Medium: Charcoal, Oil Painting, Pastel
Instructor: Jerry Salinas
Course Title: Drawing and Painting the Head
Course Meets: 01-10-2013 - 02-14-2013
Time: 6:30 PM - 9:30 PM
Tuition: $225 + $35 model fee/5 sessions
Description: Most open studios provide students a limited amount of time to successfully complete a head study. Professional illustrator and artist, Jerry Salinas, will provide students with a variety of training techniques to be able to create a convincing head study. This course will investigate the individual forms of the head and more importantly how to make them come together in an integrated whole. Students will learn to use an approach that helps them see the big shapes first, then go into details towards the end of the session. The core of the lessons will be based on drawing, values, edges, planes of the head and composition. Bring your chosen medium. If you are new to working from life, start with drawing. Previous study helpful, but not required.
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Medium: Pastel
Instructor: Liz Kenyon
Course Title: Soft Pastel: Color and Form
Course Meets: 01-10-2013 - 02-21-2013
Time: 6:30 PM - 9:30 PM
Tuition: $270
Description: Work with objects photographed in strong, natural sunlight and isolate that edge of light and shadow that makes a pastel painting so powerful. Simplify shapes and see how to create a rhythmic pattern that carries the viewer’s eye to the ‘sizzle’ color. Paint challenging new surfaces such as fleece, Eastern Indian cloths and metals. Find new color combination with values to match. Basic review of design principles and soft pastel techniques will be covered along with instructor demonstrations and a friendly class environment. All levels welcome. No class on January 31, 2013
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Medium: Oil Painting, Pastel
Instructor: Allen Garns
Course Title: Painting: The Right Shape, the Right Color, the Right Value
Course Meets: 02-06-2013 - 03-13-2013
Time: 6:30 PM - 9:30 PM
Tuition: $270 + $35 Model Fee/6 sessions
Description: My former teacher Dan McCaw used to say that all you need for a good painting is the right shapes with the right color and the right value. It is a simple but powerful idea. This class will focus on those fundamentals. You will learn to see shapes, simplify values and develop a stronger sense of color. Specific exercises will be combined with open painting of still life set-ups and costumed models that will be valuable for painters of all levels. I will do some general demonstrating, but most of the time you will be painting with individual attention tailored to your needs. Pastels and oils are welcome.
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Medium: Oil Painting, Pastel
Instructor: Allen Garns
Course Title: Painting in the City: Plein Air
Course Meets: 02-16-2013 - 03-23-2013
Time: 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Tuition: $270/6 sessions
Description: If you love historic architecture, urban landscapes and painting, this is the class for you! This urban adventure will examine slashing light, angular shadows, volume, depth, space, textures and more. The class is an exciting opportunity to explore traditional methods of painting in a city setting. After spending the first day in the studio, students will spend the remaining classes painting on location in various places around Scottsdale and downtown Phoenix. The instructor will give demonstrations in both oil and pastel. There will be an emphasis on composition, how light defines form, values, drawing, and other fundamental principles. We will also talk about seeing; how to see the amazing beauty that is right in front of our eyes. You truly get all this and more when you go into the city to paint. Portable easel and transportation required.
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Medium: Acrylic, Oil Painting, Pastel
Instructor: Allen Garns
Course Title: Composing with Objects, Shapes and Values
Course Meets: 03-12-2013 - 03-12-2013
Time: 9:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Tuition: $90
Description: Design and composition can make or break a picture. We often think of composition as being the placement of shapes and things. Just as important, however, is the organization of lights and darks or values. Through some carefully planned exercises, this class will deepen your understanding of how to use an economy of values to create strong compositions.
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Medium: Oil Painting, Pastel
Instructor: Judith Spitz
Course Title: Take Your Painting Skills to the Next Level
Course Meets: 03-25-2013 - 04-29-2013
Time: 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Tuition: $270/6 sessions
Description: Whether you’re a beginner, intermediate or advanced painter in oil, acrylic, or pastel, you can, and often do, get stuck on the same skill level. Judith, through teaching and stressing the vital artistic techniques such as; shape, value, color, temperature, composition and perspective, will guide the student to reach higher levels of accomplishment. In understanding the master painters of today and yesterday, the student will be led to understand the techniques that made them famous and how to adapt these techniques to strengthen their own paintings. Critiques will clarify the students understanding of strengths and weaknesses in a completely POSITIVE setting. The critique is to further each students understanding of progress and NEVER to impede that progress either for the student or for the class. Understanding the critique process will also further the students understanding of SELF critique. Group discussions, individual instruction and question and answer periods will be part of the class structure.
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Medium: Pastel
Instructor: Liz Kenyon
Course Title: Soft Pastel
Course Meets: 04-11-2013 - 05-09-2013
Time: 6:30 PM - 9:30 PM
Tuition: $225/5 sessions
Description: Culinary pleasures start with the eyes. Indulge yourself with soft pastels and paint cakes. Rich creamy textures filled with techniques of glazing, scumbling and blending will be a part of every project. Symbolism of color in our society and design principles are included in class discussions. Master freehand spheres and curves. Create color so delicious you could eat it. Experience instructor demonstrations and personal attention. Photo references as well as still life set ups will be used. All levels are welcome.
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Medium: Oil Painting, Pastel
Instructor: Allen Garns
Course Title: Subordination to the Big Picture
Course Meets: 07-10-2013 - 08-14-2013
Time: 6:30 PM - 9:30 PM
Tuition: $270 + $35 Model Fee
Description: “Big, strong, interesting shapes make for good paintings”. Think of anyone from Rembrandt to Rothko. The trouble is nature and our eyes (brain) conspire against that beauty by confronting us with all kinds of interesting details, values, contrasts, colors and little shapes. Those elements can be helpful to a painting but they must be subordinated to the larger shapes and values. This is one of the most fundamental and powerful principles one can learn. This class will explore the beauty of finding the large shapes and using those shapes as an organizing principle to create a successful painting. We will work from both still life and the live model.
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