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October 2019
Adventures with Cold Wax Oil Painting
An event every day that begins at 9:00 am, repeating until October 13, 2019
Adventures with Cold Wax Oil Painting October 11 – 12 – 13 9:00am – noon Instructor: Isabel Kumerz 300techniques@gmail.com In this three-day workshop, we will focus on abstract painting achieved through a layering process and color interactions. We will use cold wax medium, tube oils, pigment sticks, and a variety of tools, exploring new ways to create textures, color fields, and mark-making. The focus of the workshop is on the process itself more than achieving a “finished” painting; we look…
Find out more »December 2019
Holiday Gelliprint Workshops!
with instructor: Ingrid Booz Morejohn For the first time ever we are hosting single-lesson, 3-hour gelliplate printmaking workshops with Art Alliance printmaking instructor Ingrid Booz Morejohn at the Art Alliance Gallery Downtown Annex on Fraser Street (next to the gallery) — just in time to fix all your last minute holiday needs for card making, gift tags, small art and holiday stress relief!!! If you can’t make it yourself consider giving a friend a pre-Christmas gift of a fun workshop…
Find out more »January 2020
Painting Abstract: Expressing Your Powerful Intention
(10am - 1pm both Friday, January 3 and Saturday, January 4) We will create an abstract painting using symbols with an intention in mind (in this case words and symbols). This process will strengthen your composition and gestural drawing and keep your focus on shapes rather than color. Through this process you can create all kinds of compositions that will reflect your personality and character. See registration for supply list. Sign up today online!
Find out more »Photographing Your Art Workshop
Have you ever submitted photographs of your art to a jury for a show or to a print medium only to have your entry rejected because the photographs were not of a good enough quality for judging or reproduction? Then the Photographing Your Art workshop is for you. The workshop, co-sponsored by the Bellefonte Museum for Centre County and the Art Alliance of Central Pennsylvania, will be held on two Saturdays in January—Jan. 11 at the Museum, 133 N. Allegheny…
Find out more »Movement with Model: Mixed Media
When you draw the same object (in this case a figure life model) over and over again you are visually communicating movement. The goal with this process is for you to be able to disconnect the left side of your brain which is the part that judges and analyses. You will be moving out of your comfort zone learning how to create new possibilities for your art. This process is helpful to represent motion, movements and repetition. The results are…
Find out more »February 2020
Discover the Art of Intuitive Drawing
Lemont, PA 16851 United States
(10am - 1pm both Friday February 7 and Saturday, February 8) In this 2 day workshop, you will create a black and white drawing following your intuition. Starting with marks and scribbles you will create a powerful three-dimensional artwork working only with charcoal and an eraser. Intuitive drawing teaches us that there is holy wisdom in allowing ourselves to be led and guided by whatever shows up on the page in front of us. To let go of the need…
Find out more »Painting the Landscape in Pastel or Oil
(9:30am-3:30pm on both Friday, February 14 and Saturday, February 15) Join Susan Nicholas Gephart, internationally recognized instructor and award winning painter who has been creating colorful, impressionistic landscapes over forty years. You will work in the medium of your choice and learn how to take your photos, plein air sketches, and studies and turn them into a successful studio painting. In this up-beat but relaxed Two-Day workshop, Susan welcomes all levels, and will inspire the beginner as well as the…
Find out more »Watercolor Workshop
(10am - 3pm both Friday, February 21 and Saturday, February 22) Welcome to this two day watercolor workshop where we will paint what surrounds us. It could be the beauty of the winter landscape, maybe you have pictures from your garden that you would like to paint. You are free to choose your own subject. I will demo the basic steps in watercolor painting, color mixing, how to create texture and how to create depth in a painting. Beginners are…
Find out more »Watercolor Workshop for Beginners
This is a one-day workshop for watercolor beginners. We will cover the basic techniques and there will be lots of time for you to practice and ask questions. See registration for important information about supplies etc. Sign up today online!
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