PLEASE scroll down for descriptions and requirements for all classes currently offered.
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Atelier Copper
Classes starting Dec. 14th, 2015
Occasionally scheduled class days or times will change, so please check this website regularly.
Please sign up for classes with Larry
or phone the gallery @ 209-785-2050
A deposit is required to hold your place in most classes.
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Join us to paint in Ireland!!!
May 31 – June 9, 2016
Discount for registering before Dec. 31st!!!
Scroll Down for more info.
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It’s time for you to MOO--
Monday Open Oils
Monday afternoons in December 1-4 pm
December 14, 21, and 28
Come paint with friends on Monday afternoons! No instruction—bring your own photo to work from. Enjoy the valuable Critique-Aperitif at 4 pm. Bring your own art supplies and refreshment to share. Standing easels provided. Cost of MOO is $10, which may be applied toward any purchase at Town Hall Arts that day. MOO is limited to 10 artists, so please sign up by the Friday before.
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Open Paint Wednesdays
Wednesday, December 16 • starting at 10 am
Watercolor - Snowstorm in the Forest
The many faces of winter offer grand opportunities to play with color temperature and purity. You will use masking fluid to save some snow in this watercolor painting. The main colors used are cobalt blue and burnt sienna. You will need a sponge for the foreground trees and a spray bottle with water to fade out the bottom.
Cost of Open Paint Wednesdays is $5, which may be applied toward any purchase that day at Town Hall Arts.
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Life Drawing
Thursday, December 17, 31 • 9:30 am to 12:30 pm
Life Drawing with George Allen Durkee of Mountain Ranch
Want to improve your drawing skills? Draw from a live model on Thursday mornings. No experience needed. Limited instruction if you want it, or George will stay out of your face if you don’t. Materials available at Town Hall Arts. You will need an 18x24 newsprint pad and drawing pencils (charcoal or graphite – 4B and/or 6B). Cost for session is $15.
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TGIF Friday Afternoon Oil Paint-In
Friday, December 18
1 pm to 4 pm paint
followed by optional dinner
at Saddle Creek Resort
Not always the First Friday now! This is your chance to finish those stacks of half-painted canvases in your closet! Larry will set up easels and we will paint starting at 1 pm with Happy Hour Critique in the studio at 4 pm, followed by an optional dinner at Saddle Creek Resort. Please let Larry know by the Wednesday before if you are coming. Non-painting spouses welcome to join in the TGIF optional dinner.
Cost of the TGIF painting afternoon is $10, which may be applied toward any purchase at Town Hall Arts that day.
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Open Paint Wednesdays
Wednesday, December 23 • starting at 10 am
Watercolor Poinsettias Using Warm and Cool Primary Color
Paint this beautiful Christmas flower using only six Daniel Smith colors: Hansa Yellow, New Gamboge, Quinacridone Rose, Pyrrol Scarlet, Pthlalo Blue, and Ultramarine Blue. Bring your usual watercolor supplies, good quality watercolor paper (painting will be about 12x10 inches), and paper towels. A drawing and handout will be provided. Cost of Open Paint Wednesdays is $5, which may be applied toward any purchase that day at Town Hall Arts.
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Open Paint Wednesdays
Wednesday, December 30 • starting at 10 am
Using Photo References and Two-Point Perspective in Pastel
Learn how to combine photos and use two-point perspective for a great composition in pastel. Bring whatever pastel supplies you have and sanded pastel paper (available from Larry. Bring your own photo or work from example. Cost of Open Paint Wednesdays is $5, which may be applied toward any purchase that day at Town Hall Arts.
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Oil
Expressions in Oil with Diana Boyd of Sonora
Tried and true right brain methods have made this oil painting class fun and popular. Classes include instruction in painting from upside-down photos, right-side-up still lifes, and timed pieces, using a variety of grounds. Diana's style both on canvas and as an instructor is loose, expressive and full of spirit! Please have your own turp pot with lid and container for your brushes. $50 deposit holds your place in this popular class!
Session I: January 4, 11, 18, 25
Session II: February 1, 8, 22, 29
Mondays • 1 pm to 4 pm Paint from your own photo or use one of Diana’s. Class size: 7-10 students.
Cost is $150 for one session or $250 for two months if you pay at or before your first class.
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Open Paint Wednesdays
Wednesday, January 6 • starting at 10 am
Big Art -- Small Canvas
Establishing Depth with Value & Intensity
Where there is a plane change, there should be a color change. Learn how to use value, intensity and temperature to create the illusion of depth and space in a mini (3” x 4”) oil painting. Mini canvases and easels are available for sale at THA. Bring your usual oil or acrylic supplies. Size 1 and 2 filberts are helpful in mini landscape paintings. You will be given a handout to follow. Cost of Open Paint Wednesdays is $5, which may be applied toward any purchase that day at Town Hall Arts.
