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Recent Posts Tagged With 'painting classes'
Women’s Expressive Painting Group now enrolling
student paintings
One extra session later, these cheerful and hard-working girls completed their paintings. I am very happy with their ability to develop an idea and see it through to the finished work. Both Sam and Sabrina tried new techniques and found great success...
Happy Mothers’ Day
I have some of the neatest kids come to the studio for painting workshops. Without exception, these students are fortunate to have very involved and caring moms. I am grateful to know them all and to have their children as students and today I am hop...
new painting by Jerri Stevens
I had a great day walking around town in the sunshine today. I ran into lots of people and did a lot of visiting, saw tons of art, walked down the street carrying this panel with Jerri, laughed, had some yummy coffee, and gathered together a few fr...
Early Bird Discounts at Eureka Springs School of the Arts
I am excited to be teaching in two sessions at the Eureka Springs School of the Arts this summer. My first class is a week-long Introduction to Polymer Clay. It is scheduled June 15th -19th, during the adult session but since I prefer working with ...
students complete paintings
What a fun and diverse group of painters! I have loved every minute of working with this group. Everyone adapted their ideas around the assignment and worked to include a relistic depiction of an object in their painting. It was a great exercise in p...
students nearing completion
Monday’s art class was really cool. Everyone worked on their paintings and I moved from student to student asking questions and answering them. Everyone worked on bringing their forms to life with shading and highlighting and made decisions abo...
work and play, work and play
I am getting ready for the students return to the studio this afternoon. Last week they worked on sketching their compositions and doing an under-painting. The students from the last year’s class had some preparatory work for this and drew on w...
art classes resume tomorrow
This music video of Tanya Davis‘ song, Art, was created by Andrea Dorfman. I think they are both wonderful. Okay, art students, the power is on and the studio is ready for your return tomorrow. I can hardly wait to be surrounded by your creati...
reception was fun
The student art reception was great. The kids were really glad to have their friends and family come see all they have been working on. I was proud to hear them explaining some of the exercises we had done early on in the class. They are an amazing g...
student art reception today
The first art class comes to a close this afternoon as the students set up the studio for their art reception. Their friends and families are invited to come see all the things they have created during our classes. Aside from making wonderful art, th...
science of color
Last week at the Clear Spring School, I had the pleasure of working with all these student eyes! We discussed the difference between additive and subtractive color systems, learned about prisms and the color spectrum, and had a long discussion about ...
playing catch up
After a long and strenuous trip to Florida and back, I find myself happy to be back in the studio just as busy as I was before I left. A couple of hours on Caladesi Island soothed my rough edges and I am back to feeling I can balance work, renovation...
making portfolios in LaLa Land
Today was an unusual day in art class. One student walked into the glass door. (Gently, no one was hurt.) A couple sat at the table staring at ribbons, while others seemed to be made of rubber as they bounced off the trees and each other. It seemed ...
in the classroom
Clear Spring School is full of wiggly life forms! I had the pleasure of working with some of them this week when the first through sixth graders at Clear Spring School came together in Miss Jenny’s room for a hands-on lesson on color mixing. ...
abstract painting class
Today’s painting class in the studio was small and fun. We kept things very casual and did a little review of color theory while painting for pleasure since the majority of the class was unable to attend. It is amazing to see the differences be...
teaching art is a blast
Summer has flown by and I’m working on my plans for this fall as I add more teaching to my schedule. I will be offering three paper making workshops at the Ozark Folk Center and the first one is in November during their Make It a Handmade Chris...
negative space
This week the homeschool students continued their work on space and form. We began with a discussion about the picture plane and house its shape influences the overall compositon. Last week’s stamped works served as excellent examples that the ...
look at my boat NOW!
Wow! What a little epoxy, a quart of varnish, and a lot of loving care can accomplish! Once the inside of the boat was sanded and cleaned out, I ran off and left the boat in Martin’s garage. He says that if I leave it there he will continue to ...
three on six
Tuesday’s art class was different and exciting for me. The students worked very quickly at coming up with ideas and it is always a pleasure to see how well they all work together. Moving on to the study of form, I decided to introduce some conc...
string art day
Tuesday’s painting class with the homeschooled students took an interesting turn this week, and like most fun projects, the idea for the structure of this class came together from pieces of items which had previous uses and from the inspiration...
Heilbron’s Starry Night Quilt
Last weekend my best friend from high school was in town for a visit. She brought everything she needs with her- her family and her artwork. So, while her husband and son are lovely people, it turns out that I only photographed Heilbron and her artwo...
kids paint with analgous colors
The homeschool students came for another painting lesson today and it was almost like last week’s class. This time they worked with a palette of analogous colors to create paintings of anything they chose. I added the stipulation that they must...
the everchanging table
They’ve done it again! When time rolls around to paint the table, I beg bits of leftover paint from the kids’ palettes because I cannot resist dry brushing to see what interesting patterns pop up....
painting with complementary colors
Yesterday’s painting class was loads of fun for the kids because other than the stipulation that they work with a palette of complementary colors they were free to paint whatever they chose. First we looked at the many paintings I have done whi...
the painting table gets blue
Just thought you might like to see a shot of the kids in action. Unfortunately, Rachel is hidden behind Shannon in this shot, but I just love the big wave from Wilson so much I had to show it off. They are working on their value studies of the black ...
teaching values
Another art and life parallel-values define the form. This week the students continued to work on seeing values and using them to indicate form. This is the second value study they have done and I can see the progress as they learn to switch to a new...
the table glows orange now
The homeschool class still has fun painting the table with the day’s left over paints. Last week, our guest student added his initials, another added her hand print, and one student bemoaned the excessive use of orange....
alizarin crimson is the cool queen of the reds
Continuing our exploration into color theory, the homeschool students delved into red this week. I wanted them to look at color temperature within one color to demonstrate that all talk about color temperature is relative. There are cool reds with bl...
Clay Fantasy Figures
Last art class with the kids was full of wonderful surprises. The last thing they did was work with oil pastel on illustration boards and it was fun to see how different everyone’s art was. The boys did drawing of fantasy creatures and then wen...
