ONLINE! Drawing Class: Get Sharper! 8 weeks

ONLINE! Drawing Class: Get Sharper! 8 weeks

by | May 27, 2019 | Homepage

Drawing Class: Get Sharper!

with Stephanie Navon-Jacobson
Summer: June 8, 15, 22, & 29
Time 10:30 – 12:30 pm

$120 members/$__ non-members

Regardless of your chosen media, good drawing skills are crucial to a successful outcome. Refine your drawing skills and hone your powers of observation. The class will sample and experiment with various materials which may include graphite, pen and ink, colored pencils, watercolor pencils, charcoal, markers, mixed media collage, and a group project at the discretion of the instructor.

This is a perfect class for a beginning artist or one who feels “rusty.” Please bring your enthusiasm, an open mind, an 18 x 24 drawing pad (NOT newsprint), 2B, 4B, 6B, 8B pencils, and a kneaded eraser to first class. Other simple materials will be required throughout the series.

Questions? Contact info@theartguild.org or 516-304-5797.

Saturday Children’s Classes – Winter/Spring 2020

Saturday Children’s Classes – Winter/Spring 2020

by | Nov 12, 2018 | Homepage

14 Week Classes

Saturday Mornings for ages 5-8  (Note NEW time!)

OR
Saturday Afternoons for ages 8-12 (Note NEW time!)

SATURDAY MORNING
ART EXPLORATIONS Ages 5-8

14 Saturdays: Jan 11, 25, Feb 1, 8, 29, Mar. 7, 14, 28, Apr. 4, 25, May 2, 9, 30, June 6 (No class Jan. 18, Feb. 15, 22, Mar. 21, April 11, 18, May 16, 23)
NOTE NEW TIME: 9:45 – 11 am
Fee: $295M/$330NM • Materials included
Instructor: Manny Villalobos

Young artists will explore different materials including drawing, painting, collage, cut shapes, printmaking, constructions and more. Emphasis is on the tactile and using our imaginations. Each week we will create a special project. Students should wear a smock or old clothes.

SATURDAY AFTERNOON CHILDREN’S ART STUDIO Ages 8-12

14 Saturdays: Jan 11, 25, Feb 1, 8, 29, Mar. 7, 14, 28, Apr. 4, 25, May 2, 9, 30, June 6 (No class Jan. 18, Feb. 15, 22, Mar. 21, April 11, 18, May 16, 23)
NOTE NEW TIME: 11:30 am – 1 pm 
Fee: $295M/$330NM • Materials included
Instructor: Manny Villalobos

Students will create artworks by working in a wide range of subjects and ideas. Projects may include still life, self-portrait, landscape, and different concepts and styles such as cubism, complementary colors, “stained glass” or “mosaic.” Students will explore different media including collage, watercolor, acrylics, printmaking, and sculpting. Emphasis is on the fundamentals of art in a fun and supportive atmosphere. Students should wear a smock or old clothes.

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ONLINE! Weekday Children’s Classes – Spring 2020

ONLINE! Weekday Children’s Classes – Spring 2020

by | Nov 12, 2018 | Homepage

Classes for Kids!

Tuesdays for ages 5-8  OR  Wednesdays for ages 8-12

TUESDAYS
ART EXPLORATIONS 
For Ages 5-8

June 2, 9, 16, & 30th

Tuesdays 4:30 – 5:45pm

 June 2, 9, 16, & 30

Pro-rated for new students
Instructor: Manny Villalobos

Students will explore different media including collage, watercolor, acrylics, printmaking and sculpting. Emphasis is on fundamentals of art in a fun and supporting atmosphere.

 

WEDNESDAYS
SOLVING ART
For Ages 8-12

New Dates TBD

Wednesdays 4:30-6pm 

Dates TBD  

Pro-rated for new students
Instructor: Marc Isaacs

For students who are interested in creating art and approaching the creative process in a whole new way. Projects will be varied and may take more than one session to complete.

 

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Upcoming Events

The Big Idea: Creating a Large Painting in the Studio with Joe Paquet, March 21-26, 2020

The Big Idea: Creating a Large Painting in the Studio with Joe Paquet, March 21-26, 2020

by | Sep 25, 2018 | Homepage

The Big Idea Creating a Large Painting in the Studio

6-days: Saturday – Thursday, March 21-26, 2020
Hours: 9am – 4pm (1-Hour break for lunch)
$1250

Registration Open

Enjoy this 6-day workshop with Award-Winning Artist Joe Paquet!

Select Awards:
2007 Laguna Plein Air Invitational – Artist Choice and Collectors Choice
2008 Salmagundi Club of New York  – Alden Bryan Memorial Prize
2008 Richeson 75 Artist Choice competition l – Landscape First Place
2019 14th Annual Art Renewal Center International Salon Competition – Plein Air First Place
2019 Laguna Beach Invitational – Award of Excellence

Paquet is a member of both the Salmagundi Club and California Art Club and is an emeritus member of the Plein Air Painters of America/

ABOUT THE CLASS

This will be Joe Paquet’s fifth time teaching this highly-effective workshop. You will have the opportunity to implement a workable strategy for approaching a large work successfully, indoors. Daily lectures will take you from concept to finish while making sound, personal choices.

