Workshops: Winter/Spring 2011

Professional Development
Painting
Printmaking
Repurposed Art

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Artist Survival Skills
All Levels
Jennifer Wood

Thinking ahead about your professional development as an artist? This workshop will get you on track. Topics include presenting your work to galleries and competitions and researching and targeting your best audience. The workshop will also cover websites, consignment and insurance, art pricing and framing, writing your curriculum vitae, artist statement and more. A brief review of your portfolio, artist resources and group discussions are also important elements in this workshop. To learn more about Jennifer go to www.artadvisoryboston.com.

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2 Day Workshop:
Saturday, January 22 10:00am-4:00pm
Sunday, January 23 12:00pm-4:00pm
$225 M $275 NM
Handout packets provided

PAINTING
Alla Prima Watercolor Weekend (RESCHEDULED)
All Levels
Tom Sutherland

This intensive workshop will teach you to paint in watercolor in the “alla prima” method, tom_sutherland
a quick direct approach. Learn how to simplify a scene, think in a more abstract way and apply the paint in a loose spontaneous style. All types of subject matter will be demonstrated and painted (from photographs) including landscapes, interiors, city scenes and figures. There will be plenty of individual instruction and end of the day group critiques. Tom’s website is www.tomsutherlandart.com.

Weekend Workshop:
Saturday, February 26, 10:00am-4:00pm
Sunday, February 27, 12noon-5:00pm (note time change)
$225 M $275 NM

Experimental Watermedia Techniques: Pouring WatercolOR
All Levels
Nan Rumpf

Watercolor is a wonderful medium but it does not easily provide good texture. This workshop explores the surprising textures obtainable by pouring watercolor paint through various materials such as lace, cheesecloth, bubble wrap and corrugated cardboard. The options are endless! The first day will consist of pouring experiments. The second day you will develop your experiments into exciting paintings by lifting color, glazing and brayer work. See Nan’s work at www.nanrumpf.com.

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Weekend Workshop:
Saturday, March 26 10:00am-2:00pm
Sunday, March 27 12:00pm4:00pm
$175 M $225 NM
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Luminous Pastels
All Levels
Shelly Eager

This workshop will teach you new pastel painting techniques to bring a boldness and luminosity to your pastels. You will learn to “push” color and produce strong confident marks that will enable you to turn an ordinary photo into an extraordinary painting. Shelly will guide you to integrate and interpret color and gesture with lots of one on one instruction at your easel. Shelly’s hope is to inspire your imagination and excite your senses! Shelly’s website is www.shellyeager.com.

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1 or 2 Day Workshop:
Friday and Saturday, March 4 and 5 (Students can choose to take one or both days)
10:30am-3:30pm
One-day: $100 M $150 NM
Two-day: $200 M $250 NM

The Pigment Stick Workshop
All Levels
Nan Hass Feldman

This exciting class bridges the gap between drawing and painting. Create wonderful nan_hass_feldman painterly works with rich oil-based sticks. Whether it is a landscape, interior or still life, you will discover the immediacy and fun of working with pigment sticks. You will discover how portable they are for traveling and how they can be mixed with oil pastels and oil bars to create colorful and whimsical paintings, whether you are painting locally or traveling abroad. Nan’s website is www.nanhassfeldman.com.

1 Day Workshop:
Saturday, April 23
10:00am-4:00pm
$100 M $150 NM

Drawing and Painting from Intuition (please note date change)
All Levels
Dean Nimmer

What happens when an artist becomes blocked or is searching for new ideas for his or her work? Dean Nimmer draws on his 38 years as a dynamic and skilled art educator to offer nimmer new paths to overcome barriers and be fully engaged in the process of making art. With innovative exercises ranging from freeform action painting, spontaneous collage compositions to studies from a moving figure and out-of-the-ordinary self-portraits, you will step beyond traditional techniques to find your own original artistic voice. This class is a rewarding exploration into the creative unknown.
Check out Dean’s website at www.deannimmer.com.

PLEASE NOTE DATE CHANGE:
Saturday, June 11
10:00am-3:00pm
$125 M $175 NM

PRINTMAKING

Expressive Linocuts
All Levels
Susan Jaworski-Stranc

Students will bring a simple black and white motif drawing, such as a bird, a pine cone, jaworski-stranc
a face, or anything else you wish to draw, and transform the drawing into an expressive line and two-color linoleum print. Learn how to register multiple colors using just one block of linoleum. No printing press is needed, just elbow grease and a wooden spoon!
See Susan’s work at www.appleciderpress.net.

Weekend Workshop:
Saturday and Sunday, March 19 and 20
10:00am-3:00pm
$200M $250 NM

Supply List

Introduction to Japanese Woodblock Printing
All Levels
Matt Brown

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The Japanese woodblock tradition is printmaking using water without a press. This intensive workshop offers an introduction to the range of wonderful tools, techniques and materials involved in the process. Everyone completes a multi-color print and engages with aspects of design, carving and printing. There is an emphasis on sharing tricks and techniques that might be adapted to other art-making approaches. Beautiful work emerges in this class! See Matt’s work at www.ooloopress.com.

3 Day Workshop
Friday, April 8 – Sunday, April 10
9:30am-4:30pm
$325 M $375 NM (Class is closed; however a waiting list is available)
($60 materials fee to be paid to instructor)

REPURPOSED ART

Transformations: From Old Art to New Books
All Levels
Carol Blackwell

Learn all the secrets for transforming your unresolved paintings, prints, pastels and photographs, in combination with items from the recycling bin, into intriguing handmade artists' books. Demonstrated book structures will provide the basis for your own inspirations. No complicated skills are required. Cutting, glueing, folding and an occasional stitch or two are all that is needed to produce unique books that speak of you.

Weekend Workshop:
Saturday and Sunday, April 2 and 3
10:00am-3:00pm
$200M $250NM

In Honor of Earth Day . . .
Repurposed Art
All Levels
Cathleen Bradley

“Is it paint? Did you draw on it? How did you make it?” These are some of the questions admirers have asked Cathleen about her “eco-friendly” art belts and bags. Workshop cathleen_bradley participants will re-purpose their own colorful plastic shopping bags, making fabric and learning the process of cutting, layering and fusing to create a “ribbon” belt or a colorful wristlet bag. Cathleen will do the free-motion stitching on your fused creations which can be picked up at CAA upon receiving an email notification. Cathleen’s work can be seen at www.studiocb.blogspot.com.

Saturday, April 30
10:00am-3:00pm
$100 M $150NM

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