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Sedona Arts Center — Check out these amazing art classes and workshops!

by Community Contributor • November 7, 2022 • Comments Off

Art Classes and Workshops
at Sedona Arts Center

In-Person Classes and Workshops at the Sedona Arts Center offer an intensive experience that will provide inspiration and information to distill and practice for months and even years afterwards. Instructors are experts in their field – experienced teachers with national recognition.

Water Media Exploration
with Mary Helsaple
Wednesday, November 9, 2022

Come learn How, Why, and What Water-based media is best used. This class is about exploring materials to best effect. In each class session, we will explore a different water-based material or technique and how best to use it effectively. Many of these same ideas can be applied to other surfaces like canvas, fabric, wood, metal and glass. Starting with Watercolor and progressing to acrylic, we will learn what combines well. We will be using only water-based supplies such as watercolor pigments, gouache, pencils, inks, flow pens on paper, then yupo, claybord, and loose canvas sheets, and finally acrylic medium. In this class, you will gain a deep understanding of all fluid mediums by exploring the process required to create your MasterWork.

WATER MEDIA EXPLORATION : LEARN MORE / SIGN UP

Painting for All Levels
with Gretchen Lopez
Friday, November 11, 2022

From the beginning to the experienced student, this one-day class in oil or acrylic will guide and teach students how to approach the painting process with confidence, while exploring the basics of value-pattern, composition and color. Students may work from life and/or photos. Instructor demonstrations and lots of individual attention provided.

This class also takes place on:
December 2, 2022 – Click here to sign up
December 16, 2022 – Click here to sign up

PAINTING FOR ALL LEVELS : LEARN MORE / SIGN UP

Mosaic Collage Pendants
with Michelle Sales
Tuesday, November 15, 2022

This one day class will incorporate beads and/or found objects to create two beautiful and unique pendants. Participants will learn how to utilize a non-toxic epoxy clay to embed objects and beads into a metal pendant tray. Proper placement of beads, design, and composition will be explored. Several examples of finished pendants and necklaces will be provided for reference. This is a fun and inspirational class that can be used as a spring board for the creation of many types of jewelry and collage work. The class is appropriate for all skill levels.

MOSAIC COLLAGE PENDANTS : LEARN MORE / SIGN UP

Painting Crash Course
with Gretchen Lopez
December 8 – 9, 2022

Get to know your brushes and how they can work for you, with a bolder and looser approach to painting. If you want to loosen up and learn to build your skills of observation, this crash course is for you. Learn how simple shapes and a limited palette of color, can help build a landscape. Students will leave with small studies and a finished painting, and also with the inspiration to paint more.With materials included, all barriers have been removed so that you can explore the fun of painting! All you bring is yourself and clothing that you could get some paint on!

PAINTING CRASH COURSE : LEARN MORE / SIGN UP

Simplification of the Landscape
NEW ONLINE Workshop!
with Gretchen Lopez
Friday, November 18, 2022

In this Zoom session, learn how to simplify what you see in terms of large shapes, then break it down into texture and smaller shapes in a Landscape. I will show you how to zero in on vignettes, and other areas which capture the eye.

Reference pictures will be provided to work from. Enrolled students will receive an email invitation with a link to join the Zoom meeting platform from Gretchen Lopez a day or two before the class.

SIMPLIFICATION OF THE LANDSCAPE: ONLINE! : SIGN UP

Clouds and Sky
NEW ONLINE Workshop!
with Gretchen Lopez
Thursday, December 15, 2022

Enrolled students will receive an email invitation with a link to join the Zoom meeting platform from Gretchen Lopez a day or two before the class.

CLOUDS AND SKY : ONLINE! : SIGN UP

Loose Realism and Dynamic Composition
with Sarah Sedwick
December 2 – 4, 2022

Paint looser and more confidently during this three-day workshop with Oregon artist Sarah Sedwick! Take a step-by-step approach to alla prima oil painting, from black-and-white studies to brilliant color. Build a beautiful composition with life and movement, and get a new perspective on the still life. Instead of struggling with overworking your paintings, practice STOPPING SOONER to keep the freshness you crave in your work!

Working with a split-primary palette of six colors and white, you’ll learn Sarah’s favorite painting exercises to warm up for a studio day, get back into the groove after some time away from the easel, or simply shake things up! Explore how limitations can set you free, creating a painting in 20 brushstrokes, and another in 20 minutes. Learn the fundamentals of good design, and walk step-by-step through Sarah’s alla prima process, creating a dynamic still life from start to finish!

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Mixed Media Transfer Techniques
with Michelle Sales
December 13, 2022

In this six-hour workshop you will learn to transfer images from various sources such as magazines, photographs, and ink or laser jet images onto cradled wood board and canvas utilizing transfer paper. Many of the transfers created in this workshop can be incorporated into other images. We will explore various methods of layering images using acrylic paint, stamps, and other mixed media to create dimensional effects. This class is appropriate for all levels of skills or experience.

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NEW Beginning Sculpture
with Suzy Allan
February 2 – March 9, 2023

Thursdays | Feb. 2 – Mar. 9, 2023 | 1:00 – 4:00 pm | Ceramics Studio

Unlock your visions and dreams! In this workshop you will learn sculpting basics in clay and you will be making one medium-sized sculpture. You will learn how to cut, hollow out, then reassemble your piece. On the final day we will explore different glazing techniques.Please bring your clay tools and several photos of what you want to sculpt, or better yet a 3-D example.

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Alternative Firing
with Dennis Ott
February 12 – 19, 2023

Join us to experience new and exciting finishing techniques. This workshop is great for a first time clay experience or for the experienced potter to explore a number of new finishes. We will be using non-traditional finishes such as Raku, Sager, Obvara and horse hair to create beautiful surface results.

We will meet on two consecutive Sunday’s, the first, to create our pieces and the second to fire them.

This workshop is open to all experience levels, from none to advanced. The potters wheel is available for those with experience. Handbuilding is available for all. Each participant will create 4-5 pieces.

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Scholarships at Sedona Arts Center
Scholarship awards will pay 50% towards any Class or Workshop tuition. Scholarships are not available for international Field Expeditions or Painting in the Grand Canyon. The Sedona Arts Center awards scholarships to students only when funds are available.

SCHOLARSHIPS AVAILABLE : CLICK HERE TO APPLY