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DRAWING FOR DUMMIES (PD801)
Mynn Lanphier
Mon-Thu, May 12-15, 2-5pm
Tuition: Member $175 / Non-Member $200
Novice
Designed for the absolute beginner, this workshop will show anyone at any skill level how to draw realistically from sight. Through a series of relaxing, confidence-building exercises, students learn how to sharpen perception and develop drawing skills within a short period of time. A “rightbrain” approach makes the process remarkably fun and easy. If you have always wanted to be able to draw or feel rusty or inadequate with your skills, this class provides the opportunity to improve dramatically in a variety of drawing techniques. The only requirements are a few basic supplies and a willingness to try. Supply List
Mynn Lanphier has enjoyed teaching art to students of all ages for over 25 years. She has a BFA in Drawing and Painting from University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and an MA in Curriculum and Instruction from the National College of Education in Evanston, Illinois. She believes that everyone is capable of learning drawing skills. Her favorite media are graphite and colored pencil. In Door County, Mynn has shown at the Hardy, Paint Box and Guenzel Galleries.
INTRODUCTION TO PAINTING IN OIL (PD802)
Aaron Holland
W-F, May 14-16, 9am-3pm
Tuition: Member $265 / Non-Member $290
Beginner
The objective of this class is simple: To help you to become a more capable oil painter through demonstrations, lots of hands-on practice, and one-on-one instruction. We will discuss topics such as: materials, a how-to approach to oil painting, step-by-step methods, using linseed oil as a medium, understanding values and color, painting edges, brush care and clean-up, and much more. As always…any and all questions about painting are encouraged. Previous drawing experience is recommended, but not required. Supply List
Aaron Holland studied classical realism at The Bougie Studio in Minneapolis before returning to his native Wisconsin. He currently resides and keeps a studio in Door County where he paints year-round. Aaron is known primarily for work in watercolor and oil, and he has also helped create a number of public installations including murals and stained glass windows. www.hollandartstudio.com
PAINTING WITH A LIMITED PALETTE IN ACRYLICS OR OILS (PD803)
Mary Ulm Mayhew
Thu-Sat, May 15-17, 9am-3pm
Tuition: Member $265 / Non-Member $290
Advanced Beginner
See and understand how colors relate to one another and how you can bring color harmony to your paintings. In the workshop, students will learn to block in a painting using line, shape and value and a limited color selection. Mary will provide daily demonstrations and personal guidance to help you master this fundamental technique and improve your paintings. See Supply List
Mary Ulm Mayhew is an accomplished oil painter and a world traveler who brings her paints with her, capturing the places she visits. A winner in national and international competitions, Mary’s collectors include the Woodson Museum and the mayor of Stroncone, Italy. She has been included in the prestigious Birds In Art catalogue and in Who’s Who In American Art. Her paintings have an immediacy that captures the contemplative spirit of modern impressionism, wonderful studies of light and its effects on the perception of color. She is represented locally by Edgewood Orchard Galleries in Fish Creek and Hanson Gallery in Knoxville, Tennessee.
IMPRESSIONISTIC STILL LIFE PAINTING (PD804)
Shelby Keefe
Thu-Sat, May 22-24, 9am-4pm
Tuition: Member $305 / Non-Member $330
Advanced Beginner
Come join Shelby in an adventure of still life painting using oils or acrylic or both. See how using brilliant acrylic under painting and painting directly on canvas with oils can make an ordinary still life sparkle with life and color! Through short demonstrations and individualized coaching you will gain insight on composition, under painting and color mixing techniques. See Supply List
Shelby Keefe is a impressionistic painter, teacher and performance artist operating her own art studio and exhibition space in Milwaukee. Her award-winning urban landscape paintings have earned her participation in some of the top national art festivals including Milwaukee’s Lakefront Festival of Arts. Her work is being shown in galleries as far reaching as Florida and New York, Virginia and Ohio; and as close to home as Door County’s Edgewood Orchard Galleries. www.studioshelby.com
WATER-MEDIA: CAPTURING THE PLANTS OF DOOR COUNTY (PD805)
Suzanne Wegener
Thu-Sat, May 22-24, 9am-3pm
Tuition: Member $270 / Non-Member $295 plus materials fee
Beginner
Delicate spring flowers and plants lend themselves to water media. We will work with watercolor and gouache (an opaque watercolor) to render their delicate details. Learn about wildflowers and plants of Door County with a special tour of the Ridges Natural Area. We will return to the classroom to work on live plants provided. You may take the plants home and plant them in your own garden as a memory of the Peninsula Art School! Demonstrations of painting techniques and background treatments along with highly individualized instruction will ensure students of all levels will go home with a botanical work to be proud of. See Supply List
Suzanne Wegener is the Coordinator of Botanical Art Education for the Morton Arboretum. She received her undergraduate degree in Scientific Illustration from Northern Illinois University, and her Master’s in Biomedical Visualization from The University of Illinois – Chicago. She has worked as a freelance illustrator since 1989 and has taught illustration and fine art classes for area Historical Societies and Art Leagues, as well as at The Morton Arboretum.
MURALS ALL FRESCO (PD806)
Tony Rajer
Tue-Fri, June 3-6,
9am-Noon
Tuition: Member $200 / Non-Member $225 plus materials fee
Open to All Levels
Learn Michelangelo’s fresco technique. This workshop combines studio art and art history into a week-long adventure of mural making. Each student will make a portable fresco mural with Renaissance materials and methods. We will view images on the history of mural painting, lay out the design, and create the “story” for the fresco. Then we prepare our plaster layers, including the scratch coat and final coat. By the end of the week you will be painting like a master and have a real understanding of true fresco and the challenges faced by Michelangelo in the Sistine Chapel. Supply List
Tony Rajer is an instructor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and a recent Fulbright scholar, and a professional art conservator educated at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Harvard University and the University of Rome. He is currently a trustee of the Nek Chand Foundation and a frequent visitor to the Chandigarh Rock Garden. As an expert in mural techniques, Tony was an invited observer during the Sistine Chapel restoration project at the Vatican.
