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Art Workshops at Sedona Arts Center

In-Person Workshops at the Sedona Arts Center 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 with a special focus on studio and plein air landscape painting, mixed media and  abstraction. Workshops are appropriate for all levels of students and are presented through demonstrations, individual instruction and group presentation. Instructors are experts in their field – experienced teachers with national recognition.

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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Mixed Media Transfer Techniques
with Michelle Sales
October 6, 2022
In this six-hour workshop you will learn to transfer images from various sources such as magazines, photographs, and ink or laser jet images onto cradled wood board and canvas utilizing transfer paper. Many of the transfers created in this workshop can be incorporated into other images.  We will explore various methods of layering images using acrylic paint, stamps, and other mixed media to create dimensional effects. This class is appropriate for all levels of skills or experience.
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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 2022 Festival Judge: 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.

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Abstract Figurative ONLINE Workshop
with Robert Burridge
October 14 – 16, 2022
This workshop pushes you out of your safe zone and into a brand new, looser, abstract direction drawing, painting and collaging the contemporary nude. You will learn expressive painting techniques for the modern painter. If you ever wanted to learn how to paint the freestyle abstract figure, this workshop is for you. Color is explained and explored. You will learn the 12 Design Compositions for a successful painting. Your “drawing the nude” skills are not a prerequisite.

The second day of the workshop will include working directly with the live model in a variety of poses including the nude, draped and partially draped scenarios, 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 on this page – click the Materials List tab above. PDF handouts will be provided.

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Sedona Fall Colors
with Betty Carr
October 18 – 20, 2022
Learn to capture the beauty of light in this three-day workshop! Betty Carr teaches students to accurately portray the effect of light on any subject in watercolor or oil. Students can work in either watercolor or oils and will explore a variety of locations in beautiful Sedona.

During her workshop Betty begins each day with a demonstration/ lecture covering tools, techniques, brushwork, problems and solutions. Emphasis throughout the workshop is on organization and simplification of darks and lights, value and color relationships, edges, movement and mass to create a dynamic, coherent composition.

Betty Carr’s energetic style and enthusiasm for painting and teaching create an infectious atmosphere of adventure and “can do” among her students. She has traveled the country teaching workshops for many years. Her instructional book “Seeing the Light” is available through North Light Books. Materials list includes both watercolor and oil – students can choose which medium they would like to work in.

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Paper Paintings: Landscape Collage Techniques
with Elizabeth St Hilaire
October 18 – 20, 2022
This workshop focuses on techniques and processes for artists looking to grow and better develop their skills as landscape collage painters. Rather than working on one project from start to finish, we are going to focus in-depth on individual techniques, including painting landscape specific papers. You will finish the course with the skills and knowledge for collaging water, reflections, greenery, skies, and more!

Students will work from reference photos supplied for you by Elizabeth to include elements of the landscape such as the Sedona Red Rocks and Oak Creek.

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Capturing Light & Atmosphere
in Watercolor

with 2022 Festival Judge: Susan Lynn
October 25 – 27, 2022
Join Susan painting outdoors, learning to use the unique qualities of watercolor to capture the beautiful Sedona landscape. Susan will give a demo at the start of each class session, discussing how to make purposeful choices with values and color to enhance the sense of depth, atmosphere, and light in your paintings. Along the way, we will tackle the nuts and bolts of plein air painting with watercolor, exploring a variety of watercolor techniques and Susan’s “split primary” limited palette approach to color mixing. After each morning demo, students will paint while Susan circulates around to give individual attention and instruction as you work. We will gather at the end of each day to share our paintings with one another and answering any questions that arise from the day’s outing.

Susan will be conducting a Watercolor Demonstration at the Sedona Arts Center on Friday, October 28, the day after the workshop ends.  Students enrolled in this workshop may attend for free.  There is a $50/person charge to the public.

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Composition & Essential Techniques in Oil
with John Caggiano
October 25 – 27, 2022
Every painting begins with a good, well balanced, composition. That is where we will begin. Aside from exploring dynamic composition, we will explore the use of color, values, shapes, vanishing edges, textures, and all that goes into constructing a successful painting. John’s practical approach will not overwhelm the workshop participants with a laundry list of ethereal concepts that one usually learns in the course of one’s career. He will try to share his 58 years of painting knowledge in a fun and relaxed atmosphere.
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Game-Changing Plein Air Painting
with Krystal W. Brown
October 30 – November 1, 2022
This PLEIN AIR workshop will truly be a GAME CHANGER for you.

If you want to paint better –  Be more accurate – Convey your vision and impression – and do it all with JOY this will help.  If you want to paint effortlessly – Free from stress and better able to let the magic flow, this is the place to start.    You will come to understand how to create more comfortably, confidently and joyfully while learning all the tips and techniques that have taken me years of cultivation.  No more guessing!  No more uncertainty!  No more fear!  Just SUCCESS.

You are invited to paint in oil or water soluble oil if possible!  I will have insights to share with you acrylic painters as well so don’t let the medium detour you.

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Painting Sedona Red: The Pastel Landscape
with Bruce Gomez
October 30 – November 1, 2022
This workshop is designed to welcome all skill levels. Think of Bruce Gomez as a Swiss Army knife of a teacher! Bruce will work with you at your individual skill level covering issues from drawing to composition as you learn how not to make mud with your pastels. You will learn how to prepare your paper, how to layer your pastels and to use analogous colors so as to finally achieve that magical Sedona Red Rock color in the light and in the shadows.

Finer points will also touch on shipping, storing and pastel framing techniques – even ideas on how to approach galleries if you so desire.

First Meeting on Sunday is 10:00 am in the North Studio on the Arts Center Campus. Instructor will arrange location meetings for the duration of the workshop.

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Dynamic Composition with the Figure
Principles of Abstraction
Loose Realism and Dynamic Composition
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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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