CorkStop Studios Workshops and Events
Upcoming Workshops and Events:
- Jan 24 - Mar 13Investigate your Identity
- Apr 17 - Jun 5Mixing it up. Re-invent the landscape.
- Sep 25 - Nov 13Rorschach leads the way
Identity, Landscape and Rorschach
Three Programs at CorkStop Studios – 2012
(painting workshops in oil or acrylic)
You are invited to build your painting skills and gain inspiration with a new series of art classes at the beautiful Corkstop Studios. Surrounded by the stunning Edna Valley scenery, instructor, Artist Carol Paquet, will teach a series of three art programs intended to get the creative juices flowing and forge new artistic ground.
You will be encouraged to look at the commonplace from a fresh perspective, and become acutely aware of the relationship of subject to background. Although all sessions start with abstraction, realism will be employed. We will discuss relevant contemporary artists and get to know a little about their process. The participant is already familiar with basic painting techniques and is looking to challenge themselves and stretch conceptually. At the end the of each 8 week program you will take home a completed oil painting. Each program consists of 8 consecutive weeks of 2 ½ hour sessions. Choose one or sign up for all three.
Program One: Investigate your Identity Jan 24 – Mar 13
San Luis Obispo
Tuesdays 9am– 11.30am weekly
In this program the primary focus will be content. You will set out with the objective of telling a story visually. Your completed oil painting will give viewers an insight into its creator. You will begin by creating a personal diorama using items that are meaningful to you. We will explore various aspects of the diorama using selective cropping and preliminary sketches and or digital photography. The successful selection will form the basis of the oil painting. This piece will have interesting relationships between perspective, scale and depth, and a strong sense of narrative.
What you will learn:
- The importance of preliminary sketches in determining composition
- Cropping. Eliminating the superfluous and delivering the essence
- Depth and perspective
- Use of color in creating depth
Where: 1250 Judith Lane, Arroyo Grande
When: Each Tuesdays 9-11.30am
Cost: $400 per session (8 weeks), $100 discount for all three sessions
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Program Two: Mixing it up. Re-invent the landscape Apr 17 - Jun 5
San Luis Obispo
Tuesdays 9am– 11.30am weekly
You will need an 8” x 10” color photograph of a landscape that interests you. It could be a cityscape, seascape, country scene, street scene or your back yard. You will be integrating parts of or all of this landscape with a visual that I will supply. The idea is to find congruence between the two images, no matter how disparate they are. It’s about creating a dialogue between them – finding the connection. The means by which we get to this point is collage. You will slice-and-dice and move elements around until the conversation begins. This will serve as the blue print for the final painting.
What you will learn:
- How collage reboots creativity
- Proximity matters
- Observation is in the details
- How to create drama through composition
Where: 1250 Judith Lane, Arroyo Grande
When: Each Tuesdays 9-11.30am
Cost: $400 per session (8 weeks), $100 discount for all three sessions
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Program One: Investigate your Identity Jan 24 – Mar 13
San Luis Obispo
Program Three: Rorschach leads the way. (Sept 25 – Nov 13)
Tuesdays 9am– 11.30am weekly
The Rorschach test, also known as the Rorschach inkblot is a psychological test in which the subjects' perceptions of inkblots are recorded and then analyzed using psychological interpretation (we won’t be doing the analyzing part).We will begin this session with a free play period where we will splash and fold. We will create a number of different ink blots after which you will choose one that relates to one of the following: human, nature, insect or animal. We will overlay images of your drawings onto the original inkblot. Playing with scale, shape and line until the dialogue makes sense.
What you will learn:
- Seeing the figurative in the abstract and abstract in the figurative
- Introducing and combining different mark making
- The importance of scale
- Layering techniques
Where: 1250 Judith Lane, Arroyo Grande
When: Each Tuesdays 9-11.30am
Cost: $400 per session (8 weeks), $100 discount for all three sessions
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