Abstract Figurative Workshop ONLINE! with Robert Burridge May 6-8, 2022
This workshop pushes you out of your safe zone and into a brand new, looser, abstract direction drawing, painting and collaging the contemporary nude. You will learn expressive painting techniques for the modern painter. If you ever wanted to learn how to paint the freestyle abstract figure, this workshop is for you. Color is explained and explored. You will learn the 12 Design Compositions for a successful painting. Your “drawing the nude” skills are not a prerequisite.
Grand Canyon: Painting from the South Rim with Bill Cramer April 26–28, 2022
Nothing really compares to painting at the edge of the Grand Canyon. This three-day intensive offers: master instruction, the support of the Grand Canyon Conservancy Field Institute (GCCFI) and coordination through the Sedona Arts Center.
Bill Cramer teaches various approaches to working on-site and how to efficiently compose and complete plein air paintings. Emphasis will be placed on how to effectively translate the often complex three dimensional landscape onto a two dimensional plane using thumbnail sketches, limited palettes and the thoughtful use of colors, values, shapes, edges and textures. Further emphasis will be placed on the creative process to make paintings that are more than strict representations of the landscape we see. Multiple demonstrations will be complemented by individual attention and group learning.
Altered Thrown Forms
& Whimsical Hand-built Figures with Jeff Perkins
March 26–27, 2022
This workshop is a place to use your imagination and try something totally new!
Jeff Perkins designed the workshop to improve your throwing and handbuilding skills and see things in a different way. Students will learn a series of techniques on how to throw distorted forms to make them more fluid and graceful. They will also learn how to create whimsical handbuilt figures using found textures to enhance them.
Color Clinic with Gretchen Lopez
March 30–31, 2022
Learn how to achieve harmony and continuity in your paintings by mixing color from a limited palette. Have fun as we explore and discover how to use simple methods of mixing paint to gain confidence and a better understanding of how color works. Get ready to apply what we learn to a still life, abstract, and landscape! Instructor demonstrations and individual attention provided.
Mosaic / Collage Pendants with Michelle Sales
Saturday, April 2, 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.
Painting Pastel Landscapes with Lorenzo Chavez
April 22 – 24, 2022
This plein air workshop will stress the fundamentals of landscape painting outdoors.
Pastel is a great sketching medium—its consistency of color and quick handling are valuable when working outdoors. The importance of simplifying the landscape and composing on location will be discussed and applied. Theme emphasis, values, colors, edges, emotional involvement, atmospheric and linear perspective will be discussed. All three days will be spent in the field where we can observe and study the outdoors first hand. This is the single most important method for improving landscape painting skills.
Paper Paintings: Mixed Media Airmail Art with Elizabeth St Hilaire
April 22 – 24, 2022
This workshop focuses on techniques and processes for mixed media with anchor elements being the US Mail; old letters, envelopes, postage stamps, vintage postcards. We will cover creating unique combinations and effects with mail elements that can stand on their own as abstract collage OR become ephemera backgrounds for my favorite collage subject, simple songbirds.
We will be creating three 10×10 pieces that will work together as a series. This series will be a body of mixed media artwork with common themes in US Mail ephemera backgrounds, vintage post marks, size and format, and bird imagery to re-enforce the travel and flight of letters.
Art Journaling with Jesse Petersen
May 5 – 7, 2022
Jesse Petersen is an art instructor at Let’s Make Art. She has a passion for teaching and a love of art journaling. She believes that there is an artist inside each of us, and she’s on a mission to empower all of us to create. In this in-person workshop, Jesse will be sharing how she creates more calm in her daily life through art journaling. She’s chosen a tranquil color palette and will provide insightful prompts and helpful techniques to get you creating and feeling the benefits of making art. Join Jesse and dive into art journaling as she leads you through a soul-enriching, art-making experience. Whether you are a true beginner or a seasoned artist, we think you’ll find art journaling in this way to be an expansive and rejuvenating experience.
Monotype & Monoprints:
Making a Unique Impression with James Rees
May 5 – 7, 2022
Monotype is the most painterly and spontaneous of the printmaking processes. In this class we will experiment with a variety of transfer techniques, both additive and reductive methods.
Explore how to
have an image emerge from the buildup of a variety of textures and materials
create unique (one of a kind), multilayered prints
combine traditional printmaking, drawing transfers and painterly imagery
use relief processes to create monoprints
Come expand and explore your visual horizons and get tips for finding your own creative path to create a broad range of aesthetic possibilities.
Scholarshipsat 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.
