Classes & Workshops
Studios on the Park aims to provide excellent arts classes and workshops that serve the Central Coast community and its visitors. At Studios on the Park, you will find classes and workshops for adults and youth offered in a relaxed and friendly arts environment that will inform and challenge the beginning or experienced artist. Our classes represent a range of media and techniques and are taught by skilled practicing artists who help you define and work towards your own artistic goals.
Come to Studios on the Park—let our well–equipped studios, talented and supportive artists, and beautiful parkside setting bring out the artist in you!
Upcoming at studios
The Mechanics of Painting Series
with WB Eckert
Class 5: Wednesday, May 22: 9 am - 3 pm
Class 6: Wednesday, June 19: 9 am - 3 pm
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Class 5 Description: Brush Techniques for Painting*
This fifth class of the series is an overview of some basic brush techniques for painting and it is a hands on class. We will be exploring different approaches to getting the effects that you are looking for. These include soft brush washes, scumbling and dry brush, basic strategies for blending, and short stroke painting. We will also discuss the effects of various types of painting supports in combination with media. The approach used in the class is less of an academic "learning of the rules" and more of a hands on, "try it out," seat of the pants, common sense approach. The small size of the class affords a more one-on-one experience. We will be using acrylics, but the exercises are applicable to any media. All materials needed in the class are included in the $95 fee. This class is ideal for Beginner to Intermediate artists and is limited to 6 students. It is held in the PRAA Showroom located at Studios on the Park. *To see additional class descriptions, please click here.
The Art of the Portrait in Open Air
with William Truman Hosner
One-Day Master Class: Thursday, May 23: 9 am - 4:30 pm
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Format
9 am - Noon: Instructor Demo
Break for Lunch
1:30 pm - 4:30 pm: Student Work Under Instruction
Mr. Hosner teaches in pastel using a methodology of thinking and learning to express the effect of light in nature. The teaching divorces itself from any specific medium. Painting will invariably be reduced down to skill and content, neither ever successfully divorcing itself from its partner if art is to reach its greatest aspirations. It is to say that one cannot observe the creative phenomenon independently of the form in which it is made manifest.
“I propose that we as artists are to bring order out of chaos and to untangle the tangled possibilities that exist when ones thoughts are vague. Integrity of mind leads to integrity in art, and one cannot have a vague set of principles and maintain integrity.”
“I will be calling upon your taste and feeling for order and discipline. My teaching is not about a set of abstracted theorems anymore than it is about my private feelings. Painting is in the making and there is no escaping that. The value of my thoughts has been tested in my own experiences. I will not be offering you a series of opinions. Rather I offer a body of findings that have been developed in actual practice.”
For more about Hosner visit: www.WilliamHosner.com.
All mediums accepted. $150. Click here for the downloadable flyer.
The Art of the Figure in Open Air
with William Truman Hosner
One-Day Master Class: Monday, May 27: 9 am - 4:30 pm
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Format
9 am - Noon: Instructor Demo
Break for Lunch
1:30 pm - 4:30 pm: Student Work Under Instruction
Mr. Hosner teaches in pastel using a methodology of thinking and learning to express the effect of light in nature. The teaching divorces itself from any specific medium. Painting will invariably be reduced down to skill and content, neither ever successfully divorcing itself from its partner if art is to reach its greatest aspirations. It is to say that one cannot observe the creative phenomenon independently of the form in which it is made manifest.
“I propose that we as artists are to bring order out of chaos and to untangle the tangled possibilities that exist when ones thoughts are vague. Integrity of mind leads to integrity in art, and one cannot have a vague set of principles and maintain integrity.”
“I will be calling upon your taste and feeling for order and discipline. My teaching is not about a set of abstracted theorems anymore than it is about my private feelings. Painting is in the making and there is no escaping that. The value of my thoughts has been tested in my own experiences. I will not be offering you a series of opinions. Rather I offer a body of findings that have been developed in actual practice.”
For more about Hosner visit: www.WilliamHosner.com.
All mediums accepted. $150. Click here for the downloadable flyer.
