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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.
Inner Reflections - Mindful Reflections: Exploring Legacies, Deepening Connections
Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens.
– Carl Jung
Communication skills are, in part, a legacy from our families and transform or strengthen through non-judgmental awareness and self-compassion. Honest communication with others is based upon acceptance, curiosity, and openness. As we strengthen our ability to bring deep listening to our own experiences, we enhance our capacity to be present with and available to others, to nature, and to artistic works. After learning brief, self-listening skills, we will become aware of our sensations, thoughts, and feelings as we view artists’ images.
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
The Clarity and Strength of Vulnerability - Mindful Reflections: Exploring Legacies, Deepening Connections
Mindfulness is the open-hearted energy of being aware in the present moment. It is the daily cultivation—practice—of touching life deeply.
― Laurie Buchanan, PhD
Artists make themselves vulnerable through sharing with us works that express their visions of the world. In this way, their images touch and transform us. Sharing their visions is an act of courage and strength. A similar vulnerability allows us to live fully and from our hearts. Our daily presence and vitality in living our lives may be our greatest legacy to those we love. We will engage with gallery images using mindfulness practices that support our connection with presence and our heart’s wisdom. We will conclude by discussing how to apply these same principles to our daily lives.
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.
Transparency – Furthering Relationships Through Art and Mindfulness - Mindful Reflections: Exploring Legacies, Deepening Connections
The strongest love is the love that can demonstrate its fragility.
― Paulo Coelho, Eleven Minutes
Loving Kindness Practices increase positive emotions, strengthen health, and enhance the quality of our lives. Moreover, these practices help us to navigate relationships with greater tolerance and appreciation for those we love. These same practices can help us to forge a connection with the artists who help us to envision our worlds in new ways and with the images they create. In this session, we will practice open-heartedness and apply this open-heartedness to our experiences of the artwork. Take homes will include brief skills for bringing an open heart to our daily interactions with others.
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.
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. |
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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