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Open Paint Wednesdays
Wednesday, January 13 • starting at 10 am
Open Painting with Optional “Using an Acrylic Under-painting with Watercolor”
Using both brush and single-edged razor blade, you will start with acrylics, painting the trees and structures on watercolor paper. After this dries, you will add large wet washes of watercolor in the sky and foreground snow. You will need good watercolor paper, pencil, single-edged razor blade, and black India ink. Suggested acrylic palette: burnt sienna and cobalt blue. Watercolor palette: cobalt blue, burnt sienna, sap green, raw sienna.
Cost of Open Paint Wednesdays is $5, which may be applied toward any purchase that day at Town Hall Arts.
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Portrait from Life
Friday and Saturday January 15, 16 • 10 am to 3 pm
Self Portrait with Peggi-Kroll Roberts of Angels Camp
Peggi was an illustrator for 17 years before transitioning into fine arts. She has been a professional fine artist for 25 years.
Please bring a free-standing table mirror.
Supplies for this class include Graham Gouache paint in these colors: Cad Yellow Light, Cad Yellow, Cad Red Lt., Cad Red, Viridian, Sap Green, and Phthalo Blue, also Titanium White and Ivory or Lamp Black in large tubes if you plan to continue with gouache, or you may use any other water media paint—acrylic or watercolor.
Other supplies include a 2B pencil, Staedtler or Magic Rub eraser, San Francisco Slant Palette, wet media sketch book 9x12, Strathmore drawing paper 8x10 or smaller. Recommended brushes are Windsor-Newtown 1/2” and 1/4” One Stroke sable flats and Royal #10 Majestic Filbert.
This class is limited to 10 students, so leave a $50 deposit with Larry now to hold your place. Cost of two-day class is $100.
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Pastels—Saturday with Tina
Saturday, January 16 • 10 am to 4 pm
Pastels with Tina Moore of Stockton
A pastel workshop to help you get the most out of the wonderful medium of pastels will be offered by award-winning artist/instructor Tina Moore. Tina is a Distinguished Pastellist with the Pastel Society of the West Coast and a Signature member of the Pastel Society of America, the Women Artists of the West and the Sierra Pastel Society. Learn to put life, depth, and drama in your pastel paintings. Both experienced pastel painters and those new to the medium will be able to make a beautiful painting with plenty of one-on-one instruction. Participants can make their own choices regarding subject matter. The principles apply whether you are painting a portrait, landscape, or anything else. Bring a photo to draw or still life to set up.
Supply list available from Larry at Town Hall Arts, 785-2050, larry@townhallarts.com. Cost of class is $25.
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Open Paint Wednesdays
Wednesday, January 20 • starting at 10 am
Perspective and the Three-Quarter View
Learn how to analyze the planes of the head in a three-quarter pose. You will use two pencils with toned paper to shape the shadows that fall across a form. Supplies include Conte Sanguine XVIIIe 013 Sketching Pencil, white sketching pencil, Strathmore Velvet Gray Charcoal Paper or Strathmore Toned Tan Sketching Notebook, X-acto knife, sanding pad, kneaded eraser. You will be given a handout to follow and a sheet of toned paper. Cost of Open Paint Wednesdays is $5, which may be applied toward any purchase that day at Town Hall Arts.
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Mosaics
Saturday, January 23 • 10 to 2 pm
and Sunday, January 24 • noon to 1 pm in gazebo
Stained Glass Stepping Stones with Kathie Peery of Copperopolis
Kathie will provide a pattern and jars of colored glass for your background. All supplies are included for this project. Kathie has been doing stained glass for ten years and has expanded into mosaics as a means to use all of the scraps from glass panels. Pictured is a mosaic stepping stone path by Sharon Gore. Class cost: $25.
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Open Paint Wednesdays
Wednesday, January 27th • starting at 10 am
Open Painting with Optional “Color Choices in Portrait Painting Study”
Not sure about what paints to squeeze out for portraits in oil or which sticks to use in pastel? Learn what colors one accomplished artist uses in his portraits. Please bring photo to work from. Cost of Open Paint Wednesdays is $5, which may be applied toward any purchase that day at Town Hall Arts. You may work in oil or pastel for this activity.
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Open Paint Wednesdays
Wednesday February 3rd starting at 10 am
Open Painting with Optional “Paint Distance in Acrylic”
Knowing
how to create a sense of distance in your painting is very important,
as a feeling of depth can draw the viewer into a painting. Learn how to
use perspective, tone, and color temperature to create distance. Bring
your own photo or work from example.
Cost of Open Paint Wednesdays is $5, which may be applied toward any purchase that day at Town Hall Arts.
