Sedona Arts Center — Boost Your Art Skills with Our Workshops

Drip, pour, drag, layer, heat, and incise! Investigate the ancient medium of encaustic painting in this very hands-on workshop using pigmented wax, and a heated palette! Explore a rich variety of marks and surfaces while doing image transfer, etching, and collaging in this seductive medium. This introductory workshop will guide you through the basics of fusing, paint application and its possibilities, collage, stencils and going beneath the surface with line work and scraping.  Class time will be divided between demonstrations and individual work time.  We will also touch on proper studio ventilation, wax safety, and how to “finish” artworks in terms of framing and care.  Students will leave with multiple finished pieces and the understanding of proper studio set-up. This class is suitable for ALL levels!

This three day intensive is designed for Artists who have had some experience in encaustic and are fluent in the basics or have taken previous Introductory Workshop. In this intensive, students will be encouraged to develop their voice with this medium with individual attention and work time. Students will be encouraged to stretch as we explore more challenging surface design and execution. We will work towards making work that demonstrates a style emerging or a particular interest.  Students will leave feeling accomplished and inspired!

Many artists employ sketchbooks to capture daily exercises and inspire finished pieces.  This expressive class will utilize collage to create uniquely personalized sketchbooks in one continuous story that unfolds like a concertina.

In this class you have the option of making your own concertina sketchbook from recycled folders and heavy papers, or purchasing a commercial concertina sketchbook in which to work for $28, available the first day of class.

We will use acrylic paints, markers, charcoal and carbon pencils, inks, paper pieces, handmade papers and stencils, cloth, scraps and other materials using water-based adhesives to create colorful sketchbooks.  While the instructor will bring folders, heavy papers and many materials, students are highly encouraged to bring special papers, found objects and odd pieces to add to their work.  All skill levels are welcome.  Wear old clothes or an apron.

We will explore the expressive nature of oil paint mixed with cold wax medium to create layers, textures, mark making and personal expressions.  Work can be abstract or representational.

Lori will provide all paint, wax medium and multi-media supplies and reference materials – there is a $40 materials fee payable directly to the instructor on the first day.  Students may bring additional supplies if they wish. Click on the Materials List tab above for more complete information.

After the introduction and demonstration, students will have plenty of time to explore and paint!  On day-two we will come back to our work with fresh perspectives to edit or create new work. An understanding of design and color mixing is helpful and creative problem solving is encouraged. This dynamic class is limited to 12 participants to allow for one-on-one attention.  At the end of each day we will share our experiences and pieces with the class.

Join award-winning artist Joe A. Oakes for a fun, info-packed, painting experience. Learn to take an ordinary image and transform it into an extraordinary, finished, VIBRANT painting. Valuable art principles and important acrylic painting techniques will be discussed while we work through and complete a finished piece. All painting styles and skill levels are welcome. Also open to oil and pastel painters.

This workshop pushes you out of your safe zone and into a brand new, looser, abstract direction drawing and painting 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.

The second day of the workshop will include working directly with the live model in a variety of undraped, partially draped and nude poses. You will do lots of paint sketching, gestural drawing and finger painting techniques.

The third day – be prepared to paint looser, bolder, freer, lighter and more intuitively. The model will transform into one of Burridge’s “Lounge Ladies” with imaginative sets and playful costumes!

Learn the structure, values and shapes to build gorgeous flowers in your paintings.  We’ll take this in a step-by step approach, as we mix color and learn to compose.Instructor demonstrations and lots of individual attention provided.

This class welcomes beginners who have some drawing experience and want to learn how to paint with watercolor, as well as the more experienced painters who want to learn more watercolor techniques.

Our class will focus on the “how to’s” of brushes, mediums, paper, seeing and painting light on form, understanding temperatures of light and shadow, and working with edges in painting a variety of subjects. I’ll be demonstrating exciting ways to create effects in watercolor using impressionistic, painterly brushwork. How to paint in watercolor using glazing and textural techniques, incorporating frisket (don’t worry if you don’t know what that is – you will find out and it’s fun), and applying a value sketch will be covered. When completed, we will all have painted some exciting and beautiful watercolors.

Through demonstration and one-on-one instruction, students will learn to throw a variety of forms on the potter’s wheel or techniques to create hand-built works. Slab roller, extruder and forms are also available to create functional and decorative pieces. Class sessions are 6-weeks long and meet once/week.

Sedona Arts Center’s ceramics instructors are all highly skilled artists and experienced teachers!

Neil Kennedy – Instructor

Ceramics – Pottery Wheel for Beginners
April 13–May 18 : Saturdays from 9am to 12pm
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Ceramics – Hand Building
May 21–June 18 : Tuesdays from 1 to 4pm
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Dennis Ott, Instructor and Head of the Ceramics Dept

Ceramics – Advanced
April 8–May 13 : Mondays from 4 to 7pm
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Ceramics – All Levels
May 21–June 18 : Tuesdays from 9am to 12pm  
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Ceramics – All Levels
May 22–June 19 : Wednesdays from 9am to 12pm
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John Post – Instructor

Ceramics – All Levels
April 11–May 16 : Thursdays from 4 to 7pm
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Lolo Aileen – Instructor

Ceramics – All Levels
May 23–June 20 : Thursdays from 4 to 7pm
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