ART STARTS WITH AN IDEA (PD807)
Chris Style
Tue-Fri, May 27-30, 9am-2pm
Tuition: Member $290 / Non-Member $315
Advanced Beginner
Do you find yourself painting the same things all too often? Have you been experimenting with new media in order to bring some spark back to your work? Why not try a new approach? Learn to ask questions about what you do, why you do it, and how else you can do it. We’ll talk about how artists develop concepts and processes, what it means to work in a series, and experiment with problem solving strategies. Be open to explore, yet able to commit. We’ll not produce finished pieces, but students will leave with a portfolio packed with sketches, words, images, and ideas for future work. Participants should be fairly confident in their use of their tools and medium. All 2D and 3D artists are welcome. See Supply List
Chris Style is an Associate Professor and Chair of the Art Program at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, where she teaches all levels of printmaking including intaglio, lithography, screen printing and relief, as well as graphic communication courses. Chris and her husband coordinate travel courses and have taken groups to Italy, Peru and Bolivia. She is co-author of “Public Sculpture in Wisconsin,” and is past president and an active member of Print Forum at the Milwaukee Art Museum.
HOW TRUE IS YOUR BLUE? COLOR AND COLORED PENCIL (PD808)
Allan Servoss
M-W, June 9-11, 9am-3pm
Tuition: Member $265 / Non-Member $290
Beginner
In this step-by-step workshop, students will learn the basics of color including hands-on exercises in monochromatic, complimentary, split-complimentary, analogous and triadic compositions. We will also review drawing fundamentals such as layering, blending, burnishing, grisaille, and the habit of pencil companies to use whimsical and ambiguous names for colored pencils (which can be fun, but confusing at times). Along the way we’ll discuss pictorial layout (composition) and the importance of sketching and photography as tools for the artist. A fundamental understanding of drawing and perspective and a good sense of humor will enhance the enjoyment of this course for participants. Supply List
Allan Servoss has taught watercolor and drawing across the country for the past 25 years (his first class at the PAS was in 1987). He has been an invited instructor for the Colored Pencil Society of America and has a 10-year merit award from that organization. His work has been exhibited in juried shows, galleries, museums and colleges nationally and his work has been the subject of articles in American Artist, The Artist’s Magazine, and International Artist magazine as well as being represented in many books on colored pencil. Allan’s work can be viewed at Fine Line Designs in Sister Bay. www.allanservoss.com
LANDSCAPE PAINTING WITH WATER-MIXABLE OILS (PD809)
Rob Williams
Thu-Sat, June 12-14, 9am-2:30pm
Tuition: Member $240 / Non-Member $265
Beginner
Capture the beauty of the Door County landscape with water-mixable oils. Observe the creative process as Rob creates a large painting from start to finish. Water-mixable oils have all the advantages of traditional oils: rich color and slow drying time, plus the ease of water clean-up without solvents. Rob will fill these three days with helpful demonstrations and tips, as well as one-on-one instruction according to individual skill levels. Each participant will engage in a variety of painting exercises and create a landscape painting by the end of the workshop. Supply List
Rob Williams has an MA in art education from the University of Illinois, and 30 years experience teaching art. His bold, dynamic landscape paintings can be seen at the Rob Williams studio/gallery located near Gills Rock in northern Door County.
PORTRAITS IN PASTEL (PD810)
Emmett Johns
M-W, June 16-18, 9am-3pm
Tuition: Member $265 / Non-Member $290 plus model fee
Open to All Levels
The emphasis in this workshop will be on exploring the many techniques that give the pastel medium its reputation for rich variety of tone and line. From the use of thin lines to broad strokes, the subtle color nuances of the old masters to the bold clashing colors of the expressionists, this class will teach you to infuse life and character into your portrait through the pastel medium. Emmett will help each student find those approaches best suited to their needs and skill level. A clothed model will be sitting to give every student an excellent vantage point. Supply List
Emmett Johns, a graduate of the Los Angeles Art Center College of Design, has been working intensively with pastels and oils for over 20 years, developing tremendous facility in both landscapes and portraiture. Structural integrity and capturing the essence of a particular place or person in a free, easy, spontaneous style are of the utmost importance to Emmett. His gallery at the Settlement Shops in Fish Creek and a winter setting in New Mexico provide a stimulating array of subject matter year-round. www.emmettjohns.com
PAINTING THE STILL LIFE—KEEPING IT SIMPLE (PD811)
Kate Mueller
M-W, June 16-18, 9am-3pm
Tuition: Member $265 / Non-Member $290
Beginner
This workshop will take you through the process of painting a still life, while learning to simplify your expression and “save the best for last.” Start with a review of some basics regarding lighting, composition, and selection of center of interest, then progress through the painting to a finished piece. We will focus on working large to small, abstract to real, completing the work with the final details that bring the work together and express the beauty that the artist sees. By working simply and efficiently, we will hope to achieve freshness in color, light, and brushwork. See Supply List
Kate Mueller is a professional oil painter with representation throughout the state of Wisconsin. Her work has been included in many regional- and national-juried exhibitions including OPA national and regional shows, and the Catherine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club exhibitions in New York. She grew up in the countryside of Wisconsin within a family of artists, and after studying art in San Francisco and Chicago spent 14 years as a professional freelance illustrator. Once Kate returned to fine art, she focused on painting still lifes and has recently been adding landscape and figurative work to her repertoire. Kate has been a drawing and life drawing instructor, a painting teacher and an instructor in illustration and design.
EARLY SUMMER LANDSCAPES (PD812)
Lori Beringer
M-W, June 16-18, 9am-3pm
Tuition: Member $265 / Non-Member $290
Advanced Beginner
As summer arrives, the world around us bursts into living color. Sweet greens, luscious warms, and soft lavenders excite the palette. Learn to achieve vibrant and mature brushwork with variety in edges. Lori will take you on an exciting journey learning to see the landscape through your emotions. Strengthen your design, rhythm, movement, and create a sense of light while working daily in the unique Door County light. Lori will give enthusiastic guidance with lots of personal attention and guidance at the easel and during daily demonstrations in plein-air. See Supply List
Lori Beringer’s studies began at University of Wisconsin-Sheboygan followed by workshops and studio experience with Dan Gerhartz, Albert Handell, Ann Templeton and Rosemary Utzinger. Her work can be seen in private and corporate collections and is shown in Door County at Fine Line Designs Gallery. Lori is published in How Did You Paint That? 100 Ways to Paint Seascapes, Rivers and Lakes and the 2006 Dane County Cultural Affairs Commission Calendar “Local Color.” Working outdoors in all seasons, Lori finds joy in capturing the essence of the moment whether in her native Wisconsin, neighboring states, or abroad.