The first morning will begin with a lecture to discuss materials, palette management, composition and show examples by some of the greats. (Be sure to have a notebook!)
Each day will begin with a 45-minute lecture to discuss concepts relevant to the day’s work ahead.

Reference Material: Optimum would be a color study from life or the field, supplemental drawings and/or an excellent photo printed to at least 8×10″. If you do not have studies from life to work from, be sure whatever photo image you choose has clear patterns of light & shadow. Choose an image which excites you!

Students should email Joe their image prior to workshop to make sure it is suitable. Joe can be reached at Joe@joepaquet.com (A week is a long time to work through a mundane image).

Feel free to call Joe with any questions about the class @ 651.485.5807

Joe was the subject of the October 1995 Washington Post Sunday Magazine feature article. He’s also been featured in the March 2004 issue of American Artist magazine and the July 2005 issue of PleinAir magazine.

Select Awards:
2007 Laguna Plein Air Invitational – Artist Choice and Collectors Choice
2008 Salmagundi Club of New York  – Alden Bryan Memorial Prize
2008 Richeson 75 Artist Choice competition l – Landscape First Place
2019 14th Annual Art Renewal Center International Salon Competition – Plein Air First Place
2019 Laguna Beach Invitational – Award of Excellence

Paquet is a member of both the Salmagundi Club and California Art Club and is an emeritus member of the Plein Air Painters of America/

Learn more about Joe below.

WORKSHOPS:  Cancellations by the student – more than 90 days: full refund. Under 90 days: $50 non-refundable registration fee is included in the workshop tuition.  Deposit is non-refundable within 14 days of the start of the workshop.

Balance due February 1, 2020.

The Big Idea Large Painting w/Joe Paquet – March 21-26, 2020
Phone Number

About Joe Paquet
Joseph Paquet was born in 1962 in Patterson, New Jersey to hard-working parents of immigrant stock. His father Jim was a railroad man, working as an ironworker, dock builder & mason who also painted and carved wood and stone. His mother, Theresa, was a homemaker and craftsperson who sewed and knitted.
His childhood was one of being outdoors: wondering, wandering and daydreaming. “It’s a great irony to now get paid for those things which got me into trouble when I was a kid,” Joe says.
He attended the School of Visual Arts in New York and credits artist-instructors John Foote, David Palladini, James McMullan with inspiring his deep love of drawing.
Later he studied with John Phillip Osborne in Ridgewood, New Jersey and was introduced to the Prismatic Palette. Joe states, “John opened a new world for me and set me on a path to painting outdoors – it was incredibly life changing.”
Paquet’s philosophy is one rooted in deep connection and sensitivity to his subjects. He says, “Because I work directly from nature, each painting is a chunk of my life – a piece of me and record of my experience on this earth.”

Joe was the subject of the October 1995 Washington Post Sunday Magazine feature article. He’s also been featured in the March 2004 issue of American Artist magazine and the July 2005 issue of PleinAir magazine.

Select Awards:
2007 Laguna Plein Air Invitational – Artist Choice and Collectors Choice
2008 Salmagundi Club of New York  – Alden Bryan Memorial Prize
2008 Richeson 75 Artist Choice competition l – Landscape First Place
2019 14th Annual Art Renewal Center International Salon Competition – Plein Air First Place
2019 Laguna Beach Invitational – Award of Excellence

Paquet is a member of both the Salmagundi Club and California Art Club and is an emeritus member of the Plein Air Painters of America. 

For more info on Joe Paquet, please visit his website. Follow Joe on Instagram and Facebook.

MATERIALS: 

Notebook or sketchbook — for prepatory studies or sketches
1 Large Canvas or Panel — Examples: 18×24, 20×24 ,24×30, 30×40
3 Small Panels 8×10 or 9×12
(Joe recommends panels from New Traditions Art Panels). He uses Type 15 Claessens linen

Easel: Joe recommends a good quality French Easel (Example: The Original Julian Full Box)
It can handle up to 30″ in Height and up to a 40″ Panel if used with a Bungee Cord.
However, The Art Guild has metal easels that you are welcome to borrow. (Please note, we have somewhat low ceilings in our 340+ year old building, so a very tall vertical may be problematic.)

You will be able to leave your gear set up each night.

