North Shore Arts Association
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Fine Art Workshops for Adults
2012 Workshop Schedule is forthcoming, please check again soon.
All fine arts workshops are $75/day for NSAA members and $85/day for non-members. All workshops will meet on site at NSAA from 10:00am to 4:00pm unless otherwise noted.
Please register early to insure yourself a place in any of the workshops. Participants may register and pay online via PayPal by clicking on the 'Add to Cart' buttons below each workshop listing or print out a WORKSHOP REGISTRATION FORM and mail it with a check to:
North Shore Arts Association
11 Pirates Lane
Gloucester, MA 01930
Acknowledgment of your registration will be mailed to you and will include a supply list for each workshop you register for. Cancellations must be made at least five days prior to the start of the workshop to be eligible for a refund. Registrations will not be accepted without full payment. A fee of $25 will be charged for checks returned for insufficient funds.
Laurie Bryce - May 26“One Day Website”
Do you wish you had a website so you could easily showcase your artwork for galleries, exhibitors, and clients? Come to this hands-on workshop and leave the same day with a fully-functioning web site, including a portfolio of your artwork! Creating a website is inexpensive, easy and fun, and you will be able to maintain it yourself going forward. No technical or web skills needed.
Frank Federico - June 8 - 12"5 Days with Federico – Color and Passion”
Award winning artist, Frank Federico, is holding a five-day plein air workshop. Frank considers himself a colorist and a contemporary impressionist. Painting alla prima en plein air with pastels, acrylic and watercolor paints. During this
workshop, Frank will show students how he focuses on the essence of a landscape or figure, while applying emotional and aesthetically crafted content in various media. www.frankfederico.com
Charles Gruppé - June 22 – 24“Landscape & Seascape Painting”
You can complete a new, controlled impressionistic styled painting each day during this 3 day oil and acrylic workshop. Charles Gruppé shares his unique techniques in which he uses a palette knife and brush in a rapid wet-on-wet approach with tonal color. Instruction will be held in studio and outdoors. There is a demonstration of these techniques each day and the instructor provides individual assistance for each student daily.
Charlotte Wharton - June 25 – 29“The Interpretive Portrait:
Capturing More Than Likeness”
Working with live models, paint portraits with soul and emotion. Learn how to easily achieve a likeness and capture the essential “sense” of a portrait subject using the language of artistic energy and the Munsell Color System. Study will include and go beyond the standard elements of design to cover the interpretation of the inherent energy of shape, linear directives, value patterns, color relationships, light and atmosphere, as well as the choice of marks. Additionally, the workshop will cover the anatomy of the head and features; flesh mixtures in warm and cool light; painting in a color family; and taking photo references and working with camera distortions. Instructor lectures, demonstrations, and individual critiques will occur daily. A group critique will follow the workshop. All levels.
Elizabeth Harty - July 1 – 3“Acrylic Mixed Media Workshop”
This class will focus on the exploration of personal vision in a series. Using color, collage, mark making techniques, simplification and abstraction, students will learn to find joy in experimenting; they will expand their artistic perspective and learn new ways of working.
Carolyn Jundzilo - July 9 - 10“Painting the Marshes”
Painting the marshes is a perfect way to further you knowledge of outdoor painting. The marshes are one of the most beautiful places in New England. So you immediately have inspiration, one of the most important components for great landscape painting. The colors, values, atmosphere are right there and easy to understand. One can take the most simplistic or detailed approach. Every participant in the workshop will leave feeling inspired and with a beautiful work of art. This workshop is a four hour day, from 1pm – 5pm. The cost is $55 per day for members, $65 for non-members.
Lynda Goldberg - July 13 – 15“Nature Printing with a Press”
Explore the process of creating monotypes (one-of-a-kind) prints on paper. You will learn general printmaking techniques using an etching press. Incorporating the elements and principles of design we will create prints using natural and man-made objects. We will explore different ways of creating texture and depth on an inked surface using layering, overprinting, and collage. Using the plate you will create and pull: the original print, a “ghosted” print, and a third print utilizing what is left on the plate. The possibilities are endless.
Judy & Lawrence Pumfrey - July 16 – 18“Expressive Paintings –
How to Paint with Feeling”
Loosen up your painting! Gain painting insights from this dynamic duo who will demonstrate their approach on how to observe and interpret subject matter. Learn the skill of oil painting, a process that starts with big shapes, setting the stage for an intuitive interpretation of subject matter and expressing feelings with impact. www.pumfreygallery.com
David Curtis - July 20 – 22 “Impressions of Light” Landscape Oil Painting
The 3-day workshop will include lessons of the day directed toward capturing the impression of natural light. Day 1: Orientation, use of tones, which includes understanding of values, color and intensity of color. Day 2: Composition, taking up understanding the balance of objects found in nature as well as understanding balancing shapes, colors, line, and mass all applied to the creation of rhythm. Day 3: Understanding alla prima (all at once) and direct painting with the loaded brush.
