Painting the Landscape:
It's All About the Light
with Maggie Siner

Secrets of Beautiful Color
with Trisha Adams

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Secrets of Powerful Painting
with Trisha Adams (TBA)

Oil Painting Workshop:
Color and Form
with Magie Siner (TBA)

Keys to Success with Landscape Painting in Oil a 2-Day Workshop
with Mary Champion (TBA)

Acrylic Adventure:
Pet Portraits Workshop
with Linda Hendrickson (TBA)

Plein Air Painting Workshop
with Dean Drewyer
(TBA)

Composition Crash Course
with Lisa Semerad (TBA)

2-Day Painting Workshop:
Jumpstart Your Color!
with Kurt Schwarz (TBA)

Bringing Your Paintings to Life
with Steven Walker
(TBA)

Get Me Started Series: (TBA)
Drawing
Watercolor
Ceramics
Pastel
Oil & Acrylic

Travel with Your Sketchbook
with Avis Fleming
(TBA)

3-Day Still Life and Floral Painting Workshop with Robert Johnson (TBA)

Classical Drawing from
Casts and Life –
A Weekend Workshop
with Michael Davis (TBA)

Plein Air:
Dynamic Composition for Successful Landscape Painting
with Barbara Nuss
(TBA)

Get on Board!
Watercolor Series on
Claybord–Painting Flowers
with Catherine Fetterman (TBA)

Art*iculation
A Writing Workshop for Artists
with David Hazard
(TBA)

New Approaches to Composition
with Maggie Siner (TBA)

Landscape Painting
with Sara Linda Poly (TBA)

2-Day Still Life Painting Workshop with Diane Tesler (TBA)

Paint at Pearmund Cellars Winery: A Plein AirWorkshop
with Linda Henderickso (TBA)

Tea and Art with Mom
with Catherine Fetterman (TBA)

Note:
Supply lists can be obtained by clicking on the desired class' supply list link and printing the page that appears.

Painting the Landscape:
It's All About Light
with Maggie Siner

Mighty Midget by Maggie Siner, oil ©


Cruis by Maggie Siner, oil ©

Instructor:
Maggie Siner

Days and Times: Wednesday & Thursday
10 am - 4 pm each day

Session 4 2013: August 21 - 22

Cost: $380

Secrets of Beautiful Color
with Trisha Adams

Instructor:
Trisha Adams

Days and Times: Friday, Saturday & Sunday,
6 - 9 pm Fri.;
10 am - 4 pm Sat. & Sun.

Session 4 2013: August 23 - 25 full

Cost: $350
13-hr. workshop
supply list

Color is a cornerstone of exciting painting and in this workshop, you will learn how to harness color's power to enchant and captivate. From setting up your painting, to seeing and emphasizing inherent color schemes, to painting the light effect, you will learn how to make color work to make your paintings compelling. This workshop includes: Slide presentation/lecture; Demonstration; Exercises to illustrate key ideas; Painting time to explore and reinforce learning; easel-side instruction; Group critique.

About the Artist:
Trisha Adams was born and grew up in California. She attended William Jewell College in Liberty, Missouri with a year's honor study in Oxford, England. She graduated magna cum laude with a degree in psychology, but it was her work as editor of the college yearbook that sparked her choice of vocation. She moved to Virginia and began working in the advertising department of a local newspaper. With the advent of desktop publishing she opened her own graphic design firm in 1985. After selling her business in 1990, she joined a color printing company establishing their electronic prepress department and retail service bureau.
Trisha began painting in 2001 and by 2004 she was painting fulltime. Landscapes are a favorite subject and she enjoys traveling to France and Italy to paint. She is a member of the 100-year-old Washington Society of Landscape Painters.
Trisha’s paintings are in prominent collections including the Virginia State Senate, the town of Leesburg, VA, the Ritz Carlton in Tysons Corner, and the Winchester Medical Center.

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Acrylic Adventure:
Pet Portrait Workshop
with Linda Hendrickson

Instructor:
Linda Hendrickson

Date and Time:
Saturday, 10 am - 4:30 pm

Session 3 2013: Not currently scheduled

Cost: TBA
supply list

Explore the flexibility of a medium that is inexpensive, versatile, fast drying and easy to clean up.  By concentrating on a favorite critter (via photos) students will paint several loose, impressionistic images of their pet. We will touch on the “trail basics” such as color, texture, line, and the addition of mixed media. This class may be repeated for further intermediate to advanced studies. No favorite pet? Bring a photo or an object/several that intrigue you. All levels are welcome.

