Acrylic Paint Pouring with Ellen Kanner – March 24

by | Feb 25, 2020 | Archive

Acrylic Paint Pouring with Ellen Kanner
March 24, 2020, 10:30am-12 pm
$50

What is Acrylic Paint Pouring?

The process of paint pouring entails using acrylic paint, resin, several oil mediums and (a little) propane gas which creates the beautiful and unique cells. The surface is tilted in different directions to let the paint flow and the colors interact in unpredictable, yet always interesting ways.

Ellen will start by discussing different techniques of paint pour and showing some examples.  She’ll explain the science behind the paint pour method and show some creative techniques people are using.  

Students will then create a lovely paint pour which takes around 1 hour 15 minutes.

You will need to leave your paintings here to dry on a flat surface for about 4 days (or they’ll continue to “pour”).

Please bring plastic non-latex gloves. We’ll have all the other materials for you! 

Ellen Kanner is a fluid acrylic artist creating specialized paint pours. Her paintings are shown in galleries in NY and Long Island. Ellen has previously worked in ceramic and stone.

For more about Ellen and to see her work, visit her Instagram account.

Acrylic Paint Pour – Kanner – March 2020
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Pre-Valentine’s Lecture: Artist Couples with Debbie Wells, Thursday Feb. 13, 6:30-8:30 pm

Pre-Valentine’s Lecture: Artist Couples with Debbie Wells, Thursday Feb. 13, 6:30-8:30 pm

by | Jan 9, 2020 | Archive

Artist Couples: A Pre-Valentine’s Day Art Lecture with Debbie Wells
Thursday, February 13, 2020, 6:30 – 8:30pm
$15 M/$20 NM

“We’re all a little weird, and life’s a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall in mutual weirdness and call it love” (Seuss). This is so true when it comes to couples in the arts! This lecture covers several couples (of all forms) and their how their personal relationships and professional lives in the art world flourished together (or not) and why.

Debbie Wells of Artful Circle will give a dynamic and fun presentation of the love lives and art of these very interesting creative couples!

Some of the couples include:

  • French Impressionist Edgar Degas and his complicated relationship with American artist Mary Cassatt
  • The dynamics between American spouses art dealer/photographer Alfred Steiglitz and painter Georgia O’Keeffe
  • The marriage of legendary Mexican artists Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera
  • The Jackson Pollock/Lee Krasner marriage, including their time spent together on Long Island
  • Same-sex couples  – Brit artist team Gilbert & George and modern artists Jasper Johns & Robert Rauschenberg
  • The art partnership of Os Gemeos, the street artist brother duo
  • Pablo Picasso and everybody – his wives, mistresses, girlfriends, etc!

Join us for this fun and festive evening – Bring a friend or significant other! We’ll have delicious refreshments!

About the Speaker

Debbie Wells is the co-founder of Artful Circle with Franklin Hill Perrell which provides visits to art galleries and museums, art lectures and curatorial services. For more information, visit www.artfulcircle.com

She is a graduate of Parsons School of Design (BFA/MA) with a professional background in graphic design, advertising and publicity for over 30 years. Over the years, she has won several awards from Graphic Design:USA magazine for her designs in package design, corporate design and publication.

Wells is an Artist Member of the Salmagundi Club in NYC and has had her photographs in many juried exhibitions, including their historic Black & White Exhibition. She also serves as Immediate Past President of the Board at the Art League of Long Island in Dix Hills and in addition to her leadership role, personal projects there include: creating a hand-painted fundraising mural for their art library and as speaker for the “Dab of Paint” art history lecture series.

Her curatorial work with Franklin Hill Perrell includes exhibitions at the Nassau County Museum of Art in Roslyn Harbor, Heckscher Museum in Huntington, Art League of Long Island in Dix Hills, Preservation Long Island in Oyster Bay, Roslyn Landmark Society, and Bryant Library in Roslyn and Tria Gallery in Chelsea.

