W O R K S H O P S:
THE VISION BOARD
creating the life you want
Sunday Mar 21, 2010 • 10:00 — 5:00
$45.00, $10.00 materials fee
West Sedona Studio
Materials are included, (except your unique pictures).
The Vision board is a powerful and delightful way to create your reality
Vision boards are pictoral representations of what you want your life to be. The language of the unconscious mind is visual; the images the unconscious mind holds is what it creates, which is your life. By looking at your vision board
you ingest your vision of what you want, and lo and behold,
over time you will see this happening in your life.
The process of making a vision board is incredibly clarifying: which pictures you choose, which you don’t choose, where you put the pictures on your board... all these things reveal unconscious attitudes we carry.
‘Mind creates matter; if we don’t know what’s in there
we will not be in control of what we create.’ –RB
Create your vision board with an artist who will guide you through the ins and outs of this most easy, fun and fabulous way to shift your world.
DRAWING WITHOUT FEAR
May 10 - 14, 2010
A 5 day workshop
Sedona Arts Center
www.sedonaartscenter.com
928 282 3809
$575.00
All materials included
Taught with patience, love and humor, this course is designed for both absolute beginners and those who wish to enhance their drawing skills. The class explores key techniques of drawing, ways they can be creatively combined, and the bottom line of all drawing, how to see. Using time honored teaching methods, one on one instruction and demos, and general irreverence and goofiness, drawing will be demystified; making it easy and rewarding to learn to draw.
G L O W
the fine art of water and color
GLOW! In this workshop the focus is on color; on creating rich, luminous, glowing color. All waterbased mediums are welcome, however I will work and demonstrate in watercolor, and we will be working with the transparent element of waterbased mediums.
Often colors cannot be matched to what is seen in nature or a photo, the luminousity gets lost. There are many many tricks to recreating this vibrant color, most of them surprisingly simple.
You will learn how to work within your palette to achieve the glow you want. (And we’ll go over the basics of how to work with water and color to create those wonderful watery effects: wet into wet, scumbling, glazing... and more).
FOUNDATIONS OF CREATIVITY
a series of four intensive 5 day workshops
designed to teach the basics of all 2D art.
I have noticed that many students emerge from
a workshop either mimicking the style of the workshop’s instructor, or worse, they don’t continue painting because they don’t know what to do.
The instructor has led the participants through
a step-by-step process of how to make a particular painting, but didn’t teach anything about the basics
of how to paint. Thus, without the step-by-step process
they are lost.
The Foundations of Creativity Series is about
the BASIC UNDERLYING PRINCIPLES of the visual arts. These are timeless and scientific… how the eye sees, how color works, how composition works, opening your creativity …how to get started…
In these workshops, via drawing or painting, a lot
of laughing, and hands on experiential learning
you will learn to apply these principles to your work,
and incorporate them in the way you create.
You will create your paintings as you would like them
to be, following your own creativity and style, incorporating what you learn from an instructor into YOUR style, rather than copying theirs.
There is a lifetime of things to learn here, but I broke it down into four basic workshops:
• DRAWING WITHOUT FEAR:
learning to see. The essential basic.
(see below for details)
• COMPOSITION AND CREATIVITY:
t h e a r t o f b r e a k i n g t h e r u l e s
how to lead the eye around a page. Ultimately if the
composition works you can get away with anything.
(see below for details)
• THE SECRET OF COLOR I & II:
a c o l or l o v e a f f a i r
all about color... in two parts;
pushing color to its limits, and
then some… luminosity, depth, tone, mood….
(see below for details)
• UNLOCKING YOUR CREATIVITY:
time honored tricks to help streamline your creative
process, how to get in touch with, and fine-tune what
you want to say visually.
(see below for details)
These four workshops are held in my studio in West Sedona or at the Sedona Arts Center. They are strung together by optional ongoing group crits in my studio every month or so.
You can take any or all of them; the only prerequisite
is drawing, (not necessarily my drawing class).
The maximum number of participants in all but the drawing workshop is seven people, to insure lots of one on one attention.
THE SECRET OF COLOR, I & II
a c o l o r l o v e a f f a i r
Color is a love affair, and effective color is truly magical. Color creates depth, mood, and atmosphere; when it is used well it makes a direct emotional connection with the viewer, literally stopping someone in their tracks.
How does one create “luminous color” ?
Understanding how the eye functions and how colors interact is the key. In these two five day workshops we will enter into a color love affair.
In Color I we will explore how to create rich, evocative color by playing complimentary colors off each other; by working with unified, harmonious palettes, and by investigating the sublety and influence of neutrals.
In Color II we will take it deeper. One of the most magical things in 2 dimensional art is creating a painting you can walk into. You will learn how to create atmosphere and mood using warm and cool colors, and how to use hue to create depth.
These two workshops cover different aspects of color, and are offered as individual workshops, (though you are certainly welcome to attend both).
Please contact Peggy directly through her website.
The workshops will be held in her studio in West Sedona.
CREATIVITY AND COMPOSITION
t h e a r t o f b r e a k i n g t h e r u l e s
This workshop is not for anyone who wants to remain precious around their work. We’ll throw the paint around, make a mess, create using whatever we can get our hands on, and MAKE IT WORK.
“Understanding how composition functions frees you to create whatever you want; as long as a piece works compositionally it will stand on it’s own authority.”
These 5 days are about how to “make something work”, (and of course have a gas at the same time).
While learning different (and fun) techniques you will also learn how to use the darks or lights to lead the eye through a page; how to apply the elements of design to create more interesting compositions... and discover for yourself that anyhing goes once you understand these basic principles.
We will also cover some of “the rules”, (after all it’s hard to break them if you don’t know what they are).
Supplies are included in the fee, but bring your favorites if you want to work with them, your favorite music, and any work you want help with compositionally.
Please contact Peggy directly through her website.
The workshop will be held in her studio in West Sedona
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