6 hrs.
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Paint at Pearmund Cellars Winery:
A Plein Air Workshop
with Linda Hendrickson

Instructor:
Linda Hendrickson

Date and Time:
Saturday and Sunday, 10 am - 4 pm

Next Session: Not currently scheduled

Cost: $175
supply list
In addition to the supply list, bring hat, stool, easel, suntan lotion, bug repellent, lunch and water.

Join Linda Hendrickson for a two-day Acrylic Adventure painting in the vineyard in spring.  Instructor will demonstrate setting up and painting outside using several styles of set up.  Students will be encouraged to complete four paintings during the course of the two days.  Students of all levels and mediums are welcome.

10-hr. workshop

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Oil Painting Workshop:
Color and Form
with Maggie Siner

Sheets, © Siner 2008
Instructor:
Maggie Siner

Dates and Times :
Friday 6 - 9 pm,
Saturday, 10 am - 4 pm
and Sunday, 10 am - 4 pm

Next Session: Not Currently Schedule

Cost: $380
15-hr. workshop
supply list

Painting is an arrangement of colored shapes. This fact defines the most important truth of learning how to paint.  No matter what the actual subject of the painting, an artist must learn to see the world in the language of painting rather than as nameable objects.  Every artist then refines and develops this language in a personal way. Working from observation (still-life)  this workshop will stress the nuances of direct visual perception and the importance of selection and simplification (what NOT to paint) in making a strong painting.  We will focus on acquiring color sensitivity, seeing shapes of light and dark, attention to edges, using shape making gestural unity, and good studio practices. Previous experience required.

About the Artist:
Maggie Siner is an inspirational teacher who has taught workshops across the country and abroad for over thirty years. Her classes are challenging, energizing and empowering. She studied painting at Boston University (BFA 1973), fresco painting at Skowhegan (1974) and recieved her MFA from American University (1976). She has spent much of her life living abroad in southern France and in China. Her teaching experience includes the Savannah College of Art and Design, Lacoste School of the Arts (Cleveland Institute of Art), Xiamen University in China, Institute d'Universites Americaines and the Washington Studio School among others. Siner has exhibited in Paris, New York, Washington, DC, Saint Paul de Vence, Marseille, Atlanta and Boston. She is a highly regarded educator who lectures extensively, and her paintings are in private collections around the world.

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Get Me Started! Series

Instructors:
Various Professional Artists

Date and Time:
Saturdays 1 - 3:30 pm

Next Session: Not currently scheduled
Drawing Day - TBA
Oil and Acrylic Day - TBA
Watercolor Day - TBA
Ceramics - TBA
Pastel Day - TBA

Cost per day:
$40 Oil/Acrylics; Pastels; Watercolor and Drawing
$60 for Ceramics

Do you have an urge to paint or draw, but don’t know how? Afraid of the cost? Afraid of the mess? Come have fun with us. Feel what it’s like to push oil or acrylic paint around on canvas. Or make color washes with watercolor. Or feel how pastels perform on paper. Learn some basic techniques without the initial investment. We’ll supply the materials, the tools and the know-how to help you get started. Must pre-register.

2.5 hrs.
supplies provided
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Bringing Your Paintings to Life
with Steven Walker

Instructor:
Steven Walker

Date and Time:
Friday, Saturday and Sunday, 10 am - 4 pm

Next Session: Not currently scheduled

supply list

This workshop focuses on visual perception and learning how to see color, shape, and measurement, while also maintaining a fluid spontaneity of brushwork and simplification of form. Students will be painting landscapes from photos.

About the Artist:
Born in Myrtle Beach, SC and raised in Virginia Steven Walker has been creating artwork for most of his life. The early part of Steven’s career was spent as a freelance illustrator. His partial client list included Highlights, Colgate and the Boy Scouts of America and the U.S. Air Force. While looking for piece of mind to counter the hustle of an illustration career, he found inspiration among the back roads and rustic barns of Virginia. After teaching at the college level for five years, Steven decided to commit to fine art on a full time basis. Since this shift he has had several solo shows and various national exhibitions and competitions including the 2012 Salon International, Richeson 75 landscape show, best of show and the Mayor’s Award with the Worthington Area Art League and a statewide traveling exhibition with the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in 2008. Steven currently resides in Westerville, OH.

