Workshop Series
|
The Workshop Series at CANVAS ArtSpace features an exciting range of creative topics taught by visiting artists from the local region, and across the United States. Guest artist/instructors share their specialized knowledge, tips & tricks, and passion for creating! All skill levels! Year round! Join one of our workshops to discover new concepts, mediums and techniques, or to bring your artistic skills to the next level -- all while engaging in an enriching environment of like-minded, passionate learners. Explore our Workshop Series Calendar below, and check back often to be the first to see newly announced workshops. |
JUNE
|
Let's Cartoon!June 2, 2:00 - 4:00 PM
Instructor: John Cox
Skill Level: Beginner to Intermediate Ages: 10+ Media: Pencil, paper Fee: $30 (materials included) 
Join professional illustrator and local resident, John Cox, for a two-hour drawing workshop and demonstration. With a focus on character development and fundamental drawing techniques, John will help participants create cartoon characters that grab the imagination.
Each participant brings home a free caricature! John has more than 20 years of commercial experience, drawing cartoons for a number of publications. From hundreds of editorial cartoons produced during the early 2000's, including the popular "Cox & Forkum" political cartoons, to the daily strip, KIRKWOOD, John has developed a loyal following. |
|
Fresh Color and Coffee:
|
|
Drawing Faces for Beginners, Part IJune 23, 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Instructor: Terrilynn Dubreuil
Skill Level: Beginner Ages: 16+ Media: Pencil, Charcoal Fee: $45 (includes materials) In this workshop we will learn to create a realistic portrait by studying the building blocks of the human face. Using simplification, we can discover the shapes and proportions that are universal to the human form and can help us depict portraits with greater ease and confidence. We will work standing at easels to complete several facial studies, and will then approach a more rendered, final project. Several techniques will be practiced and internalized while we touch on basic drawing concepts, such as balance, contour, composition and proportion. Creativity and experimentation will be encouraged! This workshop is great for beginning artists, or artists who have ever struggled with depicting the human form. To advance your skills further, register for "Drawing Faces, Part II" offered in the afternoon on the same day, and join us for lunch at the studio. |
|
Drawing Faces for Beginners, Part IIJune 23, 1:00 - 4:00 PM
Instructor: Terrilynn Dubreuil
Skill Level: Beginner Ages: 16+ Media: Pencil, Charcoal Fee: $45 (includes materials) In this workshop we will expand on our knowledge of the human form by building upon the basic skills we learned in Drawing Faces for Beginners: Part I. In Part II we will learn how to add dimension to our drawings using value and shading, and will also learn how to approach the portrait from different angles -- above, below and 3/4 views. For our final project, we will learn to draw from a live model, bringing together the new concepts we learned in a completed rendered portrait. As with Part I, this is a an active studio class, and each participant will work on several facial studies and renderings at standing easels. Drawing Faces for Beginners, Part I is a pre-requiste for this workshop. |
JULY
|
Watercolor for Beginners
July 14, 10:00 AM - 3:00 PM
(30 min break for lunch) Instructor: Gena Hawk
Skill Level: Beginner Ages: 18+ Media: Watercolor Fee: $45 (materials included) This watercolor workshop will focus on introductory concepts including washes, glazing, masking, and general approaches to the art of mixing color. We will discuss bringing a beginner's mind to your art, as well as ways to "go with the flow" and enjoy the meditative qualities of watercolor.
Each student will create several studies and one completed watercolor painting of a stand of birch trees. All materials will be provided! |
"Painting in the Park" A Plein Aire Workshop with Herb Edwards
|
July 18, 19, 20; 9:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Instructor: Herb Edwards
Skill Level: Beginner to Advanced Ages: 18+ Media: Oil / Alkyd Fee: $260 (plus materials; click here for material list) This 3-day workshop will emphasize a personal approach to painting the landscape that helps develop the student’s own unique vision. It will begin with a demonstration by the artist on-site, and continue with informal critiques and discussions at the end of each day’s session. Visiting artist, Herb Edwards will share techniques - both conceptual and technical - that he's developed over the course of his painting career.
The workshop will take place at The Park at Flat Rock, where a shaded pavilion, picnic tables, restrooms, and convenient parking will be provided. Designed for the advanced, intermediate and beginning oil painter; students experienced in other media are also welcome. |
On Tuesday, July 17 at 5 pm, Edwards will give a special power point presentation for workshop participants and the general public about the history of landscape painting. The art talk will be held at CANVAS ArtSpace, 212 N. Church Street Hendersonville, NC and is free.
