Register Now! Classes Start Saturday November 19th
Description
Welcome to Holiday Open Studio! If you are new to Holiday Studio you are in for a treat. Each week a new lesson will be posted for you written by your instructors, Skip Allen, Elaina Moore-Kelly and me, Karen Bonaker. With this line-up you are going to have some fun and also learn something new along the way. Open Studio courses are relaxed and we encourage constructive critiques. There is no competition in this class only inspiration that I hope you will take from the instructors as well as the many talented students who regularly join our Open Studio sessions. Course work is a guideline for you but you are free to follow your muse which I encourage. The emphasis of this class is to have fun and enjoy the Holidays as we create and paint the season. Enjoy your class!
Your instructor may hold live sessions which are recorded in which you may download them for future reference.
Week One
Painter Master, Karen Bonaker-Painting Holiday Floral Arrangements
Flower arranging has been a popular art for centuries with many considering the ability to create a perfectly balanced arrangement a great skill. While styles vary across the globe, many cultures seem to enjoy using floral symbolism, whereby each flower or aspect of an arrangement has a specific meaning. While this is a fascinating and often sentimental concept, flower arranging in the main stream is becoming a lost art as people have less time to nurture their gardens and arrange the blooms they provide. Our goal in lesson one is to learn about how you can create and paint a perfectly balanced Holiday flower arrangement. These paintings once completed, are perfect for your Holiday greeting cards.
You will be working with several brushes and will learn how to control each one using light and firm pressure via your pen stylus. Begin by reading the information below and then watch the videos that have been prepared for you. This will get you off to a good start and help you to understand how an arrangement is created.
Week Two
Painter Master, Skip Allen-Watercolor Snow Scenes
Join Skip for an exciting week painting snow scenes using Corel Painter Watercolors and Custom Watercolors brushes.
White space in a watercolor is very important, but a hard technique to master. Concentrating on snow scene landscapes is an easy way to build white space skills. This week we will focus on leaving lots of white space on the canvas and developing simple yet sophisticated winter scenes. Painter IX – 12 will work nicely.
Week Three
Painter Educator and Expert, Elaina Moore-Kelly- Holiday Greetings with Painter
Elaina will demonstrate how to create beautiful greetings cards using Painter just in time for the Holidays!
Week Four
Holiday Wreaths and Winter Scenes
This week you will learn how to paint a beautiful Holiday wreaths using Corel Painter. A custom brush set will be provided to each student to complete your weekly project. Students will also enjoy painting Winter snow scenes as a final project.
