3-Day Still Life and Floral Painting Workshop with Robert Johnson

Workshop with Maggie Siner:
Painting as Perception
with Maggie Siner

Chinese Calligraphy & Sumi-e Brush Painting with Contemporary P'o Mo Painting Workshop
with Nellie Chao

Get on Board!
Watercolor Series on
Claybord and Aquabord
with Catherine Fetterman

Italic Calligraphy
with Pat Blair (Session 2, 2012)

Travel Photography:
From Museums to the Outback
with Tom Ramsay
(Session 2 2012)

Photography on the Mall–Field Trip for Intermediate Level Photographers
with Jeanette Burkle
& Tom Ramsay
(Session 2 2012)

See Photography page for more digital photography workshops. click here

Get Me Started Series:
Watercolor
Oil & Acrylic
Pastel
Drawing
Ceramics

Travel with Your Sketchbook
with Avis Fleming
(Session 3 2012)

Paint at Pearmund Cellars Winery: A Plein AirWorkshop
with Linda Henderickson
(Session 3 2012)

Landscape Painting
with Sara Linda Poly (TBA)

2-Day Still Life Painting Workshop with Diane Tesler (TBA)

Keys to Success with Landscape Painting in Oil a 2-Day Workshop
with Mary Champion (TBA)

Plein Air Painting Workshop
with Dean Drewyer
(TBA)

Composition Crash Course
with Lisa Semerad (TBA)

Acrylic Adventure-
Pet Portraits Workshop
with Linda Hendrickson (TBA)

2-Day Painting Workshop:
Jumpstart Your Color!
with Kurt Schwarz (TBA)

2-Day Oil Painting From Photographs
with Conor Backman (TBA)

Finish That Painting!
A Workshop
with Antonia Walker (TBA)

2-Day Kite-Making Workshop
with Joan Gardiner (TBA)

Note:
Supply lists can be obtained by clicking on the desired class' supply list link and printing the page that appears.

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 9 am – 4:30 pm

Session 1 2012: February 10 - 12 full

Cost: $300 + $5 flower fee
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: Robert Johnson began his painting career in New York studying with David Leffel. Since then, he has participated in numerous group and solo shows in the US and has taught painting at art schools in New York, Scottsdale, AZ and Taos, NM. Johnson has won numerous awards including The Artist's Magazine National Competition and the Fine Art Connoisseur Magazine's Award for Excellence. He also was a finalist in the National Portrait Competition in New York. His work is in public and private collections throughout the US, Europe and Far East. Johnson lives in Vienna, VA.

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Workshop with Maggie Siner:
Painting as Perception
with Maggie Siner

Laundry, © Siner 2011
Instructor:
Maggie Siner

Date and Time:
Friday, Feb 24, 6-9 pm;
Saturday, Feb 25, 10 am – 4 pm;
and Sunday Feb 26, 10 am – 4 pm

Session 1 2012: February 24 - 26 full

Cost: $350
supply list

This workshop focuses on visual perception and learning how to see color, shape, and measurement, while also maintaining a fluid spontaneity of brushwork and simplification of form. All painting is directly from life.

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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Get Me Started! Series

Instructors:
Various Professional Artists

Date and Time:
Saturdays 1 - 3:30 pm

Session 2 2012:
Drawing Day - March 10
Watercolor Day - March 17
Ceramics - March 24
Pastel Day - March31
Oil and Acrylic Day - April 14
En Plein Aire Day - April 28

Cost per day:
$40 Oil/Acrylics; Pastels; Watercolor and Drawing
$60 for Ceramics

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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Paint at Pearmund Cellars Winery:
A Plein Air Workshop
with Linda Hendrickson

Instructor:
Linda Hendrickson

Dates and Times:
Saturday & Sunday, 10 am - 4 pm each day

Session 3 2012: June 2 and 3

Cost: $210
supply list
In addition to the supply list, bring hat, stool, easel, suntan lotion, bug repellent, lunch and water.

Join Linda Hendrickson for a two-day Acrylic Adventure painting in the vineyard in early summer.  Instructor will demonstrate setting up and painting outside using several styles of set up.  Students will be encouraged to complete four paintings during the course of the two days.  Students of all levels and mediums are welcome.

12-hr. workshop

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Get on Board!
Watercolor Series on Claybord

Instructor:
Catherine Obreza Fetterman

Dates and Times:
Saturdays, 10 am - 4 pm

Session 2 2012:

Waterscapes - March 3
Paint beach scenes and waterfalls in watercolor

Session 3 2012:
Flowering Trees - May 12
Paint flowering trees like dogwood, pink magnolia and lilacs in watercolor

Travel with Your Sketchbook Workshop
with Avis Fleming

Instructor:
Avis Fleming

Date and Time:
Saturday and Sunday, 10 am - 3 pm each day

Session 3 2012: May 5 and 6

Cost: $175
supply list

Increase your enjoyment of travel and other outdoor activities by keeping a sketchbook. In this two-day workshop, basic drawing techniques are adapted for speed and working in a smaller scale. Consideration is given to developing your sketches into more finished works. Day One at ArtSquare. Day Two in historic Leesburg.

