FRESH PAINT: Free Lecture and Demo of New Golden Acrylic Paints, Gels and Digital Grounds
This Lecture will explore a multitude of new surfaces for painting and collage. We will deal with Golden’s Glass Bead Gel, Translucent Molding Pastes, Fiber Paste (paper in a jar), Crackle Paste, and more... We will cover mixed media application and layering effects for drawing and painting. This will include using unique metallic paints, stencils and more.
We'll cover the new digital grounds that allow transferring your digital images onto a multitude of flat surfaces: non-porous papers, acetate, acrylic skins, even aluminum foil. We will also cover some of the technical challenges of working with inkjet printers and explore ideas for incorporating these digital images in paintings and works on paper.
The rest of the lecture will be an introduction to the New Golden OPEN Acrylics and their use. These paints have an extended working time that can give painters much more control of blending and overall manipulation to achieve wonderful controlled effects. They can be used alone or in combination with existing Heavy Body, Fluid Acrylics, their mediums, gels and additives.
These options give painters a truly comprehensive system of Paints.
A packet of literature and free samples of paints and gels will be available for all those who attend this Free gathering on March 13th from 11am-1pm at Sam Flax Atlanta.
About the Teacher
Phil Garrett studied at the San Francisco Art Institute. His prints and paintings are in public and private collections in the USA, Europe and Japan. In 2005 and 2006, sponsored by Golden Acrylic, he lectured and taught Acrylic Painting in Art Schools in the Japanese cities of Osaka, Tokyo, Nagoya and Kyoto.
Statement My work is informed by nature, a kind of mythical nature. Painting and making monotypes is my search for the mystery within the subject, within me.
---Phillip M. Garrett, 2008
Space is limited so register now for this demo!
Call 404.352.7200 and ask for our fine arts department, or email them HERE!
National Geographic Faces
Learn basic techniques for drawing and painting an image using a photograph as a reference. This workshop is for beginners and will walk students step by step through the process of drawing a grid for transfer, portrait techniques, and finally painting a face using acrylics. We will be referencing a photo from a beautiful diverse culture group such as those portrayed in National Geographic magazine. I will provide images to choose from, or bring a favorite National Geographic portrait of your own to paint.
When: Saturday, March 20th 1:00pm – 5:00pm Where: Sam Flax Atlanta Instructor: Lynn Luster
Materials:
• Set of acrylic paint, such as Liquitex Basics Acrylic Set of 6
• Soft brushes in assorted sizes for Acrylic paint, such as Loew Cornell pack of 12 brown nylon brushes (inexpensive multi-brush pack is best)
• 8” x 10” canvas or canvas board, such as Art Alternatives stretched canvas
Do you love Georgia O’Keefe’s larger than life abstract flower paintings? Learn to use oil pastel to create your own huge flower to match your home décor. You will learn how to mix color, create a rich surface on your drawing, and build up layers to add visual depth. Oil pastels are a great medium for those who may be intimidated by paint, but who love it’s rich color. We will be working from a photograph of a flower, blowing it up to 18” x 24”. You will learn how to use a grid to enlarge the image, and then fill it in with pastel, using blending techniques and rich texture to make a gorgeous bold drawing you will be proud of. Bring a couple of different color pictures of flowers that you like (very close up- the larger the picture, the easier to see detail) or for a real challenge, bring in a live flower to study up close.
When: Saturday, March 27th 1:00pm – 5:00pm Where: Sam Flax Atlanta Instructor: Lynn Luster
Materials:
• 2 pieces 18” x 24” drawing paper good for use with oil pastel (ask a Sam Flax associate if you aren’t sure- sometimes it is more economical to buy a pad of drawing paper rather than single sheet, if you plan to do more drawing later)
• 25 color pack of oil pastels, such as Cray Pas Expressionist or higher quality
Are you fascinated with how beautiful calligraphy looks and want to try it yourself? This is an introductory look at Copperplate, an elegant and elastic hand frequently used for formal invitations, documents and bridal events. After we learn each upper and lower case character, we will spend the last two classes learning layout techniques for envelope addressing, a bit of flourishing and color experimentation. Calligraphy is less about pretty handwriting, but more about DRAWING each and every letter. Its about establishing a pace and rhythmic motion as you write - giving you a consistency of shapes, letters, and spaces in between words and lines. It is highly relaxing and meditative. Like yoga for your hands!
When: Mondays, April 19th- May 24th, 5:30pm – 7:30pm Where: Sam Flax Atlanta Instructor: Anne Elser *This class meets once a week for 6 weeks*
Anne Dusenberry Elser grew up here in Atlanta and earned her BFA from the Cleveland Institute of Art in 1991 with a major in painting and a minor in ceramics. She then studied Graphic Design at The Portfolio Center in Buckhead, where she has been teaching design classes for over 10 years. Anne freelances as a graphic designer and illustrator and as a calligrapher. She is also an instructor in these fields. Her award-winning work has been featured in design annuals, books and magazines (Print, CMYK, Graphis and Communication Arts, Minimal Graphics, Then Is Now) and can be seen in several book jackets (Memory Of A Large Christmas, Storyville USA, Trickster Lives, Let Them Eat Data.) Anne’s experience as a fine artist, a designer in advertising, and as an educator for both children and adults, gives her classes a fun, friendly environment in which to grow and get to know others through self fulfillment and group therapy. Her bookmaking classes appeal to everyone from the casual crafter looking to make their next journal for a friend or family member, to the fine artist interested in binding their own sketches into a book or creating thier own sketchbooks that open flat (ideal for sketching), to the designer looking to build their next portfolio. She has two cats named Gunther and Olaf, a little boy named Anton (who is amazing) and a husband named Doug (who is also amazing.) Anne loves baking anything that isn’t good for you, painting, playing the piano, knitting, blogging, gardening and chocolate. She also can’t wait to meet you.
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