Sedona Art Center — Here’s what’s coming up at Sedona Arts Center!

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. 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. This class will begin inside then follow with a hike to the rim, where you’ll photograph and explore along the way! Then you’ll head back in to edit your photos and learn Kelli’s simple edits to create stunning photos.

9am to 2pm

Bill Cramer teaches 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. Further emphasis will be placed on the creative process to make paintings that are more than strict representations of the landscape we see. Multiple demonstrations will be complemented by individual attention and group learning.

The arts play a powerful role in enhancing the quality of life of older adults. Designed to generate opportunities for lifelong learning, social engagement and mastery of skills, Creative Aging workshops provide life-changing experiences for adults ages 55 and older.

If you are interested in:

• Engaging older adults in meaningful, creative activity and sequential learning, and;
• Incorporating creative aging principles of social engagement and mastery in to your arts workshop teaching, and;
• You recognize the contributions of older community members…

then please join me in March to learn more about Creative Aging, it’s physical and mental benefits and how you can put the Creative Aging principles in to action.

• A technique to create oil painting Master, Nicolai Fechin’s broken edge effects
• How to create sparkling color
• How to simplify
• A sure-fire way to achieve masterful edge control
• Power through suggestion
• The key to color harmony
• How to turn the form with temperature