Instructor: Anthony Kirk

Dates: Saturday, January 22, 2022

Time: 10:00AM -  2:00PM

Anthony Kirk will lead a three-hour workshop where participants will investigate several methods of creating and printing monotypes. We will be printing with and without a press and also print from a freshly printed impression. Known as a counterproof, this enables the artist to see their print in the orientation that it was made on the plate and not the mirror image. Without reworking the pate with added ink, a second or “ghost” impression can also be pulled. Usually a brush technique where ink is applied to the plate in an additive way, the ink can also be rolled on the plate with brayers and then removed with rags and Q-tips. This is known as a reductive monotype.

Dates: Tuesdays, March 1 – April 26

Time: 6:00 – 8:00 PM

Practice your figure drawing skills during this weekly drop in workshop. Each session will begin with warm up gesture drawings, and will include a variety of longer poses. No instruction is provided, and artists will need to bring their own materials. Suggested materials include: charcoal, graphite, colored pencils, pens, watercolors, and newsprint or sketchpads. Seating is limited to 12 participants, and drawing tables and chairs are provided. All skill levels are welcome!

Instructor: Souby Boski

Date: Saturday, February 26th

Time: 11:00 AM – 3:30 PM

In this workshop students will learn how to loosen up and apply their paint in a gestural, painterly manner. Techniques and observations on what it takes to "loosen-up" your paintings. Nearly all of these tips have a common denominator - simplification. The more you simplify what you do, the more it frees your mind to concentrate on staying loose. Students will practice using bigger brushes, more paint and working faster. We will take color to new unexpected places by working with various colors and departing from realism. 

Instructor: Jim Lee

Dates: Saturdays, April 30-May 14

Time: 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM

This course will examine the bold and direct capabilities of woodcut and other relief print surfaces. It will take the student from preliminary sketches to the carving of blocks, using the multiple block technique. By printing multiple layers of transparent inks, images will develop with lush color relationships and luminous surfaces. We will work with color separation/registration, carving with hand and power tools, built-up surfaces, color ink mixing, and stencils. Monotype techniques will also be introduced and can be combined with the carved blocks. During the workshop students first develop a key block, transfer the image to other blocks to carry various colors and then print small editions, exploring color variations. Students should plan to arrive with several worked out compositions, either representational or abstract.

Instructor: Brandon Brownlee

Dates: Saturdays, January 22 - February 19, 2022

Time: 10:00AM -  1:00PM

Participants will work from a live model to learn proportion, anatomy, and how to render the human form. From quick gesture drawings to longer, more developed poses, you will learn how to use light, shade, and value to create form and depict the nuances of the human body.

Instructor: Brandon Brownlee

Dates: Saturdays, January 22 - February 19, 2022

Time: 2:00PM -  5:00PM

In this workshop, participants will learn how to develop a finished pastel portrait. Starting with a charcoal under drawing, we will be layering hard and soft pastels to create depth and nuanced flesh tones. We will also be touching on the structural anatomy of the skull and facial features in order to build a life-like portrait. This class is for both beginner and advanced students.

Instructor: Terry Feder

Dates: Saturdays, February 5-12

Time: 10AM -  1PM

This two-session workshop will guide students in a pencil drawing of architecture and or still life, which will emphasize value, the light and dark we see. Then using transparent watercolor or gouache we will enhance the value drawing with color. During the first session we will draw using your choice of either a still life set-up or a photograph of architecture within a landscape. During this first session you will practice the technique. During the second session, using your experience from the first session, we will draw from a studio set up or photograph and then use color, finishing either in the studio or at home.