Instructor: Rachel Pace
Wednesday April 1, 8, 22, and 29.
6pm-8pm
Learn the basics of watercolor painting and the importance of keeping a sketchbook.
Instructor: Rachel Pace
Wednesday April 1, 8, 22, and 29.
6pm-8pm
Learn the basics of watercolor painting and the importance of keeping a sketchbook.
Instructor: Danny Johnston
Thursdays March 12, 19, 26, and April 2nd from 6-8pm
Oil Painting from a unique perspective.
Learn the Basics of Oil Painting from local artist, Danny Johnston. Techniques and theories are introduced through practice and demonstration. Emphasis is placed on the choice of materials, the depiction of light and shadow, painting techniques, basic color mixing, and composition. The course provides students with a foundation for creative expression in oil painting.
Instructor: Rachel Pace
Wednesday April 1, 8, 22, and 29.
6pm-8pm
Learn the basics of watercolor painting and the importance of keeping a sketchbook.
Instructor: Rob Fairburn
Saturday, March 28th from 4-7 pm
STAA is partnering with Big Easy Comics in Covington to bring you a monthly workshop on Terrain Building for Table Top Gaming. Each session, we will be focusing on the basic techniques and must have terrain pieces to build your world.
Session 1: Dungeon Tiles - Building the foundation for all your fantasy-based games, as well as the foundation skills for all terrain building.
This workshop will be held once a month on Saturday.
Most supplies will be provided. Specialized supplies are available for purchase at Big Easy Comics.
Instructor: Danny Johnston
Thursdays March 12, 19, 26, and April 2nd from 6-8pm
Oil Painting from a unique perspective.
Learn the Basics of Oil Painting from local artist, Danny Johnston. Techniques and theories are introduced through practice and demonstration. Emphasis is placed on the choice of materials, the depiction of light and shadow, painting techniques, basic color mixing, and composition. The course provides students with a foundation for creative expression in oil painting.
Instructor: Danny Johnston
Thursdays March 12, 19, 26, and April 2nd from 6-8pm
Oil Painting from a unique perspective.
Learn the Basics of Oil Painting from local artist, Danny Johnston. Techniques and theories are introduced through practice and demonstration. Emphasis is placed on the choice of materials, the depiction of light and shadow, painting techniques, basic color mixing, and composition. The course provides students with a foundation for creative expression in oil painting.
Instructor: Rob Fairburn
Thursdays February 6, 13, 20, and 27th from 6-8pm
Acrylic Painting through a print-maker's eyes.
Over this 4 week course, students will explore value, color theory, the importance of experimenting, and methods of acrylic painting through an emphasis on process.
Week 1. Process is everything.
“There is no cheating in art. It’s all method.”
—A Very Wise Man (Rob Fairburn)
Today we will talk about sculpting shape with value, and the importance of an under painting as a roadmap. We will make a blue and white value painting of a still life.
Week 2. Value adds value. Color adds flavor.
If a good value painting is a steak dinner, good color is the garlic butter sauce.
Today we will experiment with color and discuss the basics of color theory, and how to use that to make exciting compositions. We will create two still life paintings that explore this idea.
Week 3. Define art...
“Art is why i get up in the morning.”
—Ani Difranco
This week we will discuss “what is art.” Redefining “good art and bad art” as “successful and unsuccessful art,” and why both are ok.
This week will will experiment with abstract art concepts and methods. We will create a cityscape in beautiful downtown Covington.
Week 4. Self portrait. Endless opportunity for learning.
This week we will combine all of the knowledge we have learned so far, painting a self portrait using a method i have built based on layering techniques commonly used in printmaking.
Instructor: Rob Fairburn
Thursdays February 6, 13, 20, and 27th from 6-8pm
Acrylic Painting through a print-maker's eyes.
Over this 4 week course, students will explore value, color theory, the importance of experimenting, and methods of acrylic painting through an emphasis on process.
Week 1. Process is everything.
“There is no cheating in art. It’s all method.”
—A Very Wise Man (Rob Fairburn)
Today we will talk about sculpting shape with value, and the importance of an under painting as a roadmap. We will make a blue and white value painting of a still life.
Week 2. Value adds value. Color adds flavor.
If a good value painting is a steak dinner, good color is the garlic butter sauce.
Today we will experiment with color and discuss the basics of color theory, and how to use that to make exciting compositions. We will create two still life paintings that explore this idea.
Week 3. Define art...
“Art is why i get up in the morning.”
—Ani Difranco
This week we will discuss “what is art.” Redefining “good art and bad art” as “successful and unsuccessful art,” and why both are ok.
This week will will experiment with abstract art concepts and methods. We will create a cityscape in beautiful downtown Covington.
Week 4. Self portrait. Endless opportunity for learning.
