Workshops

Workshops are conducted by regionally or nationally known artists and are open to all. To register for workshops, please contact the League office at 910-944-3979. Click here for the Workshop brochure in printable PDF form.
WATERCOLOR: A FRESH START


Instructor: Leslie Frontz
May 21-22, 2010
10 a.m. – 4 p.m.
$150 Members - $180 Non Members


This workshop will introduce students to a series of unconventional painting exercises designed to capitalize on strengths and overcome challenges. By making a fresh start, you will learn how to improve your technical skills as well as how to better express your ideas. Best of all, this workshop gives you tools to continue teaching yourself over a lifetime. Mastery of the watercolor medium becomes easily achievable. See her website: www.frontzstudio.com
Minimum 6 – Maximum 12

$60 deposit due at registration, balance due by April 9, 2010.

 
OIL PAINTING WORKSHOP WITH MAGGIE SINER

Instructor: Maggie Siner
October 18 - 21, 2010
9:30 am - 4:30 pm
$550 Members - $650 Non-Members

 Maggie Siner
This intensive four-day workshop is designed to strengthen visual sensitivity through direct painting from observation with the goal of creating a powerful statement and real sense of physical presence in the painted image. Students will explore color, light, space, form and mark-making, working toward a deeper understanding of what makes a painting dynamic and beautiful. We will use many different approaches to painting from life, to reveal how external realities resonate with interior truths. We will use mostly still-life, which offers great opportunity to work intensely with the forms, colors, and intimate space of familiar objects. A strong emphasis will be placed on light as the organizer of color and shape, and on color itself as the primary element of painting. Much attention will also be given to gesture and brushwork as sources of expression and structure. Aesthetic principles and painting techniques will be presented while individual attention and group critiques help students evaluate their work. Website: www.maggiesiner.com.

$60 deposit due at registration, balance due by September 3, 2010.
WATERCOLOR WORKSHOP

Instructor: Frank Francese
March 1-4, 2011
9 a.m. 4 p.m.
$375 Members - $450 Non Members


Each day’s workshop will include 45 minute morning and afternoon painting demonstrations by the artist; one-on-one instruction; group critiques; and ample time for personal painting. Each day’s painting will be various type scenes such as nature, country, cityscapes, and nature. Frank will be showing the class different ways to approach a painting, from the start to finish. Also, a positive attitude will be a great asset which will enable you to really enjoy yourself. See his website: www.ffrancese.com

Minimum 12 – Maximum 24


$60 deposit due at registration, balance due by January 21, 2011.
PAINTING THE LANDSCAPE USING PHOTOGRAPHIC REFERENCES

Instructor: Kevin Beck
May 16-18, 2011
9:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.
$275 Members - $325 Non Members


This workshop is for the painter interested in learning the fundamentals of creating spontaneous fresh landscape paintings using photographs as the reference. The goal is to create life infused paintings and not a copy of a photograph. Issues to be discussed and demonstrated include: seeing and interpreting values; do’s and don’ts of working from photographs; and the painting process in pastel and oil. All levels. You may work in oil or in pastel, but should select only medium for the workshop. See his website: www.kevinbeck.com
Minimum 10 – Maximum 18


$60 deposit due at registration, balance due by April 1, 2011.
CONCEPT DEVELOPMENT- HOW TO CREATE UNIQUE AND MEANINGFUL ART

Instructor: Katharine Cartwright
September 26-30, 2011
9:30 a.m. 4:30 p.m.
$425 Members - $495 Non Members

All great paintings begin with a great concept.  This workshop is designed to teach students how to create meaningful and unique art through a systematic process that begins with concept development and the construction of a working thesis statement.  Students will learn how to apply their thesis to constructing a series of paintings that are uniquely meaningful, technically consistent and masterful.  Students develop analytical skills necessary for critique of their own work.  You can develop a more mature and systematic method for creating art and become an artist who produces great paintings.  Kathy works in oil, watercolor, and gouache.  Students may work in the medium of their choice.  See her website:  www.kacartwright.com
Minimum 8 – Maximum 15

$60 deposit due at registration, balance due by August 12, 2011.