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Cheryl Cook
Figure Drawing: Drawing
Skills Bring New Life
to Your Painting
CHARCOAL
Saturday & Sunday
October 5 & 6, 2024 or March 1 & 2, 2025
9:00 am - 3:00 pm
$230.00 plus model fee
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Learning how to see and interpret reality through line drawing helps you develop the ability to think and see like an artist. Cookie will lead you through a series of exercises, designed to train the artist to draw figures with accuracy, simplicity and skill. This class will strengthen your figure drawing skills for both beginner and experienced artists. Sessions will begin with short exercises to capture gesture, movement, and anatomy.
"Cookie" began her career working for Hallmark in Kansas City designing and illustrating. In Chicago she worked for ad agencies and packaging companies as well as drawing courtroom sketches for the Chicago Tribune and now CBS. Cookie loves working with fellow artists to share the lessons learned by a lifetime of study.
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Susan Ploughe
Art and Your iPad
DIGITAL
Thursday & Friday
October 31 & November 1, 2024
9:00 am - 12:00 pm
$100.00
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The iPad is an incredibly useful tool for artists! In six hours, you will learn what Susan has spent many years discovering. In this workshop you will explore two amazing apps, Procreate and Notanizer that will enable you to:- Draw and “paint” on your iPad
- Combine and modify photo references for stronger compositions
- Understand the value structure of your paintings
- See colors more accurately
- Experiment with color and lighting choices, and much more!
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Susan Ploughe
Getting Started with Gouache
GOUACHE
Friday
February 28, 2025
9:00 am - 4:00 pm
$115
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Gouache (which rhymes with “squash”) is a delightful medium that provides endless possibilities for expression. It allows you to paint as you would with oils or acrylics because of its opaque qualities, while also providing watercolor-like characteristics. Its rich, matte color can be used in a range of applications from thin and semi-transparent to many opaque layers. It is a water-based paint, making it easy to use and clean-up - no solvents! It’s fantastic for sketching, traveling, and working out ideas, and can be used for quick studies or as a finished painting. In this workshop you will learn about the necessary supplies, how to handle the paint and palette, what surfaces to paint on, and you will practice a variety of painting techniques to get you started on your gouache journey.
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Susan Ploughe
Background Check
OILS OR PASTELS
Friday
April 4, 2025
9:00 am - 4:00 pm
$115.00
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“I just don’t know what to do with the background.” If you have ever said that, this workshop is for you! Susan will take the mystery out of backgrounds as you:
- Explore the role of backgrounds in successful works of art
- Learn design principles that you can apply to your own paintings
- Discover when to paint the background
- Experiment with many different background options
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