This week we will combine all of the knowledge we have learned so far, painting a self portrait using a method i have built based on layering techniques commonly used in printmaking.
Instructor: Rob Fairburn
Thursdays February 6, 13, 20, and 27th from 6-8pm
Acrylic Painting through a print-maker's eyes.
Over this 4 week course, students will explore value, color theory, the importance of experimenting, and methods of acrylic painting through an emphasis on process.
Week 1. Process is everything.
“There is no cheating in art. It’s all method.”
—A Very Wise Man (Rob Fairburn)
Today we will talk about sculpting shape with value, and the importance of an under painting as a roadmap. We will make a blue and white value painting of a still life.
Week 2. Value adds value. Color adds flavor.
If a good value painting is a steak dinner, good color is the garlic butter sauce.
Today we will experiment with color and discuss the basics of color theory, and how to use that to make exciting compositions. We will create two still life paintings that explore this idea.
Week 3. Define art...
“Art is why i get up in the morning.”
—Ani Difranco
This week we will discuss “what is art.” Redefining “good art and bad art” as “successful and unsuccessful art,” and why both are ok.
This week will will experiment with abstract art concepts and methods. We will create a cityscape in beautiful downtown Covington.
Week 4. Self portrait. Endless opportunity for learning.
This week we will combine all of the knowledge we have learned so far, painting a self portrait using a method i have built based on layering techniques commonly used in printmaking.
Instructor: Rob Fairburn
Thursdays February 6, 13, 20, and 27th from 6-8pm
Acrylic Painting through a print-maker's eyes.
Over this 4 week course, students will explore value, color theory, the importance of experimenting, and methods of acrylic painting through an emphasis on process.
Week 1. Process is everything.
“There is no cheating in art. It’s all method.”
—A Very Wise Man (Rob Fairburn)
Today we will talk about sculpting shape with value, and the importance of an under painting as a roadmap. We will make a blue and white value painting of a still life.
Week 2. Value adds value. Color adds flavor.
If a good value painting is a steak dinner, good color is the garlic butter sauce.
Today we will experiment with color and discuss the basics of color theory, and how to use that to make exciting compositions. We will create two still life paintings that explore this idea.
Week 3. Define art...
“Art is why i get up in the morning.”
—Ani Difranco
This week we will discuss “what is art.” Redefining “good art and bad art” as “successful and unsuccessful art,” and why both are ok.
This week will will experiment with abstract art concepts and methods. We will create a cityscape in beautiful downtown Covington.
Week 4. Self portrait. Endless opportunity for learning.
This week we will combine all of the knowledge we have learned so far, painting a self portrait using a method i have built based on layering techniques commonly used in printmaking.
Interested in learning how to paint? Want to create a painting of your favorite dog or cat or hermit crab? Join Wess Foreman for a one day, beginner/intermediate art class at the Trail Head in Covington, 9am to 11am-ish.
(absolute beginners welcome, ages ten and up, please)
Instructor: Rob Fairburn
Thursdays August 15, 22, 29, & September 5 from 6-8 pm
Acrylic Painting through a print-maker's eyes.
Over this 4 week course, students will explore value, color theory, the importance of experimenting, and methods of acrylic painting through an emphasis on process.
Week 1. Process is everything.
“There is no cheating in art. It’s all method.”
—A Very Wise Man (Rob Fairburn)
Today we will talk about sculpting shape with value, and the importance of an under painting as a roadmap. We will make a blue and white value painting of a still life.
Week 2. Value adds value. Color adds flavor.
If a good value painting is a steak dinner, good color is the garlic butter sauce.
Today we will experiment with color and discuss the basics of color theory, and how to use that to make exciting compositions. We will create two still life paintings that explore this idea.
Week 3. Define art...
“Art is why i get up in the morning.”
—Ani Difranco
This week we will discuss “what is art.” Redefining “good art and bad art” as “successful and unsuccessful art,” and why both are ok.
This week will will experiment with abstract art concepts and methods. We will create a cityscape in beautiful downtown Covington.
Week 4. Self portrait. Endless opportunity for learning.
This week we will combine all of the knowledge we have learned so far, painting a self portrait using a method i have built based on layering techniques commonly used in printmaking.
Instructor: Rob Fairburn
Thursdays August 15, 22, 29, & September 5 from 6-8 pm
Acrylic Painting through a print-maker's eyes.
Over this 4 week course, students will explore value, color theory, the importance of experimenting, and methods of acrylic painting through an emphasis on process.
Week 1. Process is everything.
“There is no cheating in art. It’s all method.”
—A Very Wise Man (Rob Fairburn)
Today we will talk about sculpting shape with value, and the importance of an under painting as a roadmap. We will make a blue and white value painting of a still life.
Week 2. Value adds value. Color adds flavor.
If a good value painting is a steak dinner, good color is the garlic butter sauce.
