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• VIRTUAL - The Quarantine Sketchbook

  • Start
    June 10, 2020
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    (CDT)
  • End
    July 29, 2020
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    (CDT)
  • Schedule
    8 sessions
  • Location
    WAS-H Virtual Meeting Room
  • Spaces left
    14

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  VIRTUAL - The Quarantine Sketchbook

  Ellen Orseck

  Wednesdays, June 10-July 29,

  10:00am-12:30pm Central Time

  $200

  Image:  Up Down Up

  Explore creating a sketchbook which documents the lives we lead in quarantine. Incorporate ways of adapting, coping and re-configuring the new normal.  Artists will be combining pen, ink and watercolor to capture the world around them in their homes, their families and their environments.  This eight-week on-line class is open to all levels.

  Note: Please note that registration will close two days before class. Please register early.

  Supply List & Recommended Reading

  Supply List for The Quarantine Sketchbook.docx

  Watercolor Art Society.docx

  
  

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• VIRTUAL - Abstraction: Organic & Geometric

  • Start
    June 23, 2020
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    (CDT)
  • End
    August 11, 2020
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    (CDT)
  • Schedule
    8 sessions
  • Location
    WAS-H Virtual Meeting Room
  • Spaces left
    17

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  VIRTUAL - ABSTRACTION: ORGANIC & GEOMETRIC

  Ellen Orseck

  Eight Sessions

  Tuesdays, June 23 - Aug 11,

  4:00pm-6:30pm Central Time
  

  $200

  Image:  Aqua Vortex
  

  Play with various approaches to abstraction in water media.  This course will focus on alternative materials and different ways to utilize tools and surfaces.  Instead of exploring the visual depiction of reality, artists will work non-objectively with color, form, gesture and shape.  Inspiration may come from nature or man-made surfaces, but the practice of reduction, distillation and simplification will transform those images into an entirely different outcome. This eight-week-online-class is open to all levels.

  Note: Please note that registration will close June 23 at 10:00am. Please register early. 

  Supply List & Recommended Reading

  Supply List Abstraction.docx
  

  Suggested Readings Abstraction.docx
  

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• VIRTUAL - From Selfie to The Painted Portrait

  • Start
    July 10, 2020
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    (CDT)
  • End
    August 28, 2020
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    (CDT)
  • Schedule
    8 sessions
  • Location
    WAS-H Virtual Meeting Room
  • Spaces left
    14

  Registration is closed

  

  VIRTUAL - From Selfie to The Painted Portrait Digital Portraits in The Modern World
  

  Ellen Orseck

  
  

  Eight Sessions

  Fridays, July 10 - Aug 28,

  1:00pm-3:30pm Central Time
  

  $200

  Image:  Seeing Green
  

  In the 21^st Century, the concept of portraiture has been radically transformed.  Since the advent of selfies, we see faces differently. Whether you are interpreting a selfie to create a self-portrait or to fashion a portrait of another, the source material has been altered by the digital way we now communicate.  This eight-week on-line painting course is open to all levels.

  Note: Please note that registration will close July 9 at noon Central Time. Please register early.

  Supply List & Recommended Reading

  Supply List Selfie.docx
  

  Suggested Readings Selfie.docx
  

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• VIRTUAL - Learn the Ancient Style of Chinese Brush painting Techniques

  • Start
    August 05, 2020
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    (CDT)
  • End
    August 26, 2020
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    (CDT)
  • Schedule
    4 sessions
  • Location
    WAS-H Virtual Meeting Room
  • Spaces left
    12

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  VIRTUAL - Learn the Ancient Style of Chinese Brush Painting Techniques
  

  Peihong Endris
  

  Wednesdays
  Aug 5, 12, 19, 26
  1:00 - 3:30 pm
  $100
  

  
  

  The Gong-bi style developed during the Han dynasty (206 BC – 220 AD), when great prosperity enabled advancements in the arts. Gong-bi required intense commitment to technique, and the resulting work was sought after by wealthy royal families. Together, we will study this ancient technique with its focus on delicacy, precision, detail, and patience.

  Note: Please note that registration will close August 3 at Noon Central Time. Please register early.
  

