Candace French - "Painting Aspens with a Palette Knife and Acrylics"
Saturday, September 23, 2023 -- 9am - 3pm
First Presbyterian Church of Littleton
1609 W. Littleton Blvd.
Littleton, CO 80120
Saturday, September 23, 2023 -- 9am - 3pm
First Presbyterian Church of Littleton
1609 W. Littleton Blvd.
Littleton, CO 80120
Learn how to use a palette knife to create a beautiful aspen landscape in your own artistic voice. This workshop is fun and exciting as you practice palette knife painting techniques with acrylics.
Artists will be guided from start to finish through group and individual attention by beginning with painting a background of skies, fields, or mountains. Then, add aspens with a palette knife for an amazing acrylic landscape artwork.
Composition and how to know when your artwork is complete will be included. Candace's teaching style is engaging, inspiring, and most of all fun!
Student Level: Any
Artists will be guided from start to finish through group and individual attention by beginning with painting a background of skies, fields, or mountains. Then, add aspens with a palette knife for an amazing acrylic landscape artwork.
Composition and how to know when your artwork is complete will be included. Candace's teaching style is engaging, inspiring, and most of all fun!
Student Level: Any
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Supplies to Bring:
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- Images of aspens that make your heart sing for inspiration. These can be photographs, pages from a magazine, or online images.
- Acrylic paint: White, Black, plus a mix of colors of your choice. Any consistency of acrylics including fluid acrylics can be used.
- Brushes: One or two brushes 3/4” or 1” wide or your choice, plus a small round tip brush for detail work.
- Small sea sponges: They usually come with 3-5 in a bag and are about 2-3 inches long. They look like they came from the sea and can be found at Guiry’s, Hobby Lobby, Michael’s, or Meininger’s.
- Palette knife with a rounded tip about 3” in length for the flat part and a bend in the handle. It looks like a pie server, but, is smaller and not as wide. It can be metal or plastic.
- Palette for blending your colors.
- Canvas: One 11” by 14” or 12” by 16” or 12” by 12” canvas panels, canvas boards, canvas sheets, or wood panels. Bring a second canvas if your creative process is fast.
- Small container for water. This can be a cottage cheese container or glass jar.
- Optional: Small spray bottle with rubbing alcohol.
- Pencil or pen and journal or notebook for taking notes.
- Plastic table cover provided by Heritage Art Guild.
- Paint clothes or a smock or large shirt to protect your clothes.
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Jennifer Bobola - "Developing an Abstract Language"
Saturday, October 21, 2023 -- 9am - 3pm First Presbyterian Church of Littleton 1609 W. Littleton Blvd. Littleton, CO 80120 |
Student Level: Any
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Bring your sketchbook and your paints! We will dive into mark making and develop an abstract language that is unique to you. We'll discuss the importance of using value in your work to create a sense of depth and space. We will mix a limited harmonious pallet and explore the construction of organic forms. We'll then focus on composition by arranging those forms to create dynamic relationships. We will also start working on Abstract cityscapes using texture to create forms.
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Jennifer Bobola joined the Park Hill Art Club in January 2013. She has had a wide range of teaching experience from undergraduates to adult education. Jennifer studied art in the Netherlands, attending Utrecht School of the Arts, and with Kevin Weckbach and Mark Nelson of Colorado. She also went to school for music performance in saxophone. Jennifer uses a thoughtful approach, allowing experimentation and improvisation to make my work more balanced and alive, while manipulating dimensions of color and shape.
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Maggie Stewart - "Silk Scarf Dying"
Saturday, November 18, 2023 -- 9am - 3pm
First Presbyterian Church of Littleton
1609 W. Littleton Blvd.
Littleton, CO 80120
Saturday, November 18, 2023 -- 9am - 3pm
First Presbyterian Church of Littleton
1609 W. Littleton Blvd.
Littleton, CO 80120
Students will learn and explore the batik method for dying silk. We will be using beautiful silk scarves and creating a design of your choosing with wax resist and vibrant dyes!