18 hrs.
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Three-Day Still Life and Floral
Painting Workshop
with Robert Johnson

Instructor:
Robert Johnson

Days and Times : Friday 9 am - 4:30 pm,
Saturday 12:30 pm - 5 pm and
Sunday 9 am - 4:30 pm

Next Session: Not currently scheduled

Cost: TBA
supply list

Capturing the natural beauty of florals and other still life subjects in oil while working directly from life. The beauty and power of fresh undisturbed oil paint as well as the expressive and descriptive quality of the brushstroke is stressed. The instructor demonstrates and emphasizes the direct all-prima approach to oil painting. All levels welcome.

About the Artist: Robert Johnson began his painting career in New York studying with David Leffel. Since then, he has participated in numerous group and solo shows in the US and has taught painting at art schools in New York, Scottsdale, AZ and Taos, NM. Johnson has won numerous awards including The Artist's Magazine National Competition and the Fine Art Connoisseur Magazine's Award for Excellence. He also was a finalist in the National Portrait Competition in New York. His work is in public and private collections throughout the US, Europe and Far East. Johnson lives in Vienna, VA.

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Plein Air Painting from
My Waterford Garden
with Antonia Walker

Instructor:
Antonia Walker

Next Session: Not Currently Scheduled
supply list

A landscape workshop in several Waterford gardens of Waterford with an opportunity to focus on intimate garden venues as well as landscape views.  Emphasis on the light, value and color found in the early summer garden.  The class will also address how to compose and simplify while painting plein air.  There will be a brief demonstration each day to highlight various techniques.  Although the class will concentrate on oil painting, watercolor and pastel students are welcome.  A break for a brown bag lunch will allow time for discussion and group critiques.  Fruit and light snacks provided.

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Keys to Success with
Landscape Painting in Oil
2-Day Workshop
with Mary Champion

Instructor:
Mary Champion

Next Session: Not Currently Scheduled
supply list

Students will engage in a series of quick exercises designed to build a deeper understanding of the elements of a successful landscape painting in oil.  Skies, trees and fields will be explored separately before students work to complete a painting from one of their own photographs. Value, composition, color and atmospheric perspective are among the topics that will be examined.
Instructor will provide printed notes to make more time for actual painting during this two-day workshop.
Suitable for beginner to intermediate students.

About the Artist: Mary Champion has worked in many media but became intrigued with oil painting when she studied classic painting under Jack Dempsey in Huntsville Alabama at the Huntsville Art League. Her work has been featured in many juried shows and exhibitions in the Southeast including the 2005 “Red Clay Survey” at the Huntsville Museum of Art, and “Small Matters of Great Importance” at the Edward Hopper House in Nyack, NY. 
Originally from Texas, Mary relocated to Leesburg in the fall of 2008 and became affiliated King Street Studios, now ArtSquare, in Leesburg. Contemporary realism and landscape make up most of her current work.

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Plein Air Painting Workshop
with Dean Taylor Drewyer

Instructor:
Dean Taylor Drewyer

Next Session: Not Currently Scheduled
supply list

Want to develop skill at catching the ever-changing light conditions while painting outdoors? Always wanted to learn about plein air painting but have been hesitant to try it?  Need some inspiration to kick-start your work?  This class is for you!
Join Dean Taylor Drewyer, award-winning oil painter, for two intensive days of painting landscapes on location. Dean will walk you through his process for creating dynamic, light-filled paintings. Workshop includes demonstrations and one-on-one instruction. The workshop will commence right at 9:00 am with a brief conversation about strategies for your first works. The key during the two days will be centered around working small panels or canvas (no larger than about 9” x 12”).  The guiding theme will be ‘to discover the visual and descriptive power found in simplification of form, emphasis on shadow & light, a limited color scheme, and dynamic compositional space’.  Location: Picturesque farm along the Potomac River.

