Sedona Arts Center update for Aug. 20

This is the workshop Alok gives on his 80th birthday! He welcomes you to rest in the spaciousness of your being, to be comfortable and intimate with not knowing, and to allow your brush to dance from emptiness. It will become obvious to you this is a healing journey as well as a creativity workshop!You will come to hold your brushes as friends and move with them in harmony. Being playful with not-knowing, we become available to the intelligence, creativity, and good humor outside the boundaries of what we know.

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September 12, 2018
A Free Zen Event!

Delve into the art of paper and glue, working through an intensive exploration of the art of abstract collage, intended to help you connect to the design knowledge you already carry within you to create satisfying works of art while discovering your own authentic style.

Create compositions utilizing both, elements with organic torn edges, and those deliberately cut with scissors. Learn to select the proper adhesive, determine what substrate to utilize, and alter a variety of salvaged materials for use in collage. You will also learn the unique nature and differences found between hot encaustic wax and cold wax mediums when applied to the paper elements and incorporated into the design.

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.

During this comprehensive 3-day workshop you will learn a unique figurative mixed media collage technique. Emphasis will be on defining form using light and shadow, and treating every torn tidbit of paper as a brush stroke. Students will create impressionistic collages that look like paintings. Create your hand-painted paper palette through Gelli Plate printing, staining, stamping and patterning that will be torn up and glued down over an acrylic underpainting.

In this workshop, through clearly explaining concepts in the translation process from a three dimensional environment to a two dimensional surface, I will clear up the mystery, and strengthen your knowledge of the process and visual language of painting, from the source (plein air) to the studio. I teach a 4 pronged visual language approach (Value, Shapes, Edges, and Texture) that is both easy to remember and an effective way of breaking down difficult subject matter into manageable information.

This workshop meets for 3.5 days. The final day is a complete demonstration of taking a plein air painting done from life and building a larger and more detailed composition in the studio setting.

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Gain the confidence to be a painter!

From the beginning to the experienced student, this one-day class in oil or acrylic will guide and teach students how to approach the painting process with confidence, while exploring the basics of value-pattern, composition and color. Students may work from life and/or photos. Instructor demonstrations and lots of individual attention provided.

Julie gives you a powerful foundation for painting abstracts with depth and feeling. Her layering technique helps you enter the painting process naturally, develop beautiful complexity and flow, and bring out the spirit of your painting. You’ll gain valuable composition and color skills while creating two vibrant and intriguing acrylic paintings starting with a painted paper collage. All experience levels welcome. Come as you are, all supplies provided.

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Students will be taught how to choose a composition, transfer it to the canvas and then begin the process of laying in color. This class will be taught in four sessions to allow for critical drying time between layers. We will focus on light and shadow, paying attention to brushwork and edges as we build up the design. Paintings will be done on a gallery wrap canvas and students will be given a choice of images to work from. Attention to detail is important and even more critical is the use of light and shadow to form the shapes while laying in color to complete the design. Course meets Tuesdays and Thursdays, 1:00 – 4:00 pm, All materials included.

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Whether you are interested in a refresher course or drawing for the first time this course will provide you with the foundations you need in the language of drawing. Learning to see in terms of lines, shapes and value pattern is the essential skill required to translate the three-dimensional world to any two dimensional surface – regardless of the medium you ultimately wish to explore. As well as learning to draw you will learn the most essential thing in the arts: HOW TO SEE, the foundation of all art. All materials included. Course meets Tuesdays and Thursdays, 5:00 – 8:00 pm.LEARN MORE