Water surrounds us in Northern Michigan. The Glen Arbor Arts Center looks to the Big Lake, the streams, wetlands and ponds for New Views: Water = Life = Art...
Sorry, this class has been cancelled. Create a collagraph that will be incorporated into a mixed media painting. Use cardboard, foam shapes, yarn, tape and other interesting found flat items to create your own collagraph printing plate.
Clay is soo Fun! Get your hands in the clay. Choose projects from an array of ideas; animals, houses, owls, turtles, wizards, dragons, and many more. Learn slab, coil and pinch methods. All projects get fired in the kiln and are ready to paint and take home on Friday. Don't miss this class. Dates: July […]
Sorry, this class has been cancelled. Create a collagraph that will be incorporated into a mixed media painting. Use cardboard, foam shapes, yarn, tape and other interesting found flat items to create your own collagraph printing plate.
Let’s start with "What." Imagine idyllic rolling farmlands. Sunshine. Add a barn or hay bales; how about a horse or deer? Or, let’s narrow the viewpoint: just outside the farmhouse, a person in the rising sun, tossing feed to the chickens. Two very different scenes. Two very similar processes. “When” is the most important aspect […]
Framing can make or break a finished work. In this one-day lecture/demo style class, tips and techniques designed will be covered to make your framing project fairly painless and professional looking. Discussion and demonstration to include sourcing materials, archival framing, mounting canvas to board, hinging artwork for matting, fitting canvases, easy dust cover applications and […]
Born in the thriving Burlington, Vermont music scene, three friends raised on funk, jazz, blues, and soul combine their nuanced styles to create this all-original trio.
The kick-off event of the 10th annual Plein Art Weekend is the Sundowner – a challenging painting opportunity that features artists capturing the beauty and awe of the sunset...
The second event in the Glen Arbor Arts Center’s 10th annual Plein Air Weekend is the popular Quick Draw. This painting activity finds more than 70 artists...
The focus here will not be “what” we are painting, but rather what we are painting on! A variety of “supports” for painting will be discussed and samples will be provided so that students can develop a feel for how different surfaces react under their brushes. Discussion and demonstrations will include the pro and cons […]
Sorry, this class has been cancelled. Artist Hank Feeley will present a two-day workshop incorporating traditional landscape techniques as well as exercises in creative exploration. With the instructor’s guidance students will paint a vivid landscape -- using the medium of your choice -- in an outdoor setting, and then add imaginative or unexpected elements to […]
Sorry, this class has been cancelled. Paint an acrylic still life of local fruits and vegetables. Consider how color juxtaposition and value play into a composition.
Sorry, this class has been cancelled. Add depth and volume to your painting. We will review the laws of perspective and sketch out examples before painting a finished piece. Then let’s go outdoors and paint!
Sorry, this class has been cancelled. Get inspired by Michigan wildlife! Create a sketch based on photos of some of Michigan’s common animals, then turn it into an acrylic painting.
Glow-in-the-dark paint meets glitter, swirled in a bed of cotton. Slime meets stars. Intrigued? Come make galaxy jars that will remind you of summer nights up north.
Clay is soo Fun! Get your hands in the clay. Choose projects from an array of ideas; animals, houses, owls, turtles, wizards, dragons, and many more. Learn slab, coil and pinch methods. All projects get fired in the kiln and are ready to paint and take home on Friday. Don't miss this class. Dates: August […]
This intensive workshop covers various aspects of the traditional and rare Japanese printmaking process – mokuhanga. The process is versatile and differs from western (oil based ink) woodblock in that it is water based and non-toxic, using watercolor pigment, wood block, Japanese carving tools, rice paste, and Japanese paper to create beautiful refined prints. It […]
In this one-day workshop, participants will experience traditional Japanese Raku pottery as practiced today. Expect beautiful, dramatic, and often unexpected pots to emerge from the firing! Bisqued pots, glazing, and firing are included. All experience levels. This class does not include Open Studio John Huston will be Potter-in-Residence all summer at Thoreson Farm. John has […]