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Exploring Your Sketchbook:
Making Your Freshest & Purest Art with Julia Zollman Wickes
July 10 – 12 | three days | Friday –Sunday 10AM – 4PM
$125 for a three day workshop | $75 materials
During this workshop, students will reflect on personal artistic goals, explore surroundings and learn to rely on sketch-books and creativity to determine ways of expression. You will learn to size up the situation or scene quickly, paint wonderful descriptions of where you have been, find the details that have meaning and reflect emotional response. Students will spend time out of the studio and around the town, working primarily in sketchbooks, drawing, painting, writing, mixing media and even sculpting. We will gather at the beginning of each class and at the end of the class each day to discuss the work, offer critique, and discuss the next step.
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Pottery | Scratching the Surface with Kent Harris
July 31 – August 2 | three days | Friday – Sunday 10AM – 4PM
$285 for a three day workshop | $50 materias includes glaze and firing
Texas potter Kent Harris returns to the Ah Haa School for a three-day workshop. Don’t miss this jam-packed workshop full of techniques on how to make pots more interesting! Saturday Kent will demonstrate goblets, berry bowls, juicers and other kitchen-ware pots not covered in previous workshops. Students will throw all day making pottery to embellish when leather-hard. Kent will teach multiple ways to apply slips, rope-texture, mark on the clay’s surface and add embellishments to create unique surface decoration.

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Plein Air Pastel Techniques with Greg Barnes
August 7 – 9 | three days | Friday – Sunday 10AM – 3PM
$375 + materials for a three day workshop
This class dives head first into pastel painting and plein air techniques through the experiences of watching (demonstrations by Barnes) and doing (painting on location). Students receive a broad spectrum of art instruction, providing a rich experience for artists of all skill levels. Barnes teaches during the demonstrations by thoroughly explaining every step of his process – from deciding on subject matter and composing the scene to a nearly finished painting. The instruction continues with individual help alongside your easel during every scheduled plein air painting session. Along with the pastel techniques, students are exposed to compositional, value, and color theories that, when applied, will continue to teach well after class completion.

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Past Visiting
Artist Workshops Include:
Capturing the Landscape in Oils
with Jeanne Mackenzie
Landscape Painting: A Breath of Fresh Air
with Randall Sexton
Susan X. Billings | Mixed Media Collage & Watercolor
Harold O'Connor | Metal Casting in Your Home Studio
Harold O'Connor | Metal Surface Embellishments
Harold O'Connor | Metal Arts
Kathleen Norris Cook | In the Field Photography
Dave Edwards | Making a Strong Photograph
Bill Ellzey | Fall Digital Photography
Jeanne Mackenzie | Making the Most of Your Reference Photos
Padgett McFeely | Hand-Painted Photography
David Aguirre | Personal Mythology in Clay
Kent Harris | Ceramics: Breaking the Circle
Kent Harris | Finding Your Groove on the Wheel
Pam Horner | Clay Printing
Truman Lowe | Outdoor Sculpture
Jim Romberg | Paint with Flame: Raku Techniques
David Reif | Drawing from the Irrational
Wendy Kowynia | Luscious Velvets Open Studio
Doug Dawson | Studio Landscape Pastel Painting
Jeanne Mackenzie | Capturing the Landscape in Oils
Barry John Raybould | Painting
in Plein Air
John C. Terelak | Oil Painting & Impressionist Techniques
Keith Wicks | Mood & Color Indoor Oil Painting
Frank Francese | Wet & Wild Watercolor
Barbara Froula | Architecture in Watercolor
Ted Nuttal | Figurative Watercolor Painting from Photographs
Chris Reily | Encaustic Painting
Deborah Bays | Painting the Still Life in Chiaroscuro with Pastel
Bruce Gomez | Pastel Painting: Life of a Winter Landscape
Bruce Gomez | Pastel Painting in the San Juan’s
Bruce Gomez | Life of the Landscape Pastel Painting
Carole Katchen | Express Yourself Pastels
Sally Strand | The Color of Light Pastels
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