Understanding
Your
Digital Camera
Instructor:
Jeanette Burkle
Dates and Times:
Saturday, 1 - 5 pm
Session 1 2011: Jan 8
Cost: $60
What do all those camera symbols mean? How and when do you use a flash? Resolution? White balance? Histogram? How do you get the most of what and where you’re shooting? Zoom? Modes? Saving files? Printing? Got questions? Jeanette will help make sense of it all, and help you get more out of your digital images
Bring your
camera!
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Composition Crash Course
with Lisa Semerad
Instructor:
Lisa Semerad
Dates and Times:
Saturday, 12:30- 5:30 pm
Sunday, 10 am - 3 pm
Session 4 2010: July 31 and Aug 1
Cost: $175
supply list
The foundation of strong imagery is design, which is a vital element to all art forms. Students learn to recognize and control movement within the picture plane through the study of shape, value, pattern, line and texture. Exercises are in abstract form, which are then related to examples of art, both abstract and representational. Once you know these basics, expect to enjoy a broader range of art styles and to have more fruitful rapport with your teachers.
No previous drawing experience is needed.
About the Artist: Lisa Semerad has been a professional artist and teacher in the Washington, DC metropolitan area since 1982. Her expertise is in diverse drawing and painting techniques, in both academic and contemporary expressive styles. Her education is in Fine and Commercial Art with two years of specialization in formal portrait and figure painting and drawing. She was the apprentice of prominent Washington DC area painter, Danni Dawson, and she studied in Philadelphia with Nelson Shanks, who is known for his portraits of Princess Diana, President Ronald Reagan, Margaret Thatcher and Pavoratti. Lisa teaches at the Art League School in Alexandria, Virginia.
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Pull Out Some Paint!
Refresh, Review, Renew!
Instructor:
Catherine Hillis
Dates and Times:
Saturday and Sunday, 10 am - 3 pm
Session 4 2010: July 31 and Aug 1
Cost: $150
supply
list
Bring lunch and watercolor supplies.
Bring your photographs or a subject of your choice and let's paint. Refresh your skills in painting, review what you know and move a step ahead. This weekend is an intensive
"recharger" for the watercolor painter and will include multiple critiques to help refine your paintings and prepare you for advancing your technique, composition and design skills. This is also a grand opportunity to bring in paintings that are not complete or need new direction. Catherine Hillis will teach you how to re-visit your work and complete it.
(2) 5 hr.
classes
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Big Brush Workshop
Instructor:
Ron Ranson
Dates and Times:
Friday, Saturday and Sunday
9 am - 5
pm each day
Session 5 2010: September 24, 25 and 26
Cost: $375
supply
list
Following demonstrations, students will work on contrasting values, trees, forests, rocks, foreground, aerial perspective and the mixing of various greens. This special workshop will cover the Eight Principles of Design and how to use them to produce good paintings. Students will also work on techniques for strong value sketches. Cloud formations will also be covered as well as landscapes with simple figures. Mr. Ranson will give two or three demonstrations each day.
About the Artist: Ron Ranson is an English watercolor artist and the prolific author of 25 books on painting. He has given workshops and private instruction to students on every continent for the past 35 years. His style is impressionistic and traditionalist, and his work is renowned for its purity of design and clear transparent colors. Painting with his signature version of the oriental hake brush, he teaches freedom of expression and simplicity.
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Painting the Landscape:
It's All About Light
with Maggie Siner
Mighty Midget by Maggie Siner, oil ©
Cruis by Maggie Siner, oil ©
Instructor:
Maggie Siner
Dates and Times:
Saturday & Sunday
9 am - 4 pm each day
Lunch Break at 12 noon - 1 pm
Session 5 2010: Sept. 11 and 12
Rain Date: Oct. 2 and 3
Cost: $300
supply list
It's all about light! Carefully observing the color relationships in nature that create light and space, this outdoor workshop tackles the essentials of landscape painting: simplification, the nature of color/light, organization of shapes for expressive meaning, capturing the whole and creating spatial and atmospheric truth in a fleeting moment. Along the way we will confront the more practical issues of working outdoors. Individual attention and group critiques help students evaluate their work.
