Painting For All Levels ONLINE! with Gretchen Lopez February 4, 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.
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.
iPhoneography at the Grand Canyon! South Rim with Kelli Klymenko March 19, 2022
Kelli Klymenko is taking his one-day class for beginner and advanced students on the road to the South Rim of the Grand Canyon! He’ll teach you how to push yourself beyond the basics and learn to shoot professional quality photographs using only your iPhone.
You will learn how to shoot, edit and share remarkable landscapes, portraits and the macro world around you. Kelli will guide you through simple tips and tricks that will take your photography to the next level. Discover how to capture the essence of a place and your subjects rather than just taking a picture. This class will begin inside then follow with a hike to the rim, where you’ll photograph and explore along the way! Then you’ll head back in to edit your photos and learn Kelli’s simple edits to create stunning photos.
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.
Intuitive Expressive Painting with Jesse Reno February 18–21, 2022
In this mixed-media painting class you will learn to create paintings that emerge from an abstract base of markings, colors, line, and shape to form expressive and organic creations. You will learn painting and mark-making techniques that will encourage imagery and connection to your work. Through a series of painting exercises, you will explore and express your ideas by imagining what could be created from abstraction rather than confining your ideas to predetermined outcomes.
FREE Creative Aging Teaching Artist Training with Julie Richard March 3, 2022
What is Creative Aging?
The arts play a powerful role in enhancing the quality of life of older adults. Designed to generate opportunities for lifelong learning, social engagement and mastery of skills, Creative Aging workshops provide life-changing experiences for adults ages 55 and older.
If you are interested in:
Engaging older adults in meaningful, creative activity and sequential learning, and;
Incorporating creative aging principles of social engagement and mastery in to your arts workshop teaching, and;
You recognize the contributions of older community members…
then please join me in March to learn more about Creative Aging, it’s physical and mental benefits and how you can put the Creative Aging principles in to action.
Drip, Drag, Scrap: Introduction to Encaustic Painting with Helene Farrar
March 4–6, 2022
Drip, pour, drag, layer, heat, and incise! Investigate the art 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. Take your flat collections of drawings, collected papers, pictures, and incorporate found objects. Class time will be divided between demonstrations, individual work time, and discussion about historical and contemporary practices. 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.
The Inspired Abstract with Julie Bernstein Engelmann
March 9–11, 2022
This workshop gives you a powerful foundation for abstract painting. You’ll be guided to enter the painting process naturally, use layers to develop a deep and luscious visual space, and weave into it brush-marks that grow from a personally meaningful inspiration. You’ll learn to see the spirit in your painting and help it shine powerfully.
A focus of the workshop is to find ease in bringing your mid-process “beautiful mess” to fulfilled completion. You’ll create two acrylic paintings that embody meaning, naturalness, and spatial depth & flow – qualities that lift an abstract painting from amateur to professional.
Ink, Paper, and Intuition: Monotype Printmaking with Phil Garrett
March 11–13, 2022
This 3-day workshop will explore the spontaneous and dynamic medium of monotype printmaking, a very user-friendly and immediate art-making process using Golden Open Acrylics, Qor Watercolor, Water-soluble inks and Water-soluble drawing materials. The monotype offers a way of working that can be spontaneous, fluid and very painterly. Images can be developed in a relatively short space of time, and because the plate retains a thin layer of ink after being printed (the so called ghost image,) it is easy to modify the image and work sequentially.
Creating The Abstract Landscape with Amanda Hawkins
March 14–16, 2022
This workshop will help you transform Sedona’s beautiful scenery into loose and expressive abstract landscape paintings. Amanda’s approach to abstraction is both structured and intuitive, meant to give attendees the tools and confidence to take risks and make informed decisions on the canvas, both in the workshop and long after the class. Each morning the workshop will open with warm-up exercises, and each afternoon will be used as open studio time with ample individual attention. All artists can expect to leave the workshop with several color studies, a series of miniature abstracts, and 1-2 larger abstract landscape paintings; all led by demonstration.
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.
