Classes & Workshops

Many of our correspondents teach journaling or bookbinding--so here you'll find a variety of upcoming classes.  I'll get new classes up as I hear about them--watch this space!

You'll love Sandy Williams' new addition 

Painting Birds in Gouache

I LOVE painting birds and I LOVE gouache!  I've put them both together and created my latest step by step instructional DVD, also available as a download, demonstrating the techniques I use to depict feathers and sparkling eyes.  Please check it out if you have a minute.  The URL is:  http://soundofwings.com/Learn_Gouache_Online.html

And here's the latest from Roz Stendahl!

Use Color Fearlessly: A Color Theory Workshop

Above: Selection of paintings from Roz Stendahl, demonstrating her approach to color using a variety of media.

August 9 through 12, 2012 I'll be teaching a color theory workshop at the Midwest Art and Lettering Retreat. This four-day event is organized by the Colleagues of Calligraphy but is open to everyone. For details about the workshop please see my blog post Roz Wound Up: Use Color Fearlessly.

Besides being open to non-calligraphers this workshop is open also to artists of all skill levels. We will focus on blending colors from a limited palette of watercolors in order to understand the relationship of the colors. Students will develop a working understanding of color through experimentation and guided exercises which are chosen to provide useful color information regardless of drawing or painting expertise. This workshop will equip students with the skills needed to develop a personalized palette. I hope you will consider spending a bit of your summer in Minnesota exploring color with me. 

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Don't Miss Laure Ferlita's website for updates!

She's got a new class, The Imaginary Visit to a Japanese Garden.  The class will begin on Thursday, June 7th and will end Thursday, June 28th. The class is 4 weeks long with one assignment per week. Class links and videos will stay live another two weeks from the date of the last assignment. Class size will be limited.

Supply List for Imaginary Trips.

QUESTIONS?

Please ask any questions before registering for the class.

You can email your questions by clicking here.

The cost of the class is $48.00 USD.

Again, don't miss Laure's website: 
http://www.laureferlita.com/LaureFerlita/Home.html

Or her blog:
http://paintedthoughtsblog.blogspot.com/

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SANDY WILLIAMS offers classes in botanical arts--online!

Sandy's an amazing artist who is in love with gouache, as well as ink and watercolor and watercolor pencils.  For her new Botanical Illustration in Gouache class, she'll lead you through creating botanical illustrations using that versatile medium we've discussed here before--it's available as a DVD or as a downloadable course:

http://soundofwings.com/Learn_Gouache_Online.html.

It's a wonderful opportunity, and an incredible bargain--check it out!

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Correspondent JESSICA WESOLEK is offering a new workshop 

on her website--and a new web address!  

She writes: I have scheduled a brand new workshop to run through the Summer vacation season (yes, you can go on vacation in the middle of it - no problem).

The workshop is called "The Art of the Trip, Travel Journaling Mostly from Home", and you can find out more about it on my blog here: http://www.wisdomwoman.com/whatever/

You can enjoy this workshop without going anywhere, or with a day trip to a nearby town, or an exploration of your own, or you can use it to go back and make travel journals for trips past. Anyway you do it, it will be big fun!

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CHRISTINA LOPP and CORRESPONDENT GAY KRAEGER'S WATERCOLOR JOURNALING

Some of Christina Lopp and Gay Kraeger's workshops can be found here: http://www.watercolorjournaling.com/index.htm

LOTS of fun.  

And if you haven't seen their DVD, give it a look, it's terrific.

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MORE ON CATHY JOHNSON'S NEW MINI-CLASSES

 I took several polls to determine what classes people most wanted to take, and as a result Quick Sketching 1 and 2, and a Watercolor Pencil Mini are up first.

You can sign up for it HERE: http://www.cathyjohnson.info/online.html   

These techniques are perfect for journal-keeping, especially if you have to fit your journaling into small bits and pieces of time. (Maybe that's why it did so well in my polls!)

You can sign up on my website to get an announcement whenever a new class is available.
In the plans (but not yet available) are:

• Sketching in nature
• Journal Keeping
• Drawing People
• Watercolor Textures
• Plein Air Painting
• Watercolor Basics
• Drawing Birds
• Painting Flowers
• Creativity Prompts (This is not a lesson, per se, but quick little idea starters or inspirations sent every other day.)

We'll let you know whenever one of these comes up!

I've also added brand new instructional CDs to my lineup...we're producing these in-house now, and you'll find them in my catalog, here: http://www.cathyjohnson.info/catalog.html  Please take a look!

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MORE TO COME!