About
the Artist: Maggie Siner is an inspirational teacher who has taught workshops across the country and abroad for over thirty years. Her classes are challenging, energizing and empowering.
She studied painting at Boston University (BFA 1973), fresco painting at Skowhegan (1974) and recieved her MFA from American University (1976). She has spent much of her life living abroad in southern France and in China. Her teaching experience includes the Savannah College of Art and Design, Lacoste School of the Arts (Cleveland Institute of Art), Xiamen University in China, Institute d'Universites Americaines and the Washington Studio School among others. Siner has exhibited in Paris, New York, Washington, DC, Saint Paul de Vence, Marseille, Atlanta and Boston. She is a highly regarded educator who lectures extensively, and her paintings are in private collections around the world.
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2-Day Oil Painting
From Photographs
with Conor Backman
Instructor:
Conor Backman
Date and Time:
Saturday and Sunday
12:30 - 5:30 pm each day
Session 5 2010: Sept 18 and 19
Cost: $150
supply list
Paint from your favorite photographs! Learn the many special techniques used by artists, beginning with a discussion of those techniques and continuing into studio applications.
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Working Out the Composition
with Acrylic Mixed-Media
with Marsha Staiger
Instructor:
Marsha Staiger
Date and Time:
Saturday 12:30 - 5:30 pm and
Sunday 10 am - 3 pm
Session 5 2010: Sept 25 and 26
Cost: $150
supply list
Layering, glazing and experimental application will be used to create unexpected passages of paint and marks. Emphasis will be on the types of composition and how they can be used to organize creative mark making. We will be using a variety of stimulus, still life, model and landscape ideas.
About the Artist: Marsha Staiger reacts to the process of applying paint, collage and calligraphy to surfaces. Using color, line, form and texture, she builds her work in layers of graphite and washes of color that build an exciting mixture of mark and shape. She often uses collage at the mid-point for structure and interest. Resolution comes as the work is distilled and refined with glazes of paint.
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2-Day
Workshop
Chinese Calligraphy &
Sumi-e Brush Painting
with Nellie Chao
Instructor:
Nellie Chao
Dates and Times:
Saturday & Sunday
10 am - 2:30 pm each day
Lunch Break at 12 noon
Session 5 2010: October 23 and 24
Cost: $140 plus $55 supply fee
You don't have to be “artistic” to enjoy this workshop. Demonstrations and hands-on instruction of Chinese Calligraphy and Chinese Brush Painting, from brush technique and color loading to composition. We will focus on wisteria and fish, and then sunflowers or peonies, all in ink and watercolor. For beginners and intermediates. All supplies and brushes are provided and you can take them home with you. Green tea and other Asian delights will be provided.
About
the Artist: Nellie Chao was born in Shanghai, China and educated in Hong Kong, Singapore and the United States. Her pursuit of Chinese brush painting and calligraphy began in the early 1990s. Throughout the years, she has won many prestigious awards and exhibited in numerous solo and group exhibits. She regularly conducts workshops in Maryland, Virginia, Florida and other areas. She also frequently demonstrates Chinese brush painting and calligraphy in seminars, schools, non-profit organizations, colleges and art-related festivals in the Washington/ Maryland Metropolitan Area including the Washington Cherry Blossom Festival. Ms. Chao is a member of the Sumi-e Society of America, Inc., Potomac Valley Watercolorists and others.
