Friday Workshops
Acrylic & Mixed Media Painting in The Holy Spirit [SOLD OUT]
Time Frame: Friday, 9-5 pm Facilitator: Aeron & Tracy Brown Skill Level: All Levels Welcome Painting abstractions and from real life using a reference, learning to blend those techniques together to engage with Holy Spirit and walk into life changing encounters with God. Learn to play again, and gain practical skills to add to your creative journey to create one of a kind symbolic and intuitive works of art. Learn to use , acrylic paint, pastels, palette knives, brushes, drips, scribbles and graffiti to convey emotion and story in your artwork. |
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Creating Mystery in Mixed Media Layers
[SOLD OUT] Time Frame: Friday, 9-5 pm Facilitator: Amy Smith Skill Level: All levels welcome Luke 7:16 (The Message) They all realized that they were in a place of holy mystery, that God was at work among them. Mystery in artwork captures the imagination of the viewer and draws them in making them want to dig deeper and know more. Amy will work with students to help them partner with the Holy Spirit to create layers of vibrant translucent color and pattern with acrylic paints and collage materials to convey that mystery in abstract compositions. We will work on multiple small pieces in order to complete as many as possible in our time together and also to make the work easier to travel home with. Additional Materials Fee: $7 |
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The Beauty of the Landscape in Oil
Time Frame: Friday, 9-5 pm Facilitator: Robin Popp Skill Level: All Levels Welcome Join Robin as she guides you into, not only the safest handling of oil paints, but also step by step into the understanding of composition, atmosphere, value, and skilled brushwork. Get a solid painting built and know why it works! In this class, we will be working on painting a landscape from photos. Robin will explain how to show depth and guide your viewer into the scene, as well as how to mix all those GREENS! All levels welcome. Don't worry, Robin has a fool-proof way to get wet paintings home. Additional Materials Fee: $20 |
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Drawing - A Solid Foundation
[SOLD OUT] Time Frame: Friday, 9-5 pm Facilitator: Christine Raymond Skill Level: All Levels Welcome Using drawing fundamentals, you will gain a greater understanding of how to begin a piece, and ways to create 3D depth in your artwork. We will work in graphite to create a level playing field for all skill levels, genres, and mediums. Students will learn:
These drawing concepts will apply to all mediums and genres. |
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Personalized Jewelry through Stamping
Time Frame: Friday, 9-5 pm Facilitator: Frances Syverson Skill Level: Beginner In this workshop you will learn how to stamp on metals (lots of practice), stamping on a ring blank, blackening letters, and polishing jewelry. You will also learn where I purchase stamps, mandrels, ring blanks, etc. You will leave this workshop with two pieces of sterling silver jewelry personalized by you! Additional Materials Fee: $25 |
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Calm Your Heart & Accelerate Your Creativity
Time Frame: Friday 9-5 pm Facilitator: Allen Arnold Skill Level: All levels welcome Being successful in your creativity was never meant to leave you exhausted. It's supposed to bring life to you, as the artist, and to those who experience your offerings. But we've come to believe the lie that time is short and we're behind. So we search for the magic formula for success as we burn the candle at both ends—cranking out projects that we no longer are passionate about, comparing ourselves to others, and growing weary of non-stop self-promotion. But it isn't sustainable. We burn bright...only to burn out. We don't need you exhausted. We need you present, rested, and creative. That's how art with an eternal spark is born. Creativity coach, story veteran, and acclaimed author Allen Arnold reveals a better way to step fully into your calling. He's helped thousands in his roles as a Fiction publisher, marketing executive, creativity coach, and keynote speaker. Along the way, he's discovered a counter-intuitive approach to increase creativity and reduce stress. In this workshop, he'll show how to:
So stay calm...and accelerate your creativity! |
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Dramatic Watercolor Abstracts
[SOLD OUT] Time Frame: Friday, 9-5 pm Facilitator: Jill Williams Skill Level: All Levels Welcome Welcome to Dramatic Watercolor Abstracts! I’m Jill Williams, watercolor landscape artist, full-time traveler, and nature enthusiast. I’ve blended the best of my instruction on watercolor, abstraction, personal expression, and experimental techniques into one workshop that enables you to create inspiring and emotive watercolor abstracts that explore nature and landscape themes with subjective color and visual textures. About the Workshop:
Hands-on Exploration Leads to Your Transformation:
Who Can Benefit Most From This Workshop?
