Sedona Arts Center — We just added NEW Online Art Workshops!

Classes will include a variety of poses with the nude, draped and partially draped model, 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. No photography, please. Handouts provided.

In this workshop, learn to paint portraits and people from photography, and maintain a fresh, loose and impressionistic feeling throughout your painting.  Paint right along from the comfort of your home studio.  We will discuss editing and learn to simplify our reference using a “Less is More” approach!! Throughout the class session, I will be demonstrating and discussing proportions, color mixing and loose brush techniques. Photo reference will be provided for the class in a download. We’ll end our workshop with a critique!

The urban landscape is a rich motif to explore composition in value and color. Pastels give us the direct immediacy of a drawing and the rich, organic pigment of oil paint. Through the Zoom platform, Nancie will share her rapid methods for simplifying cityscapes to get past the complexities of this sometimes intimidating motif.Then with the basic composition established we can look at how structural perspective, atmospheric perspective, value & chroma shifts work together to create the effect of distance on a city street. The morning begins with a demo, break for lunch, then we paint all afternoon as Nancie shares time-lapse videos of suggested corrections for students’ work. Finally we share a group critique during the final hour each day. Plan on 21 hours of instruction over the 3 days.

A focus of this workshop is to find ease in bringing your mid-process “beautiful abstract mess” to completion. You’ll create two acrylic paintings that embody meaning, naturalness, and spatial depth and flow – qualities that lift an abstract painting from amateur to professional.

This is a comprehensive four-day workshop using the easy ZOOM online interface that will take you through the mixed media portrait process step-by-step, utilizing live online demos, video lessons, pdf printouts, classroom lecture, and opportunities to share your work one-on-one with the instructor. You’ll learn to create your own hand-painted collage papers and experiment with gel printing, stamping, and patterning paper through a multitude of techniques. Rip and glue and apply your papers in a painterly manner over the top of a female portrait made with charcoal drawing and painting. Classroom lecture and demos will be incorporated for all steps of the process.

Most of this online workshop will be via Zoom, LIVE from the Sedona Arts Center! However the first session will be in advance and broadcast live from Elizabeth’s Northern California based studio. At the end of this four-day Workshop, you will have a new set of skills and new confidence having created a mixed media fashion illustration–your very own Year of the Woman paper portrait! Elizabeth has taught collage workshops in person for over eleven years, it is that extensive experience that has helped her to create this comprehensive, easy to understand online format.

Past students have said of his workshops… “Rather than coming out with perfect little copies of what Tom does, I came out with a wealth of watercolor techniques which I can utilize in my painting.” “The best workshop I have ever had”… “Never a dull moment”… “Learned more in one day than I have in years”… “Patient, positive and knowledgeable.”  Tom was listed as one of the nations top 20 teachers by watercolor magazine.

“I want you all to have a great time in this workshop and I want to motivate you to paint more and better! I will share with you all the secrets I know about painting and provide you with rich visuals to make this a great experience.”

We will use the ZOOM format which will allow for a to 2 camera presentations, great close- ups, a visual connection for both you and your questions and, I  will be able to see you and your artwork. All you need is a computer, and an Internet connection. You will be sent a link prior to class and all you need to do is download the free zoom app then just click on my invitation and we will be live.

Note: The first meeting is an evening orientation talk with Stuart Shils: WHAT HAPPENS WHEN I NOTICE JACK NICHOLSON? Thursday, November 12, 2020, 4:30 – 6:00 pm (Arizona time)

These three lively mornings will explore the relationship between drawing and observation, examining how close and clarified observation can hone our visually analytical minds, regardless of what it is we are looking at. Each day will begin with either a slide talk or a guided conversation exploring issues like:

-visual confidence
-the meaning of simplification
-the shaping and reshaping expectations
-where to begin and how to begin
-what matters on paper