Saturday, July 31, 2010

About your included Private Mentoring session

Private Mentoring is what I call the Rocket Fuel of art instruction. I believe so strongly in its effectiveness that I include up to an hour and a half for each student in every class at Julia's Studio.

In your Mentoring session, your work gets a personalized boost of attention. It's a unique and effective way for you to get the most out of your art class.

In your time with me you can ask any questions you want, see a demo, share an idea, request a critique, practice a technique or try a new one, or work on anything else you choose. In my experience, we frequently make important discoveries in private sessions that add dimension to what we do in class.

You can bring anything you want to work on - paintings, drawings, other projects, or simply your questions. You can also request an exercise if you aren't sure what you'd like to focus on.

Private Mentoring sessions are held at my home studio-with-a-view. You can reserve a time as soon as your space in the class is confirmed.

I love questions!
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Continuing Painting: Choice & Voice

Welcome to Fall 2010 at Julia's Studio! This class is now open for registration.

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CLASS DESCRIPTION
DETAILS (Schedule, Cost, Location, How to Register)
ABOUT PRIVATE MENTORING
MORE CLASSES AT JULIA'S STUDIO

Image: Mercedes Matter, Tabletop Still Life, c.1936, Oil on canvas

CLASS DESCRIPTION
Continuing Painting: Choice & Voice

In Choice & Voice you continue to develop your painting technique and repertoire of subjects and approaches in an ongoing class, reinforcing skills as you transition from the "how" of painting to "what" to paint.

Specific exercises in creativity help you to develop your individual studio practice in a supportive environment (whether your studio is at home or in class), and gently guide you toward finding and developing a personal artistic direction.

Exercises include identifying one or more painters whom you admire to study in-depth for key elements that you can use as jumping-off points in your own work. Share ideas with your classmates as you progress in your own practice.

Focus topics include the interior, views outside from inside, abstract painting, working from photographs, and a special introduction to painting the figure, designed to make the subject accessible and fun. With a simple approach you will be drawing and painting the figure in no time. Includes one session with a live model.

Advanced techniques include subtractive painting, emphasizing three-dimensionality, use of line, filtering color and value, texture, and manipulating drawing to serve your compositions. Explore a theme in a series of studies and learn to develop longer paintings.

Investigate the difference between “voice” and “style” and gradually build toward a painting practice
that is true to you.

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DETAILS

Schedule
Thursdays, 9:30-1:30
Sept. 2 - Oct. 28

(September 2, 9, 16, 23, 30
October 7, *,21, 28)

*NO CLASS October 14 due to UHC schedule

8 sessions

Cost
$385

Includes:
Weekly lesson email
Printed handouts
1 Session with model
1.5 hour private mentoring session ($105 value - find out more below)

Location
Room 211
University Heights Center
5031 University Way NE
Seattle, WA 98105

Class is held in this beautiful historic school building in the University District featuring

- High ceilings, wood floors, lots of natural light
- Good heating in winter & ventilation in summer
- Access to our own private utility sink nearby
- Friendly staff
- Free parking in designated areas of the UHC lot


HOW TO REGISTER

Send me an email to register


To reserve your place in the class, simply send me an email with the name of the class you are interested in, your name, mailing address, and phone number.

I will send you a confirmation email and the address to send your check to.

Payments are due when you receive my email response.
Your spot is secure once I receive your payment.

Spaces are limited. Class filled on first-come, first-served basis.


Thank you for signing up! I look forward to painting with you.

Julia

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ABOUT PRIVATE MENTORING

Painting in Acrylics 1

Welcome to Fall 2010 at Julia's Studio! This class is now open for registration.

In this Post:
CLASS DESCRIPTION
DETAILS (Schedule, Cost, Location, How to Register)
ABOUT PRIVATE MENTORING

MORE FALL CLASSES AT JULIA'S STUDIO





















Richard Diebenkorn, Cityscape I
Oil on Canvas, 60 1/4 x 50 1/2 inches
1963, Collection of SFMOMA


CLASS DESCRIPTION
Painting in Acrylics 1
This four-part program is designed to introduce you to the fun and challenges of painting, with a foundation of skills and concepts that build on each other. Try one quarter, or take the entire, year-long program.

