Sedona Arts Center — Upcoming Classes, Workshops & Field Expeditions

The spirit, history and colors of Guanajuato come to life as we explore and paint cafes, beautiful fountains, spanish colonial architecture and gardens. Our five-day workshop is a wonderful opportunity to gather info from your oil studies and drawings done in plein air.

iPhoneography at the Grand Canyon, South Rim – with Kelli Klymenko
Sat – Sun, Sept 30 – Oct 1

Kelli Klymenko is teaching this two-day workshop for beginner and advanced students at the magnificent South Rim of the Grand Canyon! He’ll teach you how to push yourself beyond the basics and learn to shoot professional quality photographs using only your iPhone.

Join James McGrew for a 4-day workshop at majestic Zion National Park and surrounding area located in Utah! This unique workshop will focus on learning to see and interpret Zion’s spectacular scenery and unique natural history. One of the greatest struggles of landscape painters is to convey in small scale, the grandeur of a dramatic landscape.  Learn how to interpret such scenes and create illusions of depth, three dimensionality, scale with strategic details to make a scene come to life.

Learn how to paint mountains, fields, trees, rocks, skies, clouds and more. Tom will demonstrate each part on separate sheets of paper, then allow you time to work under his watchful eye, practicing a variety of watercolor techniques on loose sheets of 140# watercolor paper. In the second session you will put all the parts together in a new effort and have a completed painting at the end of the day.

In three weekly sessions, experience how to let the paint sing, navigate the “beautiful mess,” and bring your abstract painting to fulfilled completion—without losing its life force and what makes it beautiful. For all levels of experience.

This workshop pushes you out of your safe zone and into a brand new, looser, abstract direction drawing and painting the contemporary nude. If you ever wanted to learn how to paint the freestyle abstract figure, this workshop is for you!

Aug 4: Design & Composition

Aug 18: Celebrating Summer

Sept 1: Celebrating Autumn

This class welcomes beginners who have some drawing experience and want to learn how to paint with watercolor, as well as the more experienced painters who want to learn more watercolor techniques. With materials included, all barriers have been removed so that you can explore the fun of painting!

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.

Come celebrate the beginning of the autumn season! Using a combination of reactive chemicals, heat, dyes, adhesives & metal leafing, students create on copper sheet, then mount on wood cradle boards for finished wall art pieces.

We’ll take an ordinary vintage book and turn it into something extraordinary using paint, embellishments, and reconstructive techniques. You bring the book, (BYOB!) and I’ll supply the rest! Each part of the book will be put to good and new uses as we deconstruct our books and reconstruct them into fabulous works of art.

All the joys of Mexican color and architecture can be experienced here right here in Sedona.  Join me for a Plein Air journey as we explore beautiful Tlaquepaque Arts & Shopping Village in Autumn!  I will show you how to work with oil sketches to gather information on sight and complete larger paintings in your studio!

Discover the excitement of perceptual painting! This oil painting workshop relates perceptual painting to an understanding of light source for back-lit, side-lit, and front-lit compositions. We will work from still life in a spacious environment where students will each have a personal painting space where they will be able to individually compose set-ups or work from shared set-ups.

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.

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.

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.

Michelle is also teaching a 2-day Mixed Media Transfer II workshop Dec. 14 – 15.

One of the first issues in this approach to Oil over Acrylic is which comes first! It’s the Acrylic! In this 3-day workshop we will explore strategies for combining the expedience of an Acrylic Imprimature (Colored Ground) and further refined Acrylic Underpainting with layers of Luscious Oil Overpainting and Glaze.

For centuries, creating art, and writing poetry in particular, has served as a form of healing for hurt, pain and grief. In this workshop, we’ll discuss examples of celebrated poems that tackle these difficult topics and study effective techniques for channeling our pain into poetry.

Paint looser and more confidently during this three-day workshop. Take a step-by-step approach to alla prima oil painting, from black-and-white studies to brilliant color. Build a beautiful composition with life and movement, and get a new perspective on the still life.