Beginning Watercolor for Home Schoolers with Esther Marie

Beginning Watercolor for Home Schoolers with Esther Marie

by | Jan 5, 2020 | Archive, Past Classes and Workshops

Basic Watercolors with Esther Marie

8 weeks: Jan. 14, 21, 28, Feb. 4, 11,  25 and March 10, 17 • 10:30am-12:30pm (No class February 18 and March 3)

$150

This class will help promote confidence and control in watercolors.

To focus, we will start with a simple breathing exersize for a couple of minutes before we start to paint. 

This class will focus on developing good compositions through negative painting, focal points and a variety of tools. Students will learn about brush strokes, washes, blending and color theory.  They will use watercolors to establish color and light, to work wet-on-wet, for texture, to suggest value changes, for negative painting with discussion on composition, as well as for focus and depth. 

Demonstrations will be followed by hands-on experience, one-on-one asistance, and encouraging critiques. 

The emphasis in this class is on individual instructional techniques to foster the student’s ability.  Students will complete several small paintings in the class.  

We have most materials needed for this class. More info to follow.
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Sacred Geometry – with Antonia Fthenakis

Sacred Geometry – with Antonia Fthenakis

by | Aug 26, 2019 | Archive

Sacred Geometry in Art
for Middle & High Schoolers with Antonia Fthenakis

7 weeks: September 10, 17, 24, Oct 15, 22, 29, November 12, from 11am-12:30pm (No class Oct. 1 & 8, Nov. 5)
$125

The Art of Nature, an introduction to the sacred geometry of everyday life. 

In this course, Andonia Fthenakis will take you on a journey through geometry, and its relationship to nature, culture, and our understanding of the universe. You will gain an intimate understanding of the power of numbers 1-10 in the world and how they are used in nature and art, in patterns, structure and design. 

The course includes several techniques to create sacred geometry using a compass, drawing, and painting. We will create Metatron’s Cube, Athena’s Web (the Weave of the Goddess), Golden Rectangles & Spirals, and more.

Sacred geometry is that which unites and creates all realities. Sacred geometry is a complex system of symbols and structures involving space, time and form and these basic patterns of existence are perceived as sacred. 

It unites the mind and the heart, spirit and matter, science and spirituality. It shows us that everything in nature is made up of patterns, structures, and designs from the smallest atom to the infinite universe. Here we will find that mathematical order is intrinsic to the nature of the universe. Some of the most prevalent traditional geometric forms ascribed to sacred geometry include the sine wave, the sphere, the vesica piscis, the 5 platonic solids, the torus (donut), the golden spiral, the tesseract (4-dimensional cube), and the merkaba (2 oppositely oriented and interpenetrating tetrahedrons). Sacred geometry is considered foundational to building sacred structures such as temples, mosques, megaliths, monuments and churches; sacred spaces such as altars, temenoi and tabernacles; meeting places such as sacred groves, village greens and holy wells and the creation of religious art, iconography and using “divine” mathematical proportions. Alternatively, sacred geometry based arts may be ephemeral, such as visualization (kaleidoscope), sand painting, and medicine wheels.

 

Together, through the art-making process, we will investigate nature to understand and create works of art based on sacred geometry. Some of the topics to be covered are:

  • Introduction to sacred geometry in art and nature
  • Fundamentals of the number sequence and its relationship to form and symbols.
  • Geometric structures in nature, the cross sections of trees, plants, seeds, shells 
  • Nature’s design of botanicals; dissecting form and matter.
  • Patterns in nature, looking at life from microcosm to macrocosm.
  • Drawing sacred geometry forms 
  • Painting an original work of art using sacred geometry.

More info and a materials list (minimal) to come.