Today we will experiment with color and discuss the basics of color theory, and how to use that to make exciting compositions. We will create two still life paintings that explore this idea.
Week 3. Define art...
“Art is why i get up in the morning.”
—Ani Difranco
This week we will discuss “what is art.” Redefining “good art and bad art” as “successful and unsuccessful art,” and why both are ok.
This week will will experiment with abstract art concepts and methods. We will create a cityscape in beautiful downtown Covington.
Week 4. Self portrait. Endless opportunity for learning.
This week we will combine all of the knowledge we have learned so far, painting a self portrait using a method i have built based on layering techniques commonly used in printmaking.
Instructor: Rob Fairburn
Thursdays August 15, 22, 29, & September 5 from 6-8 pm
Acrylic Painting through a print-maker's eyes.
Over this 4 week course, students will explore value, color theory, the importance of experimenting, and methods of acrylic painting through an emphasis on process.
Week 1. Process is everything.
“There is no cheating in art. It’s all method.”
—A Very Wise Man (Rob Fairburn)
Today we will talk about sculpting shape with value, and the importance of an under painting as a roadmap. We will make a blue and white value painting of a still life.
Week 2. Value adds value. Color adds flavor.
If a good value painting is a steak dinner, good color is the garlic butter sauce.
Today we will experiment with color and discuss the basics of color theory, and how to use that to make exciting compositions. We will create two still life paintings that explore this idea.
Week 3. Define art...
“Art is why i get up in the morning.”
—Ani Difranco
This week we will discuss “what is art.” Redefining “good art and bad art” as “successful and unsuccessful art,” and why both are ok.
This week will will experiment with abstract art concepts and methods. We will create a cityscape in beautiful downtown Covington.
Week 4. Self portrait. Endless opportunity for learning.
This week we will combine all of the knowledge we have learned so far, painting a self portrait using a method i have built based on layering techniques commonly used in printmaking.
Instructor: Rob Fairburn
Thursdays August 15, 22, 29, & September 5 from 6-8 pm
Acrylic Painting through a print-maker's eyes.
Over this 4 week course, students will explore value, color theory, the importance of experimenting, and methods of acrylic painting through an emphasis on process.
Week 1. Process is everything.
“There is no cheating in art. It’s all method.”
—A Very Wise Man (Rob Fairburn)
Today we will talk about sculpting shape with value, and the importance of an under painting as a roadmap. We will make a blue and white value painting of a still life.
Week 2. Value adds value. Color adds flavor.
If a good value painting is a steak dinner, good color is the garlic butter sauce.
Today we will experiment with color and discuss the basics of color theory, and how to use that to make exciting compositions. We will create two still life paintings that explore this idea.
Week 3. Define art...
“Art is why i get up in the morning.”
—Ani Difranco
This week we will discuss “what is art.” Redefining “good art and bad art” as “successful and unsuccessful art,” and why both are ok.
This week will will experiment with abstract art concepts and methods. We will create a cityscape in beautiful downtown Covington.
Week 4. Self portrait. Endless opportunity for learning.
This week we will combine all of the knowledge we have learned so far, painting a self portrait using a method i have built based on layering techniques commonly used in printmaking.
Thursday Feb 28, Mar 7, 14, 21 from 6:00-8:00 PM.
Acrylic 102 with Rob Fairburn:
Acrylic Painting through a print-maker's eyes.
Over this 4 week course, students will explore value, color theory, the importance of experimenting, and methods of acrylic painting through an emphasis on process.
Thursday Feb 28, Mar 7, 14, 21 from 6:00-8:00 PM.
Acrylic 102 with Rob Fairburn:
Acrylic Painting through a print-maker's eyes.
Over this 4 week course, students will explore value, color theory, the importance of experimenting, and methods of acrylic painting through an emphasis on process.
Thursday Feb 28, Mar 7, 14, 21 from 6:00-8:00 PM.
Acrylic 102 with Rob Fairburn:
Acrylic Painting through a print-maker's eyes.
Over this 4 week course, students will explore value, color theory, the importance of experimenting, and methods of acrylic painting through an emphasis on process.
Thursday Feb 28, Mar 7, 14, 21 from 6:00-8:00 PM.
Acrylic 102 with Rob Fairburn:
Over the next 4 weeks, we will take a look at how technology has helped artists improve their work throughout history, and we will explore ways modern technology can help us improve our painting.
“Since the technology of electronics has become such an important part of modern life, it is inevitable that it be employed in the creation of art.”
—Ben Laposky, 1969
Today we will look at several basic functions of all smart phones that can help us look at our work in a different light. We will create compositions of a single item still life.
-Using the led to light subjects.
-using the black and white function to help determine values
-taking a step back and looking at composition as a whole, in pictures.
