October 23-27, 2019
at the Ridgecrest Conference Center
in Black Mountain, North Carolina
at the Ridgecrest Conference Center
in Black Mountain, North Carolina
Friday Workshops
Workshops are listed below. Additional material fees may apply.
Fluid Acrylic Pours with Intentionality
Timeframe: Friday, 9-4pm Facilitator: Sandra Lett Skill Level: All levels welcome You will learn how to do beautiful, abstract, acrylic, fluid art from mixing to pouring on the canvas. I like to take it a step further and allow the Spirit to create with intention, something more beautiful than I could have envisioned. We will work on a few canvases and embellish them as we go. Wet on wet, and some art on a pour background. |
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Confidence in Plein Air Painting
Timeframe: Friday & Saturday. 9-4pm Facilitator: Robin Popp Skill Level: intermediate This class is designed to equip the students with knowledge needed of how to approach the daunting task of painting on location. I will be working in oils and the techniques we will be discussing will be geared toward oils, but students may bring whatever medium they wish to work in. The class will focus on how to create depth, how to narrow down the subject matter for a good composition, how to set up outside with ease, and how to streamline your pallet for maximum mixing capabilities. We will be working outside on the grounds of Ridgecrest Conference Center, and in the town of Black Mountain. This class is for intermediate skill level painters. We will be working with a limited pallet, I will demonstrate on site, then students will work independently with assistance. There will be time to discuss work completed each day. Additional Materials Fee: $30 |
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Creating in the Spirit with Acrylics & Collage
Timeframe: Friday, 9-4pm Facilitator: Aeron Brown Skill Level: All Levels Welcome We will paint trees on a landscape, and learn practical skills while developing our unique creative voice by the leading of the spirit through the heart of Father God. We will worship together, pray together, and create together. We will ask God to speak over us as Aeron gives some practical tools to help you connect with the heart of the Father. We will be using acrylics and collage mediums. We will go on a journey of how to hear God through choosing different collage scraps. And how to paint with our hand in the hand of God. |
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Mixed Media Ink
Timeframe: Friday. 9-4pm Facilitator: Elli & Dimitra Milan Skill Level: Intermediate You will learn how to draw, create with fluid inks and non toxic indoor spray paint, and then render form and finish with acrylics. We will provide the sources |
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Dynamic Expressions in Watercolor
Timeframe: Friday, 9-4pm Facilitator: Jill Williams Skill Level: All Levels Welcome This Watercolor workshop is designed for students of all levels to utilize fundamental techniques in value and color to produce rich and dramatic landscapes and still life. Students will learn how to approach paintings with confidence and map out strategies to achieve desirable effects in watercolor. We will also explore the creative process and common hindrances to our development as artists and how to combat them. |
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Etsy Shop Makeover: How to Optimize Your Etsy Shop for Exposure & Sales
Timeframe: Friday, 9-4pm Facilitator: Shelley Hitz Skill Level: All Levels Welcome Do you have an Etsy shop, but you're not getting as much exposure or sales as you would like? Or maybe you set up an Etsy shop, but you're really only selling to your friends and family. I have a confession to make. When I first set up my Etsy shop, I did the bare minimum. It was two years after I first set up my Etsy shop before I realized the opportunities available to reach new customers by simply making a few tweaks to my listings. Once I got serious about selling my art from my Etsy shop, I decided to dive in and learn everything I could about Etsy SEO, optimizing my listings and more. I even found a free tool that helps you choose your tags and keywords and will walk you through each step you can take to improve your listings. Let's be honest. Fixing your SEO is one of the quickest ways to get the attention your Etsy shop deserves. And I'm going to share everything I know with you in this course. Not only that, but I'm also going to share marketing techniques and strategies you can use from within Etsy for even more sales. Initially, I set up my Etsy shop to sell to my own followers, but now I am also selling my products to people I've never met who are searching for what I offer on Etsy. I love seeing artists sell their work and I'm excited to empower you to reach more people with the beautiful art you create in this course. So if you're ready to give your Etsy shop a makeover and reach more people with your products, I encourage you to join us. In This Workshop, You Will Learn: - Etsy tips and tricks to help your listings rise to the top of search. - Tips for branding your Etsy shop. - The FREE online tool I use for Etsy keyword research and to optimize my listings. - How to use tags and keywords correctly. - A step-by-step keyword strategy to help you choose the best tags for your products. - Two ways to create photos that sell. - The simple change I made that allowed me to pay less and earn more through Etsy's promoted listings. - How to establish a successful Etsy shop by providing amazing customer service (plus, download the exact messages I send that have my customers raving about my products). - One strategy you can use to encourage your customers to post reviews (and one way to avoid bad reviews). - And more! I first started an online business in 2004 and have been a full-time entrepreneur since 2011. I have applied all my previous knowledge and skills to my art business and now I'm sharing it all with you! |
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Creating Color Stories: Color as Testimony
Timeframe: Friday, 9-4pm Facilitator: Kate Green Skill Level: All Levels Welcome We will be exploring the immense potential of abstract art to communicate what we know and love about God, to those who know him already and to those who don't. Color has a language all of it's own and can be a powerful tool in revealing things of heaven, and telling our story. I'll be sharing with you my own creative process. The initial planning and dialogue with God, the color palettes and composition, my techniques, layering and the tools I use. You'll grow in your confidence to collaborate with the Holy Spirit, and I'll teach you how to use abstract art to communicate your own story and sing your own color songs. This will be a very practical, hands on session, suitable for anyone. |
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Painting with Freedom
