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Good Evening! Found some selected featured art workshops, classes, and retreats from artshow.com. Take a look below.
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Power of Pastel (September 22 & 24, October 8 & 9, or November 3 & 5)
Build a portrait along with Christine over two days using her 5-layer approach. Day 1 includes learning the system of finding a likeness for a portrait quickly. Then the afternoon will focus on Light- understanding it, seeing it and painting it – how light acts across the complex topography of the head. Day 2 focuses on understanding the pastel medium. Know when to use which brand. Know which pastels play nice with each other and which do not. The portrait started on Day 1 will be brought to completion on this day. And color? oh yes, let’s talk. $300 for the 2 days. Videos of the classes- both days – are $200. Payable through PayPal. Email Christine at christine@swannportraits.com to register.
An All Inclusive Art Destination Holiday (Virginia, USA)
The Shenandoah Art Destination is a 10-acre property, magnificently located near the historic town of Lexington, nestled in the beautiful Shenandoah Valley between the Allegheny and Blue Ridge mountains. It offers an ideal creative vacation and inspiration for any art lover – all artists welcome from the beginner to the professional painter for watercolor, oil and acrylics, pastels; lino and woodcuts; drypoint and mono printing. Daily course guidance/tutelage by your host, Jan-Willem Boer, an established artist in the USA and Europe. Courses run from early spring to late autumn – choice of weekend, 4-day, 6-day or 10-day stay. The fee is all-inclusive – lodging, food, and art instruction/tutelage. Airport/train transport available. Limited to 8 participants + non-artist partner/spouse welcome. For course schedule & cost: www.ShenandoahArtDestination.com or call 612-221-1140 or contact nancy@shenandoahartdestination.com.
Gibson House Art Workshops/Retreats (Haverhill, New Hampshire)
The Gibson House Bed and Breakfast overlooks the peaceful landscape of New Hampshire’s pristine Upper Connecticut River Valley, offering an idyllic setting for artists’ workshops/retreats. You will find yourself inspired by the charming, unspoiled New England village and the picture-perfect village, garden and mountain views. Two 50-foot-long porches insure outdoor work and relaxation in any weather. And the 2000 square foot art gallery and workshop features 12 foot ceilings with great illumination. A wide variety of workshops are taught by an accomplished group of artists/instructors who have a passion for teaching all experience levels. Attending a Workshop at the Gibson House is an experience you will long remember. Visit www.gibsonhousebb.com, call (603) 989-3125 or (800) 989-2150, or email gibsonhousebb@charter.net
Kristy Kutch Colored Pencil Workshops
Kristy Kutch has been creating colored pencil art for almost thirty years and has been teaching colored pencil workshops since 1991. A teacher with a life license, she applies many basic learning principles to her workshops, enthusiastically meeting each student at the appropriate level. Beginners are always welcome, but even advanced artists benefit from Kristy’s instruction. Offering demonstrations of techniques and the characteristics of different types of colored pencils, papers, and other related materials, Kristy covers a wide range of possibilities. Kristy is the author of Drawing and Painting with Colored Pencil and The New Colored Pencil. She is also the feature artist in the Artist Palette Productions DVD “Colored Pencil Landscapes: Beyond The Basics”. Kristy’s workshops are held nationwide; each is an enjoyable, supportive, memorable experience in a beautiful location. Visit www.artshow.com/kutch/ or contact Kristy at kakutch@earthlink.net or 219-874-4688.
Etruscan Places Landscape Painting in Tuscany and Civita Castellana
Etruscan Places offers a completely unique series of open air painting workshops on location, rain or shine, in some of Italy’s most spectacular landscapes. Artists, curators, writers Maddine Insalaco and Joe Vinson are residents and home owners in both the USA and Italy. Their presence in Tuscany since 1995 guarantees their knowledge of the landscape, inhabitants and local culture and everything connected with it. Presently 4 distinct 1 week classes are offered May – October: Open Air Fundamentals (all levels); Elements of Landscape (intermediate +); Roman Campagna (advanced); Advanced Seminar. Fees include materials and surfaces, equipment, meals, accommodation, field trips and local transport. 12 student max and 2 instructors every class. 40%+ participant return rate. Contact www.landscapepainting.com or call 212-780-3216.
Janet Rogers Expressive Watercolors – Flowers, Faces and Figures (Nov. 1-4, 2021 9am-4pm)
Fresh flowers in the studio will be the inspiration for the beginning of this dynamic workshop – progressing to faces and figures. Janet paints in a direct, intuitive and impressionistic manner. She will bring photos of hers – and/or you can work with your own. Focus will be on exploring color with flowers. Through a series of painting exercises students learn how to express translucent flesh tones, while emphasizing movement and gesture and an opportunity to be more spontaneous and expressive in their paintings of flowers and portraits. The setting for this exciting workshop is the historical La Fonda Hotel, located on the Plaza in Santa Fe, NM. Janet Rogers, AWS is an experienced national instructor – for all levels. Visit ArtWorkShopsOfSantaFe.com or email miriamjoseph@JosephHomes.com or call Miriam at 505-890-5000.
artbreak Arts Immersion Vacations in Prague (Czech Republic)
Named in 2008 by National Geographic as one of the world’s ‘Best Girlfriends Getaways’! The secret is out: artbreak is a one-of-a-kind learning vacation and totally new way to experience a great European capital – via its artistic heart. artbreak puts you in intimate contact with Prague’s vibrant artistic community, morning to night, for six creativity-filled days. Your mornings: three hours in an atelier, honing your skills at painting, collage and ceramics. Afterwards you’ll browse private galleries and major museums, then fit in some wine tasting and dinner before heading out to savor the absolute best of Prague’s opera, theatre, ballet, and superlative jazz scene. artbreak is a chance to inspire your artistic self and an exquisitely choreographed cultural adventure. Visit www.artbreak.org to learn more.
You can visit artshow.com for featured art exhibition contests, workshops, classes, and more. Enjoy the rest of your weekend, be safe, healthy, and blessed.
Featured and other images: Christine Swann, Jan-Willem Boer, Gibson House Bed and Breakfast, Kristy Kutch, artshow.com, Janet Rogers, artbreak, and Pexel.
