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Trays All Kinds of Ways
If you want to learn how to make all kinds of different serving trays and unique dishes, then this is the class for you!
We will cover a variety of hand building techniques such as slab construction, coiling, pinching, carving and cutting to give you the skills to make any kind of tray that you can dream up.
This class will include both daily demonstrations and hands-on instruction in a fun and supportive environment that will help you unlock your hand building potential.
How to Nail Color Harmonies and Color Pops for Killer Skies and Atmospheric Paintings
"Using my simplified values and design techniques, I will step by step show you how to add harmonious color pops and atmospheric skies that take your paintings to a moody, atmospheric level in a fun and positive way.In addition we will cover new mental tips that automatically enhance your abilities. I have further researched new techniques to help you advance more easily and swiftly .We will continue to cover how to easily establish a great design , strong value base foundation and make great shapes, and use of the illusive but powerful edges tool. We will paint together step by step some great paintings or you can paint what you desire from your own images. Looking forward to working with you." - Bill Davidson
Using Cold Wax medium with Oils
Build complexity and richness to your work with cold wax and oils. In this workshop we will explore how to use wax and other mediums to build up translucence and texture in your oil paintings.
Landscape Drawing Class
Landscape art has been around as long as art itself. This drawing course is a beginner course about drawing outside in nature. It is designed not only for the beginner, but the artist who wants to brush up on their drawing/sketching skills.
Resident Artist Series: August - Totems
August - Totems - In this class we will use the slab machine and/or the potter’s wheel to make various shapes that will be stacked together on a metal pole/rebar for either garden art or inside your home. Students will need to source their own rebar and mounting base/block before class and have it ready on the first day of class. Various hand building techniques will be demonstrated as well as student created templates and studio forms used to construct shapes. Students need to bring resource materials for inspiration such as pictures, sketches, etc
Class Meets:
August 6th, 8th, 13th, 15th, 20th, and 22nd
The Landscape “In-Between Realism and Abstraction”
This class will merge the knowledge of the fundamentals of classical landscape painting as a foundation, combined with the understanding of the basic principles and elements of abstraction in order to loosen up in your painting. Pushing one’s landscape artwork with a variety of mediums and tools as a way of loosening up and going beyond the basics, as well as heavy discussion on changing design and composition to push outside the obvious.
Double Vision: Hot Surfaces and Cold Finishes
Dive into the world of ceramic surface with this ceramic glaze workshop led by acclaimed ceramic sculptors Thaddeus Erdahl and Beau Raymond. Join this unique experience where creativity meets technique as you explore the magic of glaze, slips, underglazes and the art of layering. Uncover the secrets behind captivating surfaces, intricate patterns, and vibrant colors. Whether you're a seasoned ceramicist or a novice, this workshop promises to elevate your skills and inspire a new level of artistic expression. Surface shouldn’t be an afterthought. Let’s make it the star of the show! It’s about layering, carving, sanding and revealing the magic within. In this workshop, we’ll reveal everything you need to know and introduce you to some trade secrets.
Painting with Confidence and Style - Landscape and Still Life in Oil Paint
This workshop will emphasize the understanding of what we see in the physical world, and how to best interpret that with paint. The excitement of painting is not just in gaining skills, but also in developing and realizing your unique interpretive ‘voice’ or style. We’ll present several modules which which will help build specific skills and help you gain confidence. We’ll also discuss communicative concepts such as expressive brushwork, harmony and design. Learn ways to handle complex subject matter with great ease and with simple gestures. They’ll be several demonstrations and practice studies, plus a lot of one-on-one assistance. You will be challenged to think in new ways about oil painting. Expect a focused, yet relaxed, atmosphere with lots of fun and camaraderie. |
Painting Vibrant Flowers in Oil
This 3-day workshop will teach you how to paint flowers in oil, achieving vibrant, clean color using a loose, fresh, direct method. There will be demonstrations, instruction, critiques and guidance from Pat while you paint. You will learn approaches to understand and simplify flower shapes, depict form thru observation of light and shadow patterns, mix color and paint vases and containers. We will do a painting together with photo supplied on day one, then you will work from your own fresh flower set-ups on days 2 & 3.
Soda Firing Bring Your Pots to Fire! and Making Lively Pots, Working Soft on the Wheel
In this workshop, we will bring cone 10 bisque ware to decorate, glaze, and load to fire the Bascom's soda kiln, plus we'll make pots too. Soda fired pots tend to be dramatic and brilliant; this workshop is a rare opportunity to experience and learn more about it. We'll cover practical and aesthetic aspects of soda firing including slip and glaze application, prep for and how to load and fire the kiln. During heating up and cooling the kiln, we will explore ways to make more dynamic pots. Working with freshly thrown clay, we'll alter surfaces and forms; squaring, ovaling, fluting, faceting, and improving foundational throwing techniques will be on offer. In learning to fully utilize the effects of flames carrying sodium through a kiln, we'll look at placement in the kiln as well as form and surface treatments, including slips and glazes, that are particularly responsive to the effects of soda firing. Experience throwing on the potters wheel is needed for this class. We’ll engage in lively conversations ranging over our interests, passions, technical questions, developing a personal aesthetic, raw glazing, single firing, firing.
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Visit: 323 Franklin Road
Highlands, NC 28741 (Map It)
Call: 828-526-4949 (Main)
828-787-2892 (Ceramics Studio)
Funded in part by a grant from South Arts in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts. Learn more at SouthArts.org.
Funding is due in part to a Tourism Grant with Visit Highlands, NC. Learn more HighlandsChamber.org