Paints:
White (Large Tube – 220 ml) Titanium or Cremation
Cad Yellow Lt (Old Holland, Rembrandt, Graham)
Cad Yellow (Windsor Newton) Note- Not WN Winton as these are under pigmented student-grade.
Cad Orange (Winsor Newton)
Cad Scarlet (Winsor Newton)
Cad Red (Winsor Newton)
Alizarin Crimson (Winsor Newton)
Manganese Blue (Old Holland)
Cobalt Blue (Winsor Newton)
Ultramarine Blue (Winsor Newton)
Ivory Black (Winsor Newton)
Raw Umber (Old Holland)

Mediums / Solvents:
Medium – Mixed 50/50, Coldpressed Linseed Oil & Gamsol in a small bottle.
(Be sure to have ONLY Gamsol as a solvent — it outgasses the least of all solvents and we will be close together in two large rooms!)

Palette Cup(s) Preferably with screw top
Palette Knife (Long Blade )

Brushes:
Long Bristle Flats or Filberts – Recommendations, Robert Simmons Signet, Raphael Series 359, Rosemary.
(Have at least 2 of every other size 2,4,6,8,10,12)

Retouch Varnish – Small Bottle 2.5oz: Winsor Newton Artist Retouch Varnish
Varnish Brush – 2″

Brush Washer: Metal Variety with a vacuum top lid for solvents
Bungee cords

Paper Towels
Garbage Bag

Humility & Patience (Not Optional)

ONLINE Painting with Colored Pencils Workshop: “White on White” with Cynthia Knox CPSA – March 19-21, 2021

ONLINE Painting with Colored Pencils Workshop: “White on White” with Cynthia Knox CPSA – March 19-21, 2021

by | Aug 1, 2018 | Homepage

ONLINE Painting with Colored Pencils: White on White,
Fine Art Workshop with Cynthia Knox, CPSA
Three Day Workshop: March 19-21, 2021, 9am-4pm
$460 M/$495 NM

All white is NOT the same! Cynthia will guide you through the nuances of white with each item in this still life – from the cream of the background to the pinks and blues in the peonies and cup.

Discover the difference between drawing and painting with colored pencils in this three-day colored pencil workshop.  Cynthia Knox will guide you step by step through the process of creating this stunning still life (photo reference shown) and will demonstrate her signature style of painting with this dry medium.  A variety of tips and techniques will be taught that will enable each artist to render the subtleties of the varying tones of “white,” the green leaves, and juicy strawberries, as well as textures and surfaces seen in this composition. 

In addition to group and individual instruction, Cynthia will provide high-quality instructional materials that include a glossy tutorial booklet, reference photo, her popular “Cheat Sheet” and the actual surface with a light tracing of the entire still life to minimize actual drawing time and focus on color rendering.  Join Cynthia in creating a unique masterpiece that friends and family will be certain to ask, “THAT’s colored pencil?!”

Cynthia Knox, CPSA, is a colored pencil and graphite artist who lives in New York with her family.  Her artwork has received numerous awards in national and international juried exhibitions, and she has published 13 art instructional books, with a new book to be released in the Fall of 2018.  Publishers include Walter Foster Publishing (Quartos), Ann Kullberg Publishing, Strathmore Artists, and Viking Woodcrafts.  Cynthia teaches art workshops to individuals and large groups throughout the United States, internationally and online with Craftsy.com.  She is represented by LaBelle Enterprises for her workshops with Bob LaBelle as the primary contact: boblabelle@sbcglobal.net.

Cynthia’s artwork, resume, and workshops can be viewed on her website at www.cynthiaknox.com, and she is on Facebook and Instagram.

A complete materials list will be downloadable by September 2020.

WORKSHOPS:  Cancellations by the student – more than 90 days: full refund. Under 90 days: $50 non-refundable registration fee is included in the workshop tuition.  Deposit is non-refundable within 14 days of the start of the workshop.

Colored Pencil Workshop w/Knox 2021
Phone Number
Watercolor with Eileen Neville – Fall 2017 – 8 Weeks

Watercolor with Eileen Neville – Fall 2017 – 8 Weeks

by | May 29, 2017 | Homepage

BEGINNER WATERCOLOR

Ages 18-Adult, open to 8 students.
8 Week Session: Wednesdays: September 6, 13, 20, 27, October 4, 11, 18, 25, 2017 • noon – 2 pm
Fee: $215 Members/$245 Non-members.
Materials list available upon registration.

Watercolor is a truly diverse medium. Explore basic techniques of washes, learn wet on wet painting, glazing and dry brush methods. We will begin to understand the properties of pigments and when to use them properly. Watercolor is always challenging, fresh and new. No experience necessary, beginners welcome.

INTERMEDIATE WATERCOLOR

Ages 18-Adult, open to 8 students.
8 Week Session: Wednesdays: September 6, 13, 20, 27, October 4, 11, 18, 25, 2017 • 9:30 am – 11:30pm
Fee: $215 Members/$245 Non-members.
Materials list available upon registration.

Continue using watercolor techniques of washes, wet on wet painting and dry brush methods. We will move beyond the basics, creating a series of more complex paintings and completing interpretations of projects presented in class. Watercolor is always challenging, fresh and new. Some experience necessary.

You may download and print the form here, and mail to The Art Guild.

OR pay with your credit card below


Watercolor w/Eileen Neville Fall 2017