Archive for the ‘Workshops’ Category
Title: Barbara Van Cleve Photography Workshop
Location: Bar B Outfit ~ Crazy Mountains, Big Timber, MT
Description: This workshop is booked through Two Rivers Gallery, Big Timber, Montana. 406.932.4009.
Start Date: July 1, 2013
End Date: July 4, 2013
Cost: $500.00 per person includes all meals and accommodations!
A once-in-a-life event! 4 days with Barbara Van Cleve! Eat, sleep and play with your camera, Barbara will be your guide!!!
This workshop is booked through the Two Rivers Gallery in Big Timber, Montana. For sleeping accommodations, there are two log lean-tos filled with 1 1/2 ft. of straw. That is covered with a tarp on which you put your sleeping bag and pillow. There is also a large canvas wall tent with cots. Finally there is a cabin with two twin beds, bathroom, and a tiny living room with a wood burning stove. For those sleeping in the lean-tos and large tent there are two spacious bathrooms with showers, basins and toilets in the large bathhouse. Bring sleeping bag and pillow, change of clothing, binoculars, a laptop, and several blank CDs for your work. Bath linens will be provided. Three breakfasts, lunches and diners are provided. Water, tea and coffee are provided. Plan to arrive the night of the June 30 in time for dinner at 6:30.
Driving directions will be provided after you register for the workshop. It is best if you can carpool as there is limited space for parking vehicles.
This workshop will teach you how to use your digital camera. Bring your manual! You will learn how shutter speed, aperture and ISO all work together. You will learn how to make the camera do what you want in order to get the photographs you want. Then you will move on to shooting in the manual mode. That is you will set the aperture, the shutter speed, the color balance and determine the proper metering. You will learn about design and composition to make a photograph look great. Bring a notebook and a pen. Notes are helpful. You will be photographing sunrises and sunsets, clouds, animals, landscapes and wildlife. Bring a tripod, a remote control timer release, several digital cards and plenty of spare batteries for your equipment. Town is 30 miles and seven gates away.
For more info about Barbara Van Cleve, check out www.barbaravancleve.com.
Title: “Redefining Drawing” with Dawn Emerson
Location: Two Rivers Gallery, 226 McLeod Street, Big Timber
Description: The goal of this class is to redefine drawing in your own way, using your own voice and unique marks to express yourself. To that end, Dawn has developed guided exercises that will help you to better explore, understand, and apply the basic design elements of line, shape, edges, texture, value, space, and color. 3 day workshop.
Start Date: 2013-06-07
End Date: 2013-06-09
Time: 9:00 am – 5:00 pm
No matter what your preferred medium or style of art, and whatever your background may be in drawing, you will experience drawing on a whole different level in this class! The goal of this class is to redefine drawing in your own way, using your own voice and unique marks to express yourself. To that end, Dawn has developed guided exercises that will help you to better explore, understand, and apply the basic design elements of line, shape, edges, texture, value, space, and color. Mixed media and some printmaking will be used, to help students get back to the roots of making their own, individual marks. The last day will focus on applying the elements and design principles to individual projects.
Come ready play really hard, get inspired, and have a lot of fun doing it!
Dawn is an award winning pastel and mixed media artist with over 25 years experience teaching art to all ages and levels. She is passionate about drawing, joyful about teaching, and tireless in her energy. Please check out her website at http://www.dawnemerson.com/ for more information about her.
MATERIALS LIST:
Drawing tools you enjoy using—color pencils, charcoal,
hard pastels, etc.
A few tools that will make different patterns and textural
marks in clay
(look in the kitchen drawer!)
An assortment of water
brushes from 1/2″-2″ and a water holder
1 Full Pad of multi purpose white
drawing paper, 18×24″
Scizzors
Glue stick
Wooden spoon
Large
container Baby wipes
Roll of paper towels
Ruler
Tweezers
Masking
tape
Portable STURDYeasel if you have one (french folding type, either half or full) is preferred if you have one.
Title: Photography – Photoshop II
Location: Two Rivers Gallery, 226 McLeod Street, Big Timber
Description: Workshops taught by Sarah Burns and assisted by Barbara Van Cleve. Come prepared to learn.
Date: 2013-05-04
Cost: $75.00 per person
Each student should have a laptop computer with the Photoshop software loaded on the laptop. This is an extraordinary opportunity for anyone wanting to learn Photoshop with a “hands-on” approach. You may work with either a PC or a Mac – whatever laptop computer you have. There will be a two week span between the two workshops so you can practice what you learned in the first workshop before you go on to the second workshop. Sarah is an excellent teacher and an expert in Photoshop. So come prepared to learn. For the second workshop, you will have to bring photograph on which you want to work: either remove something from the photograph or move elements of the photograph around or add something to the photograph ( another “thing”, text etc.) Sarah will be available by email after the first workshop to answer your questions.
Title: Watercolors with Sarah F. Peterson
Location: Two Rivers Gallery, 226 McLeod Street, Big Timber
Description: 5 day workshop
Start Date: May 20, 2013
End Date: May 24, 2013
Description: A watercolor class for all levels, designed to inspire and enhance one’s own sense of expression, using a wet on wet, utterly successful method. There is a lovely process of unfolding that occurs, an exhilaration, a vulnerability… It is an opportunity to explore with supportive and gentle enthusiasm.
Fees: 5 day workshop $350.00
Cancellation Policy: Workshop fees are due by May 3, 2013. No refunds after May 8, 2013 unless your spot can be filled with another participant. A full refund, less $35.00 processing fee will be offered until May 10, 2013.
Suggested Materials List: (Please contact Two Rivers Gallery for a complete materials list.)
Brushes, paper, pallet, and paint are the basics. Following are some suggestions for your consideration. These are what work best for me. I’d love for you to consider my suggestions – particularly as they relate to paper size and weight, and paint colors.
