Live Figure Model Sessions
Every 2nd Monday
Session Fee: $20
Ongoing Beginning January 2024
Exploratory Pastels
January 22-24
Workshop Fee: $360
Treat yourself to a week out of time and the chance to explore, discover, or deepen your journey with the media of pastels. This will be a positive and supportive workshop with class demonstrations and plenty of individual time for each of you to find or continue on your own creative path. Artists of all levels are welcome. "Throughout my years of teaching I have always sought to have my students do what they enjoy. It is my job to supply you with tools and techniques and ideas.
We will cover:
- Composition
- Finding, losing, and defining planes
- Grounds, papers, and boards
- Various pastel brands
- Alcohol, acrylic, acrylic ink and watercolor washes
- Mark making
- Removing pastel
- Problem solving with color
Horsehead Sculpture in Clay
February 23-25, 9am - 5pm
Workshop Fee: $525
Beginner to Advanced – this short form workshop is very new-sculptor or new-to-equines oriented. Students will start with skull to work off of and build up a horse (or other equid) bust. Advanced students can delve into nuances of varied breeds and expressions, and newcomers to equine sculpture will delight in finding the basic forms and characters fall into place in this tried and true method Morgen has been teaching to students for over a decade.
Class will require certain materials purchased but advanced students with preferences may work out the project in advance. The class lecture material will focus more heavily on the equine head.
Live horse availability (weather permitting) or offsite visits to real horses possible to help students learn to identify boney landmarks and variable aspects of these charismatic subjects with hands on learning
Watercolor
March 9 &16
Workshop Fee: $240
This watercolor workshop is a course designed for beginner and intermediate artists wishing to explore and improve watercolor painting techniques. This course starts with the basics and progresses gradually to more complex subjects and concepts. A variety of concepts, subjects, application techniques, and forms of watercolor are explored providing the learner with a complete exposure to this medium. We will explore a variety of texture applications and how to manipulate the flow of watercolor to create an organic and detailed feel to your pieces.
Extreme Portrait Sculpture
April 10-12, 10am - 4:30pm
Workshop Fee: $525
Using a fresh and intuitive sculptural language, Rubino will lead participants on a technical and artistic journey toward understanding the dynamic and creative forces associated with a larger-than-life-size portrait sculpture. Follow Peter's step-by-step method of blocking in the foundation, establishing facial planes and features of the human head. Rubino encourages you to go BIG and develop expressive sculptures in your own personal artistic style. In class "We don't make mistakes, we make adjustments."-Peter Rubino.
Horse Movement and Anatomy
May 20-24, 9am - 5pm
Workshop Fee: $625
Students will have several days of hands-on equine learning, with live and multimedia tools to fine tune the eye for nuances that make sculptures come to life. No matter your style or media, if you wish to sculpt horses this is the opportunity for you! Bring your own in progress or start from scratch! There will be demonstrations of mold making, tours of the bronze foundry, off-site horse study and a variety of information brought up throughout the week. This class is tailored to meet each student at their level.
Monotype Workshop
June 15, 10am - 4:30pm
Workshop Fee: $
Monotype is a fun and immediate process that combines painting and printmaking techniques. We will be using oil based inks, assorted plexi-glass plates and two printing presses to create numerous prints and ghost prints. Explore a variety of approaches including reductive and additive techniques, use of stencils, inking natural objects as well as found objects, alcohol resists, trace transfers and if time allows, overprinting and chin colle.
Virtually Seamless Molds and casting in Cold Cast Bronze
July 15-19, 10am - 4:30pm
Workshop Fee: $
- X-acto knife handle and at least 20
- #11 x-acto blades
- 1 box of students choice of vinyl or latex gloves (at least 40 pairs)
- long-sleeved shirts, pants and shoes that can be ruined (or improved depending on your perspective)
- Smooth-On Rebound 25 platinum silicone
- Free Form Air epoxy putty
- 1" china bristle brushes
- paint mixing sticks
- mixing cups