Saturday Pottery Wheel Date Night Workshop

Learn a new skill together with your partner, friend, or family member! We will walk you through the wheel throwing process together. No clay experience necessary but dress for a mess! Clay, glazes, and firing fees are included. Ages 18 & up. Price is per person.

Learn the art of needle felting while creating your own cheerful snowman. This cozy winter workshop is beginner-friendly and a fun way to craft a handmade holiday decoration.

In this workshop we will draw a variety of leaves and seasonal flowers of your choice! We will explore basic drawing (Gesture, Shape, Form) to lay down our subject. Then we will paint using Watercolor, exploring techniques such as Wet-on-Wet, Wet-On-Dry, layering, and a warm color palette.

We will work from life! Bring in whatever you wish to paint: leaves, wreaths, a bouquet. Focus on rich seasonal colors, shapes/gestures.

Learn the basics techniques of painting while exploring the unique characteristics of acrylic paint. Students will put concepts like value, color mixing, texture, and composition to action as they work on creating their very own still-life, portrait, and landscape paintings. No previous experience necessary.

The main goal is to enhance familiarity and comfort with the acrylic medium by exploring its fundamental techniques and concepts (and to have fun!). This will be achieved through the completion of three distinct projects, each designed to build skills incrementally. The projects will focus on various aspects of acrylic painting, such as color mixing, layering techniques, and texture creation, allowing for a comprehensive investigation of the medium. By the end of these projects, participants will have a deeper understanding of acrylics and increased confidence in their ability to utilize this versatile medium effectively. This session is divided into three projects with two classes to work on each project. Each project will focus on several or a combination of these fundamentals:

Line (your starting point. Thick, thin, expressive, controlled)

Shape (giving weight and dimension to objects)Space (perspective, depth)

Color (Color wheel! Color relationships!)

Texture (fun with additives and using the right brush/tool for the desired effect)

Value (lightness/darkness of color, not what the painting is worth at a Sotheby’s auction)

Master draughtsman Sean Fitzgibbon will help you develop your eye and your hand as you learn fundamental figure drawing techniques such as expressive line, form and anatomy based on a live model. A undraped Male or Female model will be present in each class. Learn to loosen up and see the figure in all new ways!

COURSE DESCRIPTION

We will explore figure-drawing techniques utilizing various methods.

COURSE OBJECTIVE

1. Gain a fuller understanding of the basic fundamentals of figure drawing.

2. Develop technical proficiency.

3. Gain a deeper insight into the forms and interrelationships of the various partsof the figure.

4. Render the figure in a variety of poses using foreshortening.

POINTS TO DISCUSS

Introduction to Figure Drawing and discussion of the course. Understanding the proportions of the human figure. Gesture drawings of the figure from imagination and from model. Introduction to artistic anatomy and rendering the skeleton. Measuring and sighting angles. Brief study of the muscles. Gesture and contour exercises from the live model. Rendering the figure in value. Explore chiaroscuro rendering the figure with single light source.

COURSE OUTLINE

WEEK ONE• Introduction to Figure Drawing and discussion of the course. Introduction to artistic anatomy and rendering the skeleton. Begin gesture drawings of the figure from the model.

WEEK TWO• Measuring and sighting angles while drawing from the figure. Understanding the proportions of the human figure.

WEEK THREE• Anatomy continued with brief study of the muscles. Gesture and contour exercises continued from the live model. Understanding foreshortening.

WEEK FOUR• Rendering the skull and proportions of the face. Gesture and contour exercises from the live model continued. Understanding negative space while rendering the figure. Rendering the figure in value. Explore chiaroscuro rendering the figure with single light source.

WEEK FIVE• Gesture and contour exercises from the live model continued. Mapping shapes within the figure. Reductive drawing / explore chiaroscuro rendering of the figure with singlelight source continued.

WEEK SIX• Gesture and contour exercises from the live model continued. Reductive drawing continued / explore chiaroscuro rendering of the figure with limited light source continued.

SUGGESTED READING

Figure Drawing for All It's Worth by Andrew Loomis

Figure Drawing: Design and Invention by Michael Hampton

Complete Guide to Drawing From Life by George Bridgman Hogarth

Dynamic Figure Drawing. New York: Watson-Guptill Publications, 1970

Atlas of Human Anatomy For the Artist. New York: Oxford University Press, 1951

Visualizing Muscles: A New Ecorche Approach. University Press of KS, 1990Sale, Betti

Drawing: A Contemporary Approach. Belmont, CA: Thomson Wadsworth, 2004. Goldstein

The Art of Responsive Drawing. New Jersey: Prentice-Hall Inc, 1973 Dodson

Keys to Drawing. Cincinnati, Ohio: North Light, 1985.Wakeham, Mendelowitz

Mendelowitz’s Guied to Drawing. NY: CBS College Publishing, 1976

Are you ready to get your hands dirty? Join our beginner's wheel class to learn the basics of creating your own cups and bowls! Instructors teach through demonstrations to show you correct throwing posture, centering, and pulling up cylinders. This class is designed for students with no prior experience and focuses on teaching students the fundamentals of throwing. If you are ready to fall in love with pottery, this is the class you are looking for!

Using principles learned from the Fundamentals, Figure/Head, and Painting classes, we’ll apply our knowledge and skills to Great Master artworks. We’ll learn watercolor basics (wet on wet,wet on dry, color mixing). Each week we’ll look at various artists such as Rubens, Rembrandt, Winslow Homer and more. From each, we’ll cover the human figure, landscapes, and abstracts.

Course Outline

Week 1: Overview/ Review, Wet on Wet, Wet on Dry/Damp, Water Control Brushes, Strokes Pencils, paint, ink

Week 2: Simple Volumes, Visualizing simple masses Value

Week 3: Monochrome, Using Black and Earth-tones, Rubens and Rembrandt

Week 4: Warm and Cools

Week 5: Color, Working with Primaries, Color Mixing, Winslow Homer scenes, Georgia O’ Keefe abstracts, Sargent

Week 6: Long-Form Master Study, Applying our skills to a single study

Suggested Reading:

1) Figure Drawing For Artists by Steve Huston

2) Drawing Lessons from the Great Masters & Master Class In Figure Drawing by Robert Beverly Hale

Learn the cozy craft of needle felting while creating one-of-a-kind holiday ornaments. This 2-hour session is perfect for beginners and offers a fun, hands-on way to celebrate the season. Free for veterans — all materials included.