Spring, Summer and Year-long Creativity Courses
with Shary Bartlett
FLOW: Fluid Mixed Media Exploration
July 5-9, 2021 – 5 Day Intensive
Red Deer College, Red Deer Alberta
Delight in the fluidity of your creative spirit while exploring a multiplicity of liquid mixed media materials and techniques. In this five-day workshop we’ll play with fluid paints of all kinds, inks, rust, verdigris, Cyanotype, molten encaustic beeswax and more. You’ll be enchanted by the spontaneous and joyful collaboration between fluid media and your artistic voice, creating stunning paintings, an art book and a collaborative class art installation in this fun and supportive workshop.
Suitable for both new and experienced artists alike. Please note: this class will offer an introductory “taste” of each technique, rather than an in-depth exploration of each material.
Tuition: $650.00 CDN
Materials Cost: $50.00 CDN
Painting with Fire - Year-long Online Workshop by 26 world-renowned Encaustic Artists
52 weekly classes beginning April 30, 2021
Essence of Mulranny
A year-long academic course that is devoted to studying best practices in Encaustic painting. I'll be teaching classes on using alcohol inks and encaustic wax but this year-long workshop includes many exciting and innovative mixed media applications of encaustic such as:
+ mixed media
+ Photo encaustic
+ Zen monoprints
+ Translucency and Opacity
+ Figurative work
+ Collage and encaustic
+ Landscape
+ Bookmaking with Encaustic
+ Fabric with encaustic
+ Working with, and combining, digital images.
+ Translucent alcohol inks
+ Sculpture
+ Encaustic assemblage
+ Encaustic with Mosaic
+ Working with soft supports
+ Using Pan pastels and inks
+ Composition
+ Color theory and value
+ Finding a creative voice in your own work.
+ Loosening up, and so much more!!
Geared toward all levels - beginning, intermediate and advanced artists.
Over 50 hours of tuition for one low price of $299 USD.
From Photo to Fine Art: Mixed Media Photography
July 12-16, 2021 – 5 Day Intensive
Red Deer College, Red Deer Alberta
Explore your creative spirit and learn amazing ways to hand-alter and transfer photographs using an exciting variety of mixed media materials. You’ll learn to enhance images using acrylic, inks, pastel, watercolour, encaustic beeswax and cold wax and how to print on a variety of surfaces. In this five-day workshop you’ll create layered, textured and evocative mixed media photo-paintings that will bring your images alive. This class will strengthen your understanding of composition and design and stimulate the creative artist within in a fun and supportive environment.
Suitable for both new and experienced artists alike.
Please note: this class will offer an introductory “taste” of each technique, rather than an in-depth exploration of each material.
Tuition: $650.00 CDN
Materials Cost: $50.00 CDN
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