Past Classes and Workshops | The Art Guild of Port Washington, Inc.

Watercolor for Beginners with Esther Marie

by Grace Lucarelli | May 3, 2019 | Past Classes and Workshops

Watercolor for Beginners with Esther Marie
4 Tuesdays: Jan. 28, Feb. 4, 11, 25, 2020 • 1-3pm
$120M/$155NM

This class will help promote confidence and control in watercolors for the beginner. We will focus on developing good compositions through negative painting, focal points and a variety of tools. Students will learn about brush strokes, washes, mixes, 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.

Emphasis in this class is for individual instructional techniques to foster your ability. Students will complete several small paintings in the class. A demonstration will be followed by hands on experience and personal critiques.

Click HERE for Esther Marie’s supply list.

A native of Long Island, Esther Marie actively exhibits in many art related gallery shows, auctions and events both nationally and internationally. She works for clients in New York City and across the country. She had also showed her work globally, as far away as South Korea. She was awarded a fellowship and hand selected for a renowned art residency at The Chautauqua Institution in upstate New York, as well as a full scholarship to the Vermont Studio Center. She also participated in a Rotary International Exchange for a month where she learned about the culture. Besides being immersed into the culture they were introduced to artists, viewed their art, and she created several different art pieces using Korean traditional art techniques. Esther Marie’s paintings are in several private as well as permanent collections. She concentrates on Plein Aire and abstract painting and has shown at numerous galleries in the Northeast of the United States. Esther Marie was named “Best in Show” at the Northport Plein Aire event. In perhaps her best achievement yet, she was chosen to be in the exclusive Heckscher Museum of Art Long Island Biennial. Aside from painting, Esther Marie enjoys teaching art, yoga, meditation, dancing, poetry and chess. She lives and works as an art instructor and adjunct professor in Long Island, New York. You can see more of her art at www.esthermarieart.com

Colored Pencil Foundations with Jill Velasco

by Grace Lucarelli | Apr 30, 2019 | Past Classes and Workshops

Colored Pencil Foundations with Jill Velasco
6 Weeks • Tuesdays: Apr. 7, 21, 28, May 5, 12 • 1:30-3:30pm
$180 M/$215 NM

In this intro course, students will learn the fundamentals to get started in this exciting medium as well as the proper tools and techniques needed to create artwork ranging in appearance from that of an illustration – to obtaining a sheen of an oil painting.

We will cover choosing the right paper surface, working on toned backgrounds, mark-making, color-mixing, working from a limited palette, creating washes with solvent – and more!

Class will include lecture, sketchbook tutorials and a teacher-guided still life to tie it all together. Great for those looking to refresh their colored pencil skills as well as those new to the medium. Some prior drawing experience is recommended.

MATERIALS LIST

24 tin of Prismacolor Premiere Colored Pencils
Prismacolor colored pencil accessory kit (sold on bubble card with 7 items)
Manual or battery-operated/rechargeable Pencil sharpener with reservoir for shavings (recommended: derwent superpoint, carl angel 5 manual, afmat long point rechargeable or manual, kum manual with reservoir)
4.2 oz bottle of Gamsol OMS
Graphite pencil to sketch #hb or #2b
Inexpensive, synthetic mini mop brush or deerfoot shaped brush ¼”- 1/8” approx. size (for solvent use)
(Recommended Princeton velvetouch short handle mop 1/8” from Blick (online or in Carle Place) or Jerrysartarama.com
Canson Mixed media sketchbook – blue cover 7×10”

Resources for shopping:
Amazon(great prices on pencils!), dickblick.com or Carle Place Blick store, Jerrysartarama.com

Any questions, please feel free to reach out via email: Jillvelascoart@gmail.com

Jill Velasco is an exhibiting Artist, Graphic Designer and Educator with a BFA in Graphic Design and an MS in Visual Arts Education. For over ten years, Jill has taught fine art classes in both schools and studios throughout Long Island to both children and adults of all levels. In addition to teaching workshops, creating both digital and fine art for clients, she currently moderates and mentors colored pencil enthusiasts via social media for the publication Colored Pencil Magazine. While graphic design work requires precision through technology to complete things like logos, vehicle wraps and rebranding of corporate identity, her drawings and paintings take a departure from the commercial to capture nature and moments of the everyday. Colored pencil, pastel and acrylic paint are the featured media in her portraits, botanical and wildlife art. Jill is a proud member of the Colored Pencil Society of America, American Society of Botanical Artists, Westbury Arts Council and The Art Guild of Port Washington.

Watercolor Classes with Eileen Neville – Winter 2020 – 5 Weeks

by Grace Lucarelli | Apr 15, 2019 | Past Classes and Workshops

WATERCOLOR CLASSES WITH EILEEN NEVILLE WINTER 2020

5 Wednesdays: Nov 18, 25, Dec 2, 9 & 16

12pm – 2pm

$160 Members/$195 Non-members

Save $$$ off the class & workshop fees! Become a Member and get the rest of 2020 for free! CLICK HERE!