Students will get two scarves, perfect for the holiday season, keep one for yourself and give the other away to a special friend. Scarves will be steamed by the instructor after the class and dye will be colorfast. Scarves will be distributed after class.
This is a messy class please dress accordingly. All student levels.
All supplies provided, aprons or paint shirt recommended.
Students will get two scarves, perfect for the holiday season, keep one for yourself and give the other away to a special friend. Scarves will be steamed by the instructor after the class and dye will be colorfast. Scarves will be distributed after class.
This is a messy class please dress accordingly. All student levels.
All supplies provided, aprons or paint shirt recommended.
About the Instructor:
Maggie Stewart is an artist born and raised in Colorado. She owns a 25 year old business called Mama’s Belly, where she creates bronze bowls from the cast of a pregnant woman’s belly tuned to ring with a beautiful tone.
Maggie is a sculptor, photographer, silk painter, and she explores many other mediums. She has taught at a variety of schools, museums and art centers for over 30 years. She and her husband often work together creating one of a kind light fixtures and unique metal sculptures. She maintains a studio in Englewood and sells her artwork worldwide. She received an MFA from University of California, San Diego.
To see her art visit: www.maggiestewart.com and www.mamasbelly.com
Maggie Stewart is an artist born and raised in Colorado. She owns a 25 year old business called Mama’s Belly, where she creates bronze bowls from the cast of a pregnant woman’s belly tuned to ring with a beautiful tone.
Maggie is a sculptor, photographer, silk painter, and she explores many other mediums. She has taught at a variety of schools, museums and art centers for over 30 years. She and her husband often work together creating one of a kind light fixtures and unique metal sculptures. She maintains a studio in Englewood and sells her artwork worldwide. She received an MFA from University of California, San Diego.
To see her art visit: www.maggiestewart.com and www.mamasbelly.com
Deb Rosenbaum - "Narrative Collage Workshop"
Saturday, January 20, 2024 -- 9am - 3pm
First Presbyterian Church of Littleton
1609 W. Littleton Blvd.
Littleton, CO 80120
Saturday, January 20, 2024 -- 9am - 3pm
First Presbyterian Church of Littleton
1609 W. Littleton Blvd.
Littleton, CO 80120
Storytelling is a basic human need like breathing. Explaining and documenting our lives, even just to ourselves, is a powerful tool for understanding and growth.
In this workshop, you will learn about organizing a picture space to visually illustrate a personal experience, memory, or story in collage. Collages can become a confusing mass of images, so we’ll look at how arrangement of line, shape, color, image, and movement can clearly communicate an idea. We’ll create some small practice studies followed by specific story prompts as we explore ways to effectively organize a work of art.
In this workshop, you will learn about organizing a picture space to visually illustrate a personal experience, memory, or story in collage. Collages can become a confusing mass of images, so we’ll look at how arrangement of line, shape, color, image, and movement can clearly communicate an idea. We’ll create some small practice studies followed by specific story prompts as we explore ways to effectively organize a work of art.
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All required materials are included, but feel free to bring any printed/patterned papers you may already have on hand, as well as personal paper ephemera. You can also bring any special art tools you like to use.
We’ll start with some small collages to experiment with communicating an idea followed by several narrative prompts to get you started on a personal story.
We’ll start with some small collages to experiment with communicating an idea followed by several narrative prompts to get you started on a personal story.
Artist Statement
There is a fun challenge in the creation or “making” of assemblage and collage art. It demands constant resolution of technical skill, arrangement of parts, and development of narrative during creation. I never know what the final piece will look like and that keeps the process exciting. The end product reveals a story that might or might not be preconceived. My collection of materials (paints, scraps, found objects, memorabilia, and prints) function as a palette for spontaneous arrangements of texture, color, and narrative.
There is a fun challenge in the creation or “making” of assemblage and collage art. It demands constant resolution of technical skill, arrangement of parts, and development of narrative during creation. I never know what the final piece will look like and that keeps the process exciting. The end product reveals a story that might or might not be preconceived. My collection of materials (paints, scraps, found objects, memorabilia, and prints) function as a palette for spontaneous arrangements of texture, color, and narrative.