Timeframe: Friday, 9-4pm Facilitator: Amy Smith Skill Level: All Levels Welcome Painting with freedom is all about letting go of whatever hinders us on our art journey. Students will learn to let go of expectations, break through creative blocks and cast off the lies that hinder them from being able to listen and respond to the Holy Spirit in their creative process. We will learn a vocabulary of mark making, color, layering and pattern to create expressive spirit-led abstract work. This class is fun and free and powerful. It is good for beginners or established artists. It is great for artists who want to pursue abstraction or those who want to paint more traditionally but loosen up and find freedom in the process. Additional Materials Fee: $5 |
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Wholeness in the Sozo Creative Process
Timeframe: Friday, 9-4pm Facilitator: Lonnie & Margie Johnson Skill Level: All Levels Welcome Creativity is a process that Papa God loves to use in a way that reveals His loving healing and transformation. "Sozo" is a Greek word that means to make well, whole, restore, or rescue. This one day intensive class will be an opportunity to actively engage Holy Spirit and allow Him to bring a fresh perspective regarding your value, purpose, dreams and the journey itself. We'll be painting (or drawing) in order to allow that visual creative expression to become a part of the conversation with God and a reminder of the amazing things that He will reveal to you through this time. If you have a hunger to experience co-creative partnership with Holy Spirit, as well to see how He wants to bring freedom, wholeness, healing, and full life, then this will be a great class that will change the way you look at your creative process forever! Additional Materials Fee: $20 |
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Go Big or Go Home: Action abstraction
Timeframe: Friday, 9-4pm Facilitator: Pat Butynski Skill Level: All Levels Welcome There’s greatness in you! The underpinnings of all great paintings are the elements of design. Those are the foundations that will support, restore and unify God's destiny for your art. When God created the earth, He prepared it for us, by laying a healthy foundation conducive to all kinds of life-giving beautiful forms. All their moves were big! Think of Joseph, and now David. Without knowing it, God had been preparing them for their destiny by the most daunting and sometimes, mundane trials of their lives. You and I are God's masterpiece. We will work large in this workshop, in essence, slaying the proverbial giants without hesitation! By using large brushes, a lot of acrylic paint, a series of rapid gestural addition and subtraction exercises— as well as a limited pallet (our sling and our stone), we will slay our Goliath(s). This workshop is a love fest, and as such a no fear zone. “But, you’re too much of this and not enough of that?” Well, I’m a 63-year-old, dizzy, weak and battle-scarred bride of Christ, and I’m confident that we can tear it up in the name of Jesus! Why? Because He said we’re more than conquerors “MORE THAN” and I’m childish enough to believe it. Are you? Yes? No? At the end of our bloody mess comes FREEDOM, rejoicing and a breakthrough critique! |
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Wire Tree Sculpting
Timeframe: Friday, 9-4pm Facilitators: Linette Penney-Gainham Skill Level: All Levels Welcome In this workshop Linette will show you how to construct beautiful wire trees using various colours and gauges of wire. Once the structure is complete you will then be able to adorn your creations with beads, bells, flowers, buttons or whatever you choose. As you work on your tree, Linette will lead you through some contemplations on our uniqueness, natures wonder and what God is saying to you specifically through your tree. You will find yourself settling into a truly peaceful state of mind in Father's presence as you create your bespoke sculpture. Cost for this workshop pack is an additional $30 and will include the following: Wire cutters, Pliers, 10m gauge soft wire, 5m gauge heavy wire, Coloured Wires, Beads, Sequins, Buttons, Bells & Various other embellishments. |
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Color Mixing & Praying in Color Timeframe: Friday, 9-4pm Facilitator: Diane McFerrin Skill Level: All Levels Welcome Paint with more confidence as you learn to mix color. A chance to practice the skill of seeing new colors as your make a color chart. You will choose the color chart you want to create using my 12 chart samples. Then using the paint colors suggested, you will work step by step to mix each paint into five values. Finally, you will create a 12x12 painting using your color chart to begin your prayerful process. After years of finding myself stuck in the same palette these color charts set me free to see hundreds more. Additional Materials Fee: $50 Paint fee If you choose to use my paint. |
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Becoming the Artistic Person You Were Meant to Be
Timeframe: Friday, 9-4pm Facilitator: Jim & Pat Banks Skill Level: All Levels Welcome Discovering and resolving the issues that prevent you from progressing as an artist, receiving fulfillment from your activities, and removing the roadblocks that prevent you from becoming all that you were meant to be as a believer, spouse, son/daughter. father/mother, friend and artist. Additional Materials Fee: $40 |
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Monoprinting with the Gel Printing Plate
Timeframe: Friday, 9-4pm Facilitator: Mary Martin Skill Level: All Levels Welcome Learn how to paint beautiful papers with monoprinting techniques and the Gel Printing plate. Using stencils, stamps, combs, bubble wrap, feathers, lace, leaves, other textural elements and fluid acrylic paints you will paint papers for suitable for collage and mixed media art, origami, journal making and note cards. After learning the printing techniques, you will use your printed papers to create collage note cards and a personal peace journal adorned with an origami peace dove. This is a fun and addictive process. Be ready to PLAY!!! Additional Materials Fee: $25 |
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Writing Your Story
Timeframe: Friday, 9-4pm Facilitator: Theresa Harvard Johnson Skill Level: All Levels Welcome One of the most difficult aspects of writing your story is getting started – especially if you are writing about your healing journey. But once the storytelling begins, the writer can wrestle with other challenges like determining how to treat family secrets, deciding whether to use a pen name, determining how realistic the story should be or how much to include. These questions will be answered as participants dig into the writing process using several innovative writing techniques to move their stories forward by the leading of Holy Spirit. They will gain specific guidance and practical insight on how to tell their stories and treat difficult topics while learning to put together a well-written story. No writing experience is needed. There's only one requirement: A desire to write your story of triumph. The workshop will rely heavily on writing prompts, activating the presence of the Lord and group discussion to move the writer forward. |
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