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Painting Plein Air with Ease
Time Frame: Friday, 9-5 pm Facilitator: Gabriel Stockton Skill Level: All Levels Welcome The course will touch on drawing for watercolor, value scale, color & brush work. We will focus on managing the time it takes to paint, finding subjects and composition. Receive a critique on your work. |
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Free Style Fabric Art Portraits
Time Frame: Friday 9-5 pm Facilitator: Julie Bagamary Skill Level: Intermediate Have a ton of fun while exploring color, contrast, design and face proportions in fabric as you create one or two unique 8 inch x 10 inch Fabric Art Portraits. Give your character blue hair, a wild hat, a crazy nose or whatever fun element you like. It's your time to play while learning basic collage and machine quilting techniques to add to your skill set that will transfer to other future art projects even in additional mediums. Additional Materials Fee: $10 |
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Creating Beautiful Resin Bowl & Coasters with Ease
Time Frame: Friday, 9-5 pm Facilitator: Sandra Lett Skill Level: Beginner I will teach everything you need to know about resin including safety, the nuances of the resin and how to manipulate it to whatever you imagine it to be (with an open mind!) Additional Material Fee: $20 |
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Worship in Color [SOLD OUT]
Time Frame: Friday, 9-5 pm Facilitator: Sandy Hall Skill Level: All Levels Welcome Looking to fan the flames of intimacy with God and having that translate to an increased flow of freedom and creativity through you? Then please join me in this workshop. I will teach a very simple Biblical meditation model that will enrich your devotion time and aid in your creative process. You will make a prayer journal to take home. You will spend time enriching your conversation and communion with God, joyfully expressing worship with paint on a canvas, and receiving fresh activation and impartation. You will walk away with renewal, a 'Worship in Color' prophetic canvas painted by you in the class, and a plethora of encouragement for your soul and spirit. Additional Material Fee: $10 |
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Studio Tour to Penland School
Time Frame: Friday, 9-5 pm Facilitator: Sherry Masters Skill Level: All Levels Welcome The historic Penland School community has hundreds of professional artists living and creating in a 2-county vicinity about an hour drive from Ridgecrest. We’ll go there with appointments to see 3-4 amazing private studios, as well as Penland Gallery, the Resident Barn studios, and a drive through the campus. I’ll work to secure our itinerary to include glass art, mixed media, sculpture, and book arts (can vary with availability). Come with me to explore this community filled with an abundance of creativity and skill! |
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Capturing a Moment: An Illuminated Journal [SOLD OUT]
Time Frame: Friday, 9-5 pm Facilitator: Bryn Gillette Skill Level: All Levels Welcome Do you ever find yourself overcome with emotion at a sunrise, a vista, sermon, family gathering, vacation... and long to find poetic and meaningful ways to capture the moment? This workshop will stir up those emotions and give practical ways to poetically write and draw/paint the experiences of our lives in an illuminated journal. Using pen and watercolor, instructor Bryn Gillette will share simple and beautiful ways to quickly capture the essence of moments visually, while designing pages that beautifully merge words and images together. Weaving together examples and stories from Bryn's own extensive travels across Europe, Haiti, and the American national parks, the class will aim to sway between meditation, wonder, and artistic response. With good weather the class will be outside exploring and applying the skills to the mountaintop vistas of Ridgecrest Conference center, and in "interior moments", images of natural beauty (and personal images) will catalyze activity. "My prayer is that this process uncorks a passion and talent to document the sacred moments of life, enabling us to treasure them for a lifetime and share them powerfully with others." |
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Have Fun Playing with Stained Glass
[SOLD OUT] Time Frame: Friday, 9-5 pm Facilitators: Tammy O'Connor Skill Level: All Levels Welcome Join me in nurturing your God-given creativity in using cut and colored glass to make a unique stained glass panel. You will choose from varied sizes and colors of precut glass to design and assemble your expression of art contained inside a 12” diameter steel ring. You will be taught to foil and solder your creation together into a solidly constructed hanging piece. Come and:
Join me and others as we have fun playing with glass! Additional Materials Fee: $50 |
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