About the Artist: Dean Taylor Drewyer has been exhibiting his paintings in the Washington, D.C., area since the early 1970s. His drawings, watercolors and oils can be found in private collections throughout the mid-Atlantic region. In the last fifteen years or so Mr. Drewyer’s work primarily has been concerned with the landscape found in and around western Loudoun County, the close-by stretches of the Potomac River, and the area
around Lake Meddybemps in the furthest reaches of eastern Maine. Mr. Drewyer received his Master of Fine Arts degree in Painting from
the George Washington University in 1986. While studying at G.W. he was awarded the David Lloyd Kreeger Purchase Award for painting as well as a GTA Fellowship.  Mr. Drewyer has just completed his 32th year with Loudoun County Public Schools.

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Secrets of Powerful Painting
with Trisha Adams

Instructor:
Trisha Adams

Days and Times: Saturday & Sunday,
10 am - 5 pm each day

Next Session: Not Currently Scheduled

Cost: $
12-hr. workshop
supply list

In this two-day workshop, Trisha Adams shows you how to make your paintings compelling through deliberate use of line, shapes, color and contrast that support the painting's center of interest. The workshop features lecture, demonstration, painting time, critiques and easel-side instruction. Emphasis is on learning ideas over creating completed paintings. Come join the fun and advance your painting skills! One hr. lunch.

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Landscape Painting
with Sara Linda Poly

Instructor:
Sara Linda Poly

Next Session: Not Currently Scheduled
supply list

This class/workshop will concentrate on simplifying the complex elements found in nature (including cloud studies), learning to see differently and building a solid composition for more success. Students will explore their own personal reaction to the landscape while learning the use of design, value, color, light patterns and atmospheric perspective.  Demonstrations, critiques, discussion of materials and techniques and personal attention will all be included. 
Important: Please visit Sara’s website well in advance at www.saralindapoly.com and go to the main “Workshops” page to download supply lists, plein air notes, painting skies and clouds and making color charts.
Painting Location:
We will meet at ArtSquare and then, weather permitting, drive to Oatlands to paint.
ArtSquare: 703-777-8043

About the Artist: Known for her sweeping skies and landscapes, Sara Linda Poly is inspired by local eastern scenes and the many other locations to which her love of plein air painting has taken her.  She teaches classes and workshops in the US and abroad, including The Art League. Sara has studied with venerated painters Danni Dawson, Michael Francis, Ken Auster, Ralph Oberg and Diane Tesler.  She has won numerous awards in local and national plein air competitions, including the 2007 National Competition for Best of America Oil Painters and Artisans Publication.  

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Two-Day Still Life
Painting Workshop
with Diane Tesler

Instructor:
Diane Tesler

Next Session: Not Currently Scheduled

supply list

Join Diane for an intensive two days of painting, using still life set ups that will remain in place throughout the workshop. Starting with a quick compositional drawing, we’ll move on to canvas or pastel paper, learning how to build up layers to create light and form.

Some painting/drawing experience is desirable, but students at all levels are welcome.

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Composition Crash Course
with Lisa Semerad

Instructor:
Lisa Semerad

Next Session: Not Currently Scheduled

supply list

The foundation of strong imagery is design, which is a vital element to all art forms. Students learn to recognize and control movement within the picture plane through the study of shape, value, pattern, line and texture.  Exercises are in abstract form, which are then related to examples of art, both abstract and representational. Once you know these basics, expect to enjoy a broader range of art styles and to have more fruitful rapport with your teachers.  
No previous drawing experience is needed. 

About the Artist: Lisa Semerad has been a professional artist and teacher in the Washington, DC metropolitan area since 1982. Her expertise is in diverse drawing and painting techniques, in both academic and contemporary expressive styles. Her education is in Fine and Commercial Art with two years of specialization in formal portrait and figure painting and drawing. She was the apprentice of prominent Washington DC area painter, Danni Dawson, and she studied in Philadelphia with Nelson Shanks, who is known for his portraits of Princess Diana, President Ronald Reagan, Margaret Thatcher and Pavoratti. Lisa teaches at the Art League School in Alexandria, Virginia.
   