Supplies are provided
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Naturalist Center
Drawing Weekend
with Penny Hauffe
Instructor:
Penny Hauffe
Date and Time:
Saturday 10:30 am - 1:30 pm
and Sunday 10 am - 1 pm
Session 5 2010: October 16 and 17
or October 23 and 24
Cost: $90
Supply List:
Graphite pencils and/or colored pencils, good drawing paper (white or pastel/earth tone), kneaded erasers
Get introduced to the wonders of the Naturalist Center as a drawing resource, and learn about the tools to help you go from sketch to finished drawing no matter what subject you select.
We will draw from life at the Smithsonian Naturalist Center in Leesburg, with tips on subject selection, lighting, drawing technique and medium choice. Sunday, we meet at ArtSquare to work on techniques that bring our artwork to completion.
Directions to Naturalist Center from ArtSquare:
Left on Trailview Blvd. First right onto Cardinal Park Dr. Right onto East Market St. Turn right at the light at Battlefield Pkwy. NE/Battlefield Pkwy. Continue to follow Battlefield Pkwy. Turn left at Rt. 643/Sycolin Rd. Take the 2nd right onto Miller Dr. SE. Naturalist Center will be on the left at:
Naturalist Center
741 Miller Drive SE
Leesburg, VA 20175
703-779-9712
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Pen & Ink Drawing
with Watercolor Workshop
with Mary Amberson
Instructor:
Mary Amberson
Dates and Times:
Saturday and Sunday
, 9 am - 4:30 pm
Session 5 2010: Oct 9 and 10
Cost: $225
supply list to come
Students will find joy and delight as they learn to express form and content through pen and watercolor. Seven special pen and ink strokes along with many watercolor techniques will combine to add the unique textures and colors of our natural world of flora and fauna, familiar daily to us all.
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The Figure and Still Life
Painting Workshop
with Dodie Petro
Instructor:
Dodie Petro
Dates and Times:
Saturday & Sunday
10 am - 3 pm
Session 6 2010: Nov 6th and 7th
Cost: $150 + 40 model fee
supply list
In this 10-hour workshop the subject matter is still life and the figure. Emphasis is on composition, value and color observation to produce dynamic works. Instruction is individual; lunch time critique is participatory and helps students evaluate their own work. Oil paint is the primary medium; pastel and acrylic are acceptable.
About
the Artist: Dodie Petro graduated Magna Cum Laude from the University of South Florida with a BFA. She also attended the Kansas City Art Institute. Dodie has lived and exhibited in several states in the U.S. as well as Europe and Asia. She currently lives and works in Waterford, VA. Dodie previously taught at the Art League in Alexandria, VA.
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Creative Mixed-Media Collage
with Deborah Morbeto
Instructor:
Deborah Morbeto
Date and Time:
Mondays, 10 am - 1 pm
Session 6 2010: Nov 1 - Dec 6
Cost: $175
supply list
Open up the doors to your creativity. We will start with the basics of collage techniques, including materials to use. Beyond that, this class will allow students to explore their creativity with boundaries. Participants are encouraged to bring unique materials for incorporation in their pieces. Students can develop personal themes by exploring their relationships to images, textures and words. Let the fun begin!
About the Artist: Deborah Morbeto graduated with a degree in Art History from Massachusetts College of Art in 1992. Deborah enjoys working on both large and small paintings that often use several different media, including oil and acrylic paint, found images, wax, paper, glue, pastel, crayon, chalk and pencil.
Deborah has sold numerous paintings to private collectors around the world and has produced several commissioned pieces as well.
(6) 3 hour classes
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Two-Day Figure Painting
with Kurt Schwarz
Instructor:
Kurt Schwarz
Dates and Times:
Saturday & Sunday 10 am - 4 pm
Session 1 2011: January 15 and 16
Cost: $180 + 40 model fee
supply list
In this two-day workshop, you will learn to meet the challenge of working with a live model and painting the figure in oils. Kurt demonstrates his painting technique placing focus on observation and improved brush strokes. Composition, color harmony, space and texture with special attention given to the anatomy will also be stressed. Short poses working to longer poses will increase speed and accuracy.