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Acrylic Painting for Beginners with Manuel Adolfo Villalobos – Wednesday evenings

Acrylic Painting for Beginners with Manuel Adolfo Villalobos – Wednesday evenings

by | Apr 12, 2019 | Archive

Acrylic Painting for Beginners with Manuel Adolfo Villalobos

6 Weeks: Wednesdays, October 2, 16, 23, 30, November 6, 13 • 7-9pm 
$180M/$215NM

 

Have you ever wanted to learn how to paint, but didn’t know where to start? In this beginners painting class, students will learn the fundamentals of using acrylic paint. Color theory, color mixing, mediums, and composition development will be used to help create a still life painting.

Additionally, all great paintings began with an idea and sketch, thus, all students need to have a sketchbook at hand to jot down ideas and sketches. After this class you will have a different outlook in painting and the way you see art.

Materials list below.

 

Materials list

You can get all of these supplies at Dick Blick Artist Supplies (Located in Carle Place)

Acrylic paint:
Cerulean Blue Hue
Ultramarine Blue
Alizarin Crimson Hue
Burnt Sienna
Burnt Umber
Phthalo Green
Titanium White
Utrecht paint or Winsor & Newton 60 ml tubes 

Medium retarder (fluid slow dry) recommended for acrylic paint 

Brushes
Princeton Real Value Brush Set #9154
(Long handle, set of 7 (round 2 and 6, Bright 6, filbert 8, fan 6, flat 10 and angular 6)

Other
Grey paper palette pad (Blick brand has a color wheel on the inside cover)
Palette seal box
Two (2) 9″x12″ canvases
Rag/towel and paper towel
Sketchbook 
Pencil
Charcoal sticks
Pencil sharpener

Manuel Adolfo Villalobos is a Fine Artist, Musician and Art Educator from Mineola, New York. He has achieved a Bachelors in Art Education from Long Island University and is also a co-founding member of the alternative hip-hop group A Side Of Darkness (A.S.O.D), where he goes under the stage name OG Manny G and has performed in NYC and Long Island.

He has exhibited his art work in a number of galleries on the Island, such as; Studio 5404, Massapequa, NY, Artspace Gallery, Patchogue, NY, Mills Pond Gallery, St. James, NY, Plaza Art Gallery, Garden City, NY, Sculpture Studio & S.A.L Gallery, Brookville, NY, and The Art Guild, Flower Hill, NY. Through his music and art he expresses socially and politically driven awareness, which is showcased in his artwork and rhythmic lyrics.

Beginning Acrylic Painting w/Villalobos FALL 2019
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Empowering the Teen Artist – for Middle & High School Students – Fall 2019

Empowering the Teen Artist – for Middle & High School Students – Fall 2019

by | Apr 6, 2019 | Archive

Empowering the Teen Artist
for Middle & High School Students

12 Tuesdays: Sept. 10, 17, 24, Oct. 8, 15, 22, 29, Nov. 12, 19, 26, Dec. 3, 10 • 6-8 pm
$320M / $355NM

Investigate the principles and elements of design, make cultural connections and integrate influences-across-borders while advancing your artistic expertise.

Subject matter will include realistic and abstracted: still life, landscape and portraiture. Students will gain exposure in a variety of media in order to produce a varied portfolio that demonstrates technical skill as well as creativity and conceptual skills.

Using centuries-old techniques, students will learn how to create their own painting and drawing mediums from natural materials.

  • Egg tempera: used by Renaissance artists and modern masters
  • Sumi ink: a signature technique of Asian art and culture
  • Charcoal: possibly mankind’s earliest art material
  • Watercolor: natural pigments from our gardens and yards replicate materials used for thousands of years 

Instructor: Antonia Fthenakis
Antonia Fthenakis is a Parsons School of Design graduate, a Bank Street educator and a teacher of children and young adults with special needs, teaching studio arts and the art of traditional skills in NYC public school for some17 years. Currently based in Port Washington, co-creating and offering teachings inspired by the natural world, Waldorf philosophy, integrative holistic wellness and the Reiki healing arts. 

 

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