Holiday Cards Print Shop
Gain an understanding of block printing by using various tools and techniques to carve an image onto a styrofoam printing plate. Ink it, press onto paper, and pull a monoprint to be used in crafting a holiday card of your own. Bonus: take home your printing plate to reproduce on more cards!
*Also great for family workshops!
The Beauty of Moths
Using gold and silver gel pens on black paper, we will create a
beautiful two-toned drawing of a series of moths, both realistic and
fanciful in design.
Perfect for iREAD theme: Read, Renew, Repeat
Embossed Aluminum Design
Artists will emboss intricate designs on aluminum, enhancing them with a rich antique finish. Vibrant colored pencil borders will transform each piece into a stunning, one-of-a-kind work of art.
Painted Acrylic Birds
Join in the joy as we paint our fine feathered friends in acrylics! In this workshop each participant will choose just a handful of colors to paint the bird of their choice as we concentrate on design and value.
Wildflower Garden
Whatever the weather, blooms are bursting in our wildflower garden. Learn how to paint wet-in-wet with watercolors and use one-stroke brushwork for petals, leaves and grasses in acrylics. It's wild!
Scratchboard Animals
Etch a beautiful high-contrast animal on an inked surface and see hot to render realistic fur, eyes, highlights and
mid-tones.
Bees, butterflies, bats, or hummingbirds. Pick a pollinator and create a unique painting using fine line markers and watercolor. Work from grey tones to full color!
Oil Pastel Portraits
Using the sophisticated, elongated style of artist Modigliani, attendees will learn techniques of employing pleasing textures and colorful shading in oil pastels.
Adult & Teen Art Workshops
Ink & Watercolor Pollinators
Tiny Watercolor Birds
Attendees are invited to paint up to three birds on notecard-sized paper in watercolors. Step-by-step instructions will show how to proceed from light to dark in color, and add details to finish off the painting. Relaxing and fun!
Perfect for iREAD theme: Read, Renew, Repeat
Winter White Landscape
Attendees will draw a solitary cottage snowscape in white pencil on black paper. Fill it with fanciful trees and add a wintery sentiment in type. Mounted on white cardstock with attached stand, it will be a perfect seasonal display for home decorating!
Delicious Desserts!
Join in as we take a look at the food art of oil painter Wayne Thiebaud and render a sweet treat in oil pastels!
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Contemporary Inuit Art
Following the style of Inuit artist Kenojuak Ashevak, attendees will transform Alaskan animals into fancifully designed creatures using repetitive elements and a limited color palette.