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

  • Start
    03/21/2025
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  • End
    03/23/2025
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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.

  Please sign up early; class size is limited. (price includes all materials)

  
  

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• Painting the Spring Garden on Location at Los Poblanos with Michelle Chrisman (Tuesday through Friday)

  • Start
    03/25/2025
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  • End
    03/28/2025
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  • Schedule
    4 sessions
  • Location
    On Location
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  Don’t miss this opportunity to paint in beautiful garden settings, at  Los Poblanos in the North Valley of Albuquerque. You will learn to work quickly with limited, energetic brush strokes, suggesting rather than rendering reality allowing your paintings to stay fresh and full of life. There will be an emphasis on capturing the affect of luminous, outdoor light using the colors of the spectrum in areas struck by the sun, rather than local color. We will focus on simplifying shapes and values, for contemporary compositions as well as developing color “stories” in your paintings. Michelle is an oil painter and will begin each day with a short demo using both brush and palette knife. All painting mediums and levels of painters, from beginners to professionals, are welcome. Please email Michelle with any questions, MichelleChrisman78@gmail.com. Michelle's work can be viewed on her website:www.MichelleChrisman.com 

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• Quick Sketch with Watercolor: Studying Flowers with Marjorie Leggitt (Friday, Saturday, Sunday) ONLINE ZOOM COURSE

  • Start
    05/16/2025
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  • End
    05/18/2025
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  • Schedule
    3 sessions
  • Location
    Online Zoom Course
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  Come in from the garden and pick up your paint brush! Don’t miss this wonderful opportunity to work with award winning botanical illustrator and artist, Marjorie Leggitt. Joining you from her studio in Boulder, Marjorie will show you how to capture the gestural lines and transient color of spring flowers whether you're inside or outside! Starting with demos and drawing exercises, discover the simple lines, basic shapes and geometric forms that build the foundation for your sketches. Learn how to capture values and shadows before the light changes and apply simple watercolor layers to create that colorful spark. Have fun as you follow the twists and turns of a flower using expressive line work while developing solid techniques that will make future sketching and painting a breeze. Before you know it, you'll be out in the garden again filling your sketch book with nature's floral bounty. Please sign up early; class size is limited.

  
  

  
  

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