We had beautiful weather for the Alan Flattmann workshop a couple of weeks ago. The class had a wonderful time and very enjoyable time out at a local farm.
Alan’s group was split just about 50/50 with pastel painters and oil painters.
It was a busy week in the office, as I was getting the 2015 workshop information up on our websites. So I only got out to take pictures on the one day. If anyone else in the class has photos to share, I love to add them to our blog.
Cathy Taylor sent us these great photos from her workshop with us a couple of weeks ago.
Cathy’s husband, Scott, came along, too, and had a good time hanging out with Charles, who is Manon’s husband.
Manon has attended many of our workshops and this last time she told me that the workshops have changed her life! They have sent her art in new and exciting directions and she is seeing the recognition in more exhibit acceptances and awards. This is the reason we have this business – to provide a nurturing, inspiring, safe and comfortable environment where artists can spread their wings, and I can’t tell you how much it means to us to hear this kind of comment from one of the students. It is what makes everything worth while.
Christine Ivers, the awarding winning pastelist from Connecticut, just taught an intense 3-day workshop focused on focus on temperature, atmospheric perspective and drawing.
Christine is known for her incredibly rich and evocative nightscapes. The image below is the beginning of one that she used to demonstrate her technique.
The studio was a colorful place that week. Many had such extensive selections of pastels!
All in all it was a great class. If you missed this year, don’t worry Chris will be back again in 2016.
Christine Ivers, the awarding winning pastelist from Connecticut, just taught an intense 3-day workshop focused on focus on temperature, atmospheric perspective and drawing.
Christine is known for her incredibly rich and evocative nightscapes. The image below is the beginning of one that she used to demonstrate her technique.
The studio was a colorful place that week. Many had such extensive selections of pastels!
All in all it was a great class. If you missed this year, don’t worry Chris will be back again in 2016.
Start with inks and acrylics, add a touch of collage and a pinch of print making and you have the perfect recipe for a mixed media masterpiece!
That was the starting point of the description for Cathy Taylor‘s 3-day workshop, and from there it was just 3 days packed with Cathy sharing her expertise and passion for her medium, as well as loads of laughter and story telling.
Marcia brought with her a bunch of “failed” paintings and turned them into winners with the application of the techniques she learned from Cathy.
The first day Cathy had the group creating masses of altered collage papers with CitraSolv and National Geographic magazines. It was amazing to see the cool effects with the colors on the different pages.
A woven collage of altered papers.
Next on the agenda were those amazing alcohol inks! The vibrancy of the colors was outstanding!
This is one of the stencils that Cathy had available for the students to use.
Another of Marcia’s transformed paintings!
Be sure to watch for Cathy Taylor’s new book from Shiffer Publications due out in the Fall – Pigments of Your Imagination, Creating with Alcohol Inks.