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Get Me Started! Series
Instructors:
Faculty and Staff
Date and Time:
Saturdays 12:30 - 3 pm
Session 5 2010:
Oil and Acrylic Day - October 2
Pastel Day - October 9
Watercolor Day - October 16
Charcoal, Graphite &
Colored Pencil Day - October 23
Session 2 2011:
Oil and Acrylic Day - March 26
Pastel Day - April 2
Watercolor Day - April 9
Charcoal, Graphite &
Colored Pencil Day - April 16
Get Me Started with Oils/Acrylic
Get Me Started with Pastels
Get Me Started with Watercolor
Get Me Started with Drawing
Cost: $30 each day
Do you have an urge to paint or draw, but don’t know how? Afraid of the cost? Afraid of the mess? Come have fun with us. Feel what it’s like to push oil or acrylic paint around on canvas. Or make color washes with watercolor. Or feel how pastels perform on paper. Learn some basic techniques without the initial investment. We’ll supply the materials, the tools and the know-how to help you get started. Must pre-register.
supplies provided
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Three-Day Still Life and Floral Painting Workshop
with Robert Johnson
Instructor:
Robert Johnson
Date and Time:
Friday 9 am – 4:30 pm,
Saturday 12:30 – 5 pm, and
Sunday 9am – 4:30 pm
Session 1 2011: Feb 4, 5 and 6
Cost: $300
supply list
Capturing the natural beauty of florals and other still life subjects in oil while working directly from life. The beauty and power of fresh undisturbed oil paint as well as the expressive and descriptive quality of the brushstroke is stressed. The instructor demonstrates and emphasizes the direct all-prima approach to oil painting. All levels welcome.
About
the Artist: Bio to come.
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Landscape Painting
with Sara Linda Poly
Instructor:
Sara Linda Poly
Date and Time:
Saturday and Sunday 9 am - 4 pm
Session 2 2011: April 9 and 10
Cost: $250
supply list
This class/workshop will concentrate on simplifying the complex elements found in nature (including cloud studies), learning to see differently and building a solid composition for more success. Students will explore their own personal reaction to the landscape while learning the use of design, value, color, light patterns and atmospheric perspective. Demonstrations, critiques, discussion of materials and techniques and personal attention will all be included.
Important: Please visit Sara’s website well in advance at www.saralindapoly.com and go to the main “Workshops” page to download supply lists, plein air notes, painting skies and clouds and making color charts.
Painting Location:
We will meet at ArtSquare and then, weather permitting, drive to Morven Park to paint.
ArtSquare: 703-777-8043
About the Artist:Known for her sweeping skies and landscapes, Sara Linda Poly is inspired by local eastern scenes and the many other locations to which her love of plein air painting has taken her. She teaches classes and workshops in the US and abroad, including The Art League. Sara has studied with venerated painters Danni Dawson, Michael Francis, Ken Auster, Ralph Oberg and Diane Tesler. She has won numerous awards in local and national plein air competitions, including the 2007 National Competition for Best of America Oil Painters and Artisans Publication.
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Two-Day Still Life
Painting Workshop
with Diane Tesler
Instructor:
Diane Tesler
Date and Time:
Saturday and Sunday 10 am - 4 pm
Session 2 2011: April 16 and 17
Cost: $250
supply list
Join Diane for an intensive two days of painting, using still life set ups that will remain in place throughout the workshop. Starting with a quick compositional drawing, we’ll move on to canvas or pastel paper, learning how to build up layers to create light and form.
Some painting/drawing experience is desirable, but students at all levels are welcome.
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Copperplate Calligraphy Workshop
Instructor:
Pat Blair
Dates and Times:
10 am - 3:30 pm each day
Saturday & Sunday
Session 2 2011: March 19 and 20
Cost:
$135 plus $25 supply fee
Copperplate is an elegant script style of lettering which is characterized by thick, shaded downward strokes and hairline thin upward strokes. Students will learn the technique of using the pointed flexible calligraphy nib and the formation of the basic letter forms. We will move on to study the delicately expressive capitals and flourishes. For all levels. Half-hour lunch break.
