Mar-Apr WORKSHOPS
Free Urban Sketch with Paul Cook
Saturday, March 21, 12:30 to 3:30 pm
Learn to combine waterproof ink and watercolor to capture city scenes with Paul Cook. Explore your environment and your creativity as Paul leads you in friendly and positive environment.
No Experience needed!
For ages 10 and up. Limited to 14 participants.
Registration required. Registration opens February 15.
Landscape Painting with Water Mixable/soluble Oils with Tina Yannotti
Saturday, March 28, 12:30 to 3:30 pm
Get rid of dangerous solvents and learn to paint with water mixable/soluble oils. This class is geared towards beginners but will be great for advanced painters who would like to try water mixable oils. We will talk about how to use these paints, the best brands and colors and how to clean brushes all while we are painting a landscape.
Beginners will learn all the terms, materials and keys to skillful landscape painting and resources to practice on their own. There will be a lot of information, but Tina will have all of it in handouts for beginners to refer to later.
For ages 18 and up. Limited to 10 participants.
Registration required. Registration opens February 15.
Acrylic Saturday with Steve Duprey
Saturday, April 4, 12:30 to 3:30 pm
In his Saturday acrylic painting workshops throughout the year, Steve Duprey will lead his students, step-by-step over the course of three hours, through the process of creating a variety of landscape and still life paintings. Each student will receive close personal attention as they create the painting. Particular attention will be shown to creating the sense of light in each painting.
For ages 16 and up. Limited to 10 participants.
Registration required.
Screen Printing with Madeline Bartly
Saturday, April 11, 12:30 to 3:30 pm
Maddie will host a live screen printing demonstration that builds upon a simple repeated image on paper, which will gradually cover the walls, ceiling to floor, and row by row as the event progresses. The attendees of the event will get a hands-on experience pulling the squeegee with ink over the screen, hand-printing the design onto paper. As the print dries, volunteers will hang the paper with sticky tack for a temporary display, gradually transforming the entire space over the course of an afternoon. The design will demonstrate how a mirrored image becomes the foundational element of a pattern. The event will result in a printed installation wall covering produced by participants.
Maddie Bartley began her training in fine art printmaking in 2010. Her personal work exploits the ephemeral nature of nature itself. What is permanent in a garden? Even with care and maintenance, plants grow and die, trellises break, and foundations crumble. In her art practice, she constantly utilizes the same materials and stencils in various orientations to print or hand-cut shapes for collage. As an artist, her curiosity for how structures work, how repeat patterns are made, and how craftsmanship is established through a shared hands-on experience. Through this workshop, her goal is to develop a commonly used stencil imagery into an intricate wallpaper pattern. She is interested in seeing how forming a pattern in a larger space will serve as a connection throughout her previous artworks.
For ages 10 and up. Limited to 15 participants.
Registration required.
Alcohol Ink Painting with Elizabeth Lincourt
Saturday, April 18, 12:30 to 3:30 pm
Elizabeth Lincourt will lead the workshop in exploring Alcohol ink paintings. Alcohol inks are intended for non-porous surfaces, and dry very quickly because they are alcohol based. We will experiment with dripping different combinations of ink on photo paper, then we will let them dry and embellish the dried papers with ink to create paintings.
For ages 15 and up. Limited to 10 participants.
Registration required.
Birdhouse Painting with Paul Cook
Saturday, April 25, 12:30 to 3:30 pm
Come paint bird houses with Paul Cook! Join Paul in painting your own birdhouse. Bird house and paint will be provided by the Dove Block.
For ages 10 and up. Limited to 12 participants.
Registration required.
Workshops are supported by generous grants from The Wyckoff Family Foundation, the Looking Out Foundation, and The Linden Shop
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