The curriculum includes drawing, painting technique, color mechanics, composition and art history discussion, with a combination of creative, technical exercises and applied practice.

You work from reproductions, the still-life, the view outside, and the room around you. Learn direct painting, as well as how to use washes, glazes, scumbles, and impasto techniques to build a varied, indirect surface. Learn how to mix colors with understanding and accuracy.

In addition, you learn to develop original compositions while incorporating lessons learned from past and modern masters into your work.

Try painting for the first time, or deepen your color work and technical range. Discover how acrylics can be both precise and loose. Join an ongoing conversation about art that builds your awareness and appreciation of the dynamics and history of art and informs your own creative thinking as you learn to paint.

Lots of individual attention, demonstrations and guidance. No experience necessary.
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DETAILS

Schedule
Wednesdays, 12:30-4:30
Sept. 1 - Oct. 28

(September 1, 8, 15, 22, 29
October *, 13, 20, 28)

NO CLASS Wednesday, October 6 due to UHC schedule

Cost
$375


Includes:
Weekly lesson email
Printed handouts
1.5 hour private mentoring session ($105 value)

New students!

Email me

to set up a free 1/2 hour phone consultation

Location
Room 211
University Heights Center
5031 University Way NE
Seattle, WA 98105

Class is held in this beautiful historic school building in the University District featuring

- High ceilings, wood floors, lots of natural light
- Good heating in winter & ventilation in summer
- Access to our own private utility sink nearby
- Friendly staff
- Free parking in designated areas of the UHC lot


HOW TO REGISTER

Send me an email to register


To reserve you place in the class, simply send me an email with the name of the class you are interested in, your name, mailing address, and phone number.

I will send you a confirmation email and the address to send your check to.

Payments are due when you receive my email response.
Your spot is secure once I receive your payment.

Spaces are limited. Class filled on first-come, first-served basis.


Thank you for signing up! I look forward to painting with you.

Julia

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ABOUT PRIVATE MENTORING
Click here to read more about your included private mentoring session

MORE FALL CLASSES AT JULIA'S STUDIO
Continuing Painting: Choice & Voice
Drawing & Expressive Design


Monday, July 19, 2010

Drawing & Expressive Design

Welcome to Fall 2010 at Julia's Studio! This class is now open for registration.

In this Post:
CLASS DESCRIPTION
DETAILS (Schedule, Cost, Location, How to Register)
ABOUT PRIVATE MENTORING























Picasso, Bull (Plates I - IX), 1945, Etchings

CLASS DESCRIPTION
Drawing & Expressive Design
In this class you continue to build your drawing skills and take them to the next level while you develop your expressive voice. You work with exercises that build your visual vocabulary, strengthen creativity, sharpen accuracy, and hone composition and technique.

Focus topics include drawing outside views from inside,
drawing complex and simple household objects, drawing shiny objects, drawing from photographs, using color in your drawings, and generating abstract drawing.

In addition, the class includes an introduction to figure drawing that simplifies the complexity of the human form. Work from a professional art model on one of the days and find out how much you already know about drawing people. We'll also look at the clothed figure, using each other as compositional elements within the context of the interior.

Concepts and tools encompass line, gesture, proportion, relationships, shape, planes, volume, light and shadow, anatomy, design, space and composition.


You begin to identify what ideas and artists interest you and make an extended series of studies. Analyze
reproductions for design and composition and make your own versions of these master works. Along the way, you'll learn to keep a sketchbook and develop your own drawing practice. The class includes an art history conversation relating to each lesson, lots of demonstrations and individual attention.
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DETAILS

Schedule
Mondays, 9:30-12:30
Sept. 13 - Nov. 1

(September 13, 20, 27
October 4,11,18, 25
November 1 in Room 109)

8 sessions

Cost
$325
Eight sessions

Includes:
Weekly lesson email
Printed handouts
1.5 hour private mentoring session ($105 value - see below for more information)

Location
Room 211 (First 4 sessions)
Room 109 (Next 4 sessions)
University Heights Center
5031 University Way NE
Seattle, WA 98105

Class is held in this beautiful, historic school building in the University District

- High ceilings, wood floors, lots of natural light
- Good heating in winter & ventilation in summer
- Access to our own private utility sink nearby
- Friendly staff
- Free parking in designated areas of the University Heights lot

HOW TO REGISTER

Send me an email to register


To reserve you place in the class, simply send me an email with the name of the class you are interested in, your name, mailing address, and phone number.