11
hr. workshop
Supplies are provided.
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Reading Portraits: From the Mona Lisa to Kehinde Wiley
with Jeffrey Allison
Instructor:
Jeffrey Allison
from the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
Date and Time:
Saturday 1 - 3 pm
Session 2 2011: March 12, 2011
Cost: $30
From Leonardo di Vinci’s Mona Lisa to Kehinde Wiley’s Willem van Heythuysen, artists have represented the individual in a variety of mediums. But rather than simply providing a momentary glimpse at someone, such images carry with them a language which, when decoded, can offer insights not only into the subject but also into the artist and the times in which they lived. In this lecture/demonstration, participants will explore the richly detailed past found in some of the art world’s most famous portraits and participate in hands-on activities to enrich their own portrait skills.
About
the Speaker: Jeffrey W. Allison is the Paul Mellon Collection Educator at Virginia Museum of Fine Arts and a professional photographer. He holds a BA in photography and film from Virginia Intermont College and an MFA in photography from VCU. He currently teaches Advanced and Intermediate Photography at the VMFA Studio School and has taught for over twenty-five years at institutions across the Commonwealth. He has curated numerous exhibitions of photography.
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Encaustic Painting
with Karen Eide
Instructor:
Karen Eide
Date and Time:
Saturday, 10 am - 4 pm
Session 6 2010: November 13
Cost: $60
What was old is new again! One of the oldest techniques acknowledged by art historians, encaustic painting uses molten beeswax mixed with colorful pigments. The resulting effects are luminous color and richly layered work. It is an ideal complement or stand-alone process for oil painters, printmakers, collagists, sculptors, watercolorists and other 2-D artists.
This introduction to the historic process includes a brief slide lecture and then students explore the medium and learn classic encaustic techniques. Contemporary processes such as surface embellishment through scraping and incising, collaging, and marking with oil paint, pastel, oil sticks or paint are also introduced. Students (and teachers) are also provided with information (supply sources, instructions for setting up a studio for encaustic work, safety guidelines, and mounting and framing notes) that will allow them to continue their investigation of this versatile medium.
All required supplies will be provided. Students may bring Optional Supplies.
About the Artist: Karen Eide is a full-time professional artist who earned her BFA from Virginia Commonwealth University. The Council of the VMFA awarded Ms. Eide the Virginia Craftsperson of the Year
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Gouache Workshop
with Margaret Huddy
Instructor:
Margaret Huddy, AWS, NWS
Date and Time:
Saturday and Sunday
10 am - 4 pm each day
Session 6 2010:
November 20 and 21
Cost: $200
supply
list
One of the newest mediums to enter the fine art field, Gouache is being accepted in most of the national shows and winning many awards. Explore this creative medium with award-winning artist and juror, Margaret Huddy, AWS, NWS. Very little cost need be incurred to get a taste for the medium. Gouache is a water based medium but unlike acrylics does not harm one’s brushes. Watercolor papers as well as gesso-covered mat boards make excellent surfaces for gouache.
About the Artist:
Margaret Huddy is a nationally known, prize-winning watercolor painter, teacher, juror
and writer. Margaret recently retired from the faculties of The Art League School in
Alexandria, VA and the Corcoran College of Art and Design in Washington, DC. She
has taught workshops around the USA and has led students abroad on painting workshops to Ireland, Tunisia, France, Italy and Quebec. Her work is in many public and private collections worldwide including but not limited to: the Supreme Court of the US, the National Park Service, the Carnegie Museum of Art, the US Department of State, US Embassies in Beijing, Botswana and Paraguay, Bank of America and the Marriott Corporation.
A frequent contributor to national art magazines, she has authored articles that
have appeared in The Artist’s Magazine, Watercolor Magic and The Artist’s Sketchbook.
