Sedona Arts Center update for Feb. 6 — Art Workshops at Sedona Arts Center

Workshops offer an intensive experience that will provide inspiration and information to distill and practice for months and even years afterwards. A wide variety of disciplines and mediums are offered. Most are appropriate for all levels of students with a few designed specifically for intermediate and advanced students.

This course is focused on the intimacy of painting on a relatively small format from beautifully lit objects but every painting, even the humble still life, has a story in it. It’s told by what subject we choose to paint, how we present that subject, and how we paint it. Finding what interests us in a subject and how we connect to it drives that story, and directs how the painting is made. We’ll work on small still life paintings to explore the process – from thumbnail sketches, lighting the subject, considerations of composition, to the application of paint to build form with light, color and mark. We will walk the line between technique and intuition, using the still life as a way to explore paint and why we make art.

See also Stuart Shils Workshop April 9 – 11 Visual Dreaming in the Life Studio a delightful course involving figurative composition working with a live model while exploring color, composition and narrative.

Experience new and exciting finishing techniques! This workshop is great for a first time clay experience or for the experienced potter to explore a number of new finishes. You will be using non-traditional finishes such as Raku, Sager, Obvara and horse hair to create beautiful surface results.Class meets on two consecutive Sunday’s, the first, to create your pieces and the second to fire them. This workshop is open to all experience levels, from none to advanced. The potters wheel is available for those with experience. Hand building, available for all. Each participant will create 4-5 pieces.

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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.

Whether you are an experienced artist or a novice, this workshop will dare you to let go of expectations and ignore the rules, beginning with a series of collage exercises designed to infuse freedom into your creativity and help you tap in to that intuitive voice as your personal guide.Using ‘little’ works as small studies, we will turn our focus to a more intentional placement of elements, coming from that place of freedom and trusting what our eye and intuition knows is good, while learning tips, tricks, and techniques from a professional point of view, to translate what we see into a series of completed works on paper incrementally increasing the scale as we go.

Michele Collier has developed an intuitive sculptural path with an incredibly versatile medium. In this workshop you will learn to explore the expressive beauty of the human form through a unique paperclay process working from slab to sculptural form. For sculptors with experience this is a game changer, for those with no experience it is a wonderful place to begin. No knowledge of anatomy, sculpture or ceramics is needed to fully engage with this workshop.

This will be an enjoyable and intense 2-day workshop involving painting on-site in the Sedona landscape. We will learn the advantages of plein air painting, as well as the 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.

The School of the Arts programming is designed to reach out to all aspiring artists and students – all ages and levels of learning. Ongoing instruction is available in a variety of mediums. Taking classes on our campus in Uptown Sedona affords the opportunity not only to explore the arts, but also to meet new neighbors and immerse yourself in the Sedona arts community. Courses are perfect for beginners, those wanting a refresher, or artists in search of new creative tools. Crash Courses include all materials!

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.  Additional bags of clay may be purchased during class for $30 per bag which includes glazing & firing fees.  Enrolled students may also participate in one open studio session per week.

*Note that the Monday class is reserved for experienced ceramicists!

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-pound bag of clay, firings and glazes, and one open studio session per week.  Additional bags of clay may be purchased during class for $30 per bag which includes glazing & firing fees.  Enrolled students may also participate in one open studio session per week.

This six-week course is designed exclusively for those who are new to wheel work and is open for ages 12 through adult.  Have fun while gaining confidence on the potters wheel.  Small class size ensures that each student receives personalized, one-on-one instruction and encouragement for a fascinating hands-on experience that will bring out the potter in you.Tuition includes the first 25-pound bag of clay, firings and glazes, and one open studio session per week.  Additional bags of clay may be purchased during class for $30 per bag which includes glazing & firing fees.  Enrolled students may also participate in one open studio session per week.

For this course, Stephen Krasemann will rely on hands-on painting, individual attention with emphasis on both fundamental and specialized techniques. Landscape compositions, animals, and outdoor elements will be the focus.Get involved, gain confidence, and increase your enjoyment in the stimulating environment of painting with oils. You will paint primarily landscape and their elements, but also learn techniques to incorporate wildlife/animals into the landscape. Emphasis will be on learning the necessary painting language and vision to complete successful landscape oil paintings. Instructional demonstrations, individualized attention, evaluation, and critique will happen throughout the course. Students will have an opportunity to do a number of paintings over the duration of the course. No previous experience necessary.

Color, Light, Shadow, Translucency – These are the ingredients that we will work with to create a beautiful painting for you to take home. Our subject will be flowers and using the glazing technique we will apply thin layer upon layer of oil paint to achieve depth and translucency. Students will be taught how to choose a composition, transfer it to the canvas and then begin the process of laying in color. 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.

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 or iPad. 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. You will also learn basic video and video editing techniques for use with certain apps such as Facebook and Instagram.

Vince Fazio offers you the chance to take an intensive course that provides all the tools you need to learn to draw from life in four sessions. Whether you are interested in a refresher course or drawing for the first time this course will provide you with the foundations you need in the language of drawing. Learning to see in terms of lines, shapes and value pattern is the essential skill required to translate the three-dimensional world to any two dimensional surface – regardless of the medium you ultimately wish to explore. As well as learning to draw you will learn the most essential thing in the arts; how to see like an artist!

This is a fun two-hour adventure for those who like wine but may know nothing about making a painting.  Join Melanie and Brian Gold in 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! Class runs from 6-8pmWine will be available to participants 21 years and older only.
Cost: $35 includes all art materials to complete your painting!