March 2023
In Person: Explorations in Collage
All Level Collage Workshop March 25th & March 26th Collage is an exciting process where you select a variety of papers and colors to create exciting compositions, real or imagined. Find new ways of seeing while feeling free to be experimental and explore the boundaries of your imagination. In this workshop you will use new and found materials and learn different ways to create custom papers. The act of collage is being open to discovery and a great way to…
Find out more »Online: Sketch to Paint in the Alla Prima Style
All Level Drawing and Painting Class It’s time to give your painting a push! Using a photo only as a reference and starting point…Emily will encourage you to take some chances, and breakthrough fears about your painting process. Through a series of guided exercises, Emily will assist you to find fresh ways of seeing, using your tools, choosing color and creating composition. Push to a larger format and follow new techniques to bring more expression and immediacy to your work.…
Find out more »April 2023
In Person: Cut. Paste. Construct. The Figure.
All Level Multi-media Workshop APRIL 1st & APRIL 2nd This weekend workshop will explore the figure through collage and sculpture. Working from a clothed model, artists will experiment with the potential of humble materials like paper and cardboard, and will gain an understanding of shape and form. Visual presentations of the work of modern and contemporary artists will supplement the exercises. Please note: An additional model fee of $30 will be paid to the model directly at the workshop.
Find out more »Online: Botanical Notebook: Buds + Blooms in Watercolor
When April springs, you won’t want to miss this workshop devoted to early buds and blooms! Working from live plants and photos, Helen’s live demos and feedback will guide you in the delights of making detailed botanical studies in watercolor. (What’s your fancy—magnolia, pasque flower, apple blossom…?) We will practice sketching flower parts for accuracy, painting in layers using wet-in-wet and dry-brush techniques. All levels welcome. APRIL 1 & 2
Find out more »Online: Beginning Painting
Acrylic and Oil Painting Class for Beginners Learn the basics of painting in Acrylics and/or Oil. This weekly online class is designed for beginners, those returning after a hiatus, and those who want to explore a new medium with their creativity. Students will learn the basics of handling paints and brushes and will explore a variety of techniques and subject matter. We will cover the fundamentals of composition, tone, and blending colors. The goal of this course is to give…
Find out more »In Person: Capturing the Light en Plein Air (Spring Session)
Intermediate to Advanced Plein Air Painting APRIL 4 - MAY 16 Capture the beauty of early spring in Concord while painting outdoors with master plein air painter, Caleb Stone. Colorful specimen trees, Walden Pond and the surrounding woodlands, sweeping marshes, peaceful riverside scenes, Sleepy Hollow and the charming downtown area offer many wonderful locations to paint. Caleb will guide you on how to choose your own autumn palette and how to develop a composition with good values and a strong…
Find out more »In Person: Printing Without a Press
Intro to Gel Plate Printing Workshop Gel plate printing is a low cost and accessible monotype printing process that is ideal for creating papers for collage, bookmaking, cards or journaling as well as a final art prints. This is a fun experimental process that yields unpredictable and exciting results. Using a gel printing plate participants will learn best ways to apply acrylic paints and use a variety of tools for mark making, stenciling, masking and texturing to transfer onto papers.…
Find out more »Artist Demo: Collage with Caryl Hull Leavitt
Join us for a demonstration of Caryl’s collage-making process, starting with finding inspiration, to building references through sketching and snapping photos, to creating a finished collage of painted paper and random materials. A slide presentation of her artwork will be presented, including a series of collages that has been evolving over three years, based on one view from her studio.
