Making Landscape Colors Sing: In Pastels with Lana Ballot – Nov 11-12, 2017

Making Landscape Colors Sing: In Pastels with Lana Ballot – Nov 11-12, 2017

by | Nov 13, 2017 | Past Classes and Workshops

Making Landscape Colors Sing: In Pastels
with Lana Ballot
Two Day Workshop: Nov 11-12, 2017, 10am – 4:30 pm
$270 M/$300 NM

Sayville Vines, Lana Ballot

During this workshop we’ll explore how to avoid muddy tired colors in a pastel painting and make confident color choices whether you want to capture a bright sunny day or subtle atmospheric effects. The introduction demo will illustrate the specifics of color layering and underpainting techniques to create beautifully nuanced color, depth and texture.
In a series of exercises we’ll explore how using different color characteristics we can improve the overall design, create more dynamic composition, make a stronger visual statement.
For a final work, students will have a choice of working from their own reference or using one of the provided photos.
All levels of experience are welcome.
List of materials will be provided. 

Lana Ballot painting wave.

Bio: Lana Ballot, PSA,  is a professional artist and pastel painting instructor, living on Long Island, NY. Working primarily in pastels, she prefers this medium for its immediacy, spontaneity and unparalleled luminosity of color. Through years of experience painting outdoors Lana’s work is characterized by confident and expressive use of color and painterly mark-making.  Lana is a Signature Member of the Pastel Society of America. Her work has been exhibited in National juried shows. 
• 2015, her work received an Honorable mention in the Pastel Journal’s Pastel 100 competition. 
• 2016, she was awarded The Yang Family Award in the Pastel Society of America’s annual show Enduring Brilliance. 
• 2017, she won 1st place awards in local and national pastel shows, and The Best of Show in For Pastels, Only On Cape Cod juried pastel exhibition.

Landscape Oil Painting with Paul Bachem – Fall 2017

Landscape Oil Painting with Paul Bachem – Fall 2017

by | Sep 27, 2017 | Past Classes and Workshops

Landscape Oil Painting with Paul Bachem
 FOUR weeks • Tuesday mornings
September 5,12,19 and 26, 2017, 9:30 am – 12:30 pm
Fee: 160m/$190 nm

Hone the fundamental theories of landscape painting. Learn why your subject matter looks the way it does-the importance of being able to judge value (how light or dark an object is), hue (what color is it?) and chroma (how vivid or dull the color is). The assessment and placement of these three elements in your work is key to the realistic rendering of three-dimensional objects in the two-dimensional world of painting. Materials list provided at registration. 

 

BIO: Paul Bachem studied with Harold R. Stevenson and Alma Gallanos Stevenson and enjoyed a thirty-year illustration career. He worked for clients in New York City, across the country and as far away as Sydney, Australia. Paul’s paintings are in numerous private collections as well as the permanent collection of the Forbes Gallery in New York City. He now concentrates on plein air painting and has shown at a number of galleries in the Northeast. He has been included 27 times in the FAV 15% of entries in the Bold Brush monthly painting competition and in October of 2011 was awarded a finalist award by juror Matt Smith. Paul has participated as a competition artist in a number of plein air events including the 2011-2014 Wayne Art Center Plein Air Event in Wayne, PA (honorable mention 2013), Paint The Town 2011 in Cranford, NJ, where he was awarded 3rd prize. Paul has also participated in the prestigious Plein Air Easton in Easton, MD from 2010-2015 (Utrecht Award of Excellence for “Best Use of Light” 2012 and First Place in Quick Draw 2013). Paul was recently juried in as a member of The Salmagundi Club in NYC. He also loves to cook and plays classical guitar…albeit poorly! Visit his website at www.paulbachem.com.

Life Drawing with Nude Models, Non-Instructional, Fridays w/Joan Stevens

Life Drawing with Nude Models, Non-Instructional, Fridays w/Joan Stevens

by | Aug 30, 2017 | Past Classes and Workshops

Life Drawing with Nude Models, Fridays
Non-Instructional
Monitor: Joan Stevens

WINTER/SPRING: 10 weeks: March 13, 20, 27, April 3, 17, 24, May 1, 8, 22, 29 • 11 am-2 pm
$300M/335NM

The model will take a series of poses from 2 – 40 minutes.
Excellent models (male or female) • Soft music (classical/jazz/easy listening) • Bring whatever materials you like.
Limited to 10 students
No instruction • Joan Stevens, monitor
The Art Guild has easels for students.
$300 for members, $335 non-members
Registration is limited to 10 students per session and a waiting list will be taken.

Life Drawing w/Nude Model Fridays: SPRING 2020
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Workshop : Watercolor with Joyce Hicks June 22-25, 2017

Workshop : Watercolor with Joyce Hicks June 22-25, 2017

by | Jun 29, 2017 | Past Classes and Workshops

 Watercolor with Joyce Hicks June 22-25, 2017, 9:30am – 4:30 pm

$550 Members • $580 Non-members

We are DELIGHTED that Joyce Hicks will be visiting us in June of 2017! Joyce Hicks is from Texas and teaches workshops all over the country. She is the author of Painting Beautiful Watercolors Landscapes and was featured in the April 2011 issue of Watercolor Artist.

