Offered by the Artists Council of the Palm Springs Art Museum
Classes take place in the Artists Council Sidonia Milano Center on the museum's lower level, except where noted for plein-air classes.
Workshops are geared to all adult levels of experience, except where noted.
FEES FOR MATERIALS
Materials fees where noted are payable at the first class session.
For further information about class content, please contact the Artists Council Coordinator at 760.322.4850 or email .
REGISTRATION
The workshop fee is required with your class reservation and can be paid by check or by credit card. Due to our small class sizes,
we recommend that you register as early as possible, as classes do fill quickly. For all class registrations, please contact the Palm Springs Art Museum Box Office at 760.325.4490
CANCELLATION POLICY
If cancellation is received more than two weeks before the workshop's first day, payment will be refunded, less $50.00.
If cancellation is within two weeks of the start date, refund of fees less $50 will only be made if the cancelled space is taken by another student. There are no pro-rated refunds for partial workshop attendance.
ARTISTS COUNCIL MEMBERSHIP
Substantial savings on workshop fees are enjoyed by Artists Council members. Artists may become AC
members by joining the Palm Springs Art Museum, applying for AC membership and paying required dues. Member benefits include:
Discounted fees for AC Workshops
Opportunity to submit original artwork to the annual Artists Council Members Juried Exhibition and Auction
Priority announcements of upcoming museum events
Member events, such as demonstrations and lectures
Sponsorship of Artists in Action demonstrations in the museum.
Memberships are available at several levels. The Artists Council Coordinator can answer any questions. Please call 760.322.4850 or email . Workshops are sponsored in part by a grant from the James Irvine Foundation.
Life Drawing Workshops
2008-2009 Season
The 2008-09 season features a vast increase in the number of Life Drawing workshops. These workshops are non-instructional and are meant to provide an opportunity for artists at any level, working in any medium, to have access to a live, undraped model in a casual and creative atmosphere. Workshop facilitator Ron Meyers will be available to help with set-up and to organize the schedule of poses. Class fee for Artists Council members is $20. Nonmembers pay $30. All workshops are on Saturdays, from 10:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. on these dates.
December 6, 13, 20
January 3, 10, 24, 31
February 7
March 7, 14, 21
April 11, 18, 25
May 2, 16, 30
June 6, 13, 27
July 11, 18, 25
August 8, 15, 29
September 12, 19, 26
Creative Painting in Watercolor, Acrylic and Oil
Monday - Friday, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Instructor: Kwok Wai Lau Media: Watercolor, acrylic, or oil Fee: $400 AC members, $500 nonmembers
Due to popular demand, this workshop is now offered once a month. The workshop emphasizes individual guidance on composition, technique and concept development. Whether your work focuses on realism, impressionism or abstract painting, Mr. Lau will propel you to new insights and accomplishments. The class is conducted in a studio setting. Please bring your current "work in progress." Workshops for the 2008-2009 season will take place:
December 8-12
January 26-30
February 9-13
March 2-6
April 13-17
May 11-15
Landscape Painting, Design and Content
Monday - Friday, January 5-9
9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Instructor: Gerald Brommer Media: Watercolor Fee: $500 AC members, $600 nonmembers
This innovative workshop emphasizes content, how to put meaning into your painting and express yourself in your work. How are the core concepts of color, mood, harmony and subject placement best expressed through the artist's personal feelings? What do you want to say, to share? Why are you painting in the first place? The goal of this workshop is to help you achieve freedom of expression and to enable you to edit resource materials that help you in that expression.
Seeing Light as a Painter
Monday - Friday, January 12-16
9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Instructor: Betty Carr Media: Watercolor, acrylic or oil Fee: $500 AC members, $600 nonmembers
Whatever your chosen medium, and whether your style is realistic or abstract, the use of light in composition is of critical importance. Our workshop covers how to examine colors, values and the temperatures of light and shadow. You will examine how to organize masses of darks and lights, how to gauge values and color relationships and how to work from field sketches and photographs, as we see and interpret light with paint.
Sketching and Painting with Pastels for Everyone
Monday - Friday, February 2-6
9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Instructor: Margaret Evans Media: Pastels, other media welcome Fee: $500 AC members, $600 nonmembers
This workshop will show you all the formats of pastel drawing and painting, from messy 3-dimensional hands-on application, to simple, clean and tidy pastel pencils for the more constrained. Wet and dry techniques, mixing with different media, and paper types and colors will all be discussed. Outdoor sketching will be supplemented indoor studio sessions, using the photos taken outdoors.
Photoshop Demystified: The Basics
Tuesday and Wednesday, February 17-18
9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Instructor: Mark Stephenson Media: Adobe Photoshop Fee: $200 AC members, $300 nonmembers
Conquer techno-angst and start realizing the creative potential of this powerful art-making program in this easy-to-follow and inspirational workshop. Learn how Adobe Photoshop works, what its tools are for and how they can help you achieve your artistic vision via illustrated lecture and real-time demonstrations. Students are required to bring computers loaded with PhotoShop 6.0 or later. Digital image files to work with, on the hard drive or on cd, are recommended.
Photoshop Deep Technique: Layers & Masks
Thursday and Friday, February 19-20
9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Instructor: Mark Stephenson Media: Adobe Photoshop Fee: $200 AC members, $300 nonmembers
Learn to master Adobe Photoshop's two most powerful image editing features. This class is geared toward the intermediate-to-advanced student, who has some experience using Adobe Photoshop. Students are required to bring computers loaded with PhotoShop 6.0 or later. Digital image files to work with, on the hard drive or on cd, are recommended.
