Workshops

Susan Sarback – Capturing Radiant Light and Color

● Monday – Friday, February 13 – 17, 2012; 9 am – 4 pm

● Demo: Sunday, February 12, 2012; 1 – 3 pm

● Medium: Oil (Pastel accepted)

● $625 Members/$675 Non-members

Discover a new way of seeing and painting radiant color. Tune into the nature of light and color as Susan helps you explore how color creates form, distance, and atmosphere. In the lineage of the Impressionist painters, you will discover a language of color that will expand your awareness and enliven your paintings. Ms. Sarback’s step-by-step approach will apply to painting any subject. Students will spend time both indoors and outdoors based on weather conditions painting both still life and landscape. Susan will share her palette knife techniques and work with students to solve problems such as painting atmosphere and distance; with tips for painting trees and water.

Robert Burridge – Larger and Looser: The New Master’s Program for the Post Modern Painter

● Monday – Friday, February 13 – 17, 2012; 9 am – 4 pm

● Demo: Sunday, February 12, 2012; 3 – 5 pm

● Medium: Watermedia

● $585 Members/$635 Non-members

Loosen up and create new, fresh directions in your work. Robert Burridge encourages students to paint the way they have always wanted to paint not emulate him or another artist. He says you should think of yourself as a “creative, gifted individual.” Students will create a painting series of their own conceptual theme and work at their own pace throughout the week. Each morning begins with daily handouts and a brief painting demonstration/lecture. During the day, Robert will offer individual instruction and critique. Come prepared to have an exhausting, exhilarating painter’s life! Robert Burridge wants his students to have fun and enjoy the experience of loosening up.

Jordan Smith - Plaster Mold Making & Slip Casting

● Saturdays & Sundays, February 18, 19, 25, 26, 2012; 9 am – 4 pm

● Medium: Ceramic Slip Casting

● $325 Members/$375 Non-members

● Observation Opportunity: Friday, February 17, 2012; 5 – 8 pm | Free

This workshop will focus on using plaster molds as a tool under the guidance of Jordan Smith. The basic techniques of plaster mixing and mold mechanics will be thoroughly explained, demonstrated and experienced by the students. Plaster molds will be fabricated. By the second week, the emphasis will shift from mold-making to casting clay into the molds. Both slip casting and press-molding will be explored. Experimental casting through alteration, varying and combining castings, as well as collaboration and inventiveness, will be encouraged. The workshop will be limited in size to only 10 student participants, to allow for maximum personal interaction with the instructor. No previous experience in plaster or mold making is necessary, all levels of experience welcome.

Miles Laventhall – Color Concept & Creativity

● Friday – Saturday, February 24 – 25, 2012; 9 am – 4 pm

● Medium: Acrylic

● $250 Members/$300 Non-members

Color is the universal language of artists and a very powerful tool used to communicate and evoke mood. Colors inspire but can often be problematic. Miles will share his knowledge and experience helping students solve their color dilemmas and paint skillfully. He demonstrates and works one-on-one with participants. All levels of experience welcome. The workshop agenda includes: clean color mixing, learning brushwork, palette knife,and alternative painting methods, the physical and psychological characteristics of color painting thin transparent glazing to thick impasto surfaces, selecting a color palette that supports a concept.

Diana Hollingsworth Gessler - The Art of Illustrated Travel Journaling

● Friday – Saturday, February 24 – 25, 2012;

● Friday: 9 am – 4 pm & Saturday: 9 am – Noon

● Medium: Watercolor

● $150 Members/$200 Non-members

Diana’s unique class is designed for artists of all levels who want to learn how to create an on-the-spot colorful travel journal that just may change their traveling life. Diana Hollingsworth Gessler, author/illustrator of five travel books, shares her own “Tips & Tricks,” developed over 40 years, for fun and easy journaling. You will learn how to: travel slowly to see and record things along the way that others often miss; add color with washes and collage; enhance with calligraphy; and develop a caricature of yourself. On our last day you will use your new travel journal skills on a field trip as we go on a walkabout through Old Bonita.

Alan Flattmann – Pastel and Oil Painting

● Monday – Friday, March 26 – 30, 2012; 9 am – 4 pm

● Demo: Sunday, March 25, 2012; 1 – 3 pm

● Medium: Oil/Pastel

● $585 Members/$635 Non-members

Dont miss this exciting workshop by the nationally acclaimed artist, Alan Flattmann. He will conduct an intensive five day workshop covering step-by-step fundamental techniques for painting landscapes and cityscapes with oils and pastels. The workshop will cover the basics of sound representational painting. Flattmann will discuss the challenges of working from photos and painting on location. He will demonstrate how he creates bold pastel paintings with a multi-layered technique on pumice and sanded papers. Oil demonstrations will cover both brush and palette knife painting. There will be a special emphasis on ways to improve drawing and compositional skills and on methods of completing paintings more quickly. In addition to daily demonstrations, students can expect individual attention with informal critiques throughout each day.

Lynn Ferris – Capturing the Light

● Monday – Friday, March 26 – 30, 2012; 9 am – 4 pm

● Demo: Sunday, March 25, 2012; 3 – 5 pm

● Medium: Watercolor

● $420 Members/$470 Non-members

This intensive workshop will focus on achieving luminosity and light. Using a “limited palette” of mainly transparent colors and a variety of subject matters, students will explore building layers of glazes, using negative space, creating drama with light and shadow, value, color mixing, and keeping their colors clear. Lynn’s workshops are always well organized, and provide lots of individual attention.

DEMOS: Open to the public $15 per demo. (Those registered for a workshop attend at no additional charge)

Workshop Refund Policy:

CANCELLATION POLICY: We understand that circumstances arise causing changes in your plans. We sympathize when such situations occur, however, we must adhere to policies as our financial and contractual commitment for each workshop has been finalized. If you need to cancel your reservation, the Center for the Arts must be notified by phone or mail.

The policy is as follows:

● $100 deposit is required to hold your space in any workshop.

● Balance is due no later than 35 days prior to the first day of workshop.

● 35+ Days prior to a workshop: Full refund of tuition, less a $100.00 cancellation fee.

● 34 Days prior to a workshop: If balance of workshop is not received, Centerfor the Arts reserves the right to cancel student's reservation and fill space with student from the wait list.

● 34 - 17 Days prior to a workshop: No refund, but registrant may transfer tuition payment (less $175 cancellation fee) to a future workshop.

● 16 Days or less prior to workshop: No refunds or transfers.