In this workshop the emphasis is on techniques and strategies for transforming ordinary scenes into extraordinary ones with watercolor; scenes that reach out and connect with viewers. She teaches simple, easy to learn methods that appeal to beginners as well as seasoned artists looking for renewed inspiration and insights into new ways of thinking. You learn from clear explanations about the reasoning behind artistic decisions and visually from step by step demonstrations. You learn to distill and process scenes from inspiration to finished work of art becoming more comfortable with the medium in the process. Once technical aspects of watercolor have been mastered you too will begin to paint from that sacred place that resides within each of us. Joyce brings her passion and love for teaching to inspire and motivate in a fun, fast-paced workshop.
Following are a few of the topics covered in the workshop…

  • atmospheric perspective in the landscape
  • simplifying and streamlining scenes
  • working toward personal style by developing a visual language
  • steps for building strong compositions
  • painting “relationships” instead of “things”
  • seven important design principles for creating exciting paintings
  • working with photographs, sketch books and color studies
  • planning strategies that will allow you to paint spontaneously and with confidence
  • daily lectures and demonstrations
  • lots of one-on-one instruction
  • Something for every level

Joyce Hicks HeadShotJoyce Hicks HeadShotJoyce Hicks’ artist statement: “I’ve always been able to see places and things in an idealistic way, but it wasn’t until I discovered painting that I was able to express and interpret this personal view. My art is not always a true rendition of what is actually there but how I wish it could be. If the old white homestead is a bit neglected, then I will just capture it in sunlight to discover its real beauty. If there is only one withered rose on the old trellis then why not one hundred in full bloom?

Frequent travel allows me to see and define what my heart is drawn to. Not in the grand or extraordinary but in simple unassuming beauty. Painting gives me the opportunity to unite visual images with a montage of personal memories stored over a life time. In an attempt to translate my feelings for a subject I use interesting brush strokes, strong contrasts, sunlight and shadow in colors both soft and bold. These elements combine in a personal way providing a visual invitation to tempt others into my world.

My purpose is to uplift the human spirit and my hope is that my paintings will inspire others to join me as I continue my artistic journey. I enjoy entering competitions, teaching workshops and presenting painting demonstrations. I’m a member of numerous societies including Signature Member Status in the American Watercolor Society and past President of the Central Texas Watercolor Society.

You may cancel 8 weeks before the workshop for a full refund.

For pictures from the workshop, see our Facebook page

Alla Prima Painting with Christine Lafuente April 22-23, 2017

Alla Prima Painting with Christine Lafuente April 22-23, 2017

by | Apr 25, 2017 | Past Classes and Workshops

Alla Prima Painting Workshop
with Christine Lafuente
April 22-23, 2017, 9:30-4:30

This two-day workshop with award-winning artist Christine Lafuente focuses on investigating materials and techniques in oil painting from observation.

More specifically, this workshop will cover palette organization, various limited palettes, control of color-mixing in tonal painting, alla prima oil painting technique, use of viscosity in direct painting, composition, and learning to see in abstract terms. Each day will consist of a 90-minute lecture and demonstration session, followed by painting time from provided still lifes with one-on-one instruction.

A materials list will be provided. The Art Guild has easels that you may use.

About Christine Lafuente: Award winning, Brooklyn-based painter Christine Lafuente considers her paintings “poetic responses to visual experience.”

Her work has been shown in countless solo and group exhibitions, juried shows and public galleries from San Francisco to London. A graduate of Bryn Mawr College, Lafuente has a Certificate of Painting from the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia and an MFA in Painting from Brooklyn College, where she studied with Lennart Anderson and twice won the prestigious Charles C. Shaw Memorial Award. Her work was included in the Invitational Exhibition of Visual Arts at the American Academy of Arts & Letters. From 1997 – 2002, Lafuente was Artist in Residence at the Fleisher Art Memorial in Philadelphia. She teaches Fine Art at Pratt Institute and Western Connecticut State University. Her exhibitions have been written about in numerous publications and her paintings are in corporate and private collections. For more about Ms. Lafuente visit her website at christinelafuente.com.

Painting the Floral Still Life with Gregg Kreutz – Sept. 16 & 17, 2017

Painting the Floral Still Life with Gregg Kreutz – Sept. 16 & 17, 2017

by | Mar 20, 2017 | Past Classes and Workshops

Painting the Floral Still Life with Gregg Kreutz
Saturday September 16 and Sunday, September 17, 2017
9:30am-4:30pm

Gregg Kreutz returns to The Art Guild with a workshop that will focus on painting the floral still life. Flowers with paired with objects and fruit, turning them into compelling dramas of light and shadow.  The focus will be on revealing the significant and obscuring the less meaningful.

This workshop will explore how to create effects with paint strokes and palette knife swipes. Students will strive to make the canvas not only a depiction of observed reality, but also a celebration of the beauty of the flower.

Painting the floral still life is not only a worthy subject in its own right, but it can also provide vital learning skills for all other genres – landscape, portrait, interior and figure. Each of these is made easier by a familiarity with the art of the still life.

Materials list will be provided.

Though other mediums are welcome, the workshop will only be taught with, and demonstrated in, oils.

Kreutz_Book CoverGregg Kreutz is an award winning painter and author of the classic artist’s guide, Problem Solving for Oil Painters. After graduating from NYU, he pursued his training as a painter at the Art Students League of New York, winning a merit scholarship.  He studied with Frank Mason, Robert Beverly Hale and most significantly, David Leffel.  Gregg teaches drawing and painting at the Art Students League as well as workshops throughout the US and around the world.

For more info on Gregg, please visit his website.