THINK SLOW, PAINT FAST: PLEIN AIR WITH ACRYLICS (PD813)
Steve Rys
Thu-Sat, June 19-21, 9am-3pm
Tuition: Member $265 / Non-Member $290
Advanced Beginner
In studio we will create a plan of action, brush off the cobwebs on light and color theory, and explore some of the joyfully intrinsic properties of acrylic paint. Steve will lead demos, painting exercises, and Q&A. On day two, plan in hand, we will fearlessly approach the beauty of Door County on location. Students may follow along with the morning demo or dive in. Emphasis is placed on individual attention and serious fun. On day three, we return to the location and note ephemeral changes, then enjoy more painting, before returning to the studio for final touch ups and gentle critiques. Supply List
Steve Rys has painted on location in the desert southwest, in addition to locations in Kenya, India, New Zealand, UK, Spain, and Thailand. Steve holds a degree from Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado, and studied for several years at the Art Student’s League of Denver. His digital artwork was recently included in The Painter X Wow! Book. For the past five years he has been teaching at the Charles Wustum Museum of Fine Art in Racine, Wisconsin. His work is included in private collections, both in the US and abroad. He lives and paints in SE Wisconsin.
SATURDAY DRAWING WORKSHOPS
Malin Ekman
Drawing trains your eye to the beauty of the world in which we live and is the indispensable foundation upon which artists create successful paintings and designs. Malin Ekman is a master illustrator and accomplished painter who will teach you the joy of drawing in a series of Saturday classes. Each class will begin with basic techniques for students to develop drawing skills and gain confidence, followed by a particular focus for that session.
Value – June 21
Proportion and Shape – June 28
Composition – July 12
Animals – August 9
Nature and Landscape – August 16
Still Life – August 23
Malin Ekman is a painter, illustrator and Chicago Art Institute graduate. Since 1980 she has specialized in illustration, accepting commissions from her Door County studio, and is currently focusing on fine art painting. Recipient of several grants, Malin’s work has been included in numerous invitational, juried and one-person shows. She has recently served on the Board of Directors of the Miller Art Museum.
SATURDAY DRAWING WORKSHOP: VALUE (PD814)
Malin Ekman
Sat, June 21, 9am-3pm
Tuition: Member $90 / Non-Member $100 plus materials fee
Open to All Levels
The secret of drawing great images is that value, not line, is what reveals form and shape. Value is the use of darks, mediums and lights in your artwork. It captures the illusion of three dimensions on a flat surface such as paper or canvas.
PAINTING WITH PHOTOGRAPHS AND MEMORIES (PD815)
Bonnie Paruch
M-W, June 23-25, 9am-3pm
Tuition: Member $265 / Non-Member $290
Beginner
We often see fleeting images of profound beauty that linger only in our mind’s eye. Photography can be a powerful tool for the artist who seeks to capture these moments. This workshop will increase your ability to paint what you want to see. Bonnie offers practical, effective exercises in light, color, composition and brushwork. Using studies and photographic references, students will learn the big picture approach to developing personalized paintings. Daily chalk talks and paint-along demos will enhance a lively, relaxed, and informative workshop experience. Demonstrations will be in oil, though acrylic and watercolor painters are also welcome. See Supply List
As an author and artist, Bonnie Paruch is a signature member of the Pastel Society of America and has been featured in numerous national and international publications. A veteran of many group and solo exhibitions, her awardwinning paintings in oil and pastel are included in collections across the US. With studios in West Bend and Door County, her work is represented by Edgewood Orchard Galleries.
DRAWING THE FIGURE (PD816)
Emmett Johns
M-W, June 23-25, 9am-3pm
Tuition: Member $265 / Non-Member $290 plus model fee
Open to All Levels
Using a clothed model, we will explore the ideas and techniques of the great masters of draftsmanship in this basic drawing class. These principles are essential to all aspects of image making. In addition to working from the model, we will be using old master drawings and photos that will help students further understand these important lessons. Emmett will also teach ways to help you to work from memory. This is especially beneficial for those who want to improve their sketchbook and journal drawing. Supply List
See PD810 for instructor bio.
GORGEOUS STILL LIFE PAINTING IN GOUACHE OR ACRYLIC (PD817)
Pat Hidson
Thu-Sat, June 26-28, 9am-3pm
Tuition: Member $265 / Non-Member $290
Intermediate
This class will stretch and strengthen compositional skills as well as painting ability. Students may use acrylic on canvas or gouache on paper. Small compositional studies and then small study paintings will precede the accomplishment of a major painting. With both mediums, the use of layering and color mixing, to achieve color that is an integral part of a strong composition, will be taught. Supply List
Milwaukee-based artist Pat Hidson received her art training at the University of Alberta, Cape School of Art in Provincetown, Massachusetts, and the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design. She has exhibited throughout the US and Canada and in France and Mexico in both group and one-person shows. Her work is featured in corporate and private collections.
PLEIN AIR IN OIL OR PASTEL (PD818)
Bonnita Budysz
Thu-Sat, June 26-28, 9am-4pm
Tuition: Member $305 / Non-Member $330
Open to All Levels
We will explore means of achieving color luminosity and radiance in on-location landscape painting. Exciting, dynamic composition, color harmonies, correct values, edge variety, and expression of your personal style are some of the issues covered. Bonnita will demonstrate each day, highlighting the properties and characteristics of both oil paints and pastel pigments, sharing techniques and fundamental principles on manipulating the media you choose. Personalized attention and guidance at your easel throughout each day will “pull it all together” and encourage your continued artistic growth. Supply List
Bonnita Budysz has been a featured artist in the national American Artist and Art of the West magazines, as well as being selected for the International Artist Magazine’s new book How Did You Paint That? She is an award-winning member of the American Impressionist Society and the Oil Painters of America, and a signature member of the Pastel Society of the West Coast. Through intense study with masters of the Russian Impressionist school and year-round plein air painting, Bonnita has enhanced her joyful style with the radiant, luminous color found in her widely collected landscapes, still lifes and commissioned portraits. She is represented locally by Edgewood Orchard Galleries.
SATURDAY DRAWING WORKSHOP: PROPORTION AND SHAPE (PD819)
Malin Ekman
Sat, June 28, 9am-3pm
Tuition: Member $90 / Non-Member $100 plus materials fee
Open to All Levels
To have a drawing look right, you need to get the proportions and perspective right. Using observation and logic, and by measuring objects and negative space, you can represent shapes accurately and in proportion to each other.
METAPHORS OF DOOR COUNTY IN ACRYLIC OR OIL (PD820)
Janet Tenneson-McCarty
M-W, June 30-July 2, 9am-3pm
Tuition: Member $265 / Non-Member $290
Intermediate
Gather your sketches, ideas, and photographs of barns, hay bales, wheat fields, orchards, harbors and birch forests, then create a painting in the studio. Memory, reference material, and imagination are important in composing a painting. The emphasis will be on creating harmony on the canvas through composition, value and color relationships. Students will be encouraged to respond directly to the forms and colors on the canvas. As Robert Motherwell said, “By reacting to the colors on the canvas, an artist stumbles on what one couldn’t do by oneself.” There will be daily demonstrations, personal attention and gentle critiques.