PRAA Getting to Know Acrylics Class
with WB Eckert
Wednesday, May 29: 9 am - 5 pm
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This is a one day class on “Getting to Know Acrylics." Bill’s inimitable teaching style provides students with information, instruction and the hands-on exercises you need to be comfortable using acrylic as a medium. This class is for adult beginner and intermediate painters that want to paint or become acquainted with the medium. With a maximum of 5 spaces available, each attendee will get one-on-one attention. The class consists of instruction on acrylics and how they work, the basic techniques of using acrylics and exercises using those techniques to work on a painting during class time. Instruction is commiserate with student's expertise. The goal is for each attendee to complete one painting during the course of the class. The fee for the one-day class, with all materials provided, is $95.
Space is limited to 5 and must be reserved prior to the Friday before classes start. Credit/Debit Card payment is available as well as Paypal. Class can be reserved and paid for online here, otherwise, please call 805.238.2001 to use your credit card. Gift Certificates may also be purchased.
Repurpose Your Jewelry Class
with Francesca Thorn
Wednesday, May 29: 6 pm - 9 pm
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Francesca Thorn will teach students how to deconstruct old jewelry and reconstruct it as earrings, bracelets, lariats, anklets, necklaces and, in some cases, belts! Learning how to securely start and finish each creation is the focus but the creative aspect is left to each student! Students will need to bring old jewelry that may be remade without soldering. The $75 class fee includes sterling silver findings, stringing materials, tools and selected sterling silver spacer beads. Pierced earring supplies available too! Questions? Call Francesca at 831.601.4922.
Linocut Relief Printing Workshop
with Helen K Davie
Saturday, June 1: 11 am - 5 pm
Sunday, June 9: 11 am - 5 pm
Thursday, June 20: 11 am - 5 pm
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Linocut is an easy-to-learn method for making prints that requires only a small amount of space and just a few tools and materials, so once you've learned the basics you can easily do this at home. Printmaker Helen K Davie teaches teens and adults how to design, cut and print in this fun workshop at Studios on the Park. Come with an idea, sketch or reference photos. All supplies are provided. Enrollment is capped at four students, so sign up today! Class fee is $75.
with Kate Moldauer
4-Part Class: Wednesday, June 5, 12, 19, 26: 12 pm - 3 pm
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Atelier is the French word for “workshop”, where a principle artist and their students worked together to improve their abilities in art through centuries old skill building techniques.
Students will increase their skill levels by drawing and painting from plaster casts and the live model. Discussions will include anatomy as it pertains to the head, shadowing to create form, color palettes and painting techniques. Each student will be assessed and given personal instruction to help them achieve a higher level of understanding.
The Portrait Atelier will be divided by a brief lecture, working from casts or models, either drawing or painting or both, and a brief critique at the end of the day.
Our objective will be to complete several quick two-hour oil sketches and one to two 16x20 oil portraits over the month using a live model as our reference.
Kate was an anatomy instructor for the Academy of Art University in San Francisco and is a Studios on the Park Artist-In-Residence. Her fascination for all things figurative is represented in her drawings, paintings and sculpture.
This Atelier meets in Kate's studio in Studios on the Park. Enrollment is limited to five students and the cost is $150. Sign-up must be done prior to the first class, no drop-ins. A complete materials list detailing the types of oil paints and basic drawing materials needed is provided after sign-up.
iPad Drawing & Painting Workshop
with Roger Lee
Saturday, June 8: 10 am - 5 pm
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Apple's iPad has created an opportunity to create digital art using a sophisticated direct pen-on-screen drawing and painting technique. With your iPad and a conductive drawing stylus you have the equivalent of a state of the art Wacom drawing tablet system. The ArtStudio iPad app has the capability to create fine art drawings and paintings. This workshop will introduce ArtStudios basic tools and techniques to create a variety of drawing styles. The class will be structured for advanced artists as well as the beginning student. $200.
Laptop Workshop
with Roger Lee
Saturday, June 22: 10 am - 5 pm
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The Adobe Photoshop application gives the digital artist a tool to manipulate a variety of visual source material. The digital artist can manipulate photo images, scanned textures and found objects, repurpose original paintings and drawings, paint and draw with unique digital brushes. The application allows the digital artist to scale, change opacity, arrange composition, change color, blend different image layers, erase, save multiple stages of a art piece. The workshop will introduce some of the techniques used to create the digital artwork exhibited in the Art of the Digital Environment show in the Studios on the Park gallery.