Watercolor is a truly diverse medium. Explore basic techniques of washes, learn wet on wet painting, glazing and dry brush methods. We will begin to understand the properties of pigments and when to use them properly. Watercolor is always challenging, fresh and new. No experience necessary, beginners welcome!

Painting the Floral Still-Life with Jacqueline Kamin, June 13-16, 2019

by Grace Lucarelli | Mar 2, 2019 | Past Classes and Workshops

Jacqueline Kamin: Floral Workshop
Four-Days: June 13-16, 2019, 10:00am – 4:30pm
$650 Members/$685 Non-members
Deposits now being taken

Demo on Wednesday, June 12, included in tuition**

Students will explore the basics of setting up a poetic still life, with an emphasis on the fleeting beauty of flowers. This will encourage a bold, direct application of paint to capture essential beauty. We will discuss the importance of finding an abstract, visual idea in the set up that is all- important for conveying this beauty to the viewer. Students will experiment with the lush quality of oil paint to find the inherent beauty of thick, opaque lights contrasting with thin, transparent darks. This exploration will help students find their own unique voice.

Flowers will be provided, but students are encouraged to bring any still life objects or fruit they would like to paint as well.

**Please note: Jacqueline will be doing a Demo on the Floral Still Life, Wednesday, June 12, 6-8 pm. The demo is included in workshop tuition. To register for the demo ONLY, please click here.

Jacqueline Kamin’s illustrious career was nurtured at the Corcoran Museum School and later at the Sculpture Studio and the Art Students League in New York. Her poetic and painterly style developed early on and soon became recognized by many prestigious art organizations through awards and juried shows at the Bowers Museum, the Salmagundi Club, the California Art Club and Oil Painters of America. Her work was included in several internationally-known art expositions held in Hong Kong and New York City as well as the National Museum for Women Artists in her home town, Washington, D.C.

She is past president of American Women Artists and brought new energy to the organization with her special vision for women in the art world today. Kamin has been featured in Southwest Art and Art of the West and has her work in such collections as U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer, Entrepreneur Magazine, Manocherian Brothers of New York, and Big Horn Westinghouse Corporation. As a way of sharing her artistic passion, she continues to teach nationally for Bright Light Fine Art Workshops. For more information visit her website.

WORKSHOPS: Cancellations by the student – more than 90 days: full refund. Under 90 days: $50 non-refundable registration fee is included in the workshop tuition. Deposit is non-refundable within 14 days of the start of the workshop.

Colored Pencil Fine Art: Studio with Katrina Benson

by Grace Lucarelli | Mar 1, 2019 | Archive, Past Classes and Workshops

Colored Pencil Fine Art: Studio with Katrina Benson
6 Weeks • Tuesdays • April 30, May 7, 14, 21, 28, June 4 • 11 am – 1:30 pm
$205M/$240NM

Enjoy dedicated time to work on your colored pencil art! Discover the fun of working in a relaxed, supportive class environment dedicated to Colored Pencil as a fine art.

For intermediate and advanced students who want to work on their own projects. Instructor and peers will support each other in taking skills to the next level. Experimentation encouraged.

Multimedia projects are welcome, as long as the project contains at least 50% colored pencil. If using pastels, please limit to panpastels.

Occasional demonstrations and explorations of other media compatible with colored pencil will be offered. Additional materials fees may apply.

Artists will be responsible for their own materials.

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Katrina Benson is an award-winning artist working primarily in colored pencil and watercolor. You can find out more about Katrina on her website www.kblfineart.com.

A suggested materials list will be provided.

Introduction to Abstract Painting (All Levels) with Ellen Hallie Schiff

by Grace Lucarelli | Dec 11, 2018 | Past Classes and Workshops

Introduction to Abstract Painting (All Levels) with Ellen Hallie Schiff
4 weeks • Monday • Feb. 4, 11, 25, Mar. 4 • 1:30 – 4 pm
$140M/$175NM

Intrigued by the idea of painting abstractly? This four session class will give you a taste of painting in an abstract manner . We will be working with black and white water based enamel on watercolor paper. This experience has been called “freeing” and “a lot of fun “ by so many students. Experience what it feels like to paint this way . Lots of individualized instruction and discussion . The works you produce here can be the beginnings of new ideas and directions.

About Ellen Hallie Schiff

Artist’s Statement
An essential truth seems to come alive when I use my body to create my paintings- something visceral and muscular; a directness that feels so “right”. The authentic mark is what I am after; the true, non-gimmicky, not contrived mark; the mark that is made when “I am the painting I am painting”. Playing with the paint, working sometimes at the speed of light, other times slowly and deliberately; all coming together in a flurry of physical activity. The result is an authentic moment in time.

Ellen is Vice President of The Art Guild of Port Washington and on the Art Advisory Council of the Port Washington Library. Her work has been exhibited in galleries in Philadelphia and New York. Her friend and mentor is Stan Brodsky.