“A bit of advice, don't copy nature too closely. Art is an abstraction; as you dream amid nature, extrapolate art from it, and concentrate on what you will create as a result.”
—Paul Gauguin
Vermeer used a whole host of technological aids to make paintings that would have been impossible at the time to make without them.
Today we will discuss the importance of carrying a sketch pad, and make small drawings. We will transfer those drawings to larger canvases with a projector, and paint them using techniques we learned last week.
“In my mind, the creative aspects of science and art involve many of the same 'how, why, and what' questions. Both disciplines deal with theories, set up problems, experiment with possibilities and help us understand the world we live in.”
—Karen Guzak
This week we will bring in poor source photos and edit them into better source material with basic photo apps. We will paint from our phones and make small studies of our edited work.
Homework: find some source materials... take some pictures. Use the previous info that we have learned, light them, edit them, and print them. Use those as source material to make study drawings. Bring in the prints and the drawings.
“What is possible in art becomes thinkable in life.”
—Brian Eno
This week we will combine all of the knowledge we have learned so far, painting an original composition, put together by you.
Introduction to Acrylic Painting
Acrylic Painting through a print-maker's eyes.
Over this 4 week course, students will explore value, color theory, the importance of experimenting, and methods of acrylic painting through an emphasis on process.
Week 1. Process is everything.
“There is no cheating in art. It’s all method.”
—A Very Wise Man (Rob Fairburn)
Today we will talk about sculpting shape with value, and the importance of an under painting as a roadmap. We will make a blue and white value painting of a still life.
Week 2. Value adds value. Color adds flavor.
If a good value painting is a steak dinner, good color is the garlic butter sauce.
Today we will experiment with color and discuss the basics of color theory, and how to use that to make exciting compositions. We will create two still life paintings that explore this idea.
Week 3. Define art...
“Art is why i get up in the morning.”
—Ani Difranco
This week we will discuss “what is art.” Redefining “good art and bad art” as “successful and unsuccessful art,” and why both are ok.
This week will will experiment with abstract art concepts and methods. We will create a cityscape in beautiful downtown Covington.
Week 4. Self portrait. Endless opportunity for learning.
This week we will combine all of the knowledge we have learned so far, painting a self portrait using a method i have built based on layering techniques commonly used in printmaking.
Introduction to Acrylic Painting
Acrylic Painting through a print-maker's eyes.
Over this 4 week course, students will explore value, color theory, the importance of experimenting, and methods of acrylic painting through an emphasis on process.
Week 1. Process is everything.
“There is no cheating in art. It’s all method.”
—A Very Wise Man (Rob Fairburn)
Today we will talk about sculpting shape with value, and the importance of an under painting as a roadmap. We will make a blue and white value painting of a still life.
Week 2. Value adds value. Color adds flavor.
If a good value painting is a steak dinner, good color is the garlic butter sauce.
Today we will experiment with color and discuss the basics of color theory, and how to use that to make exciting compositions. We will create two still life paintings that explore this idea.
Week 3. Define art...
“Art is why i get up in the morning.”
—Ani Difranco
This week we will discuss “what is art.” Redefining “good art and bad art” as “successful and unsuccessful art,” and why both are ok.
This week will will experiment with abstract art concepts and methods. We will create a cityscape in beautiful downtown Covington.
Week 4. Self portrait. Endless opportunity for learning.
This week we will combine all of the knowledge we have learned so far, painting a self portrait using a method i have built based on layering techniques commonly used in printmaking.
Introduction to Acrylic Painting
Acrylic Painting through a print-maker's eyes.
Over this 4 week course, students will explore value, color theory, the importance of experimenting, and methods of acrylic painting through an emphasis on process.
Basic Acrylic Painting
Acrylic Painting through a print-maker's eyes.
Over this 4 week course, students will explore value, color theory, the importance of experimenting, and methods of acrylic painting through an emphasis on process.
Week 1. Process is everything.
“There is no cheating in art. It’s all method.”
—A Very Wise Man (Rob Fairburn)
Today we will talk about sculpting shape with value, and the importance of an under painting as a roadmap. We will make a blue and white value painting of a still life.
Week 2. Value adds value. Color adds flavor.
If a good value painting is a steak dinner, good color is the garlic butter sauce.
Today we will experiment with color and discuss the basics of color theory, and how to use that to make exciting compositions. We will create two still life paintings that explore this idea.
Week 3. Define art...
“Art is why i get up in the morning.”
—Ani Difranco
This week we will discuss “what is art.” Redefining “good art and bad art” as “successful and unsuccessful art,” and why both are ok.
This week will will experiment with abstract art concepts and methods. We will create a cityscape in beautiful downtown Covington.
Week 4. Self portrait. Endless opportunity for learning.
This week we will combine all of the knowledge we have learned so far, painting a self portrait using a method i have built based on layering techniques commonly used in printmaking.