10 hr. workshop

About the Artist: Avis Fleming was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, and grew up in the bayou country south of the city. After graduating from Bryn Mawr College, she studied graphic arts and illustration at Pratt Institute. Avis currently teaches figure drawing and sketchbook drawing at the Art League School, in the Torpedo Factory Art Center, Alexandria, Va., where she has taught for over twenty years.
She is associated with “Discover Graphics Atelier” at the Torpedo Factory Art Center. She does her ceramics work with her husband, Paul Hodge, at the Art League School in the Torpedo Factory Art Center. Paul throws the pots that Avis paints with glazes.
She has had several one-person exhibitions in the greater Washington, D.C. area, most recently “Shoreline-Farmland“ at Oerth Gallery in Alexandria, in 2010. “The Sunday Series: African American Images by Avis Fleming” was exhibited at Alexandria’s Black History Museum in 2003.
In 2008 she exhibited at Gallery 222 in Leesburg,  “Etchings, Monotypes and Watercolors by Avis Fleming”.
Her drawings, paintings and prints have won numerous awards.
Recent awards include “Best in Show” for “Mother and Daughter” at the Art League Gallery’s “La Femme” exhibition in 2008, juried by Sarah Tanguy at the Torpedo Factory Art Center in Alexandria, Va., Honorable Mention in the Small Works show at the Art League Gallery in 2009 for the etching “Safe Harbor“, Honorable Mention at the Arlington Ellipse Arts Center’s 2004 “Prints! Prints! Prints!” exhibition, juried by Warren Corrado, for the lithograph “Sunday Silence”. She received First Place in Mixed Media, at the 2008 Neighborhood Show in The Plains, Virginia, juried by Peter Winant of George Mason University and WETA‘s Around Town. She received the distinguished Van Landingham Award at the 2008 Art League Patron’s show, the First Place Award in the July, 2000, All Media Exhibition at the Art League Gallery (juror, Jo Ann Lewis of the Washington Post), and the Print Award in the April, 2001, All Media Membership Show with Emphasis on Sculpture, at the Art League Gallery (juror, sculptor Joan Danziger). She was awarded First Place in Graphics, 2000, (juror, Bill Dunlop of Around Town) and First Place in Painting, 1994, (juror, Johanna Karelis of the Corcoran Gallery of Art) at the Neighborhood Show, The Plains, Va.
Other recent exhibitions include “The Art of Printmaking”, Gallery 222, Leesburg, Va., 2005; a four person show of drawings and paintings, “Natural Observations,” at the American Horticulture Society in November, 2000; and a show of Four Printmakers at the West Island Gallery in Bath, Me., in 2001. Her exhibition at the Loudoun campus of George Washington University, “Encounters with Cows”, was in 1995.
Avis started outdoor sketching under the guidance of Anthony Gross, the English printmaker, painter and illustrator, and has used her sketchbook drawings as a source for her graphic work and ceramics.

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Acrylic Adventure–
Pet Portraits Workshop
with Linda Hendrickson

Instructor:
Linda Hendrickson

Date and Time:
Saturday, 10 am - 4:30 pm

Next Session: TBA

Cost: $105
supply list

Explore the flexibility of a medium that is inexpensive, versatile, fast drying and easy to clean up.  By concentrating on a favorite critter (via photos) students will paint several loose, impressionistic images of their pet. We will touch on the “trail basics” such as color, texture, line, and the addition of mixed media. No favorite pet? Bring a photo or an object/several that intrigue you. All levels are welcome. Bring your lunch for a 30-minute break.

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Plein Air Painting from
My Waterford Garden
with Antonia Walker

Instructor:
Antonia Walker

Date and Time:
Saturday and Sunday 10 am - 4 pm each day

Next Session: TBA

Cost: $180
supply list

A landscape workshop in several Waterford gardens of Waterford with an opportunity to focus on intimate garden venues as well as landscape views.  Emphasis on the light, value and color found in the early summer garden.  The class will also address how to compose and simplify while painting plein air.  There will be a brief demonstration each day to highlight various techniques.  Although the class will concentrate on oil painting, watercolor and pastel students are welcome.  A break for a brown bag lunch will allow time for discussion and group critiques.  Fruit and light snacks provided. Rain dates:  June 18-19

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Finish That Painting!
A Workshop with Antonia Walker

Instructor:
Antonia Walker

Date and Time:
Saturday 10 am- 4:30 pm

Next Session: TBA

Cost: $120
supply list

A New Year's Resolution - Finish that painting!
Or....toss it? Or paint over it? Bring in your unfinished pieces that need some advice before you ruin the one beautiful passage or the particular light that you captured that long ago summer day. This class will address those difficult decisions by considering the strong points of the canvas, then devise strategies on how to continue painting while retaining the memory of the moment. A still life set-up will be provided for a fresh start and for a demonstration to cover Antonia's failed canvases. Bring your lunch for a 30 minute break with informal critique.