Shelly Eager - Aug 13 – 14“Pushing Color” Pastel Workshop
Shelly Eager’s love of pastel comes from the luminosity and vividness of the colors. Shelly will teach you to push color and put down bold confident marks to help you turn an ordinary photo into an extraordinary painting. You will work in the studio from photos and she will work personally with you one on one at your easel . Shelly will encourage the students to remember the way the scene of your photo felt, the energy of the place and the weather you experienced. She will help you to get that down on paper, because expressing your memory is so much more exciting than merely reproducing your photo. Please bring photos you have taken of everyday life that evoke feelings in you. They can be city scenes, country fairs, restaurant scenes, parties… whatever brings up a memory that you want to get down on paper.
Caleb Stone - Aug 19 – 21“Capturing the Light of Outdoor Painting”
Caleb Stone will teach how to capture the feeling of light and atmosphere in your painting. He will teach how to get proper relationships of good values, color harmony, strong concepts and strong design. Each class will begin with a demonstration. Then Mr. Stone will help students with their paintings and end the day with a group critique to help show how to improve the painting.
Ellen Rolli - Aug 24 – 26“Big Color, Bold Strokes” Acrylic Workshop
Artist Ellen Rolli, featured in an American Artist Workshop Issue for her bold style and "loosening up" teaching techniques, will guide students to interpret subject matter with a brave, expressive and intuitive approach. On the first day Ellen will discuss her process and demo, and students will work in the studio from simple still life subjects. Second day we move outside to work from the surrounding landscape. Third day students may work inside or out. There will be a critique at the end of each session. Students will leave this workshop not only feeling educated but truly inspired! Visit Ellen's website: www.ellenrolli.com
Carole Berren - This Workshop is in process of being rescheduled due to Hurricane Irene. Please contact the gallery for more information.
Phone: 978-283-1857 and ask to speak with Asst. Gallery Director Holly O'Connor.
“Abstract to Representational”
This workshop will explore a unique, abstract and fun approach to creating light patterns. Through negative space painting, students will go deeper into the space of the paper, claiming and organizing light / shape relationships. Abstract shape will be taken into a multi-level representational painting. With this new awareness, students will create a realistic painting using photos or outdoor inspiration to organize, edit and strengthen value relationships to create stronger paintings.
Susan Daly - Sept 9 – 11“The Joy of Monotypes”
Students will savor the “Joy of Monotypes!” in this two-day workshop exploring the use of multi-watermedia and watercolor, water-based speedball printing paint and water soluble oil paint. Learn to use paint brushes and brayers for hand transfer monotypes off plexiglas plates.
Judythe Evans Meagher - Sept 17 – 19 “Watercolor for Beginners and Beyond”
This is an intensive 3-day foundation course for beginners and a refresher for those who have painted for years or not painted for a while. It will include demonstrations, lectures and painting exercises as well as the completion of at least one painting each day. By the end of the course, students will know how to see and record values, how to mix almost any color from six pigments, how to use and preserve the white of the paper, how to paint textures, and how and when to apply the techniques of direct painting, dry brush and wet-in-wet.
John S. Caggiano - Sept 23 – 25"Painting with the Heart and the Head"
The workshop is geared to all levels of artistic ability. It will concentrate on drawing, composition, design, color and value. John will try to grow the inner talent of the students based upon where they are in their artistic development. The day will begin on location with a painting demonstration emphasizing the essential elements of composing a successful painting en plein air. Students will then work on their own paintings. John will help each student successfully meet the challenge of interpreting the chosen subject matter. To emphasize a painting principle, mini demonstrations may occur. Otherwise, as much painting time as possible will be encouraged.
Charles Shurcliff - Sept 30 –Oct 1“Loosely, Quickly, Surely”
How to understand and see the key elements of any scene – not the boats, trees, houses – but the values that are the building blocks and that, in the end, are the key to paintings that are not just pictorial but convey the sense of light, aliveness and feeling.
JC Airoldi - Sept 30 –Oct 2“Capturing the Essence En Plein Air”
Pastel & Oil
With JC Airoldi as your guide, learn to put light and life into your paintings as you strive to capture the essence of autumn on Cape Ann. JC will help you learn how to choose the subject or scene you will paint and how to simplify what you see into a dynamic, well-balanced composition. You will learn to interpret the landscape by editing out extraneous elements from the scene and emphasizing others in order to convey your vision, while enjoying the spontaneity of plein air painting. The basics of drawing, value, design and color by learning to see in terms of mass and form rather than detail and line will be emphasized. The benefits of painting outdoors (and indoors) will be discussed, as well as how to design and build a painting that carries intentional impact. This workshop will be fun, yet challenging - the best way to learn!
