Studio Courses in Other Media

Chinese Brush Painting

This class teaches the classic approach to painting Chinese watercolor technique in the Spontaneous Style. While familiarity with watercolor painting is sometimes helpful, it is not mandatory. Traditional materials will be used, and aspects of the historical and cultural basis of the art will also be explored with stress on understanding the simplicity involved in the style. Chinese brush painting is a fun experience as well as one that provide some thought provoking insight into this Chinese art form.

Abstraction

Requiring a basic familiarity with handling your own choice of medium, this class aims to offer an experimental approach to free abstraction as well as representational abstraction. You may work in any medium. Emphasis is on the development of an individual's direction and encouraging personal vision. Supervision involves a dialogue on contemporary art as well as applying creative resolutions in your painting /drawing. Wonderful creative freedom, even for representational painters, this class will help free up and loosen your painting approach in other areas.

Color Studies for all Media

This course teaches theories and application of color using the color wheel as a reference tool. Emphasis is placed on how to see color and how to create any color one sees while working with your own assortment of palette and color choices. This class is open to anyone who is interested in learning fist hand about color, color mixing, and color theory in a way practical to your own art applications. If your interest is in watercolor, color pencils, acrylics and any other water medium, or you just want to learn the basics about color, you are invited to attend. No formal painting or drawing skills required.

Folk Art: An Exploration of Styles and Genre

This exciting course on traditional and current folk art styles will get your creative juices fired up for sure. You will be amazed at the wealth of artistic expression that forms the basis for many cultural and regional art forms many of which are the backbone of current trends in decorative and expressive painting. Class will cover many well known styles such as outsider art and naïve styles as well as primitivism and neo-primativism. Part lecture, part in depth exploration with various painting materials, you may choose your medium to work in as we create original artwork in the various styles.

Printmaking:

These classes will explore the various diverse and expressive forms of printing, covering a brief history of the many processes. Each class series will cover several choices, such as of monoprinting, collagraphy, relief printing, screen printing, linocut and woodblock printing to name a few. Detailed pencil drawings to bold abstractions can be rendered with the printing process, and the style range is unlimited.. Media technique will be demonstrated in class with plenty of time for students to experiment. Additional class topics will include in depth look at new inks and ways of using color and printing, plus current directions in using stencils à la poupé, chine collé, , digital media, viscosity, multiple plates, relief, collage paper lithography, photocopy transfer and using registration techniques. All in all an exciting subject and a class that could go in many directions. To be scheduled at later date as we are still in need of a press.