Here are a few online sources for materials: Cheap Joe’s Art Stuff – www.cheapjoes.com Daniel Smith – www.danielsmith.com Jerry’s Artarama – www.jerrysartarama.com Dick Blick – www.dickblick.com Rosemary and Company (brushes only) – www.rosemaryandco.com(this company is located in England but they have great prices and reasonable shipping costs)
If you “sign up” for an online account at Cheap Joe’s, Daniel Smith, and Jerry’s, you can get occasional free shipping offers.
Brushes:
It is nice to buy the best brushes you can afford. Better brushes make painting easier, but it’s also a good idea to try some and go with what YOU like. I like sable or sable/synthetic blend brushes. The Winsor Newton Series 7 brushes (www.winsornewton.com) are good (and also most expensive), but there are other good sable brushes….I only use round brushes in a range of sizes from #2 to #10-12, though I rarely use a brush that is smaller than a size #5. You really don’t need very many brushes, a #3, 5 , 6, 8, 10 maybe 12 and a 16 or bigger for wetting large areas.
Paper:
It is very important to use a high-quality paper. My wish is that you bring several sheets of 300 lb. cold press paper in a 22” x 30” size, (or bigger). It is sold in single sheets, and packages of 5 and 25 sheets.
Two brands I like are Arches and Saunders Waterford. I really DON’T like those watercolor pads where you rip off a sheet, or little pieces of paper. They are unacceptable, really. I want you to feel like you are worth something bigger, something better – something good! Please bring along some less expensive paper to use to test colors. But please treat yourself to some good paper to paint on.
Title: Watercolors with Sarah F. Peterson
Location: Two Rivers Gallery, 226 McLeod Street, Big Timber
Description: 3-day workshop.
Start Date: 2013-05-17
End Date: 2013-05-19
Time: 9:30 am – 3:30 pm
Description: A watercolor class for all levels, designed to inspire and enhance one’s own sense of expression, using a wet on wet, utterly successful method. There is a lovely process of unfolding that occurs, an exhilaration, a vulnerability… It is an opportunity to explore with supportive and gentle enthusiasm.
Fees: 3 day workshop $300.00 or 5 day workshop $350.00
Cancellation Policy: Workshop fees are due by May 3, 2013. No refunds after May 8, 2013 unless your spot can be filled with another participant. A full refund, less $35.00 processing fee will be offered until May 10, 2013.
Title: Watercolor Workshop with Sarah Peterson
Location: Two Rivers Gallery, 226 McLeod Street, Big Timber, Montana
Link out: Click here
Description: A watercolor class for all levels, designed to inspire and enhance one’s own sense of expression, using a wet on wet, utterly successful method. There is a lovely process of unfolding that occurs, an exhilaration, a vulnerability… It is an opportunity to explore with supportive and gentle enthusiasm.
Start Date: July 10, 2012
End Date: July 14, 2012
Fees: 3 day workshop $200.00 or 5 day workshop $250.00
Cancellation Policy: Workshop fees are due by June 8, 2012. No refunds after June 21, 2012 unless your spot can be filled with another participant. A full refund, less $35.00 processing fee will be offered until June 20, 2012.
Title: Digital Photography I with Barbara Van Cleve
Location: Bar B Outfit at the foot of the Crazy Mountains outside Big Timber, Montana
Description: This workshop will teach you how to use your digital camera. Bring your manual! You will learn how shutter speed, aperture and ISO all work together. You will learn how to make the camera do what you want in order to get the photographs you want. Then you will move on to shooting in the manual mode. That is you will set the aperture, the shutter speed, the color balance and determine the proper metering. You will learn about design and composition to make a photograph look great. Bring a notebook and a pen. Notes are helpful. You will be photographing sunrises and sunsets, clouds, animals, landscapes and wildlife. Bring a tripod, a remote control timer release, several digital cards and plenty of spare batteries for your equipment. Town is 30 miles and seven gates away.
Cost: $450 includes food and lodging
Start Date: 2012-06-22
End Date: 2012-06-24
Title: “Drawing, Pastels and Beyond!” Workshop with Dawn Emerson
Location: Two Rivers Gallery, 226 McLeod Street, Big Timber, Montana
Description: This fun, intensive workshop will focus on drawing and painting animals with pastel and mixed media. This is a “process” oriented class, where guided drawing exercises aimed at exploring the elements of design will renew a love of drawing. Different approaches to working in series will be presented to help students explore composition and color. Students will be encouraged to go beyond copying from the photograph, and to develop their own unique vision and approach to express their passion for animals. All levels are welcome!
Cost: $250.00/person
Start Date: June 8, 2012
End Date: June 10, 2012
Sarah Peterson
Title: Watercolors with Sarah Peterson #2
Location: Two Rivers Gallery, 226 McLeod Street, Big Timber, Montana
Description: A watercolor class for all levels, designed to inspire and enhance one’s own sense of expression, using a wet on wet, utterly successful method. There is a lovely process of unfolding that occurs, an exhilaration, a vulnerability… It is an opportunity to explore with supportive and gentle enthusiasm. To visist Sarah’s website, click here.
Start Date: May 1, 2012
End Date: May 5, 2012
Title: MAP Workshop
Location: Two Rivers Gallery, 226 McLeod Street, Big Timber, Montana
Description: What is MAP?
Montana Artrepreneur Program (MAP) helps visual artists develop a sustainable business in art both by learning more about the art of entrepreneurship and by obtaining certification of market readiness.
This program is based on the ideas that learning should be accessible, affordable, flexible, collaborative, and useful. It is not just a theoretical exercise, but the opportunity to actually develop the tools needed to build a sustainable business.
Start Date: April 21, 2012
End Date: April 22, 2012