I will send you a confirmation email and the address to send your check to.

Payments are due when you receive my email response.
Your spot is secure once I receive your payment.

Spaces are limited. Class filled on first-come, first-served basis.

Questions? Please contact me

Thank you for signing up! I look forward to drawing with you.

Julia

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ABOUT PRIVATE MENTORING
Click here to read more about your included Private Mentoring session

MORE FALL CLASSES AT JULIA'S STUDIO
Painting in Acrylics 1
Continuing Painting: Choice & Voice


Tuesday, May 25, 2010

The Gloss & Glass Workshop

and Guided Practice Days

Saturday, June 5 -Tuesday, June 8
11am-5pm
at my home-studio-with-a-view
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Welcome to Gloss & Glass, a new workshop on drawing and/or painting shiny and transparent objects.

I'm offering two opportunities to take this one-day workshop and two Guided Practice days to try out what you've learned, or work on any other project you desire. Thanks to all who have requested this topic!

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In this post:
Description
Details
Cost
How to Sign Up


Ralph Goings
Half & Half Creamer
Oil on canvas, 18 x 18"
2000


DESCRIPTION

Gloss & Glass

Saturday, June 5

Section 1

The world is full of see-through and shiny surfaces that can be seductive to the eye yet baffling to draw and paint. In this workshop you'll start with basic perspective and light logic to make sense of shiny and transparent objects.

You'll find out about reflections and examine
which aspects of high gloss planes to pay attention to, which to simplify and which to ignore. Find out how to control and depict the effects of transparency, with a special look at liquid in glass containers.

Finally, you'll explore how to use glossy and glassy objects deliberately and creatively in your compositions. The class will focus on drawing, with an additional segment on color in the afternoon for those who wish to paint.

Guided Practice Day
Sunday, June 6
Mentored studio day open to all students.
Practice what you learned in Gloss & Glass class, or choose from still life, landscape, or reproductions. Request exercises in technique, perspective, basic volumes, composition, or work on your own project with guidance on hand. You can draw, paint or collage. Enjoy a friendly but structured environment with a high degree of individual attention.

Gloss & Glass
Monday, June 7
Section 2
Couldn't make it Saturday? Here's another opportunity to study reflective and transparent objects in pencil and/or paint. See description above.

Guided Practice Day
Tuesday, June 8
A second opportunity to work on what you learned in Gloss & Glass, or any other project you choose, in a friendly, mentored setting. See description above.





















Jean-Baptiste Simeon Chardin
Carafe, Silver Goblet and Fruit
1728, Oil on canvas, 55 x 40 cm
Staatliche Kunsthalle


DETAILS
Sign up for any number or combination of days.
Class size is limited to 4 people.
Registration is on a first-come, first-serve basis.

We will break for lunch for approximately a half hour. Please bring what you'd like to eat or munch on snacks I provide.


COST

1 day $95

2 days $190

3 days $270

4 days $360


HOW TO SIGN UP


Email me to register


Send me an email with your preferred days. I will send you a confirmation email and where to send your check.


Thank you for joining me for the Gloss & Glass workshop.

Friday, March 5, 2010

The Nuts & Bolts Workshop Series

Saturday, March 27- Thursday, April 1

10:30-4:30

At my home studio-with-a-view


In this post:

About the Workshop Series

Dates and topics

Details

Cost

How to sign up



















Lewis Hine

'Powerhouse mechanic working on a steam pump'

1920



ABOUT THE WORKSHOP SERIES


Welcome to the Nuts & Bolts Workshop Series - and welcome to my home studio!


I've chosen three big, important topics that often get skimmed over - perhaps because they are seen as dry or difficult.


