ll explore working intuitively and responding to what shows up in your work. During the workshop, you’ll learn to mix neutrals for softer, more ethereal abstracts. Class time will include demonstrations, practice, and guidance to help you feel confident being creative in your acrylic art.
https://joanfullerton.com/ Creative Collage with René Eisenbart Location: Upstairs Studio November 13-15, 2020
9:30am - 4:00pm
Collage is a contemporary art form that’s fresh and filled with surprises. In this workshop, you’ll work with a value pattern (light to dark), and then recreate it using paper. The process is an effective vehicle for learning design. You’ll also make various papers using Citrasolv, printing, stamping, and/or stencils. With Rene’s step-by-step guidance, you’ll learn how to seal the collages with acrylic and mount them onto panels. Collage integrates beautifully with watermedia, so you can repurpose your unresolved paintings by adding paper. Once you start down this path, you’ll never again need to throw away a failed painting, and the skills you’ve honed will be useful in your other creative work. All levels welcome
https://rene-art.com
