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| Imagine With Art Newsletter |
Issue No.13
| September, 2010 |
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I welcome your comments!
susan@imaginewithart.com
707-824-8163
Table of Contents:
ARTrails 2010
Workshops
Expressive Marks
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 Dear Friend,
September begins the season when my husband Bob and I get really busy preparing for ARTrails Open Studios and all the events leading up to it. Harvest time in wine country spawns festivals every weekend as the weather becomes even more enticing and the landscape colors more lavish.
We just updated my website gallery with some of my newer work, so please take a look, and take advantage of the "full screen" button on the right.
In this issue I offer some ways to expand your repertoire of mark-making. I'll give you the details about our yearly open studio extravaganza in October and ways to get involved in Imagine With Art workshops.
Hoping to share this colorful autumn season with you in person!
Cheers,
Susan
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ARTrails 2010
Two weekends of open studios in October! Come meet my husband Bob and I, see our studio galleries with large displays of collectible art. Learn about techniques and processes, and upcoming workshops while perusing art journals and sketchbooks. Stop in the garden, visit the chickens and take a picture. . .enjoy the season's color! October 9, 10, 16, 17, 2010
10am-5pm
Studios #17 and 18
2550 Lewis Dr., Sebastopol
(off Vine Hill Rd., 1/4 mile west of Laguna Rd.)
There are lots of ways to preview our work. We have pieces in both the ArtSpace404 and Graton galleries. And visit our online galleries: Susan's gallery and Bob's galleryIf you have not received an ARTrails catalogue and would like one, please email me your address and I will send it. THere is also an online catalogue and map which you can use to plan your route.
ARTrails Preview Reception and 25th Celebration Saturday, Sept. 25, 2010 6 - 8 pm at ArtSpace404 7 - 10 pm at the Glaser Center "ARTrails Revealed"
You are invited to join us for a very special evening of art, wine, music and celebration! The evening starts with the ARTrails preview exhibit opening at ArtSpace404 gallery(404 Mendocino Ave) beginning at 6:00 pm, then walk two blocks to the 25th Anniversary Celebration at the Glaser Center at 547 Mendocino Ave starting at 7:00 pm, where your $15 ticket includes entry to the festivities, your wine and beer libations AND a commemorative wine glass. Enjoy wine by Sonoma-Cutrer, beer by Lagunitas, appetizers, live music, a raffle with fantastic prizes, and a special retrospective that reveals "25 Years of Creating Art." Order tickets here: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/129060
September 28 - October 24, 2010 at Graton Gallery
Meet the Artists at the Opening Reception: Saturday October 2, 3-6pm
Graton Gallery happily hosts another ARTrails Preview Show [in tandem with the Arts Council of Sonoma County]. Come preview artwork by over 35 artists participating in this year's Open Studios event. Graton Gallery
9048 Graton Road, Graton CA 95444
707.829-8912
www.gratongallery.com
Open daily 10:30 am to 6:00 pm - Closed Monday
Located in the center of Downtown Graton
1/2 mi. west of the Graton Rd./ Hwy 116 intersection
3.5 mi. north of Sebastopol
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| Imagine With Art Workshops | |
If you want a practice of art journaling and a group of Muses to meet with regularly and explore the limits of your imagination. . .or. . .if you want to learn some new water media techniques combined with collage and word, you will find something here to match your schedule and feed your art longing.
Freedom in Painting with Inks and Gesso!
When: Sept 25 WAIT LIST
Mix Those Media to Energize Your Paintings!
When: October 30, 31
Time: 10am-4:30pm
Cost: $160
Location: The Studio in the Orchard, North Sebastopol
To register contact Susan, susan@imaginewithart.com
Enliven your paintings with unusual textures, collage elements, and design challenges. The use of collage papers, textural mediums, and image transfers will be demonstrated along with the transparent and opaque applications of acrylic paints. Your choice of abstract or objective subject matter.
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Paint + Collage + Word!
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When: November 20, 21
Time: 10am-4:30pm
Cost: $160
Location: The Studio in the Orchard, North Sebastopol
To register contact Susan, susan@imaginewithart.com
Integrate your personal vision through explorations in painting, collage and written word. Along with painting skills you will learn to build meaning in your paintings with imbedded text, and hand drawn, painted or stamped words, which become an integral part of the piece.
Art Journaling in Muse Groups
The Muse group is a laboratory to spark creative expression, an opportunity to treat yourself to a regular infusion of art play in a supportive group setting. Each session features a different painting or art technique which you can add to your repertoire - from textured collage to a variety of wet media painting techniques. Simultaneously you will learn an art practice which captures your thoughts, feelings, and intuitions in a playful visual format that you can keep as an ongoing book of your life.
Saturday Muse Group (monthly meetings)
When: Sept 11, Oct. 2, Nov. 6, Dec 4, Jan 8, Feb 5
Time: 10am-2:30pm
Cost: $45/meeting drop in
Sunday Muse Group (monthly meetings)
When: Sept. 12, Oct. 3, Nov 7, Dec 5, Jan 9, Feb 6
Time: 10am-2:30pm
Cost: $45/meeting drop in
To register contact Susan, susan@imaginewithart.com
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Comments from recent Muse Group students:
I am now working in my visual journals using a wider range of mediums with more courage and enthusiasm. This is the best class I've taken in many years. -S.J.
You put lots of heart and soul into these groups and you have created such a warm supportive atmosphere in which to learn. -Suzanne
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Art Play: Expressive Mark Making
Put on some music and start moving. You're going to make these marks with your whole body, preferably standing up. Start with a big sheet of brown craft paper or some other sturdy paper that you will feel free to experiment on. Try this with dry media like charcoal or pastels, or dip pens with a variety of nibs, sticks, and brushes into ink. Dark or bold colors are prefered.Use your fingers, palm, nails.
Let the movement go from your body through the mark makers and onto the paper. Feel the sensuousness of the lines contacting with the paper. Imagine that you are tasting some exotic dish that has many flavors you can just barely identify. Allow the marks to speak to you in their own language, separate from your own usual one.
Draw with your non-dominant hand. How does that feel different? Start with drawing your name and then let that hand have a mind of its own. Write in a foreign language you have never seen before.
Let your hand go wild if it wants to and make lots of repetitive spirals or boxes or whatever feels right. Now try some other kind of mark which is less instinctual to see how that looks and feels.
You now have a new alphabet of marks at your fingertips, ready to use in paintings, your art journal, or in collage.
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What art offers is space - a certain breathing room for the spirit. ~John Updike
Allow time and space for your imagination to take flight. And let me know what comes of it!
Cheers,
Susan
Susan Cornelis
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