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• Splash Ink & Color - Landscape with Ming Franz (Wednesday through Saturday)

  • Start
    03/29/2023
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  • End
    04/01/2023
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  • Schedule
    4 sessions
  • Location
    Art League Studios
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  Join Ming for this innovative 4- day class, she will demonstrate, lecture and look at student's work offering guidance and critique. Students will enjoy this delightful journey breathing life into your work with a spontaneous Western interpretation into a traditional Chinese painting technique - PoMo. Blending black Chinese ink with the three primary watercolors on Ma (mulberry paper) creates images unique to the artist's spirit of the moment. Ming will give a demonstration of the unique features of Splash Ink, and explain the materials used in the  random and controlled pouring. Students will experience splashing ink on rice paper. After the piece has dried, everyone will separate the sheets to see the resulting abstract and learn how to listen to the color.  She will explain various ways to finish the painting, special effects, such as salt, alcohol, etc. You will finish your painting with a group critique. Ming's website: www.mingfranzstudio.com.

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• Sunday Afternoon Life Drawing - No Instruction

  • When
    04/02/2023
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    1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
  • Location
    Art League Studios
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   The New Mexico Art League holds Sunday Life Drawing Sessions each week with either a clothed or nude model.

  We will begin with quick warm-up poses so artists can capture the figure in motion and move to extended poses during the 3 hour session. These drawing sessions are open to artists of all levels. Artists should bring their own materials and drawing surface. Easels and drawing benches are provided for your use. 

  These sessions do require advance registration. Sorry, no drop-ins. 

  
  

  Please check your calendar! Payment is not transferable or refundable.

  Please sign up early; each group is limited to 12 artists.

  Payment must be made at the time of registration in order to hold your place. Without payment your place will be cancelled.

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• Relief Printmaking: Linocut with Maria Lilly (Mondays)

  • Start
    04/03/2023
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  • End
    05/22/2023
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  • Schedule
    8 sessions
  • Location
    Art League Studios
  • Spaces left
    9

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  Join artist/printmaker extraordinaire, Maria Lilly, for this fun adventure into the world of printmaking! The relief print is one of the oldest and simplest methods of printmaking and a brilliant way to create multiples of your artwork. This unique medium is very graphic and throughout history, in addition to fine art, has be used to make posters, cards, and book illustrations. Similar to the woodcut, a linocut has no grain which makes cutting and designing much easier. This class will focus on the black and white linocut, concentrating on creating light and shadow with different types of marks and lines. Students will create bold black and white prints (or color) which can include lettering if desired. There will be time to make two or three blocks resulting in 2-3 editions, as time permits. Students may add watercolor after the print is dry for extra depth and life, sometimes compared to a stained glass effect. You will be so happy with the results!
  

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• Painting the Contemporary Still Life in Oils - Spring Flowers! with Michelle Chrisman (Mondays)

  • Start
    04/03/2023
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  • End
    05/22/2023
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  • Schedule
    8 sessions
  • Location
    Art League Studios
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  Join Michelle Chrisman for this 8-week adventure in  painting the still life in oils. Working from spring flowers, students 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 effect of luminous light using the colors of the spectrum. We will focus on simplifying shapes and values, for contemporary compositions as well as developing color “stories” in your paintings. Michelle will begin each day with a short demo using both a brush and palette knife. You will leave this class with a whole new perspective on what is possible in your oil paintings. Painters at all levels are welcome, from beginner to advanced.

  Please sign up early; class size is limited to 12 students.

  
  

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• Painting Landscapes in Watercolor with Dave Cook (Tuesdays)

  • Start
    04/04/2023
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  • End
    05/30/2023
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  • Schedule
    7 sessions
  • Location
    Art League Studios
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  Join watercolor painter, Dave Cook, in this 7-week class exploring several different approaches to producing beautiful and compelling landscapes. We will compare realism, abstraction, and expressive experimentation to discover the unique versatility and beauty of transparent watercolors. You will also find how to use elements of good design that are critical to successful work, and be introduced to simple and helpful drawing and painting techniques that will increase self-confidence and produce immediate results. You will learn how to use sketchbooks with valuestudies and color sketches to help create successful paintings. We will study the effects of composition, light, atmosphere, color temperature and contrast on the mood we want to create, and the story we want to tell. We will enjoy learning and exploring together to discover the creativity within and ways to express it. Instruction will be individual and through demonstrations.This course will be useful to artists at any level, and there will be time for individual painting and positive critique.