6.5 hour workshop

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2-Day Oil Painting 
From Photographs
with Conor Backman 

Instructor:
Conor Backman

Date and Time:
Saturday and Sunday
10 am - 4:30 pm each day

Next Session: TBA

Cost: $210
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. Bring your lunch for a 30-minute break. Open to teens and adults.

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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

Next Session: TBA

Cost: $165
supply list

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 Workshop
with Dean Taylor Drewyer

Instructor:
Dean Taylor Drewyer

Dates and Times:
Saturday and Sunday, 9 am - 2 pm each day

Next Session: TBA

Cost: $160
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Want to develop skill at catching the ever-changing light conditions while painting outdoors? Always wanted to learn about plein air painting but have been hesitant to try it?  Need some inspiration to kick-start your work?  This class is for you!
Join Dean Taylor Drewyer, award-winning oil painter, for two intensive days of painting landscapes on location. Dean will walk you through his process for creating dynamic, light-filled paintings. Workshop includes demonstrations and one-on-one instruction. The workshop will commence right at 9:00 am with a brief conversation about strategies for your first works. The key during the two days will be centered around working small panels or canvas (no larger than about 9” x 12”).  The guiding theme will be ‘to discover the visual and descriptive power found in simplification of form, emphasis on shadow & light, a limited color scheme, and dynamic compositional space’.  Location: Picturesque farm along the Potomac River.

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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Landscape Painting
with Sara Linda Poly

Instructor:
Sara Linda Poly

Date and Time:
Saturday and Sunday 9 am - 4 pm

Next Session: TBA

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 Oatlands 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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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

Next Session: TBA

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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Two-Day Still Life
Painting Workshop
with Diane Tesler

Instructor:
Diane Tesler

Date and Time:
Saturday and Sunday 10 am - 4 pm

Next Session: TBA

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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Painting Workshop:
Jumpstart Your Color!
with Kurt Schwarz

Instructor:
Kurt Schwarz

Dates and Times:
Saturday and Sunday, 10 am - 4 pm each day

Next Session: TBA

Cost: $190
supply list

In this two-day workshop we will learn to mix color through various "color studies." These painting exercises are designed to hone our perception of temperature and improve our ability to mix color accurately. We will then learn to apply the paint cleanly with an emphasis on wet-in-wet mixing directly onto the canvas. Bring a lunch for a 30 minute break each day.

11 hr. workshop

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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

Next Session: TBA

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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Art in the Sky
A Kite-Making Workshop
with Joan Gardiner

Instructor:
Joan Gardiner

Date and Time:
Saturday, 10 am - 2 pm and
Sunday 12 noon - 2 pm

Session 1 2012: February 4 and 5

Cost: $105 + $20 supply fee

In partnership with Franklin Park Arts Center, ArtSquare is pleased to announce a kite-making workshop with Joan Gardiner. Create your kite at ArtSquare in February. Fly your kite with Joan - it's not a kite until it flies! Finally, exhibit your kite at Franklin Park from March 2 - 19. Join us for this great community event.

Workshop details: Build and paint your kite the first day, and rig your kite the second day of this unique and fun workshop.
Kite supplies are provided. Bring lunch on Saturday. Ages 16 and up. Class size is limited to 12.

6 hr. workshop

About the Artist: Joan Gardiner is a tilemaker and clay sculptor. Joan studied painting at the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore and apprenticed to potter Jill Hinckley in Washington, D.C. before moving out to Unison in 1973 with the goal of having a horse and building a kiln. She found an old blacksmith shop and a falling down house in the tiny hamlet, which also had a general store, a gas pump, and a pay phone—all she needed to get started.
In 1982, a tile project with Steuart Weller of Weller Tile sparked Joan’s interest in the art of tilemaking. She began making decorative tiles for her home in Unison and since then her tilework has been installed in many private homes and public places, including the Ashburn Library, the Purcellville Library, and an alphabet wall at the entrance to The Hill School in Middleburg.
Joan is still living and working in Unison (pop. about 30) with her husband, the writer John Rolfe Gardiner.

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