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• Monday #199 Approaching Abstraction, 1:00 - 3:30 pm

  • Start
    October 26, 2020
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  • End
    December 07, 2020
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  • Schedule
    6 sessions
  • Location
    949 Mirror Lake Road
  • Spaces left
    8

  No class November 23rd, Thanksgiving break.

  Unleash the inspired abstract painter within when expanding your visual vocabulary for abstraction. We will apply design elements relating to composition, color, representation of form and various applications of paint or gesture making. This class will develop a series of studies meant to create a path for an informed personal, individualistic means of expression.

  Acrylics and canvas are recommended however, oils, watercolor, pastel, charcoal, along with gessoed boards, paper etc. are all acceptable.

  A recommended supply list will be sent as soon as a class roster with a minimum of four students is established.

  Suitable for all levels.

  Teaching Artist: James Bongartz
  Website: jamesbongartz.com

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• Monday #357 Painting from your own Photographs, 6:30 - 9 pm

  • Start
    October 26, 2020
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  • End
    December 07, 2020
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  • Schedule
    6 sessions
  • Location
    949 Mirror Lake Road
  • Spaces left
    5
  • Registered
    2 registrants

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  No class November 23rd, Thanksgiving break.

  This is a painting class designed for all levels beginner to advanced. The student will develop their own painting skills through creative and technical approaches. They will learn to make great choices during the process of conceptualizing their photo reference.

  Techniques:
  

  • Color mixing to achieve great value changes as well as dynamic warm verse cool temperature colors while painting.
  • Brush application will be reviewed and discussed.
  • Visual presentations on the importance of composition and strategies that you can apply.
  • Group critiques as they paint for each student to gain encouragement and improvement.

  Teaching Artist: Renee Egan
  

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• Tuesday #242 Introduction to Oil Painting, 9:30 am - 12 pm

  • Start
    October 27, 2020
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  • End
    December 08, 2020
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  • Schedule
    6 sessions
  • Location
    949 Mirror Lake Road
  • Spaces left
    7
  • Registered
    1 registrant

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  NO CLASS November 24th, Thanksgiving break.

  Learn to see as an artist does and apply that new found knowledge to oil painting! From a still life set up you will learn the basics in drawing in order to do a preliminary sketch in oil directly onto canvas. An explanation of tools and mediums will be discussed with a focus on pallet set up. Guided by your instructor you'll quickly learn about shape and form while gaining an understanding of how to see value to complete a tonal under-painting. You'll learn about color mixing and matching as you progress to a full color painting. The concepts and principals taught in Introduction to Oil Painting will help develop the skills to further your path in becoming a better artist.

  Teaching Artist:  Donna Sheehan   

  
  

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• Tuesday #197 Collage and Mixed Media, 1:00 - 3:30 pm

  • Start
    October 27, 2020
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  • End
    December 08, 2020
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  • Schedule
    6 sessions
  • Location
    949 Mirror Lake Road
  • Spaces left
    6

  

  NO CLASS November 24th, Thanksgiving break.

  Mixed Media - Painting with paper and acrylics. Using abstract or semi abstract styles, the student will learn to combine media to get unique results. There will be lots of layering back and forth from acrylic to papers. You will be encouraged to dampen the papers and actually mold them into your art. All the elements of design, texture, tone, line, and color will be emphasized. There will be ongoing critiques and demonstrations as well as helpful exercises. All levels are welcome.

  Teaching artist: Nancy Shill

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• Tuesday #20 I've Never Painted Before In My Life! 1:00 - 3:30 pm

  • Start
    October 27, 2020
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  • End
    December 08, 2020
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  • Schedule
    6 sessions
  • Location
    949 Mirror Lake Road
  • Spaces left
    7
  • Registered
    1 registrant

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  No class November 24th, Thanksgiving break.

  You can easily learn the basics while using acrylic paints! Bring your laptops to paint from your own uploaded photographs or images captured off the Internet. Of course, printed images are suitable for use as source material too. Students will explore traditional blocking-in methods while developing subject matter using expressive color, contrast and brushwork. After observing demonstrations, students will start off creating studies to learn basic techniques in color mixing and applications for building volume and space. The instructor will offer critiques that assist in constructive problem solving while exercising our vocabulary for the painting process. Supplies are provided by the student and a list will be sent one week prior to the start of class. Level: Beginner’s thru Intermediate.

  Teaching artist: Jim Bongartz
  Website: jamesbongartz.com

  
  

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• Wednesday #78 Handmade Felting Techniques, 9:30 am - 12:30 pm

  • Start
    October 28, 2020
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  • End
    December 09, 2020
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  • Schedule
    6 sessions
  • Location
    949 Mirror Lake Road, Yardley PA 19067
  • Spaces left
    2
  • Registered
    4 registrants

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  No Class November 25th, Thanksgiving break.

  Discover the ancient technique of felt making and it’s revival! From basic flat felting to luxurious surface design, this six week class progresses into Cobweb felting, felt collage, seamless accessory, exploring felt embellishments and finally, felt hat making. Printed materials with description will be  provided. Instructor will have wool fibers as well as silk fabric, exotic thread, variety of yarn available for purchase. Extra supplies will be shared during each week.

  Week 1. Flat Felt making (basic wet felting technique)
  Week 2. Class #2 - collage making, (nuno felting technique)
  Week 3. Cobweb felting technique (making accessory - scarf)
  Week 4. Felting with resist (making a bag)
  Week 5. Felt Hat making (basic)
  Week 6. Sculptural felt/ 3 D - making lamp shade.

  A supply list will be provided by the instructor one week prior to the start of class.

