Past Classes
Ellen Martin Offers Photographing Artwork Class
Ellen Martin, a Lexington fine arts and commercial photographer, will be leading the Photographing Your Art Workshop on Saturday, July 21 from 10 to 12:00 at the Chestertown Arts League gallery. Ellen will present the techniques and the equpment needed for an amateur to produce an acceptable image with good lighting and detail. She will also cover getting images to the computer and resizing for a variety of purposes. You can learn more about Ellen and her photography from her website: http://www.ellenmartinphotography.com/.
Cost to participate in this workshop will be $20.00. If you are interested in attending, please mail your name, contact information and a check made out to Chestertown RiverArts for $20.00 to Chestertown Arts League at 312 Cannon Street, Chestertown, MD 21620. You may also call 410 778-5789 to pay by credit card when the gallery is open: Thursday and Fridays from 12 to 4:00 and on Saturdays from 10 to 4:00.
Mike Rooney Offering Painting Workshops in Sept.
Mike Rooney, nationally renown North Carolina plain air artist and art instructor, will be teaching two workshops at RiverArts in September — an evening Paint Camp on September 19 and a two day Plein Air Workshop on September 20 and 21. Mike, who is featured on the “Art” cover of Cape Cod Life 2012, teaches painting class up and down the east coast.
Mike Rooney prefers painting outside to a comfortable studio. Bugs, bystanders and bad weather are just a few of the inconveniences he endures to capture the colors and nuances of his coastal subjects.
He has painted in one form or another since childhood, and was once a sign painter and airbrush artist. Rooney also teaches painting workshops up and down the east coast and in Italy.
Painting in oil, Rooney’s subject matter varies, but he loves to show the effect of light on water, boats, and the beach environment from the salt marshes of Cape Cod and rugged coast of Maine, to the mangroves and turquoise waters of Key West. Mike is also a painting instructor teaching up and down the east coast and abroad. He has also filmed several how-to dvd’s on painting with brush and painting knives. Rooney is represented in galleries in several states and collected overseas.
His methodology is varied and he never follows a set way of starting a painting. He goes outside to paint, without a preconceived method or formula, approaching each painting differently, experimenting to shake things up a little. He has galleries representing him from Cape Cod to South Florida.
The blurs of color Rooney paints on-site are recognizable as boats, beach houses, and seas and they desire the great outdoors as much as the painter himself.
You can learn more about Mike, his art and workshops from his website:
http://mikerooneystudios.com/ and blog: http://mikerooneystudios.blogspot.com/.
mail your name, contact information and a check made out to Chestertown RiverArts for the cost of the workshop to Chestertown Arts League at 312 Cannon Street, Chestertown, MD 21620. You may also call 410 778-5789 to pay by credit card when the gallery is open: Thursday and Fridays from 12 to 4:00 and on Saturdays from 10 to 4:00.
Paint Camp
Date: September 19, 2012 from 6:30 to 9:00 Cost: $35 for RiverArts members, $45 for non-members Place: RiverArts Gallery
Follow along with Mike’s step-by-step demonstra-tions, and leave with your very own painting even if you’ve never painted before. Learn how to mix colors by using a limited palette of waterbased acrylic paint (dries in minutes) in red, yellow, blue, black and white, applied onto 9 x 12 inch primed canvas. You’ll learn drawing and composition tips, brushwork tips, how to paint form, portray sunlight, and more! All supplies are included. Perfect for the complete beginner and novice painter up to intermediate experienced painters. Class is two and a half hours of paint-pushing fun enhanced with a glass of wine!
Plein Air Workshop
Date: September 20 and 21 from 9:00 to 4:00 Cost: $150 for RiverArts members, $175 for non-members Place: RiverArts Gallery
This class is for the beginner through advanced intermediate plein air (outside) painter. You’ll cover the basics like how to only carry the most necessary gear, how to draw the scene by editing it down to the most essential elements. the ABC’s of value and how to get a value “blueprint” down quickly and accurately, as well as how to mix any color with a limited palette of red, yellow, blue and white. If you have never painted outside or don’t feel very confident about doing it, this class will take that fear away and make painting landscapes and scenes outdoors easy and fun!