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Inspiring Landscape Workshops
Coming up at Sedona Arts Center

Sedona Plein Air Painting
October 26–27, 2019
Bill Cramer

Join Bill Cramer, Best of Show and Artists Choice Award Winner of the 15th Annual Sedona Plein Air Festival, for this exciting workshop in Sedona!

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.

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Mexico: A Painting Adventure
November 4–9, 2019
Gretchen Lopez

Join us at the beautiful boutique hotel, La Casa de Espíritus Alegres in Guanajuato, Mexico. We will paint markets and plazas, the ruins of rock walls and arches at Mellado, and visit nearby San Miguel de Allende for a day of painting. We’ll start painting in the courtyard with outdoor still-life scenarios and the environs of the hacienda to get our painting juices flowing. The last day will feature the option of working with models in the outdoors. Gretchen Lopez will demonstrate and provide one-on-one teaching during the entire experience.

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Inks & Etching on Scratchboard
November 2–3, 2019
Justine Mantor-Waldie

Create stunning atmospheric perspective by applying watercolor wet on wet techniques using the unique properties of ink. Capture foreground details with etching and pointillist textures to achieve multiple, layered paintings. Justine will demonstrate color mixing for transparent and opaque colors, etching techniques, and compositional considerations for these exciting paintings.

This unique workshop includes all materials allowing students to explore a new medium without investing in a studio of supplies! You only need to bring images that you would like to work from!

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Texture – Color – Feeling
November 4–6, 2019
Jan Sitts

Jan’s experience and enthusiasm create an atmosphere of fun and spontaneity inspiring new directions and discovery through innovative combinations of design and materials. By combining aggressive textures and unusual mediums with various “raw” materials in the abstract painting we get surprising results. The layering method yields a magnetism that is particular to mixed media. Many techniques, materials, compositions and above all emotion, play off each other in creating the work. Part of the adventure is not knowing where you are going until you get there! You will become thrilled with possibility as you journey through this process. You will learn to let go of painting habits and gain the knowledge of layering textures, colors and feelings while executing shapes utilizing a structure of positive and negative space.

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Metal Point Drawing
November 7–9, 2019
Koo Schadler

The traditional technique of metalpoint (also known as silverpoint; i.e. drawing with a piece of silver) is increasingly popular. This workshop offers students the opportunity to draw with a variety of metal tips including silver, brass, and copper. Koo Schadler will demonstrate and explain all aspects of the medium: types of surfaces to work on, adding highlights and color to a drawing, and how to speed up the oxidation process. Students will make for themselves several different drawing surfaces starting from scratch. Each students goes home with Koo’s metalpoint instruction booklet and a complete metalpoint kit to continue working in the medium. Open to all levels, from beginning to experienced draftsmen.

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Intuitive Collage: Big & Little
November 8–10, 2019
Crystal Neubauer

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.

Students will leave the workshop with a series of small 4″ studies and multiple big works of art ranging from 6″ up to 30″ in size. All works will be created on watercolor paper as our substrate, discussion will include a variety of ways to display your completed collage work when you return home.

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Abstracting the Landscape
November 14–16, 2019
Claudia Hartley

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.

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The Inspired Abstract
November 22–24, 2019
Julie Bernstein Engelmann

Moments can become richly beautiful abstract paintings. In this workshop you’ll experience a layering technique that gives you a powerful foundation for abstract painting. You’ll enter the painting process naturally, develop a deep and luscious visual space, and weave exquisite personal marks and forms that grow from your seed inspiration. You’ll discover the spirit in your painting and learn to gently enhance its drama so it can shine powerfully. You’ll leave with two acrylic paintings that embody meaning, naturalness, and spatial depth and flow – qualities that lift an abstract painting from amateur to professional. Along the way, you’ll gain discernment and come to understand abstract painting much more deeply. Julie will give demonstrations, enlightening discussion, group critique, and plenty of one-on-one time. You’ll also receive Julie’s valuable checklist: “Critique Points for Abstract Painting,” an essential painting-rescue kit to keep handy in your studio. All experience levels are welcome.

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Scholarships Available

Scholarship awards will pay 50% towards any Class or Workshop tuition. Scholarships are not available for international Field Expeditions. The Sedona Arts Center awards scholarships to students based on stated need only when funds are available.

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15th Annual OPA Paint Out

November 16th! All painters are welcome! You do not have to be an Oil Painters of America member, and all media artists may participate, show, and sell; however, in keeping with OPA guidelines, only oil painters may participate in the judged event.

Mini-reception, show, and sale at the Sedona Arts Center Saturday the 16th at 3:30 pm. Ribbons and prizes will be awarded. Blue Ridge Oil Paints, SourceTek Panels, Dick Blick’s, Arbonne, Naked Wines, and Rosemary and Co. are all supporting donors!

For more information visit https://cheuvrontart.com/event/127346/opa-15th-annual-great-paint-out-sedona-az-november-2019

To register, please sign up for the event on Facebook, here: https://www.facebook.com/events/308980619898413/ (Note you will need to send a Friend request if we are not already linked on FB.)

Sedona Arts Center is one of Northern Arizona’s most well-established cultural organizations and serves as the creative heart of Sedona. Founded in 1958, the nonprofit organization is based at the Art Barn in Uptown and offers year-round classes, exhibitions, festivals, and cultural events that enhance the creative life of the Verde Valley. The Center’s Fine Art Gallery, open daily from 10am to 5pm, promotes the original works of over 100 local artists and regularly offers special assistance for collectors and art buyers, offers private studio visits, and fosters hundreds of arts education opportunities each year. For more information, call the Gallery at 928-282-3865, the Administrative offices at 928-282-3809 or visit us online at SedonaArtsCenter.org.

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