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One-Day Workshop
Litho/Wax Synergy
Encaustic with Ruth Sack and Printmaking with Roxanne Faber Savage
Friday, Mar. 29
1-4 p.m.
$55 Member, $75 non-Member
A short art supply list will be provided for registrants.
Put two artists working in different media together on one project and you get some fascinating results. A master printmaker and an encaustics expert collaborate to teach lithography on an encaustic wax surface. This opens up many creative possibilities such as printing multiples in a medium that is singular, creating a series, and reworking a printed piece. In preparation, we will cover encaustic painting and lithography basics. Experience in printmaking and/or encaustic painting is helpful but not necessary.
Watercolor with June Webster
Tuesdays, 3-5 p.m.
6 Week Session: April 23–May 28
6 Week Session: June 11–July 16
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Thursdays, 1-3 p.m.
6 Week Session: April 25–May 30
6 Week Session: June 13–July 18
$90 Members/$120 non-Members per session
Materials included, preregistration required and all skill levels welcome.
Explore the wonderful medium of watercolor by examining the Museum’s magnificent collection from Masters like Sargent, Homer, Prendergast and many others. Create your own masterpiece with artist June Webster using a variety of watercolor techniques. June received her BFA in painting from the university of Connecticut. For the past 15 years, June has been a teaching artist at the NBMAA. She is an award-winning artist and a signature member of the American Watercolor Society, the Ct. Watercolor Society and the Northeast Watercolor Society.
Felting with Robin McCahill: Getting to Know Wool, How it Felts, and the Art of Nuno Felting
Sundays, 1-4 p.m.
6 Week Session: Dec. 9–Jan. 27
6 Week Session: Feb. 3–Mar. 10
6 Week Session: Mar. 17–Apr. 21
4 Week Session: April 7–28
4 Week Session: May 12–June 9
$180 Members, $210 non-Members per 6 Week Session
Preregistration required
Construct a bag, hat, mittens or vessel with the wet felting technique; learn a seamless one-piece technique and how to shape your project, and most importantly, learn how to configure just how much the felting will shrink your creation. Incorporate designs and additions to embellish your work, you can make it whimsical or geometric. Learn to make wool “ropes” for handles and garlands. Also explore the “Nuno Felting” technique, which uses an open weave fabric (gauze) as a ground for the wool to attach. Laminating the fabric with wool enables the final product to be light and gossamer with lots of texture and design qualities. It is a wonderful way to make wearable garments such as scarves or shawls. Its translucent qualities also make it perfect for window treatments.
Collage and Mixed Media Moving Towards Collagraph Printmaking with Estelle Laschever
Saturdays, 12:30-4:30 p.m.
3 Week Session: April 6, 13, 20
$90 members, $120 non-members
Material list supplied
Pre-registration required
Venture beyond the traditional approach to create imagery and discover new working methods. Collage is defined as “pasting” objects to a flat surface. Using this art form as a springboard, students will create representational and/or abstract studies while being guided in the technical aspects of collage. We will work with varied found materials to give them new life as well as paints and other “traditional” materials. We will continue to explore monotype possibilities as well as frottage and transfer line techniques all while moving towards collagraphy. Consideration will be given to both traditional and nontraditional approaches to creating imagery. Students will create collagraph plates, which provide texture and a relief surface to the overall collage, and learn how to ink and print them (without a press). Printing the plates will be demonstrated. Students may print small editions (without a press). New and returning students at all levels are welcome.
Relief Printing and Monoprinting Class with Deb Wadsworth
Fridays, 1-4 p.m.
4 Week Session: June 7–28
$90 Members/$120 non-Members
Material list supplied, preregistration required.
Come and experience the fun of learning about relief and monoprinting—methods and techniques, color printing with ink and oil paint. Subject matter will be left up to the student, but inspiration will be provided. No experience necessary! This is a great class for the person new to the world of printmaking.