Janet Tenneson-McCarty studied at the Vermont Studio Center with Wolf Kahn and Katherine Porterand has a masters degree from the University of Wisconsin. She has won awards in juried shows both at the local and national levels. Her artwork is included in many private and corporate collections nationwide including Northwestern Mutual, State Farm, Yale University, ITT Hartford, Hitachi Data, Milwaukee Athletic Club, Bank of America and Lockheed Martin. Janet lives in St. George, Utah, and Door County. She is represented by Edgewood Orchard Galleries in Door County, Lake Country Gallery in Milwaukee and Juniper Sky Gallery in St. George.
LIFE DRAWING FOR BEGINNERS: THE NUDE FIGURE (PD821)
Paula Swaydan-Grebel
Tue-Thu, July 1-3, 9am-4pm
Tuition: Member $305 / Non-Member $330 plus model fee
Beginner
Figure drawing is an essential building block in the education of an artist. By acquiring the ability to draw the human figure, you learn skills that will help you to draw nearly anything. Working from a live nude model, Paula will teach a simplified drawing method in which students learn basic measuring skills that allow them to draw with both accuracy and personal expression. Each day will begin with a demonstration followed by practice doing many drawings starting from simple shapes. There will be a variety of short and long poses, with an emphasis on learning to observe, slow down, measure, and accurately draw the human figure.
Paula Swaydan-Grebel received her BFA from California State University of Long Beach and continues to build a solid base of knowledge by taking workshops from leading painters such as Ken Auster, George Strickland, Steve Gerhartz, Peggy Kroll-Roberts and others. She believes an important part of her artistic growth within the past 5 years is the result of “figure painting” with a group of artists at Dan Gerhartz studio. Paula has received various awards, which include Best of Show 2005 Cedarburg, Wisconsin Plein Air Contest, First Place for both Kansas Art Show at the Dog Show and the Artist Magazine 1999 art competition.
WHAT’S THE BIG IDEA? (PD822)
Wendell Arneson
M-F, July 7-11, 9am-Noon
Tuition: Member $325 / Non-Member $350
Intermediate
Through observation and experimentation, we will focus on the development of various approaches to the invention of personal ideas, images, or concepts in your work. The course will provide avenues to assist you to self-analyze, evaluate, and develop your own ideas, content, and technical/design solutions within the context of a personal artistic vision. Though this course is primarily focused on two-dimensional work, it is not driven by media, scale, or process. You will be challenged to consider new formal and conceptual possibilities for expanding new work. Group and individual evaluation are highlighted, with special emphasis on idea generation and content. The course will focus on existing pieces and give ample time for the start of new ones. Students may work independently in the studio until 5pm daily. Supply List
Wendell Arneson grew up in Wisconsin, then studied art at Luther College and Bowling Green University, where he received his MFA degree in Painting. Since 1983, he has been the chair of the Art Department at St. Olaf College, Northfield, Minnesota. Locally, his work may be seen at Woodwalk Gallery in Egg Harbor.
COLOR EXPLORATIONS IN PENCIL (PD823)
Kimberly Mullarkey
M-W, July 7-9, 9am-3pm
Tuition: Member $265 / Non-Member $290
Advanced Beginner
This focused class will give you the skills to bring life and complexity into your colored pencil work. Make sensuous darks without the use of black. Throw away those grey pencils and use color instead. Cast shadows will become rich with color. Through color mixing exercises you will learn to mix colors that work for you. Students should be comfortable working with colored pencil. Supply List
Kimberly Mullarkey has an Associate in Fine Art from San Diego Mesa College, a BFA from University of California – Santa Cruz, and received her MFA from Northern Illinois University. She has also completed the Botanical Art Certificate Program at the Morton Arboretum. Her artwork has been exhibited widely in Illinois and France, and is included in the Morton Arboretum’s rare print and art collection and private collections in Canada, the United States, and France. She has been published in The Best of Colored Pencil, Vols. 4 & 5, and is a Signature Member of the Colored Pencil Society of America. She currently teaches at the Morton Arboretum and the College of DuPage.
PORTRAITS IN OIL (PD824)
Ken Bronikowski
M-W, July 7-9, 9am-4pm
Tuition: Member $305 / Non-Member $330 plus model fee
Beginner
Have you ever thought about painting a portrait with a limited palette of only four colors? In this class we will work together to see and paint shapes, study values and edges, mix colors, and look for warm and cool colors. Amazingly, we will build a face out from a white canvas. Demonstrations will be in water mixable oils, but students are welcome to work in oils, water-based oils or acrylics. Students should come with basic drawing skills, so we can move right into painting. Supply List
Wisconsin artist Ken Bronikowski retired in 1996 after 44 years as an illustrator in the Milwaukee area. His oil studies are Al Prima, meaning they are done on location, direct and without any preliminary sketching or compositional studies, and finished in one painting session. He studied life drawing and oil painting/portraiture under William H. Mosby at the American Academy of Art in Chicago, Illinois. He teaches at the West Bend Art Museum and Alverno College in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. “Now I finally have the opportunity to pursue fine art completely, of which I will include portraiture, figurative painting and studies, landscapes, still lifes and wildlife art...and I love to paint onions.”
THE LANDSCAPE OF DOOR COUNTY IN PRINTMAKING (PD825)
Bill Greider
Thu-Sat, July 10-12, 9am-4pm
Tuition: Member $305 / Non-Member $330 plus materials fee
Open to All Levels
This course is designed to give students an introduction to the color relief printmaking process of reduction linocuts. This process makes multi-color prints from a single linoleum block by alternately printing a color and then re-carving the block, building up the image one layer at a time. Students will create and edition a three-color linoleum block print and will also create a portfolio and get a print from each participant. The focus of the prints will be the beautiful Door peninsula landscape. No previous printmaking experience needed. Supply List
William Greider earned an MFA in printmaking from the University of Arizona. He currently is a high school art teacher and teaches printmaking and drawing courses regularly at the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh. His most recent activities include a solo exhibition at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Watercolor Wisconsin in Racine and participation in two national print portfolios. He lives in Oshkosh, Wisconsin.