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Plein Air: Dynamic Composition for Successful Landscape Painting
with Barbara Nuss

Instructor:
Barbara Nuss

Date and Time:
Saturday and Sunday, 10 am - 4 pm

Next Session: Not currently scheduled
supply list

The workshops begin with an introduction to strong and effective composition formats for stunning and successful landscapes.
Through plein air demonstrations and landscape fundamentals, Barbara explains how to apply those formats to the scene in front of you. She takes you through the initial pencil sketch to the finished painting with tricks for drawing along the way. Instruction in composition and plein air painting fundamentals in all media. Plenty of individual attention. 
In addition, learn formulas for pre-mixed color colors for fast and quick procedures. 
Open to all levels and all media. In case of rain, students will work indoors from instructors photos.

About the Artist:
Known for her warm and peaceful landscapes, award-winning artist Barbara Nuss paints the countryside with picturesque vistas and charming historic towns in a classical impressionistic style.  Through both plein air and studio paintings, she responds to the vanishing landscape in still undeveloped areas.
Her work has been exhibited throughout the US and in Europe, including solo exhibitions in Washington, DC, and New York City.
Her BFA from Syracuse University, a graduate year at the Schuler School of Fine Arts, and years as a commercial designer and illustrator, prepared her for a painting career. Her latest awards include three paintings in the Top 100 Paint the Parks and the Best Landscape Award in the National Oil and Acrylic Painters Society (NOAPS) Best of America. Two of her landscapes were recently exhibited in Amsterdam Holland at Arti et Amicitiae.

12 hrs.
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Art-iculation
A Writing Workshop for Artists
with David Hazard

Instructor:
David Hazard

Date and Time:
Saturday, 1 - 4 pm

Next Session: Not currently scheduled

A 3-hour workshop on finding your writing voice... for visual artists. Exhibitions, shows and galleries -- also personal websites -- require both a clear artist statement and a compelling description of your work.
As a painter, sculptor, potter, woodcarver, it's important to know how to say in words what comes to you by feel and intuition. We can help you capture what often escapes an artist when you are asked to articulate why you do what you do. You will learn how to identify the strong elements of your personal voice... as it emerges in your work to understand and connect with your audience/s, and create simple and compelling personal statements as well as promotional and marketing copy.

3 hrs.
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New Approaches to Composition
with Maggie Siner

Yellow Blanket by Maggie Siner 2011
Instructor:
Maggie Siner

Date and Time:
Friday, 6 - 9 pm;
Saturday,10 am - 4 pm;
and Sunday,10 am - 4 pm

Next Session: Not Currently scheduled
supply list

It is only through solid creative composition that a painting becomes powerful and unique. In this workshop you will explore compositional ideas governing the organization of value, the manipulation of pictorial space and the role of color and mark-making. Maggie will work with you to gain new ideas, insight and skill in composition. Working from the still life, you will emphasize light as the organizer of color and shape. Aesthetic principles of painting techniques will be presented while individual attention and group critiques will help you evaluate your work. Maggie's gestural style is classically derived, yet contemporary.

About the Artist:
Maggie Siner is an inspirational teacher who has taught workshops across the country and abroad for over thirty years. Her classes are challenging, energizing and empowering. She studied painting at Boston University (BFA 1973), fresco painting at Skowhegan (1974) and recieved her MFA from American University (1976). She has spent much of her life living abroad in southern France and in China. Her teaching experience includes the Savannah College of Art and Design, Lacoste School of the Arts (Cleveland Institute of Art), Xiamen University in China, Institute d'Universites Americaines and the Washington Studio School among others. Siner has exhibited in Paris, New York, Washington, DC, Saint Paul de Vence, Marseille, Atlanta and Boston. She is a highly regarded educator who lectures extensively, and her paintings are in private collections around the world.

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Tea and Art with Mom
with Catherine Fetterman

Instructor:
Catherine Obreza Fetterman

Dates and Times:
Saturday,
9 am - 12 pm (Mom with child(ren) ages 9 & up)
or 1 - 4 pm (Mom with adult or high school-aged child(ren))

Next Session: Not currently scheduled

Cost: TBA

Celebrate Mother's Day with quality time together making a special keepsake painting you'll cherish forever! Watercolorist Catherine Fetterman will guide you step-by-step in creating beautiful, 3D watercolor collage floral paintings that you'll treasure for years to come because you'll have worked together to make them!  Perfect for all levels and generations, and tailored for beginners. Kindly bring a treat to share for our break for tea, and we'll provide everything else!

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