Find out more »In Person: The Unique Image – Drawing + Painting with Acrylics
All Levels Acrylic Painting Class APRIL 13 - MAY 18 Explore your imagination and strengthen your mark making. Push beyond what you know and tap into your intuitive nature. Whether your work is abstract or representational, using your intuitive hand while responding to materials will bring out spontaneity and a different way to approach your work. The surface you work on can influence the outcome. Paper allows for a fresh and direct way of working. Canvas and panel provide more…
Find out more »In Person: Encaustics Workshop
All Levels Welcome Encaustic paint is perhaps the most beautiful and durable paint that an artist can use. Made from beeswax and resin that can be polished to an enamel-like finish, it offers a number of possibilities for exquisite surface qualities. This is the legendary paint of the Fayum mummy portraits of the first and second centuries, yet its incredible versatility has made it a desirable painting medium in the 21st century. This comprehensive workshop, which will cover safety, equipment…
Find out more »Online: Drawing Faces
All level drawing workshop, beginners welcome! APRIL 15 & 16 In this online weekend art retreat, we’ll sink into drawing our life at home—the objects and the scenes. We’ll use stick charcoal, colored pencils, crayons, and watercolor to explore drawing in different ways that are both intimate and bold. Our goal will be to simplify and find our own hand in the work we make. This is a chance to draw in an intensive way with the positive energy of…
Find out more »In Person: Watercolor Painting from Photographs
Overview of watercolor for all levels of artists A discussion of materials (paper, paint, brushes), composition and drawing, the three basic paint washes, the importance of values, color mixing strategies, masking, dry brush, and all sorts of tips and specialty textural techniques. While a variety of painting styles and approaches are discussed and encouraged, the instructor specializes in tightly controlled, realistic representational pieces. Students will work on their own projects and will receive individual attention and coaching. APRIL 21 -…
Find out more »In Person: Print, Wax, Poke and Stitch; Stepping into Translucency
All Levels Welcome Prints on Japanese paper that are waxed with melted beeswax become strong, translucent, flexible surfaces that welcome techniques like stitching, piercing, and sewing. These prints can be used on their own or combined with other printed elements to invigorate surface and pattern in unique ways. The prints can also be sewn together to create three-dimensional forms. Students can bring already existing prints or create new ones with relief printmaking techniques. Simple embroidery and sewing techniques will be…
Find out more »Book Presentation: “Spin Club Stories” with photographer Astrid Reischwitz
Join us Thursday, April 27th at 6pm for a photo-book presentation with photographer Astrid Reischwitz. Astrid will discuss her body of work and her path to publishing her photo-book Spin Club Stories (Kehrer Verlag, 2022) . In Spin Club Stories, Astrid explores personal and cultural memory influenced by her upbringing in a small farming village in Northern Germany. She uses keepsakes from family life, old photographs, and embroidered fabric from the village to build a world of memory, identity, and…
Find out more »In Person: Linoleum Printmaking Workshop
All Level Intensive Printmaking Workshop April 28 - 30 “My process as a printmaker always begins with a drawing. I will rework a drawing, cutting it up with scissors and taping it back together many times. If my drawing doesn’t delight me, I have little enthusiasm to go forward and make the materials and time commitment to oversee the completion of an edition. Characters sometimes show up and demand to be inserted in my drawings. I love my characters to…
Find out more »May 2023
Class: Knives Out! Painting with the Palette Knife with Ruth Scotch
Want to take your painting to the next level? Try painting with the palette knife instead of a brush. You will get clean color, beautiful texture, deeper space with very little blending, if any. Through a series of fun exercises, students not only learn how to paint with the palette knife, but also acquire the skill of seeing color better and being able to mix it to match what they are seeing. Clean up is a snap as all you…
Find out more »Approaches to the Figure with Ron Krouk
Our subjects are live models. Using both drawing and painting media we’ll practice different approaches which focus your attention on simplifying the figure in space. Relying on observation, we’ll explore ways to establish correct proportions and create strong compositions. Emphasis is on the difference between everyday seeing and seeing for the world of two dimensional relationships, relative angles and dimensions, shapes, values, and colors. Every level of experience is welcome and we will be painting rather quickly to encourage a…
Find out more »Artist Demo: The Wild, Wonderful World of Abstract Collage with Kimberly Stoney
Join us on May 3rd for an Artist Demo with Kimberly Stoney, who will give a hands-on demonstration of how she recreates images from life to make abstract collages. Kimberly will share how she prepares the colorful pattern papers used in her multi-layered collages. As Kimberly says, the sense of possibility when holding a “piece of color” is intensely inspiring and sparks the question “what if” that underlies her collaging process. “I love to tear, fold, and crumple, thin pieces…
Find out more »Online: Reconnecting with the Natural World – Elemental Landscape
All Levels Drawing and Painting Class Re-emerging into the outdoors after wintering offers us the chance to be inspired by the beauty of the world around us again. This month-long landscape sketching workshop is done on your own terms, from your window, in your backyard or further afield. Your visual interpretation of the landscape will be supported by weekly on-line demonstrations covering key concepts related to creating successfully expressive landscape imagery. Prompts related to simplification, structure, compositional dynamics, creating depth,…
Find out more »Drawing Explorations! With Cat Bennett
In this class, we’ll explore drawing in several different ways to grow our skills and go where we haven’t been before. We’ll use stick charcoal, crayons, colored pencils, watercolor paint, and even scissors to draw from observation. We’ll do some abstract drawing too and look at the work of other artists for inspiration. No matter our experience, we can use our “beginner’s mind’ to go to our edge and free ourselves up. The class is fun, supportive and open to…
Find out more »In Person: Discover Drawing through Printmaking
All Level Monotype Printmaking Workshop MAY 5 - MAY 7 During this workshop, we will explore using monotype methods to approach printing a plate with repeatable elements. Teaching will highlight how to make and print a drypoint plate with time to practice intaglio wiping skills and learn how to add a color layer to create unique monoprints. Each day of the workshop will begin with a demonstration of a printmaking technique, followed by individual attention and supported practice time with…
Find out more »IN PERSON: The White Line Woodcut and Beyond
The white line woodcut, also known as the Provincetown Print, is a uniquely American form of printmaking, invented by artists working in Provincetown in the early 1900s. In this method, beautiful multicolor prints are printed by hand using a single block, eliminating the need for a press or complicated registration methods. This fun workshop offers the opportunity to learn traditional techniques of design, carving, and printing, as well as the chance to expand upon the tradition with creative inking and…
Find out more »In Person: The Air In-Between: Seeing and Simplifying in a Charged Landscape
Combination of In-Studio and On-Site/Plein Air Painting workshop MAY 12 - 14 Each of the three days will be a combination of in-studio problem solving and plein-air landscape painting. The studio work will involve specific directed limitations in anticipation of some of the core challenges, contradictions and joys of painting in the open, energized landscape. We will make two paintings each day, one studio painting and one plein-air landscape painting.
