12 12 Gallery | Weekend Workshops Learn new techniques and connect with creative community in 2008 with Weekend Workshops at 12 12 Gallery ! With mediums ranging from photography, painting and encaustics to assemblage, altered art and fine craft you're sure to find an affordable workshop just for you. Each workshop is held in 12 12 Gallery's intimate gallery environment for participants at all skill levels. Workshop size ranges from 4 to 8 participants to nurture creativity and provide a supportive, unique learning experience for each participant. Our hands-on workshops are facilitated by our resident artists and local artisans alike, who have expertise in their respective mediums and are passionate about passing on their knowledge and sharing skills with Richmond's creative community. February & March 2008 Weekend Workshops Encaustic Collage for Busy People
Day 1 will focus on the basics: safety, making your own encaustic medium and techniques used in encaustic collage. You will learn how to layer, fuse, and incorporate oil sticks, pastels and crayon in an encaustic collage you create using the collage materials provided. Day 2 will incorporate everything from Day 1 with focused attention on incorporating your own images and objects into an encaustic collage plus embossing, surfacing, and finishing. Returning people are welcome to join us with a current project or to create something new at a reduced rate. Some of the materials needed for this workshop include: At least 4 Supports/Substrates not larger than 9" x 12" or 12"x 12"
(canvas board or� gessoed hardboard, art panels, clayboard (cradled or
uncradled) We will provide materials for encaustic medium and equipment irons, mini slow cookers, heat guns, and collage materials. Because of the nature of this workshop, a limit of 6 participants is strictly observed. If we are over class limit we will notify you immediately and you will be placed on a waiting list for the next workshop. Workshop Dates
About the Artist: Krishanna Spencer, an Artist-in-Residence at 12 12 Gallery, was raised in Los Angeles, California, and is a freelance writer and Outsider artist who specializes in altered art and found object assemblages. She has been working professionally for nearly 10 years and focuses predominantly on working with encaustic and found objects and altering almost anything she can get her hands on. She lives in the Richmond area with her boyfriend in a small house filled with books, art materials and a small menagerie of pets . To see more of her collage and assemblage work, visit The Altered Artist or Altered Mischief. Working with Oils
By providing hands-on experience, Charles shares his knowledge and passion for painting with oils. Working with Oils is designed for you to learn oil painting basics or push your existing skills to the next level. Materials needed for this workshop include: 1.Easel with clamp to secure a canvas. 2.Several 11 X 14 and 12 X 16 canvas panels (Fredrix*) or to stretch your own: Cotton or linen canvas, separate wooden stretcher bars , staples, canvas pliers, small hammer, and staple gun. 3. Hand-held palette wood, paper, or plexiglass. 4. Bristle brushes in various sizes. 5. Linseed oil or pale drying oil. 6. Oil paints in the following colors: (1 tube of each ) (Rembrandt or Gamblin*) White, Yellow Ochre, Cadmium Yellow, Cadmium Red or Alizarin Crimson, Burnt Sienna, Permanent Green Light, Viridian, Cerulean or Sevres Blue, Ultramarine, and Ivory Black * Recommended by instructor
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About the Artist: Charles Philip Brooks, born in North Carolina, studied in New England in the studio of highly respected Boston School authority Paul Ingbretson and with the renowned American Barbizon painter, Dennis Sheehan.
He is primarily a landscape painter, focusing on the landscape of the
southeastern United States.His work incorporates elements of
impressionism and is firmly rooted in the American Barbizon/Tonalist
tradition of landscape painting.� He works out of the tradition
established by such artists as George Inness, Alexander Wyant, Bruce Crane, John Francis Murphy, Dwight William Tyron, and North Carolina's own Elliott Daingerfield.� Further influences include the painters Eugene Boudin and Charles-Francois Daubigny, as well as many other painters of the French Barbizon School. Charles has recently been invited to instruct as an
artist-in-residence for the Arts Center at the Imperial Centre in Rocky
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