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Classes
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Studying and teaching are important facets of Jane's life. The knowledge of design, color, and creativity that she shares encourages each of her students to develop his or her own self expression through art.
Workshops of 1 day, 3 days or 5 days are available.
Explanations and examples of workshops can be faxed or mailed .
Watercolor I (Basic Watercolor)
- Painting and drawing demonstrations and personal instruction
- Introduction to basic techniques (washes, brush strokes, use of various watercolor papers)
- Basic design, color theory, drawing, and value studies using various subject matter
- Discussions on how to use the color wheel with different palettes of color and color schemes
- Step by step demonstrations of landscapes, still life, buildings, close-ups, water, flowers and vignettes
- Constructive and informal
- Can be repeated until ready to move to the next level
- Critiques
- For first time students
Watercolor/Composition
- In studio instruction
- Impressionistic and abstract
- Composition, color and design using different subject matter
- Emphasis on composition, design, color, creativity, and problem-solving
- Direct painting, wet into wet techniques, working with different color schemes, value schemes and design structures to create different moods
- Demonstration of "problem to be solved" and critique of "solution" during class time
- Working with small preliminary paintings to be used in the final painting and starting your final piece to be finished by the next week's session
- Painting demonstrations, lectures and personal instruction
- Use of own subject matter and development of own composition
- Critiques
- Intermediate to Advanced Levels
Design I
- In studio instruction
- Opening your mind to creativity
- Basic design using the elements and principles of design to better understand how to create your own content
- Use of value schemes and color schemes
- Students use own reference material
- For all levels of experience
- Compositional drawings in ink are then transferred to watercolor paper for the painting process
- Demonstrations and individual assistance
Design II
- In studio instruction
- Enhancing your creativity
- Basic design using the elements and principles of design and how to unify your paintings to create a more powerful statement
- Step by step demonstrations concentrating on using each element separately using one of the principles as being dominant - building one onto the other
- Examples to trigger mind to new creative ideas
- A full syllabus with illustrations and explanations of the creative ways of finding your own content
- Demonstrations and and individual assistance
- Use of value schemes and color schemes
- Students use own reference material
- Design Structures
- For all levels of experience
Abstract
- Opening your mind to creativity
- Design Structures
- Repeated Shapes
- Motifs
- Found compositions from chaos
- Color and value studies
- Painting wet into wet
- Realistic subject matter superimposed over abstract shapes
- How to create movement in your paintings
- Demonstrations and personal attention
- Group Critiques
- Intermediate to Advanced Level
* See my article in "Watercolor" an American Artist Publication, Winter 1998 issue
Color II
- In studio instruction
- Extensive study of color working with the 7-color contrasts
- Step by step demonstrations on each individual color contrast building one onto the other until all 7 are used
- Students choose own subject matter and value scheme and work on preliminary paintings 4 x 6 size to be used later to develop into large paintings
- Must have had some painting experience
- Demonstrations
- Critique session every day
- Intermediate to Advanced level
Collage
- In studio instruction
- Based on color and design and structures
- Exploring design through collage
- Use of various materials with water media, acrylic, marbling, monotypes, stampings, rice papers, printed and colored papers, aluminum foil, wood shavings, fabrics, etc.
- Use of abstract and realistic
- Development of color, value, texture, line, and shape relationships
- Use of illustration board and heavy watercolor paper for a support working with smaller sizes Making unworkable paintings workable through collage
- Experimental techniques
- Demonstrations and critiques
- Beginning level through advanced
Experimental/Acrylic
- Use of acrylics and collage
- On-going demonstrations
- Abstract and non-objective
- Working inventively with your tools, trying anything you can think of to bring new life to your paintings.
- Discovering the joy of transparent glazing, opaque effects, gessoed textures, stamping, lifting off to unveil images and collage. The process encourages play, taking risks and exploration as part of art making.
- Use of acrylics, ink, dyes, watercolor, acrylic and collage
- Discovering design and color
- Personal critiques
- Group critiques
- This workshop will help take your paintings to a new level
- Some level of painting experience
Experimental Collage
- Experimenting with various ways of using collage with mixed media
- Making cast paper for collage
- Working with and making textured supports
- Creating a layered look
- Working with heavy objects
- Working with fibers
- Experimenting with metallic, interference, transparent, translucent and opaque acrylics and different textured rice papers
- Strong emphasis on design
- Demonstrations
- Critiques
- All levels of students
Innovation
- Problem solving to increase your creativity
- Learning how to become more original with materials and methods that are out of the ordinary
- Finding different ways of doing things using your academic ideas as stepping stones (Example: using different viewpoints or angles; using different formats or structures; using spatial concepts)
- Breaking boundaries
- Breaking the rules
- Intermediate to Advanced level
PLEIN AIR (On Location Painting)
- Seeing and experiencing nature in the raw and creating impressions
- For intermediate to advanced students
- Realistic to impressionistic
- Emphasis on drawing, value, structure, design, and problem solving
- Not copying nature, but feeling it
- Landscapes, buildings, water, mountains, rocks, flowers, etc.
- Using value schemes taken from nature
- Enjoying the outdoor experience
- Collage demonstrations and water soluble pastels on an unworkable painting done on location
- Demonstrations and informal critique (All demonstrations are carefully explained step by step as they progress, giving the student the thought process of the artist's thinking.
Design Composition
- Demonstration and individual assistance
- Color schemes and color theory
- Value schemes structures
- Design
- Wet into wet, glazing
- Students use their own reference matter
- Problem solving
- Abstract and impressionist painting
- Elements and Principles of Design
- Flat Color; shapes
- Grays
- Group Critique
- Enhancing your creativity
- Basic design using the elements and principles of design and how to unify your paintings to create a more powerful statement
- Intermediate level
Additional information
- Guest workshop demonstrator for over 50 art organizations and self-sponsored and art organization-sponsored workshops across the United States (including Hawaii), Mexico, Guatemala, France, Germany, Italy and on cruises
- Innumerable articles written
- On all workshops and weekly classes emphasis is on composition, color, design, structure, track of vision and focus.
- All European trips will be done with quick ink sketches with watercolor washes. Use 1/4 sheet (or smaller) watercolor block with impressionistic painting. Some painting experience is necessary.