Introduction to Stone Carving | instructor: John McLeod

Friday night demo : May 18 Workshop : May 19 & 20

Students will learn how to work with alabaster stone and a wide variety of tools to carve their own sculpture.  While there will be a great deal of time and instruction devoted for beginners to stone carving, this class will be open to all levels of experience.

Intro to Portrait Painting | instructor: Mia Bergeron

Wednesdays and Thursdays, May 16, 17, 23 & 24 10:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m.

This class is an introduction to portrait painting in oils from life. Some background in oil painting is suggested. We will be working from live portrait models, and emphasis on proportions, color temperatures, values, edges, and gesture will be discussed.

Painting from Concept to Canvas | instructor: Caleb Goggans

Wednesdays, May 30-June 27 6-9 p.m.

How to begin?  Do you ever get tangled up or discouraged by all the steps and challenges of creating a painting?  In this 5 week class, Caleb Goggans will guide and assist each student through the entire process for developing and completing a painting, all the way from an idea to the finished canvas.

Natural Object Still Life Painting | instructor: Alia El Bermani

June 8, 9, & 10

Students will be encouraged to pick items that will enable them to develop their own personal narratives or meanings within these still life paintings.  This course will cover the essentials of oil painting from proper surface preparation to color mixing, with a primarily earth tone palette.

Classic Pen & Ink Workshop | instructed by James Courtenay James

Saturday, June 23 9:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m.

Learn traditional method of pen and ink drawing.  Drawing with pen and ink is a versatile and traditional technique  that every artist should have in his or her repertoire for sketching as well as highly finished works.

Silk Painting | Beginning | instructed by Claire Vassort

June 30 & July 1, 2012

Come experience the beauty of silk painting firsthand in a two-day workshop. You will learn the basic techniques of silk painting and create practice samples and two wearable scarves.

Oil Painting Bootcamp | instructed by James Courtenay James

Saturday, July 21 9:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m.

Join us for a day chocked full of practical how-to  information and painting  tricks they didn’t teach you in art school.

5 Day Figure Painting Workshop with Casey Baugh

August 6-10 10:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m.

Learn Baugh’s method of figure and portrait painting in a 5-day master workshop.  The workshop will focus on creating a figure painting from the early stages of set up to the finishing strokes in both indoor and outdoor settings

Silk Painting | Intermediate/Advanced : instructed by Claire Vassort

Saturday, August 25 9 a.m.-5 p.m.

For those who have taken the beginner silk painting class at Townsend Atelier or already have experienced the basic techniques of silk painting in the past, this one-day class will further your experience and allow you paint another large silk design

Making it Big in Oils | instructed by James Courtenay James

September 22 & 23 9:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m.

Students will take a small, everyday object and turn it into a monumental piece of art.

Drawing from Life | instructor: Caleb Goggans

Sat & Sun October 6 & 7 9 a.m.-4 p.m.

Learn the art of drawing the human figure– central subject of art history and human experience.   Lean how to see and understand the play of light on the form, the intricacies of anatomy, and the application of technique.

Life Drawing | Open Studio

Ongoing, Thursday evenings & most Sunday afternoons

Open studios are non-instructed sessions with live models. A combination of short and long poses will be done. Participants may work at their own pace and with whatever medium they wish to work with.

Townsend Atelier Gift Certificate

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Portrait Sculpture Workshop | Instructed by Elizabeth Rogers

Saturday, June 2 & Sunday, June 3 9:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m.

This class  will concentrate on a study of the head and its major features: eyes, ears, nose and mouth. Students will model a life size portrait busts in clay from the model. The student will gain an understanding of the form and structure of the head, its major planes and volumes, underlying skull and musculature and proportion of its features to the whole.