Sedona Arts Center update for Oct. 12 — 14th Annual Sedona Plein Air Festival October 13–20
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14th Annual Sedona Plein Air Festival
October 13–20, 2018
Saturday, October 13, 7 pm Opening Reception
Join us for a special reception, where each artist will exhibit select works from their home terrain—creating a diverse opening to the Festival that represents a variety of media and styles, incorporating studio and plein air work! This is your first chance to meet the 30 specially selected artists of the 2018 Festival and see their various styles and talent! Free to the Public
Special ReceptionSponsored by Amara Resort
The Sedona Plein Air Festival—is a week-long celebration of extraordinary landscape painting by nationally known artists featuring educational events and demonstrations, public paint-outs (where all the artists paint at a specific location) all leading to a final awards night on Friday October 19th. Most events are free and open to the public! Sedona Arts Center invites you along to be inspired and experience master artists painting in the Shangri-La of the Southwest!
Explore Fall Workshops
Workshops provide an intensive experience in a specialized medium or style by nationally known artists that love to teach! We offer a rich diversity of workshops carefully curated to balance creativity with technique.
Plein to Studio Demonstration October 19, 9 am – 1 pm
Bill Cramer
Join in the last session of Bill Cramers 3.5-day workshop during the Sedona Plein Air Festival (Oct 13 – 20, 2018). Bill is the Keynote Speaker and judge for this year’s festival. This half day demonstration takes you through a studio process as Bill demonstrates how he works up a larger painting from a plein air study. This demonstration will be a wonderful overview of the painting process, a learning experience for collectors and painters alike. This will be a stand alone demonstration as well as a culmination of the workshop for those that attended.
A Creative Travel Journal October 21 – 22, 2018
Stan Fellows
This is a joyful, two-day workshop for curious, adventuresome artists and non-artists to learn the skill of unhurried observation. Doodling a map for someone, you go for clarity, not art, right? Slow drawing works in a similar way: It quiets the mind and lets experience saturate us. A chance to relish rather than rush and put any art ideas aside. The goal will not be finished products. There won’t be sharing of journals or critiques. But you will discover practical, everyday tips on how to observe more than you ever imagined possible – all through non-art drawing. You need no artistic skill or even a passing interest in art. We may dabble in watercolor but only in a day-dreamy manner as a fun way of decorating pages.
Painting the Southern Desert November 10 – 12, 2018
Gretchen Lopez
Experience the history of Arizona and the beauty of the Southern desert, as we paint in and around the first European settlement in the region. Tubac is a wonderful go-to destination where we will study capturing the light and learning to paint the essence of what you see from life. These loose, impressionistic oil sketches can be seen as stand-alone artworks or studies for studio work later on.
Plein Air to Studio Demonstration October 28, 2018
Joshua Been
Join in the last session of Joshua Been’s 3.5-day workshop for a demonstration of his studio process as he works up a larger painting from a plein air study. This demonstration will be a wonderful overview, and a great opportunity to review and re-take notes on effective studio practices incorporating every bit of knowledge gained through the plein air experience. Throughout this demonstration Josh be talking about crucial decisions in the process, and how to stay engaged, efficient, and deliberate in applying paint. LEARN MORE
The Inspired Abstract October 29 – 31, 2018
Julie Bernstein Engelmann
Learn to enter the painting process naturally, ease into personal intuitive marks and forms reflecting your inspiration, and weave depth and beauty. Julie will help you enhance the drama and spatial flow (composition) so your painting will feel complete. You’ll leave with two acrylic paintings that each embody three vital keys to powerful and successful abstract painting: meaning, naturalness, and spatial depth and flow. Along the way, you’ll gain discernment, refine your composition and color skills, and come to see and understand abstract painting more deeply.
Texture | Color | Feeling November 5 –7, 2018
Jan Sitts
Jan’s experience and enthusiasm create an atmosphere of fun and spontaneity inspiring new directions and discovery through innovative combinations of design and materials. By combining aggressive textures and unusual mediums with various “raw” materials in the abstract painting we get surprising results. The layering method yields a magnetism that is particular to mixed media. Many techniques, materials, compositions and above all emotion, play off each other in creating the work. Part of the adventure is not knowing where you are going until you get there!
Abstracting the Landscape November 8–10, 2018
Claudia Hartley
Learn to exaggerate and personalize color to create your own version of the unique modern landscape. Using photos of scenes, students will learn how to plan a good composition and how to mix beautiful clean colors. Students will learn how to take advantage of the quick drying properties of acrylics and how to create vibrancy through color combinations.
Activating Negative Space November 10–13, 2018
Vince Fazio
This exploratory step-by-step workshop takes you on a unique journey all your own! Guided collage exercises are followed by composition studies using your collages as subject matter. We’ll also do some writings about the collages to establish the mood of the work, building the backstory for a final painting. We then explore a process of drawing and layering acrylic paint to create a new work in a surprising style derived from subject matter of your own creation. Using the same prompts and instructions each person’s work magically goes off in its own direction.
Paper Painting November 30 – December 2, 2018
Elizabeth St. Hilaire
Elizabeth will guide you through working on a mixed media collage portrait of man’s best friend – not limited to dogs or cats! Plan to work on whatever “pet” makes you happy, birds, fish, ferrets included! During this comprehensive 3-day workshop you will learn a unique figurative mixed media collage technique. Emphasis will be on defining form using light and shadow, and treating every torn tidbit of paper as a brush stroke. Students will create impressionistic collages that look like paintings. This class is focused on learning and growing creatively in a FUN environment.
Sedona Dreamscapes December 3 – 6, 2018
Jean Bradbury
Taking inspiration from the natural setting of Sedona we will paint the plants, animals and geology that surrounds us, combining them into magical landscapes reminiscent of memories or dreams. We will capture the changing desert light by using copper, aluminum and ‘gold’ leaf. This course combines the rigors of botanical observation with some hippy, drippy acrylic spontaneity. Prepare to sharpen your drawing and observational skills while expressing your love of nature with loose and juicy acrylics. No drawing experience is required. You’ll be amazed how good you already are with a little instruction and a lot of gentle encouragement. Students may choose to include animals that they observe during out time in the workshop such as insects and birds. We will take a few short strolls to see what we can find.
