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St. Petersburg/ Treasure Island FLORIDA, May 2-8
Touchstone Center for Crafts, PENNSYLVANIA, June 27-July 3
Cedar Lakes Craft Center, WEST VIRGINIA, July 26-30
Quotes from students follow:
" On a 1 to 10, and a 10 is th best, you are a 15..." _Judy D.
"Your lectures were to the point and informative....You covered many fundamental aspects of art... when questions arose - you were there with help and suggestions. ....Thanks for the opportunity to enjoy a wonderful week."_Dorothy W.
"Thank you for a wonderful week. As always, I learned a lot from you...."_ Carlene V.
"This trip was a great intro to plein air painting. Thanks for all the pointers and pleasant atmosphere, which made learning very easy...while I was unsure about how this trip would work out, I am enthusiastic about the experience and ready to go on others."_Bob H.
"I'm on my way to understanding Design due to your excellent lectures."_Camille W.
TOUCHSTONE CENTER FOR CRAFTS, FARMINGTON PA JUNE 27-JULY 3, 2010
CEDAR LAKES CRAFT CENTER,
RIPLEY WV JULY 26-30, 2010
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Karen would love to teach a workshop for your Art Center or Organization! Contact her at her studio: 248)851-8215
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"Still-Life: Celebrating the Senses in Watercolor"
Enrich your painting vocabulary through this watercolor feast for the eyes. Encouraging our responses to visual and tactile subjects, we'll explore textures, patterns, and colors. Flowers, fruits, vegetables, glass, metal, ceramics, and fabrics, will inspire us, as we focus on composition, perspective, drawing tips, color theory, and painting techniques. Skills for painting elegant bouquets in vases, to everyday kitchen objects will be our concentration, giving you abilities to take home with you to your studio.
New Directions in Floral Painting
Saying something new about flowers in an effective way, will be the focus of our studies and experimentation in this workshop. In renewing and refreshing each student's presentation of this universally inviting subject, we'll explore color possibilities, compositional elements, point-of-view, stylistic treatment, and contemporary ideas. Slides, demos, artist's tips, critiques, and individual assistance, will contribute to each student's path of personal discovery. Sessions will find us working from fresh flowers, artificial blooms, photo references, and painting in a local garden, greenhouse, or florist, as availability allows.
"Fresh Perspectives on Plein Air Painting"
This workshop is usually open to watercolor, acrylic, oil and pastel artists. Establishing the boundaries of your subject, an artist's endless challenge, will be approached by providing a more effective understanding of compositional elements. Reexamination of shapes, color theory, and value relationships, will improve your paintings, supplying tools to take back to your studio with you. Demos, slides, group critiques, individual assistance, class exercises , will all contribute to your success.
"Watercolor Sketchbook:
Words , Drawings, & Watercolor"
Listen to your inner voice. Stop to smell the roses, as you notice the simple things that surround you every day. You'll learn to see with greater awareness, and then put it down on paper, as you learn to "DRAW" more skillfully. Want to know more about proportions, perspective, how to sketch what you see more accurately? You'll fill a sketchbook before you know it, with simple watercolor sketches of your favorite moments, views, natural found objects, everyday routines, your thoughts, and daily rituals. We'll take advantage of beauty in our surroundings, and paint outdoors, too. Instruction will guide you as you sketch and paint with watercolors, documenting your time in this location, at this moment. Involve yourself in this meaningful enriching activity, a process of thinking and creating that will follow you home.
Inspired by the Masters:
Homer, Hopper, Demuth, Sargent, and Cezanne
Revitalize and re-charge your art. Take a look at Master Artists whose work put watercolor "on the map" as a respectable art form. Find fresh answers to your old "painting problems" through a study of those masters and their philosophies, interests, working methods, and ideas relating to composition and color. Slide presentations. demos, group critiques , class exercises, and individual assistance will promote new thinking, inspiring you to bring new ideas back to your studio.