  Teaching Artist: Nelly Kouzmina
  

  
  

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• Wednesday ONLINE #228 Exploring Watercolor Painting 1 - 3 pm

  • Start
    October 28, 2020
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  • End
    December 09, 2020
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  • Schedule
    6 sessions
  • Location
    Online
  • Spaces left
    3
  • Registered
    3 registrants

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  Online course requiring Zoom download/account to attend class virtually.

  NO CLASS November 25th, Thanksgiving break.

  This Online course offers guided instruction to beginning students and those developing skills in watercolor painting. We explore the translucent qualities that are unique to this versatile medium. Essential techniques include: basic washes, mixing/blending colors, painting loose, creating texture, using value sketches to compose a painting, and combining colors to achieve harmonious effects. Specific projects are presented with encouragement for artists to progress at their own rate. Subjects to be painted may be still life set-ups, landscapes, and printed or electronic images. A list of suggested supplies will be provided.

  Teaching artist: Jill Tressel

  
  

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• Wednesday #350 Creative Photography, 6:30 - 9 pm

  • Start
    October 28, 2020
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  • End
    December 09, 2020
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  • Schedule
    6 sessions
  • Location
    949 Mirror Lake Road, Yardley PA 19067
  • Spaces left
    4

  

  No Class November 25th, Thanksgiving break.

  This is a basic course to the introduction of digital photography, as well as touching on the history stemming from film photography. Taught by award-winning film photographer, Emilina Filippo, you will be immersed with knowledge on camera settings, color & composition, lighting, creativity, and how to share your images with an audience.

  You will be learning how to perfect portraits, self-portraits, landscapes and more in a close knit environment. You will be shown how to shoot, process, edit, and share your images on platforms like Instagram, 500px, Reddit etc.

  Required: Digital Camera (DSLR Camera: Canon, Nikon, Leica etc.)
  Suggested but not required: Adobe Programs (Lightroom), Laptop/ iPad, cell phone
  *Shooting outdoors, may possibly drive to location for photographing*

  Class #1: INTRO/HISTORY/TYPES OF CAMERAS/ SETTINGS etc.
  Class #2: TYPES OF PHOTOGRAPHY/ YOUR INTERESTS/ INTRO TO APPS
  Class #3: COLOR/ COMPOSITION/ EDITING
  Class #4: LIGHTING/ EDITING
  Class #5: EDITING/ FIXING A PHOTO/ WHY IS PHOTOGRAPHY IMPORTANT
  Class #6: SHARING YOUR PHOTOS WITH AN AUDIENCE

  Teaching Artist: Emilina Filippo
  

  
  

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• Thursday #355 Oil Painting Studio with Instruction, 9:30 am - 12 pm

  • Start
    October 29, 2020
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  • End
    December 10, 2020
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  • Schedule
    6 sessions
  • Location
    949 Mirror Lake Road, Yardley PA 19067
  • Spaces left
    0
  • Registered
    8 registrants

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  No class November 26th, Thanksgiving holiday.
  

  This studio style class will offer individual guidance and instruction as students work from photographs, iPads or a Still Life setup using their own mediums and tools (oils, acrylics, pastels... brushes, palette knives, charcoal...). Various aspects of painting and color theory are covered and discussed depending on one’s level or needs. It is an opportunity to develop your skills or pick up where you left off years ago. In a setting like this students learn from each other while being continuously inspired! Before class ends everyone participates in a critique of the works that were done that day. This is for students with intermediate painting skills through Advanced.

  Teaching Artist: Anne Gannon
  

  
  

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• Thursday #20 I've Never Painted Before In My Life! 6:30 - 9 pm

  • Start
    October 29, 2020
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    (EDT)
  • End
    December 10, 2020
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    (EST)
  • Schedule
    6 sessions
  • Location
    949 Mirror Lake Road
  • Spaces left
    6
  • Registered
    2 registrants

  Register

  

  No class November 26th, Thanksgiving holiday.

  You can easily learn the basics while using acrylic paints! Bring your laptops to paint from your own uploaded photographs or images captured off the Internet. Of course, printed images are suitable for use as source material too. Students will explore traditional blocking-in methods while developing subject matter using expressive color, contrast and brushwork. After observing demonstrations, students will start off creating studies to learn basic techniques in color mixing and applications for building volume and space. The instructor will offer critiques that assist in constructive problem solving while exercising our vocabulary for the painting process. Supplies are provided by the student and a list will be sent one week prior to the start of class. Level: Beginner’s thru Intermediate.

  Teaching artist: Jim Bongartz
  Website: jamesbongartz.com

  
  

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• Saturday #334 Abstract Approaches, 9:30 am - 12 pm

  • Start
    October 31, 2020
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  • End
    December 12, 2020
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  • Schedule
    6 sessions
  • Location
    949 Mirror Lake Road, Yardley PA 19067
  • Spaces left
    4

  

  NO CLASS Saturday, November 28th, Thanksgiving break.

  This course introduces color and composition as they pertain to abstract work. Students explore formal elements such as shape, value, color, mark making and surface with paint and collage materials. Through their work with abstract concepts students investigate the 2-dimensional picture plane and compositional structures.

  Students will learn the fundamentals of painting while using the abstract language and will be working from observation and non-objectively.

  This course will be broken up into three units surveying three major forms of abstraction: objective, non-objective gestural, and hard edge. At the end of the course students will be able to solve introductory painting problems such as color mixing, creation of space and form. They will also learn how composition and design are relevant to painting while using the abstract language. 

  Recommended for teens and adults.

  Teaching Artist: William Wolf
  Website: http://www.willwolfstudio.com

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