Perspective and Basic Volumes are extremely helpful for a thorough understanding of forms in two dimensions.


Once you understand the basics of these topics, your own work gets easier and more fun. They are like a skeleton key you can apply to everything around you, whether organic or man-made, and will aid you in convincingly rendering not only your surroundings but subjects from your imagination. Finally, I've included Drapery as a perfect application for modeling the form and light and shadow.


I'll be presenting the topics in a approachable, concentrated format to get the information across and enable you to use it right away.


- Six consecutive days of instruction


- Three pithy art topics


- Three days of Guided Practice, open to all. You do not have to take a Workshop topic to attend


- Break for lunch and conversation - bring what you'd like, or snack on food and drink I provide


- You can sign up for any number or combination of days, from 1-6


DATES & TOPICS


DAY ONE

Saturday, March 27

10:30-4:30

Perspective: How it Works & How to Use It

After a brief but wide-ranging introduction, you will learn the basics of one-point, two-point, and three-point Western perspective and find out how multiple vanishing points work.


Learn how to make up objects in perspective from imagination. Then find out how to apply perspective to make sense of the real world around you. You'll explore railroad tracks, telephone poles, arched colonnades, windows of buildings, skyscrapers, interiors, furniture, round still-life objects and briefly, the human body, all in the context of perspective.


The class makes the fundamentals of perspective learnable and ready to apply.











Canaletto

Venice: Riva degli Schiavoni, 1730-33

Pen & ink over pencil on paper, 196-309mm

Royal Collection, Windsor


DAY TWO

Sunday, March 28

Guided Practice Day

Mentored open studio day for all students. Come practice what you learned in Perspective class, or bring any project you'd like to work on in a friendly but structured setting. You can draw, paint, or collage. There will be plenty of material for you to work on here and a high degree of individual attention.


DAY THREE

Monday, March 29

Basic Volumes: Drawing the Cube, Cone, Cylinder & Sphere

After a brief art history lesson relating to these simple but powerful forms, you'll study each of them in pencil and charcoal to understand their particularities of shape. The lesson includes a mini-lesson on perspective as it relates to these forms, as well as an in-depth look at modeling the form, and light and shadow.


Learn how to draw these shapes from life as well as from memory. Includes a demonstration of how basic volumes can be used to understand complex, real-life objects and natural forms.


DAY FOUR

Tuesday, March 30

Guided Practice Day

Mentored open studio day for all students. Come practice what you learned in Basic Volumes class, or bring any project you'd like to work on in a friendly but structured setting. You can draw, paint, or collage. There will be plenty of material for you to work on here and a high degree of individual attention.


DAY FIVE

Wednesday, March 31

Drapery: Understanding and Drawing Folds of Cloth

Drapery is one of the great subjects in art history, with the beauty of many paintings, drawings and sculptures hingeing on the graceful and artfully constructed fall of cloth.


In our modern dress, while satin robes may be less frequent, it is still important to understand the ins and outs of drapery as it appears in clothing, curtains and still-lifes.


This rich topic is also a perfect opportunity to apply elements of basic volumes, modeling the form, and light and shadow. You'll learn the fundamentals of creating convincing folds of cloth in each of these contexts, with a look at pattern on draped cloth as well.






















Leonardo da Vinci

Drapery Study, 1470-1479

Brush & tempera on linen

Musée du Louvre, Dept. of Graphic Arts



DAY SIX

Thursday, April 1

Guided Practice Day

Mentored open studio day for all students. Come practice what you learned in Drapery class, or bring any project you'd like to work on in a friendly but structured setting. You can draw, paint, or collage. There will be plenty of material for you to work on here and a high degree of individual attention.


DETAILS


Sign up for any number or combination of days. You can mix and match as suits your interests/schedule.


Class size is limited to 5 people.


Registration is on a first-come, first-served basis.


COST


1 day $95

2 days $190

3 days $270

4 days $360

5 days $450

6 days $570



HOW TO SIGN UP


Email me to register


Send me an email with your preferred days. I will send you a confirmation email and where to send your check.


Thank you for joining me for the Nuts & Bolts Workshop!