SATURDAY DRAWING WORKSHOP: COMPOSITION (PD826)
Malin Ekman
Sat, July 12, 9am-3pm
Tuition: Member $90 / Non-Member $100 plus materials fee
Open to All Levels
By arranging forms within the boundaries of a drawing, the artist reveals what is most important in the work. Composition uses principles such as line, shape, color, balance, contrast, and space to convey meaning and to lead the viewer’s eye throughout the work.
LAND AND SKY IN COLORED PENCIL (PD827)
Priscilla Humay
M-W, July 14-16, 9am-3pm
Tuition: Member $265 / Non-Member $290 plus materials fee
Open to All Levels
The focus of this class will be on the color integration of land, sky, and all other related objects. There will be short outdoor drawing sessions to learn quick application techniques and how to capture the essence of what is seen. These drawings will be used to work up and refine later in the class. Through demonstrations, individual guidance, and daily critiques, students will learn various dry and wet method color application techniques. They will also strengthen their drawing skills and gain a solid understanding of composition and perspective. Supply List
Priscilla Humay received her BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, MS from I. I. T. , and post-graduate study at Charles University in Prague. She won numerous awards including Award for Excellence at 2007 Colored Pencil Society International, earned her 5-year CPSA Signature, and is in major corporate and private collections. She is published in Colored Pencil Explorations and Best of Colored Pencil III and V. Her teaching experience includes: College of Lake County, CPSA International Convention Memphis, Morton Arboretum, Art Center Highland Park, and workshops throughout the USA. www.humayfineart.com
COLOR PORTRAITS: PAINTING PEOPLE OR PETS (PD828)
Susan Hale
M-W, July 14-16, 9am-3pm
Tuition: Member $265 / Non-Member $290
Advanced Beginner
Have fun painting people or your pet! Students will use bold brush work and color freely, layering vibrant colors to create flesh tones, and simplifying the face and figure. We will have fun painting from photos of friends, family, and pets. There will be demonstrations in composition, underpainting, glazing techniques, and impasto with a palette knife. We will strive to tell a story in the painting and capture the essence of the subject in everyday life, like the Impressionists. The goal of our class will be to encourage creativity through color and have FUN! Acrylic and oil are welcome. See Supply List
Susan Hale received a BFA from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She has received numerous awards for her landscape paintings and is a member of Oil Painters of America and Wisconsin Painters & Sculptors. In 2005, Susan’s work was featured in a one-woman show at the Leenhouts Gallery in Milwaukee. She recently published a “Northwoods Calendar” and a “Cedarburg Calendar” featuring original paintings that represent her love of Wisconsin and its landscape. Susan lives and has a studio in Cedarburg, Wisconsin. www.susanhaleart.com
OIL PAINTING FOR BEGINNERS (PD829)
Shan Bryan-Hansen
Thu-Sat, July 17-19, 9am-4pm
Tuition: Member $305 / Non-Member $330
Novice
This class is for those brand new to oil painting, as well as experienced painters who want to learn more about oil painting mediums, technique and color-mixing. We will discuss various pigments, learn how to manipulate oil paint, how and when to use paint mediums, and how to create color harmony through the use of a limited palette. This is a studio workshop where students learn through both discussion and hands-on painting.
Shan Bryan-Hanson is a painter from Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin, who is inspired by the beauty of everyday life. She received her MFA in painting from the University of Montana in 1998 and has been the recipient of several grants, including a Percent for Art Commission, awarded through a Montana State Arts competition, and a grant from the Peninsula Arts Association and Wisconsin Arts Board. Shan is currently the curator at the Fairfield Center for Contemporary Art in Sturgeon Bay, as well as an adjunct art professor at Silver Lake College in Manitowoc, Wisconsin.
LANDSCAPES IN OILS (PD830)
Brett Weaver
Thu-Sat, July 17-19, 9am-4pm
Tuition: Member $305 / Non-Member $330
Open to All Levels
We will focus on the fundamentals of building a solid foundation for your landscape paintings, including simplicity of design and composition and the importance of variety and color relationships, as well as being bold and direct. Students will learn to work in a simple split primary palette of specified colors (warm and cool of each primary) to aid in color harmony and development of color mixing skills. Brett provides daily demonstrations, as well as individual help and critiques while students paint. Painting and instruction will be on location around Door County.
Brett Weaver is a nationally recognized artist focusing primarily on landscapes, working in a style described as bold and direct, which ranges from impressionistic to tonal in style. His work is more about capturing the emotion or feeling of a place or idea rather than painting a pretty picture, producing art that means something and people can live with. His achievements include Second Place award at the Carmel Arts Festival, selection as an Emerging Artist in Southwest Art Magazine, Plein Air Magazine’s Award of Excellence and Raymar Award of Excellence. Weaver currently maintains a studio in Sewanee, Tennessee. www.brettweaverstudio.com
STILL LIFE: A CLASSIC VIEW (PD831)
Steve Ohlrich
Thu-Sat, July 17-19, 9am-3pm
Tuition: Member $265 / Non-Member $290
Advanced Beginner
Working from a large still life throughout the workshop, students will work to complete a single still life painting. We will begin by drawing the still life using vine charcoal, and then paint over our drawings. Throughout the workshop, color will be the main focus. Students will learn palette arrangement, color mixing, and paint application, and a sensitivity to color and color temperature. Supply List
Steve Ohlrich has been drawing since early childhood and received awards at an early age. He attended The School of Representational Art where he received extensive training in academic drawing and painting, the study of composition, and impressionistic color. His work includes realistic figurative works, portraits, still life, and creative compositions. He has sold his works to private collectors and has displayed in public exhibitions. He is an instructor at The School of Representational Art, Kewaunee Academy of Fine Arts, and also teaches at public art centers and in the homes of individual art students. www.steveohlrich.com
DRAWING: THE NEXT STEP (PD832)
Jeff Merril
Thu-Sat, July 17-19, 9am-4pm
Tuition: Member $305 / Non-Member $330
Advanced Beginner
This class will cover the principles of value, perspective, and proportions as they relate to objects, landscape, and people. Students will draw from life and from photographs. Various drawing approaches and mediums will be covered including charcoal, graphite, and drawing sticks, such as Nupastel. Students will learn how to create emphasis in their drawings through the use of line, value, and edges. Supply List
Jeff Merrill received a BFA (Illustration) from Brigham Young University. He worked for 7 years as an in-house illustrator for The Waterford Institute, illustrating children’s books and creating graphics for educational software. In 2004, he changed focus from Illustration to Fine Art. Although primarily a painter, he draws and paints people, landscape, and still life. He also currently teaches introductory and intermediate figure drawing classes, as well as a digital illustration course for the Academy of Art University Online.
