UNC Botanical Garden, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Title: Composition
Dates: Saturdays, February 28, March 7, 14, 21
Time: 1:00 – 4:30 pm
Instructor: Patricia Savage
Student Level: Adult, beginner
Class Size Limit: 15 students
Fee: $125 ($110 for NCBG members)
Every painting or drawing begins with a composition that tells a story. Telling that story successfully requires a visual balancing of parts working together harmoniously. Using pencil, markers, and paper, students learn how to establish a focal point, use black and white values, create interesting positive and negative spaces, and begin to learn how to successfully critique their own work. No pre-requisites. This is a homework-intensive class.
Contact: Call (919) 962-0522, email ncbg@unc.edu, or write North Carolina Botanical Garden, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, CB 3375 Totten Center, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3375. Contact garden for materials list.
UNC BOTANICAL GARDEN, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Title: Color Theory
Dates: Saturdays, March 28, April 4, 18, 25
Time: 1:00 am – 4:30 pm
Instructor: Patricia Savage
Student Level: Adult, beginner
Class Size Limit: 15 students
Fee: $125 ($110 for NCBG members )
Paintings contain relationships between colors and interactions between shapes and color values. Understanding color theory begins with learning the basic terminology of colors and how they are produced by the artist. Students practice basic color mixing and matching and painting transparent layers of watercolor. You will also learn to determine a color’s temperature, its values, and the relationship between saturated and muted color, and to determine a hue’s complement and how complementary colors interact with one another to create vibrant, harmonious paintings. This is a homework-intensive class. No pre-requisites.
Contact: Call (919) 962-0522, email www.ncbg@unc.edu, or write North Carolina Botanical Garden, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, CB 3375 Totten Center, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3375. Contact gardens for materials list.
CLEMSON ART CENTER, Clemson, South Carolina
Title: Painting Flower Portraits in Pastel
Dates: August 1 and 2, Saturday and Sunday
Time: 9:30 – 12:30, 1-5 (total 14 hours of class over two days)
Instructor: Patricia Savage
Student Level: Adult, beginner
Class Size Limit: 15 students
Fee: $189 members, $210 non-members
Pastels are pure ground pigment with a little bit of binder added. They are easy to apply. They can be reworked any time. They can be used on any surface that has some tooth. They can be applied very loosely or tightly with many different variations in texture. When taken care of properly, pastel paintings show no loss or change of color and can last centuries. This workshop will focus on painting flowers in pastel. Through daily demonstrations, short lectures, and individual instruction, using the students own photographs, the instructor will help develop and strengthen skills in composition, color choices, and pastel application. All levels of experience welcome.
Contact: Phone (864) 633-5051, email www.explorearts.org, or write The Arts Center, 212 Butler St., Clemson, SC 29631. Materials list and material fee listed on website.
ELIZABETHAN GARDEN, Manteo, North Carolina
Title: Painting Fall Leaves in Dry Brush Watercolor
Dates: Wednesday and Thursday, May 20 and 21
Time: 9:30 – 12:30, 1-5, (total 14 hours of class over two days)
Instructor: Patricia Savage
Student Level: Adult, beginner
Class Size Limit: 15 students
Fee: $TBA members, $TBA non-members
Watercolor is a wonderfully transparent medium that permits many layers of washes to create luminous and intensely colored paintings. Dry-brush watercolor, combined with controlled washes, allows artists to produce very beautiful and realistically detailed paintings. Students will begin by drawing a simple composition and practice using a controlled wash by painting a simple value study of their fruit or vegetable using a single color. Students will then learn how to mix their pigments to match the color of their subjects. During this process students will be introduced to how to layer their pigments to create transparent paintings. As they become more comfortable with this process they will proceed to begin painting their subject matter.
Layering in dry brush watercolor cannot be described easily but must be experienced by the student. By trial and error and extensive hands-on help by the instructor, the student learns to apply thin layers of pigment keeping the color transparent, not opaque. Dry brush watercolor technique requires patient diligence and time.
Contact: Phone (252) 473-3234, email www.elizabethangardens.org, or write The Elizabethan Gardens, 1411 National Park Dr., Manteo, NC 27954. Materials list and material list fee to be announced.
Painting Flower Portraits in Pastel
Elizabethan Gardens, Manteo, NC
Dates: Tuesday and Wednesday, October 20 and 21
Time: 9:30 – 12:30, 1-5 (total 14 hours of class over two days)
Instructor: Patricia Savage, Professional Artist
Student Level: Adult, beginner
Class Size Limit: 15 students
Fee: $TBA members, $TBA non-members
Pastels are pure ground pigment with a little bit of binder added. They are easy to apply. They can be reworked any time. They can be used on any surface that has some tooth. They can be applied very loosely or tightly with many different variations in texture. When taken care of properly, pastel paintings show no loss or change of color and can last centuries. This workshop will focus on painting flowers in pastel. Through daily demonstrations, short lectures, and individual instruction, using the students’ own photographs, the instructor will help develop and strengthen skills in composition, color choices, and pastel application. All levels of experience welcome.
Contact: Phone (252) 473-3234, email www.elizabethangardens.org, or write The Elizabethan Gardens, 1411 National Park Dr., Manteo, NC 27954. Materials list and material list fee to be announced.
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