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Open Paint Wednesdays
Wednesday, February 10 • starting at 10 am
Open Painting with Tips and Techniques for Drawing and Sketching
We will follow a very short DVD and explore using various sketching tools to render the human figure and portrait. We will be using the Pro-Art All-In-One Drawing Kit (available at Town Hall Arts), which includes a small mannequin, drawing pencils, charcoal, tortillion, and erasers. Warm color pastels will also be used.
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Open Paint Wednesdays
Wednesday, February 17 • starting at 10 am
Open Painting with Optional Twelve-Year-Old Portrait Study
Learn alignment of features on a 12-year-old’s head. For the drawing exercise, you will use a 2B or softer pencil, Magic Rub eraser, ruler, and drawing paper. Bring a photo of a child this age, if you have one, to do a painting in the medium of your choice. Handouts of instructions will be available. Cost of Open Paint Wednesdays is $5, which may be applied toward any purchase that day at Town Hall Arts.
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Open Paint Wednesdays
Wednesday, February 24 • starting at 10 am
Open Painting with Optional “Figure Painting in Oil—the Back Torso”
Learn to see the shapes of the torso itself, without arms. You will need your regular oil painting supplies, a small canvas, filbert bristle brushes, and white and black oil paint. Handouts of instructions will be available. Cost of Open Paint Wednesdays is $5, which may be applied to any purchase at Town Hall Arts that day.
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A Day with Carol
Friday, April 1 • 9 am to 4 pm
Carol Earle of Oakdale
Details to follow.
Oil
Friday afternoons, April 8-29 • 1 pm – 4 pm
Understanding Color and Other Basics with Judie Cain
Details to follow.
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Watercolor Workshop -- Nine Days in Ireland!
SAVE these dates : May 31 – June 9, 2016
includes four full days of instruction with renown Ireland Water colorist Grahame Booth
www.grahamebooth.com
Sign up with Larry now! Cost is $1250 if reservation is made with $500 deposit* by December 31.After that, cost will be $1450. Air transportation from and to USA not included in this price, but we are working on a group transportation package. Also, please include at least an extra day at each end of the workshop for travel time.
Your $1250 workshop fee includes:
Transport to Burren Painting Centre, Lisdoonvarna, from and to Shannon Airport.
Transport locally to painting locations and Dunguire Banquet, Kinvara.
Six evening meals are included, one of them a Medieval Banquet at Dunguire Castle. Other evenings are left free so that people can opt for different restaurants in the area.
Nine breakfasts. No lunches are included. Pub lunches or cafes are available at the majority of painting locations. The two delis in Lisdoonvarna make up fresh sandwiches for those that prefer that option.
The use of the art studio facilities for nine days and tuition by Grahame Booth from 9.30 a.m. – 4.30 p.m. for four days is included.
Unpack just once for nine days and nine nights in Ireland!
Itinerary:
Tuesday 31st May --Arrival at Shannon Airport. Transfer to The Burren Painting Centre, Lisdoonvarna. Settle in to accommodation at O’Neills B&B or Caherleigh.
Introduction in the art studio at O’Neills. Short walk around the town with Chris O’Neill. Visit to the Burren Smokehouse. Dinner.
Wednesday 1st June – Visit the Burren Centre in Kilfenora, Dysart O’Dea Castle,
Mullaghmore Mountain in the Burren. Dinner.
Thursday 2nd June – Transfer to Doolin Harbour. Ferry to the island of Inisheer. Painting and Sketching. Return to Doolin. Meeting the tutor, Grahame Booth. Dinner free choice.
Friday 3rd June. Meet in the studio. Painting in Ballyvaughan at the harbour. Return to Lisdoonvarna via the 5,000 year old Poulnabrone Dolmen. Dinner.
Saturday 4th June. Meet in the studio. Painting Lisdoonvarna townscapes and in the grounds of the Spa Wells. Dinner Free Choice.
Sunday 5th June. Meet in the studio. Painting in Liscannor and return via Cliffs of Moher. Dinner.
Monday 6th June. Meet in the studio. Painting streetscapes in Ennistymon and the cascades on the river Aille. Critique in the studio. Dinner Free Choice.
Tuesday 7th June. A visit to Corcomroe Abbey, The Flaggy shore, and Linnanes pub.
An afternoon of painting in Kinvara, town and harbour. Medieval Banquet at Dunguire Castle. Return to Lisdoonvarna.
Wednesday 8th June. A morning in Kilfenora painting the high crosses during the afternoon. Finishing paintings in the studio and end of trip exhibition. Dinner.
Thursday 9th June. Depart for Shannon Airport.
*Prices based on people sharing a twin or double
room en suite. Some small single rooms are available. We are
planning the trip for 10-15 artists. We need a minimum of ten
artists. The art studio will accommodate 15 artists.
The non-refundable
deposit of $500 will hold your space.
Deposits accepted by check or money order payable to Town Hall Arts.
The deposit will only be returned if entire workshop is canceled or
trip fills and your spot sells.
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