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• Flora in Nature with Pastel with Susan Roden (Monday through Friday)

  • Start
    07/29/2024
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  • End
    08/02/2024
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  • Schedule
    5 sessions
  • Location
    Art League Studios
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  Join artist, Susan Roden, in this 5-day workshop and be immersed within nature while capturing the colorful palette of flora with pastels. We will be on location at Los Poblanos, in private and public gardens and the emphasis will be on how-to select visual imagery for developing successful compositions, observation of natural lighting of the sun and the cast of shadows, with in-depth discussion of the basics of this vivid medium. We will be painting in garden settings, both public and private, for three of the five days with the remaining two in the studio for final development of your artwork. This workshop is designed for artists at all levels with individualized attention and demos led by Susan Roden. 

  
  

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• Beautiful Still Lifes in Watercolor with Tina Stallard (Monday through Thursday)

  • Start
    08/05/2024
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  • End
    08/08/2024
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  • Schedule
    4 sessions
  • Location
    Art League Studios
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  Brush up on your painting sklls with the versatile and luminous medium of watercolor. Still life is a beautiful art form whether approached as an abstract or as photo realistic. Join artist, Tina Stallard, in this 4-day workshop exploring techniques that will help you take your still life paintings to a whole new level. Tina will focus on different ways to create depth and visual appeal in your work. We will cover backgrounds techniques, dramatic lights and darks and how to make a strong arrangement out of your subject material. You are welcome to work from a photo of your own or one that I provide to practice these ideas.  On the last day, if time permits, students may bring in a painting that is in need of some help and we will apply some of the techniques that we have just learned.  The class will include demos, painting time, and individual instruction with each student. All levels are welcome.

  
  

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• Inspired by Nature - Artmaking on the Trail with Mary Beth Woiccak (Friday through Sunday)

  • Start
    08/09/2024
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  • End
    08/11/2024
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  • Schedule
    3 sessions
  • Location
    Art League Studios
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  Do you love the outdoors and want to make art inspired by nature . . .while you are on the trail? This 3-day workshop is designed for those who love the outdoors and would like to infuse their art practice with a fresh perspective. These art adventures, during the first 2 days, will include short hikes and creating art on location. We will be stop along the way with drawing exercises incorporating natural materials with our limited art materials all to inspire you to be resourceful and look at things differently. This experience is to get you outdoors, experiencing nature with a new perspective and while stretching the potential of your materials. We will meet at two different mountain trails (easy to moderate) within 20 minutes of Albuquerque. Please allow time for travel and parking. Pack your materials and supplies in a backpack and you are ready to go. Keep in mind ease of set up along the trail, all while staying in the moment of natural inspiration. The final day will be spent in the studio where we will examine the results of the experiential art adventure looking for how it might influence future work or series. Mary Beth has been an artist and hiker for many years and incorporates “outdoor studios” in her own practice. This is going to be great! 
  

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• Classical Figure Drawing - From the Beginning with John Reger (Wednesday through Saturday)

  • Start
    08/14/2024
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  • End
    08/17/2024
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  • Schedule
    4 sessions
  • Location
    Main Studio
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  Join John Reger for this 4-day workshop offering an in depth study of the fundamentals of academic ‘long-pose’ life drawing. Perfect for all artists, beginners or advanced, we will focus on developing an understanding of the classical tradition of realistic figure drawing. Students will be introduced to the manual, procedural, and analytical techniques of a refined, articulate, realistic approach to pencil drawing. Presented with an immersive drawing experience, students will progress with the most effective learning tool,  the multi-level experience of drawing itself.  Participants will be introduced to a refined, articulate drawing style in which drawings are built up methodically through a succession of linear and tonal stages: (1) the envelope:a simple, foundational shape encompassing the whole figure, (2) the block-in: the complex, abstract shape of the figure, (3) the contour: the specific, linear description of the silhouette of the figure, (4) drawing on the inside: the tonal description of the form of the body within the confines of the contour.  The focus is on patience, craft, observation, and understanding of drawing principles. You will be amazed at what you can learn in 4 days! 

