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 To register for a workshop contact workshop coordinator Barbara Getty at 315-369-6411 or emailbgetty@artscenteroldforge.org 

Workshops with Sean Dye 

• All are for all levels 

• Each has a materials fee for kits that range from $12 - $18 (Payable to Instructor) 

Sean has been recognized nationally as a leading author and expert on mixed-media techniques. He is a professor at the University of Vermont.  

That’s not a Knife…This is a Knife: Painting in Water-soluable Oils 

Friday, August 13 • 9:30am - 4pm 

Fee: $100/$85 members 

Knife painting is the most direct way to apply paint to canvas. Participants will learn Sean’s knife painting dos and don’ts. Painting knife, canvas, and paint will be provided. 

Value Magic: Crash Course in the Study of Light & Dark
Saturday, August 14 • 9:30am - 4pm 

Fee: $100/$85 members 

This is a great way to discover the light and structure in your composition and not worry about color. Dye leads a detailed value study using artist’s oil pastels to help you create more successful paintings. 

Alba Scott 

  Sketching & Drawing

Mon., Aug. 2 - Wed., Aug. 4

9am - 1pm

Fee: $175/$150 members

Beginners to Intermediate

This popular workshop teaches students the basics of drawing and sketching. Learn to really see, and discover the joy of a tree’s shadow, or water splashing against a rock. With very little equipment, students can get lost in the joy of understanding composition, design, and values. Undivided attention given to all. 

Katharine Cartwright

Concept Development: 

How to Create Unique and Meaningful Art

Fri., Aug. 6 - Sun., Aug. 8

9:30am - 4pm

Fee: $300/$250 members

All Mediums

In this workshop, Katharine Cartwright teaches students how to create meaningful and unique art through a systematic process that begins with concept development and the construction of a working thesis or artist’s statement. Kathy teaches with warmth, humor, enthusiasm, and insight. As an experienced teacher and award-winning artist, she is able to help students develop and improve technical skills in painting as well as concept development.

Cheng-Khee Chee aws df, nws, twsa

 Watercolor: Synthesizing East and West

Mon., Sept.13 - Fri., Sept. 17

9:30am - 4pm

Fee: $700/$600 members

The purpose of this workshop is for artistic enrichment, creative rejuvenation, and spiritual renewal. Mr. Chee shares his creative experiences with the students but doesn’t impose his personal viewpoints upon them. The workshop will stress flexibility, fun, fellowship, and the spirit of caring and cooperation. The schedule will include: a traditional approach, saturated wet process, improvisational approach, crinkling technique, and marbling and monoprinting.

Doug Dawson psa, aws 

 Landscape & Character in Pastels

Mon., Sept. 20 - Fri., Sept. 24

9am - 4pm

Fee: $700/$600 members

Each workshop begins with a demonstration either from a photo reference or from an outdoor location, if conditions permit. Some of the topics covered include: separating a landscape into planes; how to prepare a paper for pastel painting; the 7 principles used to create the illusion of depth in a painting; the three zones in water; using edges to give this illusion of texture; and the use of thumbnail sketches to find color solutions. 

Past Fine Arts Workshops 

Solarplate Printmaking, with Roger Hyndman

Going Beyond the Traditional Approach in Watercolor Painting, with Fredrick C. Graff, AWS, NWS, TWSA  website: www.artgally.com/fredgraff/

 Florals & Still Life in Pastel with Christina Debarry, PSA
Going  Beyond the Traditonal  in Watercolor Painting Fredrick C. Graff, AWS, NWS, TWSA
Expanding your Watercolor Approaches Carol Z. Brody, NWS
Plein Air- Floral Watercolor Landscapes with Janet Walsh, AWS, DF 
"Plein Air" Watercolor Journaling, Don Getz. AWS, KA,MWS
Sketching and Drawing, Alba Scott
Watercolor Workshop, Frank Webb, AWS
Nobody's a Beginner, Mariella Bisson

A Whimsical Way with Watercolor, with Gordon Bashant
Ways with Color, with Martha Deming

Frenetic Floral: Flowers & Gardens in Colored Drawing ink, with Sean Dye, PSA

Water Soluable Oils 101, with Sean Dye, PSA

Gouache: The Other Watercolor, with Sean Dye, PSA

Captivating Water Scenes: Oceans, Lakes and Rivers, with Sean Dye, PSA