Sedona Arts Center update for Jan. 16 — Upcoming Classes, Concerts, Receptions

Wine will be available to participants 21 years and older only.

Cost: $35 includes all art materials to complete your painting.

Get involved, gain confidence, and increase your enjoyment in the stimulating environment of painting with oils. You will paint primarily landscape and their elements, but also learn techniques to incorporate wildlife/animals into the landscape. Emphasis will be on learning the necessary painting language and vision to complete successful landscape oil paintings. Instructional demonstrations, individualized attention, evaluation, and critique will happen throughout the course. Students will have an opportunity to do a number of paintings over the duration of the course. No previous experience necessary.

Brilliant colors interacting with each other is the core of the Kumomi practice followed by mindful drawing. This fun process as an effective way to calm the mind and enhance creativity. The goal is to be present in the moment, let go of expectations and enjoy the creative process. In this 3-hour session you will experience joyful color mixing and paint on several surfaces with brilliant acrylic ink, and draw using a variety of pens.

In this complete Crash Course, you will learn Kumomi: Discover the Creative Spirit (March 4–13); Notan: The Art of Composition (May 13–22); Wabi Sabi:  Creating Imperfect Layers (April 20–21). The goal is to be present in the moment, let go of expectations, and enjoy the creative process! All materials included.

With materials included all barriers have been removed so that you can explore the fun of painting! All you bring is yourself and clothing that you could get some paint on!

Join us to experience new and exciting finishing techniques. This workshop is great for a first time clay experience or for the experienced potter to explore a number of new finishes. We will be using non-traditional finishes such as Raku, Sager, Obvara and horse hair to create beautiful surface results.This class meets two consecutive Sunday’s, the first, to create your pieces and the second to fire them.

This workshop is open to all experience levels, from none to advanced. The potters wheel is available for those with experience. Hand building, available for all. Each participant will create 4-5 pieces.

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.

Working in the studio from reproductions including older and 20th century masters, we’ll move through a guided series of exercises to understand that abstraction – composition with color and shape – is THE foundation, the great engine behind all painting. Significant emphasis will also be placed on drawing interpretively from the images, as the most abstract graphic language, with part of each day spent engaged in a series of exercises using crayons and graphite to complement our examination of form with paints.

Every painting, even the humble still life, has a story in it. It’s told by what subject we choose to paint, how we present that subject, and how we paint it. Finding what interests us in a subject and how we connect to it drives that story, and directs how the painting is made.We’ll work on small still life paintings to explore the process – from thumbnail sketches, lighting the subject, considerations of composition, to the application of paint to build form with light, color and mark. We will walk the line between technique and intuition, using the still life as a way to explore paint and why we make art.

Using direct strokes on a textured surface to emphasize “brushwork we will learn how to simplify our approach to achieve exciting impressionistic paintings that are flooded with light.

We will add elements of abstraction but still keep some association with reality. This workshop is for those willing to go through the door marked ‘leaving your comfort zone’ and enter a world of exciting and expressive pastel application. We will also experiment with ways exciting ways to introduce more color and light into our work. Each day will start with a demonstration with heaps of challenges and loads of individual help at the easel.

Join our Keynote speaker and judge for last year’s 14th Annual Sedona Plein Air Festival, Bill Cramer 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.

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.