In-Person and Online Learning at Sedona Arts Center!

This class also takes place on: September 10, and October 8, 2021

Betty will focus on the “how to’s” of seeing light on the beautiful forms in and around Sedona, Arizona in this Online Workshop. Learn about temperatures of light and shadow (warm and cool) and working with hard and soft edges in creating depth for your watercolor landscape. Luminosity in your painting is a goal!

Betty will be demonstrating tricks and techniques for rendering the limited and glowing light that envelopes the Sedona landscape. You will be learning various ways to create textural effects in watercolor using impressionistic and painterly brushwork. How to paint using glazing techniques as well as incorporating frisket in your work will be covered.

The warm and cool glow that surrounds nature’s forms in a landscape will be conveyed in your work. Watercolor lends itself perfectly for capturing the unique lighting conditions which makes the Sedona landscape such a special subject to paint.

As a Master in the American Impressionist Society, Betty Carr will be emphasizing how to achieve  impressionistic and dynamic paintings using loose painterly brushwork while capturing light.
Suggested reading:  “Seeing the Light, an artist’s guide”, North Light Pub. author, Betty Carr, Create depth, form and atmosphere with light in watercolor and oil.

Suitable for writers of all levels of experience and all genres, including poetry, fiction, and nonfiction.

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.

You will learn how to shoot, edit and share remarkable landscapes, portraits and the macro world around you using only your iPhone. 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 apps such as Facebook and Instagram.

This is a HYBRID class
In-Person at Sedona Arts Center AND streaming Online.
To attend this class in-person at Sedona Arts Center – click here.
To sign up for this class ONLINE via ZOOM – click here.

We stress painting protocols to get you to good results with the least amount of wasted time. That means focusing on drawing, brushwork, and accurate observation. You will learn to paint boldly, using fresh, clean color. You’ll learn to build commanding compositions, and to use hue, value and line to draw the eye through your paintings.

All Levels Welcome!

Classes will include a variety of poses with the nude, draped and partially draped model, lots of paint sketching, gestural drawing and finger painting techniques. Be prepared to paint looser, bolder, freer, lighter and more intuitively. Plenty of time for action-filled painting exercises, demos and personalized attention. All water soluble paints are welcomed. Materials list provided. No photography, please. Handouts provided.

Alok may ask you to paint the energy of music, a Rumi poem, the sound of silence, your heart’s desire, or when Master Zhaozhou was asked, “When great calamity arrives, how shall we respond?” he said, “Welcome!” No prior experience with painting or Zen is necessary. We paint with the joyful “discipline” of being “present, available, playful and not-knowing.” Something is transformed in us, at the same time manifested through our brush. At some point during the workshop you will come to realize, “Oh, I am the art!”