The class will be structured for artists that have a basic understanding of Photoshop and would like to go a little further with some intermediate techniques used by the digital artist. $200.
PRAA Acrylic Workshop
with Christopher Schink
Friday, July 26 - Sunday, July 28
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Mr. Schink is an internationally known painter, author and instructor. He holds a B.A. degree in Fine Arts from Stanford University and has studied privately with Rex Brandt, Edward Betts, and Barse Miller. Schink is an elected member of the National Watercolor Society and an Honorary Member of the Federation of Canadian Artists.
Mr. Schink's paintings have been included in numerous national and international exhibitions including Watercolor USA, The National Watercolor Society Annuals, and Watercolor West. He has exhibited at one- and two-man shows at The Asheville, NC Museum, The Columbia, SC Museum, and The Jackson, MS Municipal Art Gallery. His paintings are in many private and corporate collections.
Mr. Schink has conducted workshops in 45 states in the U.S. as well as classes in Canada, Mexico, Australia, and Europe. He has served as juror for over 40 state, regional, national, and international exhibitions.
He is the author of several popular books and the co-editor of the quarterly publication The Palette Magazine. His work has been featured in many books and magazines including The American Artist, The Artists' Magazine, and International Artist.
This class will focus more on concepts and content, than technique. Students should bring the acrylic pigments they normally use along with any mixed media supplies and their own resource material to work from.
The workshop is presented by the International Society of Acrylic Painters at The Showroom gallery. Fee: $300/ISAP members, $325/non-members. Maximum enrollment: 16 students.
Alternative Printing Workshop
with Roger Lee
Saturday, August 3: 10 am - 5 pm
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The developments in inks and pre-coat emulsions have made an opportunity possible for artists to apply their images on a variety of non-traditional materials. Through the use of digital computers, high performance printers, and pre-coat emulsions, artists can express themselves on a variety of materials. Digital artists are using aluminum, steel, wood, silk fabric, plastic to enhance their artistic expressions. The workshop will focus on a variety of transfer techniques using DASS transfer film and DASS SuperSauce Concentrate on Arches and stone paper. $200 plus $25 materials fee.
Explorations in Oil
with Anne Laddon
Thursdays: 9 am - 12 pm
Session 2: TBD
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With an emphasis on color and design Anne Laddon guides students through four 3-hour classes focusing on a particular subject. Each student is encouraged to paint a variety of sizes, experiment with various colors, weekly critique. The goal of each session is to find your style and individual “voice.” Four paintings up to 16” x 20” and one larger canvas will be produced in each 4-week session. Intermediate level. $150 per session. Limited to 10 students.
Session 2: The North County Landscape - Vineyards & Ranches
This session emphasizes color and design as students simplify landscape forms to create strong personal statements. Plein air locations when weather permits.
Session 3: Farmers Market
This session emphasizes color and design with different fruit and vegetable still life set-ups each class. This give students an opportunity to work on color mixing and unity of brushwork. Anne teaches how to use colors and values to create a dynamic still life painting.
Session 4: Critters
This session explores techniques to portray the personality of dogs, cats, sheep, and cattle. This is not a "Pet Portrait" class. Students focus on good strong design and unusual color, rather than copying photographs, which are used for inspiration only.
Session 5: Portraits
This session focuses on use of anatomy and color to create portraits. Students paint family and friends from photographs with emphasis on capturing each unique personality and story. Much time is given to studying anatomy and various palette selections.
Session 6: The Figure in a Setting
This session emphasizes use of anatomy and design to create successful paintings of the figure in a setting. Subjects include groups, dining, musicians, and the beach.
ONGOING
PRAA Anatomy for Artists Drop-In Class
with Kate Moldauer
First Mondays: June 3, July 1: noon - 1 pm
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This anatomy class covers the fundamentals of life drawing, proportions, anatomical landmarks and the skeletal system. This class is intended for artists that want to understand anatomy as it pertains to life drawing. This is class is a great warm-up for the PRAA Life Drawing Guild, which meets the first and third Mondays of each month from 1 pm to 4 pm.
Kate Moldauer is a figurative artist who studied and taught at the Academy of Art in San Francisco. Kate taught Beginning and Intermediate Anatomy for Artists and she continues to consider life drawing and anatomy her artistic passion. $13 per class. Model fee not included.