OUTDOOR LANDSCAPE PAINTING (PD833)
Doug Diehl
Mon-Thu, July 21-24, 9am-4pm
Tuition: Member $400 / Non-Member $425
Beginner
In this workshop, Doug will place emphasis on developing concepts and skills for organizing and simplifying large landscape masses into an exciting design. Natural laws of light, values, color in perspective, edges, and creating emphasis and movement through the painting will be explored. Always in the forefront is the idea that the job of an artist is to first learn the craft, as knowledge is power with the end goal in mind that art is more than imitation. We will spend the first day in the classroom with lecture, demo and exercises in order to prepare us to move outdoors for the remaining days. See Supply List
Doug Diehl has studied with Ron Lukas (now art director of Dream Works Studio), Susan Diehl, Bill Reese, Henry Stinson and Simon Kogan, and studied in the Russian Impressionist style. In the last 6 years, he has been painting full time. Doug is interested in color and light and its interaction on objects, whether still life or landscape. To communicate the simple beauties that are all around us; light as it wraps around a cup, or as it dances though a glass. The close intimate scene or the grand vista, each one offers the painter the same age old challenges—values, edges, composition, color harmonies and drawing.
PAINTING ARCHEOLOGY: THE ABSTRACT PAINTING OF PLACE (PD834)
Patricia Wheeler
M-F, Jul 28-Aug 1, 9am-4pm
Tuition: Member $425 / Non-Member $450 plus materials fee
Advanced Beginner
Re-establish connections to your past by integrating personal memories with an abstract, archeological vocabulary. Explore the physicality of texture, color and surface using the concept of palimpsest, where remnants of earlier, imperfectly erased markings are revealed. Mix formal elements of painting with symbols and stories as subtext to create rich surfaces. Build and excavate, stencil and cut into paintings, and begin to understand the layering and distressing of ancient surfaces transformed by your memory of place. Students should bring a solid knowledge of design. Supply List
Patricia Wheeler is a painter who also works with mixed media, non-traditional books and video projection. The common element in all of her work is some form of narrative—whether excerpted, stenciled, sewn, hand-written or embedded, it is ever present. She has exhibited in New York City, Philadelphia, Boston, Santa Fe and Maine. She has taught at the Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Oregon College of Art and Craft and the Center for Maine Contemporary Art. She lives and works in Deer Isle, Maine.
STILL LIFE INDOORS AND OUT (PD835)
Paula Swaydan-Grebel
M-W, July 28-30, 9am-4pm
Tuition: Member $305 / Non-Member $330
Open to All Levels
Learn how the impressionists painted light with the aid of values, temperatures, and brilliancies. Simplifying will be key. Students will do multiple studies of various setups to aid growth and understanding. If weather permits, outdoor still life studies will be offered in order to work with natural lighting. Paula will provide class demonstrations, group and individual instruction, and utilize the gallery exhibitions for instructional guidance. Oil, acrylic, and pastel are welcome. See Supply List
Paula Swaydan-Grebel received her BFA from California State University of Long Beach and continues to build a solid base of knowledge by taking workshops from leading painters such as Ken Auster, George Strickland, Steve Gerhartz, Peggy Kroll-Roberts and others. She believes an important part of her artistic growth within the past 5 years is the result of “figure painting” with a group of artists at Dan Gerhartz’s studio. Paula has received various awards, which include Best of Show 2005 Cedarburg, WI Plein Air Contest, First Place for both 2001 Kansas Art Show at the Dog Show and the Artist Magazine 1999 art competition.
SEEING THE LANDSCAPE IN DOOR COUNTY (PD836)
Michael Nitsch
Thu-Sat, July 31 to Aug 2, 9am-4pm
Tuition: Member $305 / Non-Member $330
Beginner
Spend some time out in the fields and woods drawing Door County. We’ll start with an introduction including slides, a review of drawing materials, and a few techniques. Then it’s time to explore farm scenes, orchards, country roads, and shores. We’ll spend the morning drawing outdoors, then return to the School for lunch and to work in the studio in the afternoon finishing some drawings. Individual assistance will ensure that all skills in drawing will be challenged and enhanced. Supply List
Michael Nitsch has 27 years experience in printmaking and drawing. He has taught classes in Nature Drawing, Fundamentals in Drawing, at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside and the Charles A Wustum Museum. His art has been exhibited in galleries, universities and museums throughout the Midwest and hangs in both public and private collections. Michael's botanical background creates a strong passion for nature, still life, gardens and landscapes.
PORTRAIT IN OIL (PD837)
Jack Wahl
Thu-Sat, July 31-Aug 2, 9am-4pm
Tuition: Member $305 / Non-Member $330 plus model fee
Beginner
Working from a live model, we will work towards completion of one portrait during the three-day period. We will focus on the importance of creating lights and darks—values— for a successful portrait. Beginning by drawing on the canvas, we will lay in the values then go back in with color, carefully selecting those that reflect the values and give the head form. Supply List
Jack Wahl has studied with many successful artists over the past years: James Reynolds, western artist; Robert Bateman, wildlife artist; Daniel Greene, portrait artist; and Clyde Aspevig, landscape painter. After moving to Tucson, and building an adobe house with an attached studio, he started to paint the western landscape but still painted the figure and portraits. In 1997, he was accepted in the national Arts for the Parks contest. Jack is a certified instructor for John Howard Sanden’s, Portrait Club. He also does commissioned portraits. His work can be seen at Cobalt Fine Art in Tubac, Arizona, and at Wyland Gallery in Key West, Florida. www.jackwahl.com
DRAWING DOOR COUNTY’S ARCHITECTURE (PD838)
Ann Thomas
Thu-Sat, July 31-Aug 2, 9am-3pm
Tuition: Member $265 / Non-Member $290
Open to All Levels
This workshop will focus on creating images of the charming Door County architecture. Through exploring and rendering techniques in pen and ink, colored pencil, watercolor or acrylics you will learn how to add detail, depth, warmth, texture and vibrancy to your structures whether old or new; as well as techniques for illustrating trees and foliage that enhance your buildings. You will also learn tips on how to take photos of your favorite buildings to create wonderful renderings when working in your own home or studio. Whether black and white or in color, a rendering of your favorite building becomes a wonderful remembrance of a vacation or a home that was much loved! Supply List
Artist Ann Thomas is widely recognized for her fine architectural style renderings of homes, businesses and landmark buildings in pen and ink, colored pencil, watercolor and acrylic. She exhibits her work at a number of art shows. Ann is also known for her detailed images used in children’s books, greeting cards and other print media. Ann freelances out of her home studio in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and is a part-time instructor in the Graphic Design Department of Mount Mary College in Milwaukee. www.artshow.com/thomas or www.annthomasillustration.com
EXPANDING YOUR ACRYLIC HORIZONS (PD839)
Ken Klopack
M-F, Aug 4-8, 9am-3pm
Tuition: Member $425 / Non-Member $450
Intermediate
During this five-day workshop, artists will expand their range of techniques and use of composition as they are challenged to reach into unfamiliar areas using acrylic paints with particular attention to the human figure. Demonstrations give a running start so you can focus on composition, subject matter, particular techniques and styles of painting. At the end of the class, a mini-exhibition and critique will celebrate our accomplishments. Note: This workshop is recommended for students with previous drawing and painting experience. Supply List
Ken Klopack teaches art at the School of the Art Institute and Chicago Public Schools. Ken is a political cartoonist and has received the Illinois Elementary Art Teacher of the Year Award. In addition, he is active in the Chicagoland art scene, participates in the Gold Coast and Hyde Park Art Fairs, exhibits regularly in the Chicago area, New York Art Expo and in Long Island.