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• Trees Please - Contemporary Landscape Painting in All Media with Alice Webb (Monday through Friday)

  • Start
    08/19/2024
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  • End
    08/23/2024
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  • Schedule
    5 sessions
  • Location
    Art League Studios
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  Are you a tree lover AND an artist? Then this workshop is for you! Trees, which have been a venerated subject matter in art for centuries, will be our primary focus as we investigate a variety of materials and methods for art making. Exploring color, composition and form in a dynamic way, students will discover multiple ways to create beautiful tree images. We will incorporate traditional monoprint making processes, painting techniques and collage with contemporary materials like stencils, spray paint and modeling as we explore the many ways to render trees. Class includes a lecture and demon-strations as well as hours of fun painting trees. Students at all levels are welcome.

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• Painting on Location in the Pecos at Our Lady of Guadalupe Monastery with J. Waid Griffin (Friday - Sunday)

  • Start
    10/04/2024
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  • End
    10/07/2024
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  • Schedule
    3 sessions
  • Location
    On location

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  Perhaps you’ve learned the basics of painting and you are looking for new inspiration or maybe you have a newly discovered love of painting and you want to work toward making real progress with solid instruction. We invite you to join J. Waid Griffin for three amazing days of painting in the spectacular landscape surrounding Our Lady of Guadalupe Monastery in Pecos, New Mexico. Waid will apply his vast knowledge of landscape painting and guide you through every step toward creating great paintings plein air. Students will receive personal instruction each day on the beautiful grounds of the Monastery with access to studio space for critique and additional painting time in the evening. The lessons will cover many aspects of the process of on location painting such as: how to SEE, how to analyze and depict the light source(s) and how to select your subject. The tuition includes all costs; your room and meals, so all you have to do is eat, sleep, and paint!

  
  

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• Encaustic Collage and Mixed Media with Carolyn Berry (Friday, Saturday and Sunday)

  • Start
    11/08/2024
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  • End
    11/12/2024
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  • Schedule
    3 sessions
  • Location
    Art League Studios

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  Join encaustic artist, Carolyn Berry, in this fun and experimental workshop where the sky is the limit! Encaustic wax is a versatile medium made from beeswax, damar resin and powdered pigments that can be used for traditional painting techniques as well as a way to add texture, layer and join mixed media materials together.  We will explore experimental techniques of painting, drawing, collage, stenciling, photo transfer, wax fusing and surface manipulation. Be inspired to create artwork with a unique surface using melted wax and pigments. Using magazine images, photo images and found collage materials students will achieve successful and personal imagery in this creative medium. No previous art experience is necessary only an adventurous spirit.
  

  
  

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• MASTER ARTIST SERIES Landscape Painting from the Outdoors to the Studio with Phil Starke (Tuesday through Friday)

  • Start
    11/12/2024
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  • End
    11/15/2024
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  • Schedule
    4 sessions
  • Location
    Art League Studios

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  Don’t miss this great opportunity to work with landscape painter, Phil Starke in the 4-day plein aire/studio workshop. Through daily demonstrations and individual instruction, Phil will focus on simplifying the main aspects of painting a landscape. We want to be able to “see” as an artist, not as a camera. Students will learn how to simplify the subject to large masses and values which eliminates the need for too much detail. Using the color wheel, students will learn how to easily mix color that suggests light without trying to copy what we see. The workshop will start in the studio for an introduction and then move outside for 2 days, where we will work on color studies and thumbnail drawings. During the last 2 days, we will turn our attention to studio painting, learning how to turn the outdoor studies into finished paintings, focusing on composition and painting techniques. Phil will do 2 demonstrations a day and work devote plenty of time with each student. Phil’s demonstrations will be in oils but artists working in acrylics and pastel are welcome; the thought process and procedure are the same. Please sign up early; class size is limited to 12 students.

  
  

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