Sedona Art Center update for March 22

The Sedona Arts Center’s ceramic department operates free from the constraints of grades and benefits from the talents of its ceramic faculty and assistants as well as nationally recognized guest instructors. This combination allows our department to offer flexible and diverse programming in both traditional and contemporary techniques.

Dennis Ott is the winner of the Sedona Mayor’s Art Award for Education in the Arts last year and nominated for the Governor’s Art Award in the same category this year. Dennis loves teaching beginners how to enter the magical world of clay.  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. Tuition includes the first 25-pound bag of clay, firings and glazes, and one open studio session per week.

Come play in the clay! Tap into your creative self and experience various hand building techniques. Make bowls, boxes, sculptures, tiles, using slabs, molds, and textures. The possibilities are endless. Open to all levels, beginners welcome! Tuition includes the first 25 pounds of clay, firings, glazes, and 1 open studio per week.

From the beginning to the experienced student, this one-day class in oil or acrylicwill 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. Students should take a drawing class prior to attempting painting.

Get to know your brushes and how they can work for you, with a bolder and looser approach to painting. If you want to loosen up and learn to build your skills of observation, this crash course is for you. Learn how simple shapes and a limited palette of color, can help build a landscape. Students will leave with small studies and a finished painting, and also with the inspiration to paint more.

With materials included all barriers have been removed so that you can explore the fun of painting! All you bring is yourself and clothing that you could get some paint on!

This is a fun two-hour adventure for those who like wine but may know nothing about making a painting. You will be led through creating a 12×16 acrylic painting on canvas in a step-by-step process. Local landscape subject matter and a surprisingly fool-proof process lead to fun, laughs, more wine and your painting is finished – suitable for framing!

Must be 21 or over to participate.

Google is looking for better quality videos to broadcast and promote their youtube network. Stars have been born and successful shows launched from home-made youtube productions. Instructor Bryan Reinhart will use his 30 years plus as a professional filmmaker and 15 years as a film instructor to give you hands-on training to make a more polished creative production. Lighting, cameras, sound and editing equipment will be provided.

With materials included all barriers have been removed so that you can explore the fun of filmmaking! All you bring is yourself and your ideas!

In this favorite abstract course, Julie gives you a powerful foundation for painting abstracts with depth and feeling. Her layering technique helps you enter the painting process naturally, develop beautiful complexity and flow, and bring out the spirit of your painting. You’ll gain discernment and valuable composition and color skills while creating two vibrant and intriguing acrylic paintings: a painted paper collage and an 18×24 canvas panel.

Through demonstration, practice, and discussion, participants will come to see each painting more deeply and understand how to enhance its impact.

In today’s technological world, even professional photographers and artists are recognizing the iPhone as a useful (and even practical) photographic tool. Join photographer artist, Kelli Klymenko in his one-day workshops for beginner and advanced students and you’ll go beyond the basics and learn to shoot professional quality photographs with your iPhone.

In this 1-day workshop you will learn how to shoot, edit and share remarkable landscapes, portraits and the macro world around you using only your iPhone, iPad or iPad Mini. 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 justtaking a picture.

You will begin to fill pages with beautiful colors and textural backgrounds while exploring drawing, watercolor, collage and mixed media techniques. Two days of creativity will include plein air sketching, nature rubbings as well as playing with patterns and motifs using stencils, other found materials and collected ephemera.

Participants are encouraged to bring found objects, photos, receipts, pressed leaves, etc.

You will receive a basic travel journaling kit for the $50 fee that includes brilliant watercolors, sketching supplies and a portable journal. Karen will also have additional materials and supplies on hand for you to use during the class. Optional upgrades to the basic kit will be available for purchase as well so you can continue your creative journaling at home or on the road.

Color, Light, Shadow, Translucency – These are the ingredients that we will work with to create a beautiful painting for you to take home. Our main subject will be flowers and using the glazing technique we will apply thin layer upon layer of oil paint to achieve the depth and translucency associated with all things in nature.

Students will be taught how to choose a composition, transfer it to the canvas and then begin the process of laying in color. This class will be taught in four sessions to allow for critical drying time between layers. We will focus on light and shadow, paying attention to brushwork and edges as we build up the design. Paintings will be done on a gallery wrap canvas and students will be given a choice of images to work from. Attention to detail is important and even more critical is the use of light and shadow to form the shapes while laying in color to complete the design.

Each of the four sessions will begin with a demonstration and instruction followed by individual attention. We will discuss composition, color mixing, edges, blending and values. At the end of the fourth session each student will have a beautifully completed painting to grace your wall at home.

Open to all levels. With materials included all barriers have been removed so that you can explore the fun of painting! All you bring is yourself and clothing that you could get some paint on!