BEGINNING PASTELS: EXPLORING A NEW MEDIUM (PD840)
Jane Hobbs-Cascio
M-W, Aug 4-6, 9am-4pm
Tuition: Member $305 / Non-Member $330
Beginner
Pastels are a great way to combine both drawing and painting skills. Learn about line and blending techniques and experiment with different paper surfaces. Color theory will be a strong focus so as to achieve the true beauty of this medium. The class will combine still-life, students’ own photographs, and plein air, each offering essential elements in learning the medium. Most importantly, Jane will guide you in mastering your personal style. Jane brings skill and enthusiasm to the classroom, so come learn, laugh, and create a masterpiece or two. See Supply List
Jane Hobbs-Cascio is a visual artist with a true passion for her subject matter. She is intrigued by the strong lines of architecture and the flawless beauty of both landscape and the human figure. Her obsession with light, its sources, and the shapes it creates brings a common ground to otherwise diverse subjects. Jane received her BFA from Rockford College and has been active in the art community through her one-person shows, numerous juried shows in galleries and teaching children, teens and adults.
STREAMS, WETLANDS, AND LAKES: A PLEIN AIR APPROACH (PD841)
Tina Duemler
Thu-Sat, Aug 7-9, 9am-4pm
Tuition: Member $305 / Non-Member $330
Advanced Beginner
Water is a fascinating thing to paint: its reflections, movement and array of colors. Spend three days painting outside in various locations around Door County’s rich landscapes and shimmering light. Explore how to capture the essence of the scene, the nuances of the water and how to express your reactions to the scene. We will delve into approaches of beginning a painting, practice designing a work, look at how to capture the feel of the area, and finally discuss how to know if the painting is working for you. Supply List
Tina Duemler is a committed and encouraging instructor who makes trying something new fun. She participated in the Door County Plein Air Festival and in Paint the Town, a nationally juried plein air event in St. Petersburg Florida. She has won awards for her paintings and has her art in public and private collections in the United States and Germany. Duemler holds a Master of Fine Arts Degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, with further post graduate studies with plein air painters Scott Christensen, Matt Smith, and Skip Whitcomb.
SATURDAY DRAWING WORKSHOP: ANIMALS (PD842)
Malin Ekman
Sat, Aug 9, 9am-3pm
Tuition: Member $90 / Non-Member $100 plus materials fee
Open to All Levels
Drawing our beloved animals, whether our own pets, the birds and wild animals we observe outside, or the more exotic species we enjoy at zoos, is both a joy and a challenge. It is a joyful experience as we immerse ourselves in their world, and feel the stretch of a wing or their contentment in lying in a patch of sunlight. It is a challenge to observe a moving, living, breathing subject and capture its essence on paper.
COLORFUL STILL LIFE PAINTING IN ACRYLIC (PD843)
Nancy Sargent
M-W, Aug 11-13, 9am-3pm
Tuition: Member $265 / Non-Member $290
Beginner
Join us as we explore "SEEING" a still life of fresh flowers and then proceed to paint in bright, beautiful acrylic COLORS. Starting with an exercise of charcoal sketches and then moving onto canvas, we will produce a painting evolving deep from within our own heart using passion and positive energy. As famous American artist Edward Hopper said, "We are all bound to the earth with our experience of life and the reactions of the mind, heart, and eye." Nancy’s approach emphasizes how the joy of color pulls you into learning about drawing, composition, and use of varied brush strokes. Using color we will learn about contrast, size, pattern, and edges. Supply List
"Wherever there are bright flowers, color and pattern, I strive to capture the moment and the mood!" says Nancy Sargent. A native of Fish Creek, her first exhibit was at the Francis Hardy Gallery right after graduating from Cardinal Stritch University with a degree in art. She has filled her classes at Peninsula Art School as a result of her enthusiastic and supportive teaching style. Her bright, colorful acrylics may be seen at the Paint Box Gallery, and her own Bluff House Studio in Fish Creek.
EXPLORING DESIGN: CREATIVE CHOICES (MM807)
Nita Leland
M-W, Aug 11-13, 9am-4pm
Tuition: Member $350 / Non-Member $375
Open to All Levels
Design is the secret to more powerful artwork. Instead of struggling to make a painting work, learn how to use design principles and color organization to create more expressive art. In this workshop you will try new design ideas in your current media and experiment with monotype, collage and mixed media in a relaxed and fun atmosphere with no competition or pressure to perform. Every day begins with a short demo and ends with a class critique. Activities are based on The New Creative Artist, Exploring Color and Creative Collage Techniques.
To Nita Leland, art is a synthesis of personal feelings, the subject or colors that inspire, and the materials and techniques. Her goal is to help other artists achieve their goals, and to provide a fun and comfortable environment where students can advance their individual creative skills within an energetic community of artists. She has written many books, including Exploring Color, The Creative Artist, and finally, Creative Collage Techniques; all bestsellers in art instruction. She has invented a color wheel and teaches national workshops, writes magazine articles and makes videos on color.
