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Sedona Arts Center — Check out these specially selected art workshops!

by Community Contributor • August 26, 2022 • Comments Off

Mosaic/Collage Pendants
with Michelle Sales
September 8, 2022

This one day class will incorporate beads and/or found objects to create two beautiful and unique pendants. Participants will learn how to utilize a non-toxic epoxy clay to embed objects and beads into a metal pendant tray. Proper placement of beads, design, and composition will be explored. Several examples of finished pendants and necklaces will be provided for reference. This is a fun and inspirational class that can be used as a spring board for the creation of many types of jewelry and collage work. The class is appropriate for all skill levels.

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Drawing Practical & Entertaining Art
with Ed Buonvecchio
September 5 – October 10, 2022

Drawing can be a useful and fun tool in your daily life taking you away from your stressful day and giving you a way to express ideas or memorialize experiences. Learning to draw can give you the skill to design something you want to make, begin a painting or serve as a launchpad to exploring other forms of art or teaching others your learned drawing skills. In this six-week ongoing studio class we will learn skills and tools needed to draw what you think and see. We will practice the use of pencil, charcoal, pen and ink, brush and paper surfaces. We will learn about perspective, value, line, shape and composition. At the end of each class we will complete a drawing or drawings based on the lessons of the day.

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Water Media Exploration
with Mary Helsaple
September 21 – November 2, 2022

Come learn How, Why, and What water-based media is best used. In each class session we will explore a different principle or technique specific to a water media. Learn how and when to combine them to great effect, and in what ways they can be used to enhance each other to the best effect.

We will be using water-based supplies for painting water media pigment, pencils, inks, flow pens on paper, yupo, claybord, and loose canvas sheets. In this class, you will gain a deep understanding of all fluid mediums by exploring the process required to create a MasterWork.

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Strategies for Expressive Color in Landscape Painting
with Scott Gellatly
September 23 – 25, 2022

Unlock the strategies in creating expressive color in your landscape paintings! This three-day workshop will explore color theory, color mixing and strategic color concepts to capture the light, atmosphere, and emotion of the landscape. Students will work from imagery from nature to emphasize the formal aspects of painting – color, composition, movement, and space. Open to all oil and acrylic painters who are willing to let go, experiment and take chances!

STRATEGIES FOR EXPRESSVE COLOR IN LANDSCAPE PAINTING

Plein Air Painting at Tlaquepaque
with Gretchen Lopez
October 6 – 7, 2022

Experience the beauty and history of Sedona at the Tlaquepaque Arts & Shopping Village. From the wonderful Spanish Colonial Architecture to lovely vignettes, we will learn to find the focal point using composition, contrast and a limited palette to paint an impression of what we see! The students will be able to take their oil or acrylic studies and create finished paintings in their studios!

Only basic materials required with your own plein air painting set-up.

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Zen Creativity: The Art of Life and Death
with Alok Hsu Kwang-han
October 7 – 9, 2022

In this workshop we engage in Zen creativity to explore the art of life and death. Using specially made Chinese brushes, ink, and paper – all provided for you to use and keep after the workshop – Alok will ask you to paint things that are impossible to paint so that you can be comfortable with not-knowing and be available to the intelligence and creativity prior to thought. In that deep intimacy, you-as-the-brush can move forth with freedom and wonder. We let go of our customary identification with who we are and who we are supposed to be and our need to know how to do it, so that we can show up for the gift of healing into death and into life which may not be so different from showing up for the creativity prior to knowing who we are and what to do.

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Let’s Play and Explore Together!
with Daryl Urig
October 11 – 13, 2022

Mediums: Oils, Alkyds, Acylics – Instruction will be in Oils with brushes and painting knives. Daryl will have painting knives with him for sale if students would like to purchase from him.

Playing with paint can help us appreciate what we develop on canvas and enjoy the new processes we have learned. Focusing on the big picture, we can create beautiful form on any subject that we fancy. Any tools may be used. Design, color, simple shapes, and unique representation of any form is key.

As a painter I have explored many different avenues in my career. I am not looking for one technique to accomplish over, and over again. Isn’t that the definition of insanity? I like to break new ground as often as I can.

The workshop will cover my basic learnings over a lifetime of experimenting with paint. Highlighting design, color mixing, paint application, creative mark making, and what can we do with lighting while understanding the basics of overall image capturing to showcase personality on canvas.

LET’S PLAY AND EXPLORE ART TOGETHER : SIGN UP

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Scholarships at Sedona Arts Center
Scholarship awards will pay 50% towards any Class or Workshop tuition. Scholarships are not available for international Field Expeditions or Painting in the Grand Canyon. The Sedona Arts Center awards scholarships to students only when funds are available.

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