She wrote and illustrated a book of State Flowers for the Credit Union National
Association.
Margaret is a signature member of both the American and National watercolor societies
and the Watercolor USA Honor Society. She has been honored as Artist in Residence at Glacier National Park, Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore and the city of Dinan, France. The US Department of State sent her to Paraguay as An American Artist Abroad
where she taught workshops around the country.
For the past 29 years, she has welcomed the public into her studio in the Torpedo Factory.
Her work can be seen on her website at www.huddy.com
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Keys to Success with Landscape Painting in Oil
2-Day Workshop
with Mary Champion
Instructor:
Mary Champion
Dates and Times:
Saturday, 10 am - 4:30 pm
and Sunday, 12 noon - 4:30 pm
Session 3 2011: May 21 and 22
Cost: $165
supply
list TBA
Students will engage in a series of quick exercises designed to build a deeper understanding of the elements of a successful landscape painting in oil. Skies, trees and fields will be explored separately before students work to complete a painting from one of their own photographs. Value, composition, color and atmospheric perspective are among the topics that will be examined.
Instructor will provide printed notes to make more time for actual painting during this two-day workshop.
Suitable for beginner to intermediate students.
About the Artist: Mary Champion has worked in many media but became intrigued with oil painting when she studied classic painting under Jack Dempsey in Huntsville Alabama at the Huntsville Art League. Her work has been featured in many juried shows and exhibitions in the Southeast including the 2005 “Red Clay Survey” at the Huntsville Museum of Art, and “Small Matters of Great Importance” at the Edward Hopper House in Nyack, NY.
Originally from Texas, Mary relocated to Leesburg in the fall of 2008 and became affiliated King Street Studios, now ArtSquare, in Leesburg. Contemporary realism and landscape make up most of her current work.
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Plein Air Painting at
Sky Meadows State Park
with Dean Drewyer
Instructor:
Dean Drewyer
Dates and Times:
Saturday and Sunday, 10 am - 2 pm
Session 4 2011: June 11 and 12
Rain Date: June 25
Cost: $120
supply
list TBA
We begin with a welcome and brief conversation about strategies for our first works. We will then paint in the fields all around picturesque Sky Meadows State Park. The key during the two days will be centered around working small panels or canvas (no larger than 9” x 12”). Our guiding theme will be ‘to
discover the visual and descriptive power found in simplification of form, emphasis on shadow and light, a limited color scheme and dynamic compositional space’. Around noon we will gather at a good spot to eat our lunches and take a quick look at what we’ve done. This session can run as long as students wish.
Then we’re back in the field for the remaining time to work on new panels. If students request, I will visit them as they work during the day to see their progress and offer suggestions.
We will gather the first morning by the parking lot at Sky Meadows State Park at 10:00 am when the park opens.
LOCATION:
Sky Meadows State Park
The park is less than two miles south of Paris, Va., via U.S. Route 50 to Route 17 South; or seven miles north of I-66, Exit 23 on Route 17 North. The park entrance is on State Route 710.
Directions: please visit http://www.dcr.virginia.gov/state_parks/sky.shtm
About the Artist:
Dean Taylor Drewyer has been exhibiting his paintings in the Washington, D.C., area since the early 1970s. His drawings, watercolors and oils can be found in private collections throughout the mid-Atlantic region. In the last fifteen years or so Mr. Drewyer’s work primarily has been concerned with the landscape found in and around western Loudoun County, the close-by stretches of the Potomac River, and the area
around Lake Meddybemps in the furthest reaches of eastern Maine. Mr. Drewyer received his Master of Fine Arts degree in Painting from
the George Washington University in 1986. While studying at G.W. he was awarded the David Lloyd Kreeger Purchase Award for painting as well as a GTA Fellowship. Mr. Drewyer has just completed his 32th year with Loudoun County Public Schools.
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