Classes: Fall 2011

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For more information on any of the following offerings, please email education@concordart.org or call Michele Kenna at 978-369-2578.

Watercolor, Alive and Free
All Levels
Paul George
This popular class motivates students to reach beyond their comfort zone and approach a painting with boldness and confidence. Paul will teach you a variety of techniques that will help you paint any subject as well as creating value studies, designing a good composition, and developing a good color sense and watercolor painting skills. Paul supports each subject with talks and demos and offers individual attention and a critique at the end of each class. Paul’s website is www.pgeorgeartist.com.

Two Independent Sessions  (No interchanging classes)
6 Week Class:
Tuesday, September 20-October 25 (class is filled)
Tuesday, November 1-December 6
10:30am-2:30pm
$450M per session     $500NM per session
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Off Press Printmaking
All Levels
Barbara LeClerc Ishikura

This lively class will explore a variety printmaking forms without the use of a press. You will learn the additive and subtractive approaches to painting on plexiglass and mylar; using prepared images, you will make traced monotypes and prints with watercolors and Caran d’Ache artist’s crayons. Employing linoprint and rubber printmaking techniques, you will discover how your prints can take on a three dimensionality; other aspects that will be explored are gelatin prints, photo transfers and color graphs. Discover which printmaking process suits you best and you will be hooked!  Her website is www.barbaraishikura.com.

6 Week Class:
Thursday, September 22-October 27
10:30am-1:30pm
$275M  $325NM
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Oil and Acrylic Painting From the Beginning
All Levels
Emily Passman

Have you always wanted to learn how to paint in
oil or acrylic but have been afraid to try? This class
will get you started! You will learn to capture a scene
in quick sketches, create a good composition, paint
value studies, and learn color application and oil
painting techniques. Emily will teach you how to see
the world around you by observing shape against
shape, color against color, light against dark,
and the relationships of sizes to one another.
Experienced painters are welcome. Emily’s website is www.emilypassman.com.

8 Week Class:
Friday, September 23-November 11
10:30am-1:30pm
$335M   $385NM
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Chinese Ink Painting and Calligraphy
All Levels
Sue Yang
Supplement and enrich your painting style by learning traditional Chinese ink painting.Through demonstrations and individual instruction, you will learn basic Chinese calligraphy brushwork. You will study and paint traditional Chinese painting themes such as the bamboo plant, the orchid, the plum blossom and the landscape. The nuances and techniques of watercolor and ink will
be explored and demonstrated. Individual critique and group discussion are included. Sue’s website is www.sueyangart.com. (This class runs concurrently
with “Starting with a Photograph”).

6 Week Class:
Thursday, October 6-November 10
10:00am-12:30pm
$275M   $325NM
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Starting with a Photograph: Creativity and Photoshop
All Levels
Sue Yang
Do you need help creating imaginative and artistic pictures on your computer? Taking inspiration from Sue’s work and using your own photographs as a starting point, you will experiment with drawing, watercolor, acrylic and collage to create original new work. You will need to bring their your own laptop and Photoshop software. Sue’s website is sueyangart.com. (This class runs concurrently with “Chinese Ink Painting”).

6 Week Class:
Thursday, October 6–November 10
10:00am–12:30pm
$275M  $325 NM

 

Capture the Layers in Watercolor Painting
Level: Intermediate
Marla Greenfield
This class will explore planning, design and value as well as the characteristics of light and shadow.You will learn different watercolor techniques including glazing and mixing colors on paper. Learn how to generate rich dark values and how to layer the paint so that the lower layers shine through. Bring a photographic reference and a sketched piece. Compositions should include shadow shapes. Individual instruction and group critiques are integral to the class. To see Marla’s work go to www.marlagreenfield.com.

6 Week Class:
Wednesday, October 12–November 16
12:30pm–3:30pm
$325M  $375NM
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Artist Trading Cards
All Levels
Siri Smedvig

This class offers both artist and non-artist a playful vehicle of artistic freedom, and stretches the imagination while keeping within the required ATC’s constrained size of 2-½”x 3-½”. This class will address essential elements of art: line, shape, color, space, texture, value, and form. Mixed mediums will be used. The class will focus on a chosen theme with a quick demo, hands-on making and visual sharing. The structure of ATC ignites spontaneity and nudges one towards flowing experimentation! Siri’s website is www.sirismedvig.com.
Artist Trading Cards (ATCs) are miniature works of art about the same size as modern baseball cards, small enough to fit inside standard card-collector pockets, sleeves or sheets. Cards are produced in various media, including dry media, wet media, paper media or even metals or cloth. The cards are usually traded and exchanged among artists.

5 Week Class:
Monday, October 17–November 14
10:30am–1:30pm
$200M   $250NM

Portraits in Pastel
All Levels
Jeanne Smith
If you've been intimidated by portrait painting, this is your chance to try it. Jeanne will make you feel at ease and help you simplify what you see. Each class begins with a demo, which introduces a basic approach to painting a child's portrait from photos, with emphasis on understanding proportions, shape, and value. You will focus on composition, flesh tones, handling backgrounds, playing with edges, and developing the details. As you develop your own portraits, the greater part of each day will be devoted to individual instruction at your easel. Jeanne’s website is www.jeannesmithart.com.

5 Week Class:
Thursday, November 3-December 8
(no class on November 24)
10:30am-1:30pm
$275M   $325NM
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