Find out more »In Person: Drawing as Meditation
All Levels of Experience MAY 19- MAY 21 Meditation and drawing practices can be profoundly grounding. Weaving these practices together creates tactile, immediate ways to arrive in the present. In this weekend workshop, basic meditation techniques and expressive drawing prompts will deepen connection to the creative process and the ability to be present in our everyday experiences. Collectively we will create a space for sharing work and ideas. With a “beginner’s mind” the integration of drawing and meditation will deepen…
Find out more »In Person: Sculptural Painting
All level painting into sculpture workshop 5/25/23 - 5/28/23 In this intensive workshop, we’ll explore the sculptural possibilities of paper, cardboard and lightweight plastic, and then use acrylic paints to see how color can enhance and add meaning to our three-dimensional adventures. We’ll learn how to stiffen paper and fabric into organic shapes that can hold their own forms and experiment with simple and effective ways to build and connect materials without a large space or special tools. This class…
Find out more »Gel Printing Intensive Workshop with Adria Arch
Explore beautiful color layering and make one of a kind prints on paper with the flexible gel plate and Golden’s OPEN acrylics. We’ll learn the basics of the simple but irresistible technique that will enable you to explore design and texture. Our focus will be on color and composition, while allowing this seductive technique to open us to spontaneity and surprise. This workshop includes a gel plate and brayer (to borrow), and all paints! Please provide your own pad of…
Find out more »Drypoint Etching Printmaking with Brooke Lambert
In this intensive printmaking class students will gain experience and first hand knowledge in the medium of drypoint printmaking. Students will learn to create images with varied lines and textures using an etching needle to dig and scratch into the surface of plexiglass, copper, or zinc plate by hand. Students will learn to vary their etchings with color, texture, and expressive wiping. Through this hands-on printmaking approach, students of all experience levels will come away with many variable print editions…
Find out more »Plein Air Pastel Painting Made Easy with Janet Schwartz
In this 2-day workshop, we will take it outside to paint historic Concord architecture using pastels. Working directly from our surroundings, we will use techniques to capture the immediacy and beauty of the landscape around us. In this class, you will learn simple strategies for setting up to paint outside, deciding what to paint, focusing on working fast and keeping it simple. In case of inclement weather on either/both days, the rain date will be June 3 and/or 4. Please…
Find out more »June 2023
Online: Exploring Paper with Nancy Gruskin
Paper is a wonder material. It makes an appealing surface for paintings and drawings, but it can also be cut, pasted, folded, and woven. Taking cues from the paper work of artists like Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, and Josef Albers, this online class will explore the possibilities of paper. We will make paintings, drawings, collages, weavings, 2D cut-outs, and 3D sculptures. Experiments and exercises will be supplemented with visual presentations of the paper works of modern and contemporary artists. We…
Find out more »Character Design for Children’s Books with Katia Wish
Through a variety of exercises, students will learn basic anatomy and movements of children and animals. They will apply their observational skills into developing unique, believable and appealing characters suitable for children’s books. The emphasis is on creating characters who are consistent through a variety of facial expressions and movements. Two Day Weekend Workshop, Sat 10am-4pm, Sun 12pm-4pm
Find out more »Get Ready to Exhibit! With Ron Rosenstock
Ron Rosenstock, internationally known photographer, is conducting a one-day workshop on how to prepare your artwork for an exhibition. Learn how to cut mats and frame your artwork to museum standards. Everyone will have a hands-on experience with a 32-inch, classic Logan mat cutter. All materials needed will be supplied. Topics to be covered include: choosing a theme for your exhibit, effective editing, pricing your work, and finding a venue in which to exhibit. One Day, Saturday June 24, 10am…
Find out more »July 2023
Plein Air, From Sketches to Finished Piece with Emily Passman
You want to paint representationally, but with a sketch-like freshness … Set up an easel or drawing-board on your lap on the beautiful patio at Concord Art in Concord Center. The steep hill behind the patio offers a canvas of lush flora, a waterfall, and sculptures. There are also buildings; a shed, the neighboring homes, Concord Art itself! We will enjoy sketching, and painting together on the flagstone patio with the comforts of bathroom facilities, a kitchen, and a classroom…
Find out more »