  
  

  Supply list:

  1. Two sheets of 20”x15” boards as wooden or Plastic Corrugated (Michael’s care Plastic Corrugated sheet 20” x 30”, to make two sheets)

  2. A roll an inch masking tape or Blue tape.

  3. One 2.5 or 3 inch flat soft bristles as sheep hair brushes.  2 small combination brushes as surrounded with white sheep hair and inner with brown hard briskets. Two fine tip brushes for detailed lines work.  

  4. A box of Chinese Marie's color(https://www.jerrysartarama.com/maries-chinese-watercolor-painting-set)

  5. In this section we use non absorbency rice paper; you will need 2-5 sheet of Shimming size Shuen paper 26” x 54” (nonabsorbent rice paper) or Cicada Wing paper( on  orientalartsupply.com the shimmer size Shuen paper called P14BP and Cicada wing Size Shuen called P14C. On Amazon called megrez+shu+xuan+paper https://www.amazon.com/Watercolor-Practice-Japanese-Calligraphy-Thickening/dp/B07Q8TMD4S/ref=mp_s_a_1_3?dchild=1&keywords=megrez%2Bshu%2Bxuan%2Bpaper&qid=1591646576&sr=8-3&th=1&psc=1)

  6. A bottle of Sumi-e ink

  7. Couple of porcelain dishes as your old dish or any kind of tray for mixing colors.  A roll of paper towel. 

  8. a wash jar or container.

  
  
  

  
  

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• VIRTUAL - Wet & Dry Charcoal Portrait

  • Start
    August 06, 2020
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    (CDT)
  • End
    August 27, 2020
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    (CDT)
  • Schedule
    4 sessions
  • Location
    WAS-H Virtual Meeting Room
  • Spaces left
    27

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  VIRTUAL - Wet & Dry Charcoal Portrait

  Laura Spector

  Thursday afternoons 
  Aug 6, 13, 20, 27
  1:00 - 3:00 pm
   $100

  Explore a step-by-step process of building up a charcoal portrait from a photograph. Class will focus on separating light and shadow, building the architecture of form from short contour lines, and developing a likeness while making choices with how to layer, soften and sharpen edges. This class will begin with the use of brushing on liquid charcoal, which expedites the foundation of the portrait for a more complex and textured drawing.

  
  

  Note: Please note that registration will close August 6 at 10:00am Central Time. Please register early.

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  Supply List and History - Charcoal.pdf

  

  
  

  
  

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• VIRTUAL - Intro to Nonrepresentational Painting/Collage in Acrylic

  • When
    August 10, 2020
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    1:00 PM - 4:00 PM (CDT)
  • Location
    WAS-H Virtual Meeting Room
  • Spaces left
    37

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  VIRTUAL - Intro to Nonrepresentational Painting/Collage in Acrylic
  Susan Giannantonio

  
  

  August 10
  

  1:00-4:00pm Central
  

  $50
  

  Image: Release
  

  This class will first explore and apply some important design rules.  Secondly we will put those aside (mostly) and have a blast!  Plan for a very busy afternoon. If you’ve always wanted to play with your paints and see what comes out the other end of your brush, join us. It is an exciting way to paint.

  1. Creating Strong Design
  2. Elements/Textures
  1. Making elements
  2. Interesting tools, marks
  3. Begin to let go and have fun!

  Note: Please note that registration will close August 8 at noon central time. Please register early.

  More details:  www.susangiannantonio.com
  

  
  

  
  

  Supply List
  

  12 to 15 sheets watercolor paper or canvas approx. 9 x 12”

  Newsprint, printer paper and/or tissue paper.  Newsprint may have print on it.

  1 to 2” CHEAP hardware brush or paintbrush that will become partially ruined with mat medium

  At least 5 favorite colors acrylic paint.  You may work with acrylics of any kind (inks, fluid, heavy body, etc.)

  White gesso or white acrylic  paint

  Mat Medium (any brand)

  Palette, Styrofoam plates, plastic disposable pan, etc. for paint

  Spray water bottle

  Magazines, sales flyers, catalogues to cut up

  Index cards or Card stock cut to index card size

  Scissors

  Water bucket

  Terry towels or paper towels

  Optional:

  Markers, inktense pencils, caran d’ache, oil pastels, any medium you’d like to experiment with  

  If you haven’t painted/collaged with acrylics before, you might want to cover your work space and wear clothing so you can a little get messy. That’s part of the fun. 

   

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