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.

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Watercolor w/Eileen Neville Fall 2017



AMERICA! April 7 – May 7, 2017

AMERICA! April 7 – May 7, 2017

by | May 8, 2017 | Past Exhibitions

AMERICA! April 7 – May 7

Reception: Friday April 7, 6-8 pm

“AMERICA!” a Juried Competition and Exhibition. We challenge artists to celebrate the beauty and inspiration that our country offers – through still lifes, landscapes and portraits – from shining sea to your backdoor!

JUROR Howard Rose has been painting in oils since 1989. He teaches privately and at The Art League of Long Island, the National Art League in Douglaston and has given many workshops at The Art Guild. “It is an exciting journey to become an artist and see the world through an artist’s eye. I love the challenge of turning an everyday scene into a successful and exciting painting.” 

Pick-Up
• Sunday May 7: 3:00 – 5:00 pm (Exhibit Closes)     
• Monday May 8: 5:00 – 7:00 pm  

First Place: Lana Ballot, for her pastel painting, Grateful 
Second Place: Leo Bliok, for his oil painting Spring in Central Park
Third place: Diane Bares for her oil painting, Flag Day in Cutchogue.
Honorable mentions: Katherine Criss, Daily Parade
Kathy D’Amato-Smith for her oil panting, Fourth of July
Len Mondschein, for his acrylic painting, June 25, 1876, It’s a Good Day To Die.

 

Alla Prima Painting with Christine Lafuente April 22-23, 2017

Alla Prima Painting with Christine Lafuente April 22-23, 2017

by | Apr 25, 2017 | Past Classes and Workshops

Alla Prima Painting Workshop
with Christine Lafuente
April 22-23, 2017, 9:30-4:30

This two-day workshop with award-winning artist Christine Lafuente focuses on investigating materials and techniques in oil painting from observation.

More specifically, this workshop will cover palette organization, various limited palettes, control of color-mixing in tonal painting, alla prima oil painting technique, use of viscosity in direct painting, composition, and learning to see in abstract terms. Each day will consist of a 90-minute lecture and demonstration session, followed by painting time from provided still lifes with one-on-one instruction.

A materials list will be provided. The Art Guild has easels that you may use.

About Christine Lafuente: Award winning, Brooklyn-based painter Christine Lafuente considers her paintings “poetic responses to visual experience.”

Her work has been shown in countless solo and group exhibitions, juried shows and public galleries from San Francisco to London. A graduate of Bryn Mawr College, Lafuente has a Certificate of Painting from the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia and an MFA in Painting from Brooklyn College, where she studied with Lennart Anderson and twice won the prestigious Charles C. Shaw Memorial Award. Her work was included in the Invitational Exhibition of Visual Arts at the American Academy of Arts & Letters. From 1997 – 2002, Lafuente was Artist in Residence at the Fleisher Art Memorial in Philadelphia. She teaches Fine Art at Pratt Institute and Western Connecticut State University. Her exhibitions have been written about in numerous publications and her paintings are in corporate and private collections. For more about Ms. Lafuente visit her website at christinelafuente.com.

Golden Demo: Watermedia – Mixed Media & More July 20, 2017

Golden Demo: Watermedia – Mixed Media & More July 20, 2017

by | Apr 19, 2017 | Past Events

Golden Products Demo: Watermedia – Mixed Media & More
with Roy Kinzer  

July 20, 2017, 7 – 9 pm 

In this lecture/demo we will explore the vast potential of Golden gel, mediums and pastes. Many of Golden’s products fall in the category of “watermedia.” Come learn the wide range of techniques that they can be used for –  from traditional uses, to printing to college and much more. Learn how to extend your paint by as much as 70% and create any desired texture and effect. Did you know Golden acrylic gels, mediums and pastes are great adhesives for mixed media work?

 

This lecture/demo will also help to demystify pigments. We will compare the slow drying OPEN line with Heavy Body paints. You will learn about controlling drying time, as well as techniques associated with oils, such as wet-into-wet and glazing. Introducing QoR (pronounced “core”) the first major improvement to watercolors in 150 years! Check out these paints, the colors are so intense!

All participants receive a free packet of Golden samples.

Roy Kinzer has exhibited extensively and is currently represented by Falcon Power. He received the prestigious Pollock-Krasner award 2004. He has completed numerous commissions, the most recent Price Waterhouse Coopers, Boston, 2015, Grant Thornton, LLC, Manhattan, 2014 and the Hyatt Regency New Orleans, in 2011. In 2013 after being included in “Art and Science” at the Freyberger Gallery, Penn State Berks in Reading PA the University acquired four of his paintings for their new renovated science building. He has an M.F.A. (Vermont College) and a Certificate of Art (Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art). His paintings are aerial landscapes derived from altered maps and satellite images. 

Open to all. Please register so that we know that you’re coming and have enough samples for everyone.

 

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