Art Workshops Summer 2010 – Acrylic/Mixed Media
Darlene Olivia McElroy
Mixed Media
All Levels
Aug. 2-9, 9:30 am-4:30 pm
$575 + tax
Using mixed media and image transfers, come tell your unique story. Using everything from packing tape to shaving cream to gold leaf, this class will explore a wide range of transfer and surface techniques. Learn how to combine and integrate the different media to pull together a finished piece. Discover the new tools and ideas you need to explore this exciting way of making art that is at once both intensely personal and expressive.
The richly textured mixed media paintings of Darlene Olivia McElroy reflect the vision of an artist whose involvement with man’s primal origins, sins, and religious conflicts has developed into imagery at once sensuously primitive and startlingly sophisticated. Weaving through textural surfaces, found objects, and rich symbolism, the viewer is drawn into a visual world where color plays the role of an atmospheric veil encompassing the personal myths of the artist. Born and raised in southern California, McElroy is a descended from an old New Mexico family of artists and storytellers. She attended the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, and worked as an illustrator in the U.S. and Paris. She is the co-author, with Sandra Duran Wilson, of Image Transfer Workshop, published in 2009 by North Light Books. They are currently working on a second book. www.darleneoliviamcelroy.com
Nancy Reyner
Mastering Acrylic: A New Way of Painting
All Levels
August 23-27, 9:30 am-4:30 pm
$575 + tax
This workshop will present a broad and extensive overview of painting with acrylic using a new approach. Instead of using imitative techniques derived from other media, such as oil and watercolor, students will explore the many methods and techniques Nancy has developed to let acrylic be used in its most unique and expansive ways. Experience the range and variety of acrylic paints, mediums, gels, pastes, grounds, and learn application techniques. Fluid acrylics, heavy bodied paints, and the new slow-drying Open Acrylics can all be combined, layered, and used to their best advantage to get the effects you want. Nancy will also present organic and inorganic pigment control, textural layering and glazing, and the use of interference and iridescent paints, as well as surface treatments and underpaintings to use with other media, such as oil, watercolor, or pastel. Students working with any subject matter and in any style will benefit from this in-depth, comprehensive, and fast-paced workshop. The class will include an evening visit to Nancy's studio.
Nancy Reyner has been painting, exhibiting, and teaching for more than thirty years. She earned a B.F.A. from the Rhode Island School of Design and an M.F.A. from Columbia University. Nancy has worked as a costume and set designer for Broadway and off-Broadway theater and film, and has worked in the graphic design and printing industry as well. She has been a technical consultant for the acrylic paint company Golden Artist Colors, Inc., in their Working Artist Program for the past eight years. Born and raised in Philadelphia, Nancy now lives in Santa Fe and teaches throughout the southwest. www.nancyreyner.com.
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