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  NO CLASS APRIL 11 and APRIL 18

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• Sunday Afternoon Life Drawing - No Instruction

  • When
    04/09/2023
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    1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
  • Location
    Art League Studios
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   The New Mexico Art League holds Sunday Life Drawing Sessions each week with either a clothed or nude model.

  We will begin with quick warm-up poses so artists can capture the figure in motion and move to extended poses during the 3 hour session. These drawing sessions are open to artists of all levels. Artists should bring their own materials and drawing surface. Easels and drawing benches are provided for your use. 

  These sessions do require advance registration. Sorry, no drop-ins. 

  
  

  Please check your calendar! Payment is not transferable or refundable.

  Please sign up early; each group is limited to 12 artists.

  Payment must be made at the time of registration in order to hold your place. Without payment your place will be cancelled.

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• Sunday Afternoon Life Drawing - No Instruction

  • When
    04/16/2023
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    1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
  • Location
    Art League Studios
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   The New Mexico Art League holds Sunday Life Drawing Sessions each week with either a clothed or nude model.

  We will begin with quick warm-up poses so artists can capture the figure in motion and move to extended poses during the 3 hour session. These drawing sessions are open to artists of all levels. Artists should bring their own materials and drawing surface. Easels and drawing benches are provided for your use. 

  These sessions do require advance registration. Sorry, no drop-ins. 

  
  

  Please check your calendar! Payment is not transferable or refundable.

  Please sign up early; each group is limited to 12 artists.

  Payment must be made at the time of registration in order to hold your place. Without payment your place will be cancelled.

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• Sunday Afternoon Life Drawing - No Instruction

  • When
    04/23/2023
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    1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
  • Location
    Art League Studios
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   The New Mexico Art League holds Sunday Life Drawing Sessions each week with either a clothed or nude model.

  We will begin with quick warm-up poses so artists can capture the figure in motion and move to extended poses during the 3 hour session. These drawing sessions are open to artists of all levels. Artists should bring their own materials and drawing surface. Easels and drawing benches are provided for your use. 

  These sessions do require advance registration. Sorry, no drop-ins. 

  
  

  Please check your calendar! Payment is not transferable or refundable.

  Please sign up early; each group is limited to 12 artists.

  Payment must be made at the time of registration in order to hold your place. Without payment your place will be cancelled.

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• Sunday Afternoon Life Drawing - No Instruction

  • When
    04/30/2023
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    1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
  • Location
    Art League Studios
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   The New Mexico Art League holds Sunday Life Drawing Sessions each week with either a clothed or nude model.

  We will begin with quick warm-up poses so artists can capture the figure in motion and move to extended poses during the 3 hour session. These drawing sessions are open to artists of all levels. Artists should bring their own materials and drawing surface. Easels and drawing benches are provided for your use. 

  These sessions do require advance registration. Sorry, no drop-ins. 

  
  

  Please check your calendar! Payment is not transferable or refundable.

  Please sign up early; each group is limited to 12 artists.

  Payment must be made at the time of registration in order to hold your place. Without payment your place will be cancelled.

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• MASTER ARTIST SERIES - Painting the Still Life in Oils - The Importance of Shape and Value with Louis Escobedo (Tuesday through Thursday)

  • Start
    06/06/2023
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  • End
    06/08/2023
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  • Schedule
    3 sessions
  • Location
    Art League Studios
  • Spaces left
    7

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  “Color is a person’s signature, a personal form of expression and another sense an artist can use to communicate! I intermingle abstract shapes and color to energize my subjects, which include landscapes, still life's, and figures.”     

  - L. Escobedo

  
  

  Join us for this rare opportunity to work with Oil Painters of America Master Signature Painter, Louis Escobedo. Known for his extraordinary use of color, his dramatic compositions and fresh brushstrokes, Louis will instruct students through lecture, demonstrations and lots of hands-on guidance. Special attention will be paid to what you, as a painter, are striving to learn from this workshop; Louis will help you get there. Students should provide their own still life items to work from as well as photographs and/or use of iPads. COVID vaccination is required. 

  
  

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