Sedona Arts Center update for July 25

In today’s technological world, even professional photographers and artists are recognizing the iPhone as a useful (and even practical) photographic tool. Join photographer artist, Kelli Klymenko in his one-day workshops for beginner and advanced students and you’ll go beyond the basics and learn to shoot professional quality photographs with your iPhone.

In this 1-day workshop you will learn how to shoot, edit, and share remarkable landscapes, portraits and the macro world around you using only your iPhone! Kelli will guide you through simple tips and tricks that will take your photography to the next level. Discover how to capture the essence of a place and your subjects rather than just taking a picture.

In this favorite abstract course, 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 discernment and valuable composition and color skills while creating two vibrant and intriguing acrylic paintings: a painted paper collage and an 18×24 canvas panel.

Through demonstration, practice, and discussion, participants will come to see each painting more deeply and understand how to enhance its impact.

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. Students should take a drawing class prior to attempting painting. The materials list is available below.

You will begin to fill pages with beautiful colors and textural backgrounds while exploring drawing, watercolor, collage and mixed media techniques. Two days of creativity will include plein air sketching, nature rubbings as well as playing with patterns and motifs using stencils, other found materials and collected ephemera.

Participants are encouraged to bring found objects, photos, receipts, pressed leaves, etc.

You will receive a basic travel journaling kit for the $50 fee that includes brilliant watercolors, sketching supplies and a portable journal. Karen will also have additional materials and supplies on hand for you to use during the class. Optional upgrades to the basic kit will be available for purchase as well so you can continue your creative journaling at home or on the road.

In this beginner class you will learn the approach to creating hand-stamped jewelry using copper, brass, or nickel discs and niobium ear wires! Make a stunning pair of texture earrings or a hand-stamped pendant with a word that speaks to you.

Starting out, you will learn different hammering techniques to texture the metal while deciding the design, shape, and texture of your piece. Think of a word you want to stamp on your necklace and what texture you would like, too. Your instructor will walk around and guide you as you create a hand-stamped item that is custom for you. We will finish off by adorning the piece with a wire-wrapped bead and with a chain or ear wires.

Explore the the secrets of creating high performance art with Prismacolor fine art pencils. Award winning artist and illustrator Richard Drayton will guide students through step-by-step techniques that will result in rich blended colors and powerful composition. Printed worksheets and images will be provided by the instructor. Artists of all levels will enjoy expanding the boundaries of creative expression with this remarkably versatile medium.

September 17–19
Loosen Up with Aquamedia Painting
Robert Burridge
Burridge’s popular “Loosen Up” workshops nurture individual success and personal enrichment with a big emphasis on daily painting projects at your own pace. It is stress-free, but be warned; you could end up with too much enthusiasm for painting. This Burridge flagship workshop offers a variety of painting subjects for everyone. Designed for the professional painter who is stuck in a style as well as for the novice who wants to conquer their fear of painting.

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September 21–23
Abstract / Figurative 3-Day Workshop
Robert Burridge

Zen Calligraphy Master Alok Hsu Kwang-han will give a presentation and demonstration, “Zen as Art, Celebrating my 80th Birthday!” on Wednesday, September 12, 7 to 8:30 pm, at the Sedona Arts Center, 15 Art Barn Rd, Sedona, AZ 86336. Admission is free.

Alok comments, “Painting Zen, as it has evolved through me in the last 40 years, proceeds with the methodless-method of “resting in presence, moving from emptiness.” As a true Zen practice, the “self” is not in the way. Celebrating the 80th birthday of my body can truly be a celebration if the “self” can also not be in the way— without identification or attachment to “my” body or to the “I” supposedly anchored to the body. The I then, present and empty, can be spacious and grateful for the miracle of our existence, including my existence, and the beauty of our impermanence. This way we can be relaxed and easy with life and death together. It’s a fierce and liberating art to have no preference for one over the other. Zen is our digested and embodied wisdom that emboldens us and supports us at each stage of our life-and-death. “God” has designed it this way but we have gone astray, choosing this rejecting that.”

September 29 and 30
A Brush with Emptiness
Alok Hsu Kwang-han

Join Alok for a two-day workshop as he guides and inspires you to rest in spaciousness of your being, to be comfortable and intimate with not-knowing, and to allow your brush to dance from emptiness. A healing journey and a creative hands-on workshop. No previous experience with Zen or painting needed. All materials are included.

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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.

The class will include a hands on comparison of the unique nature and differences found between hot encaustic wax and cold wax medium when applied to the paper elements and incorporated into the design. We will also examine the qualities unique to each of three protective finishes, hot encaustic wax, cold wax medium, and spray varnish and leave the class with a new found confidence in your ability to determine which to use.

Learn to explore the expressive beauty of the human form through a unique paperclay process working from slab to sculptural form. For sculptors with experience this is a game changer, for those with no experience it is a wonderful place to begin. No knowledge of anatomy, sculpture or ceramics is needed to fully engage with this workshop.

In slab form, the clay can be twisted, folded, squeezed and torn to mimic the human form. Because of the wicking properties that come from the paper additives, it will easily adhere to itself – no scoring or slipping needed.

We will break some rules and also learn some new ones as you delve into this modern, user-friendly medium. Surface treatment will be discussed and recipe sheets for the stains and oxides will be provided. Each student will end with two works of about 12 inches in height or length.

Call to Artists
Apply For Representation in our Fine Art Gallery

The largest selection of works by Sedona Artists!

The Center’s Fine Art Gallery showcases the largest selection in Sedona of artwork by local artists. If you are seeking a rare piece of fine art, a gift of exquisite jewelry, appreciate stunning photography, or looking for a lovely keepsake from your visit to Sedona, the Arts Center has it all and more. The Arts Center is a 501(c)3 organization that offers all purchases without sales tax – almost a 10% savings. In addition, membership to the Sedona Arts Center provides an additional 10% off all gallery purchases as well as other benefits.

Submit your work!Artists are invited to submit a portfolio and application to be juried into the Members Fine Arts Gallery. Submissions are accepted once annually: July 1–31
Click here for our submission guidelines