A COLORFUL RETREAT INTO COLORED PENCIL (PD844)
Rhonda Nass
Thu-Sat, Aug 14-16, 9am-4pm
Tuition: Member $305 / Non-Member $330 plus materials fee
Advanced Beginner
Through examining former and contemporary colored pencil artists, students will learn and hone skills, review composition excellence, and design a customized piece. The technique to be taught uses a white foundational layer on dark paper to create dramatic lighting and detail. Each student will have one-on-one instructor demonstrations and enough time to advance on an original of their own subject matter to confidently complete the artwork at their own pace outside the workshop timeframe. The class will also include time for a critique, and each student will receive a slide of their original. Supply List
Rhonda Nass cites her high school art teacher’s comment, "You’ll never be an artist," as just the impetus an immature, stubborn German girl needed to catapult her into the field. She and her husband began Ampersand, an illustration studio outside Madison, Wisconsin, about 30 years ago and have gratefully shared a living in art since. www.rnass.com
LANDSCAPE FROM YOUR EYES: THROUGH THE LENS TO PASTEL PAINTING (PD845)
Colette Odya Smith
Thu-Sat, Aug 14-16, 9am-3pm
Tuition: Member $265 / Non-Member $290
Intermediate
Join us as we take our cameras out in the field, armed with loads of tips, tricks, and inspirational ideas for gathering source material. Use your own photographs to serve your vision and memory without being a slave to what the camera captures. Develop your landscape imagery through interpretive drawing, watercolor underpainting, and finally the lush layering of soft pastels. This will be a jam-packed three days filled with individualized instruction, peer interaction, and high potential for aesthetic growth. Supply List
Born and raised in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Colette Odya Smith is a signature member of the Pastel Society of America, an active member of Wisconsin Painters and Sculptors, the League of Milwaukee Artists and serves as chair of the Milwaukee Visual Artists Roundtable. Both as an educator and an artist, Colette is an ardent believer in the power of the arts to nurture, challenge, inspire and to reveal what is best in each of us. Her work is available through Woodwalk Gallery in Door County and the Katie Gingrass Gallery in Milwaukee. www.coletteodya.smith.net
SATURDAY DRAWING WORKSHOP: NATURE AND LANDSCAPE (PD846)
Malin Ekman
Sat, Aug 16, 9am-3pm
Tuition: Member $90 / Non-Member $100 plus materials fee
Open to All Levels
The pull to draw the natural world is felt by many artists. While the end result may be a beautiful painting, there are other reasons to practice nature drawing. It makes us slow down and observe the delightful small details we often miss. It provides sketches that capture a scene we want to remember. It can form a basis of a nature journal, recording with images as well as words. Supply List
CELEBRATING PLANTS IN PRINTS:MONOTYPE WORKSHOP (PD847)
Barbara Manger
M-W, Aug 18-20, 9am-3pm
Tuition: Member $265 / Non-Member $290
Open to All Levels
Use almost any natural material—dried leaves, ferns, grasses—and combine these with other flat materials—lace, mesh from onion bags, ribbons, string, cords, plastic, open work fabrics—to create luminous prints! This simple printmaking process offers the experienced and beginning artist alike an alternative to technical and laborious printmaking methods. Students will enjoy immediate expression, exploration and guaranteed satisfaction. You can produce rich color, spatial complexity and achieve results that are surprising in their beauty. We will experiment with multiple runs through the press, cognates (additional prints produced from only one inking of the plate) and direct painting. There are countless possibilities for discovery and creativity. Supply List
Artist, printmaker Barbara Manger works in her studio overlooking the Milwaukee River in Grafton, Wisconsin. This vantage point, plus a life lived near lakes and rivers and her love of paddling kayaks and canoes, inform her unique prints she calls "riverworks." Barbara holds a BA in Art from Beloit College and an MFA in Painting/Sculpture from the University of Wisconsin – Madison. She has 20 years of experience teaching drawing and printmaking at colleges and universities. She is the founder and past president of Artists Working in Education, a non-profit organization providing meaningful art experiences for children in schools. Her work is represented by the Peltz Gallery in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
PAINTING THE EFFECTS OF LIGHT: PLEIN AIR PAINTING IN OIL OR PASTEL (PD848)
Ken DeWaard
Thu-Sat, Aug 21-23, 9am-4pm
Tuition: Member $305 / Non-Member $330
Beginner
For Ken, there is nothing more rewarding and challenging than painting under an open sky, with its ever-changing color and harmonies to excite one’s creativity. Ken will begin each morning with a short demonstration followed by a full day of painting and chasing the ever-elusive light. We will focus on understanding and simplifying shapes, balancing warm and cool colors, judging values, controlling edges, as well as over-all composition and design. The approach will be alla prima, meaning painting from life and completed in one session, so that we can see results faster and keep our paintings fresh and full of color. Supply List
Ken DeWaard studied at the American Academy of Art in Chicago with nationally recognized watercolorist, Irving Shapiro. Ken developed his direct and pure approach to painting while studying with Scott Burdick at the Palette and Chisel Academy of Fine Art in Chicago as well as Dan Gerhartz. He has also been strongly inspired by Joaquin Sorolla, John Singer Sargent, Nicolai Fechin, and the Russian Impressionists. He continues to travel, teach, and paint throughout the United States and Italy. www.kendewaard.com
SATURDAY DRAWING WORKSHOP: STILL LIFE (PD849)
Malin Ekman
Sat, Aug 23, 9am-3pm
Tuition: Member $90 /Non-Member $100 plus materials fee
Open to All Levels
Drawing a still life is the perfect way to practice all the elements of design. Create the ideal scene to draw by selecting and arranging objects and controlling lighting, and become the master of your world. By choosing objects that have personal meaning, you can tell a story or reveal something about your inner self. Supply List
LANDSCAPE PAINTING WITH OILS (PD850)
Nina Weiss
Mon-Thu, Aug 25-28, 9am-2pm
Tuition: Member $290 / Non-Member $315
Intermediate
In this four-day intensive advanced oil-painting class, students will paint outdoors in the beautiful landscape and gardens surrounding the School. Instruction will include an emphasis on composition, building color in nature, and capturing gesture in the landscape. Students will learn to create strong, bold landscapes based on dynamic drawing, layering techniques, and broken-brushstroke application. See Supply List
Nina Weiss is a nationally recognized artist who has been painting and drawing the landscape for over 25 years. She is an instructor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Columbia College Chicago, and the Evanston Art Center. Nina travels to Europe every summer to conduct her European Landscape Workshops. Her work is held in private and corporate collections throughout the United States. She was Artist in Residence at Acadia National Park in Maine, and was a resident at the Ragdale Foundation in Lake Forest, IL. Her paintings and drawings can be seen in two Hollywood films: John Hughes’ Just Visiting and Harold Ramis’ Ice Harvest. She is currently represented by the Anne Loucks Gallery in Glencoe, IL, Constance Petter Gallery in Saugatuck, MI, and Editions Ltd. in Indianapolis, IN. www.ninaweiss.com