Life Drawing and Finding Your Personal Style
Saturday, February 21
10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Instructor: Brian Biedul Media: Various Fee: $100 AC members, $150 nonmembers
This workshop will concentrate on four distinct approaches to life drawing. Experimenting with these methodologies and combining them is what creates a personal style. A short demonstration and lecture will precede medium-length poses by the model. The key to good drawing is seeing clearly and knowing what to look for. This workshop will prove helpful to artists who are trying to bring their work to the next level.
Exploring Color Harmony in Still Life Painting
Monday - Friday, February 23-27
9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Instructor: Diane McClary Media: Oil preferred, watercolor or pastel welcome Fee: $400 AC members, $500 nonmembers
Learn how to create color harmony with the use of warm and cool colors. Demonstrations of color theory and painting technique are combined with individual and personal instruction. Artists will paint from numerous still life set-ups in the studio, each geared to explore different principles of color harmony. Each day's class begins with a demonstration and related discussion, followed by individual attention and end-of-the-day critiques.
Create Dynamic Painting in Watercolor
Monday - Friday, March 9-13
9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Instructor: Kathy Dunham Media: Watercolor Fee: $400 AC members, $500 nonmembers
Designed for all student levels, this class emphasizes the understanding and application of good basic skills to create energetic paintings. Learn tips that take the fear out of painting in watercolor. In addition to exploring the techniques of design and composition, Kathy will demonstrate the creative use of color and how to obtain depth through the use of light and shadow.
Start Abstract Painting Today
Monday - Friday, March 23-27
9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Instructor: Robert Burridge Media: Acrylic Fee: $500 AC members, $600 nonmembers
Hands-on demonstrations of basic to advanced technique and in-depth review of composition and color theory combine to show how to create more meaningful abstracts. This concentrated workshop emphasizes intuitive painting, where you will create many works of art for the 21st Century. Slide shows and demonstrations show the conception and innovation of Abstract Expressionism. The workshop focuses on the variations possible in using acrylic paint and mediums in an experimental way. Be prepared to paint looser, bolder, freer, lighter and more intuitively.
Fix & Finish
Saturday - Sunday, March 29-30
10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Instructor: Robert Burridge Media: Acrylic Fee: $200 AC members, $300 nonmembers
Check your ego at the door. Bring in your turkeys, your dogs, your biggest embarrassments, your unfinished "bad" paintings. Robert Burridge can help refocus your painting intentions and your goals to get your painting finished, signed, varnished and out the door! Once your painting is "fixed," we continue on with a looser series of "cool down" paint sketches. The class includes daily demos, handouts, lectures and constructive critiques. Be prepared to paint more confidently and have the answers you're looking for to produce more meaningful paintings.
Plein-Air Fundamentals
Monday - Friday, March 30-April 3
9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Instructors: Maddine Insalaco and Joe Vinson Media: Oil Fee: $500 AC members, $600 nonmembers
The basic premise upon which "Fundamentals" is founded is that open air painting presents unique physical challenges to the artist due to the fugitive quality of light and unpredictability of atmospheric conditions. Open air painting is therefore a unique kind of painting. The objective of this course is to present a framework and process that will enable the student to compose, develop and complete a landscape painting within a two-hour period. Students are responsible for transportation each afternoon to nearby locations.
Portrait Class
Saturday - Sunday, April 4-5
10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Instructor: David Fairrington Media: Drawing and Painting (in either oil or acrylic) Fee: $200 AC members, $300 nonmembers
This course offers an investigation into the principles and techniques of portrait drawing and painting. The first day focuses on study from a live model, and on the second day students will work from photographs that they bring in. Drawing and use of value will be emphasized. Technical demonstrations will illustrate the class emphasis on color theory, composition and painting techniques. Hands-on interaction with students will help establish these techniques as a natural part of each student's visual vocabulary.
Sculpture Workshop
Monday - Friday, April 20-24
9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Instructor: Kay Henkel Media: Clay sculpture Fee: $400 AC members, $500 nonmembers; $10 additional materials fee
This workshop will focus on two projects, building a life-sized child sculpture from clay, and a self portrait in clay. The child sculpture begins with discussion about models, then moves to the specifics of how to mold from the child, application of clay to the mold, forming, texturing and finishing. Discussion of features, proportions and expressions begins the self-portrait project, which covers building an armature, application of clay and finishing patina possibilities. Students may create a self-portrait or work from a live model.
Mixed Media Monoprint
Monday - Friday, April 27 - May 1
9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Instructors: Charlie Ciali and Michele Jamison Media: Printmaking Fee: $500 AC members, $600 nonmembers; $50 additional materials fee
The key focus of this class is to explore design and content by the juxtaposition of found objects (magazine clippings, photos, handmade papers, etc.) to expand the student's experience with mixed media and monoprint. Printmaking and mixed media techniques will be reviewed in theory and in practice. Students should bring "objects" such as photographs, magazine clippings, junk mail, feathers - any thin object that can run through a press. This class is not for the media purist, but rather for the student who is excited about using whatever he or she can find to make art.
The Museum's permanent collection of more than 55,000 objects features art of the Americas and 20th-century California art. The collection includes modernist and contemporary painting and sculpture, Western American art, Native American and Mesoamerican art and artifacts, contemporary studio glass art, photography, modern architecture and design, and graphics/works on paper.