On Tuesday, July 17 at 5 pm, Edwards will give a special power point presentation for workshop participants and the general public about the history of landscape painting. The art talk will be held at CANVAS ArtSpace, 212 N. Church Street Hendersonville, NC and is free.
|
Herb Edwards was born in Western Pennsylvania in 1940. He earned his BFA from the The University of New Mexico in 1963 and received an MFA from Pratt Institute, NY in 1969. He was a Professor of Art for over twenty years at Brookdale Community College in New Jersey and his paintings are in numerous private and public collections. His artwork has received many awards and has been exhibited nationally at galleries in Santa Fe, New Mexico; San Francisco, CA; Baltimore, Maryland; Cape Cod and Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts; and New York City. He has exhibited internationally at galleries in Provence and Normandy, France; and Toronto, Canada.
To view additional paintings by Herb Edwards, click here. |
|
Block-Printed Greeting CardsJuly 21, 1:00 - 4:00 PM
Instructor: Joel & Jennifer Edwards
Skill Level: All Levels Ages: 16+ Media: Ink Fee: $50 (materials included) In this workshop, students will learn traditional printmaking techniques using linoleum blocks and water-based inks. Each participant will learn to carve a block using their own original artwork (or use one of our designs). We will then practice inking and transferring the design, using various ink colors to achieve different looks. Our final project will be printing a series of 10 greeting cards on Italian felted paper, blank on the inside and ready for your personalized message. Your carved block is yours to take home so you can continue practicing, printing and creating! (Additional blank cards will be available for purchase.) No experience necessary! All levels welcome! |
"With A Passion For Painting" The Still-Life as Metaphor / workshop with Lillia Frantin
|
July 24, 25, 26
10:00 AM - 3:00 PM Instructor: Lillia Frantin
Skill Level: Beginner to Advanced Ages: 18+ Media: Oil / Alkyd Fee: $240 (plus materials; click here for material list) Join visiting artist Lillia Frantin and discover the emotional possibilities of the still-life using a joyful approach to color and composition that goes beyond traditional, expected ‘flower painting’. Lillia is nationally-known for her unique Romantic Expressionist approach and in this three-day workshop will help you develop a large-scale, expressive oil painting and a more dynamic approach to your own work. For the experienced as well as beginning painter, Lillia will help you explore color, scale and paint handling that adds movement, rhythm and the richness of surface texture to create a ‘not-so-still-Still-life’. |
ABOUT THE WORKSHOP
The workshop will begin with a music & art presentation of “Starry Starry Night” sung by composer Don McLean with his lyrics and the paintings of Vincent Van Gogh. We’ll then discuss breakthroughs of Modernism, personal expression and the connection between an artists’ vision, the medium of oils (its history and special properties) and the process of oil painting itself. Lillia will begin a 30x30 painting based on a studio still-life and discuss how she uses the subject, composition, surface, color and color placement to create movement, rhythm and emotion. Students can then select a studio still life to work from, create several preliminary sketches, and finish the session drawing on the canvas. The workshop will always focus on individual progress and on the final day, a lively critique will pull it all together.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Lillia Frantin received her Master’s degree from Pratt Institute, NY in 1968 and was a professor of Modern Art History and Studio Painting. She and her husband, artist Herb Edwards, have conducted painting workshops in New Mexico, Cape Cod and France, and last year, her first workshop in North Carolina, “Romantic Expressionism” here at CANVAS ArtSpace. Her work is in numerous private and museum collections, exhibiting extensively both here and abroad, most recently at The Burroughs-Chapin Museum, Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. Her full color book “The Studio, The Garden and The Sea” is available at CANVAS where Lillia and Herb will be exhibiting a small selection of their works, “2 Artists/2 Visions” from July 12 - August 4.
To view artwork by Lillia Frantin, click here.
AUGUST
"Drawing the Figure" with Angela Cunningham
|
August 10, 11, 12
9:00 AM - 4:00 PM Instructor: Angela Cunningham
Skill Level: Beginner to Advanced Ages: 18+ Media: Graphite Fee: $450 (includes live model; students provide materials) 
|
ABOUT THE WORKSHOP
In this 3-day intensive workshop, artist Angela Cunningham will teach students to draw the Figure from observation. Working in graphite, Angela will help students understand and practice the visual tools of "blocking-in." Spending time and focusing on "block-ins" is a traditional academic training method that allows one to fine tune foundational skills for high accuracy.
Over the course of the three-day workshop, each student will get a chance to organize a strategic method of thought and process to develop a clear approach to drawing. The first day, we will work with drawing from the Charles Bargue Drawing Course Figure Plates, a 2-dimensional reference, to introduce the approach and build the foundational skills required to approach a live model. During the next two days, we will apply these techniques while working from a live model, refining and internalizing the approach. Students will develop their comparative measuring and shape-seeing abilities along with patience, focus, accuracy, and observational detail.
Each student can expect to walk away with a good grasp of a systematical approach to drawing the figure and multiple practice drawings. Instructor, Angela Cunningham, will give demos throughout the workshop and will advise each student one on one. Beginner and experienced students are welcome!
In this 3-day intensive workshop, artist Angela Cunningham will teach students to draw the Figure from observation. Working in graphite, Angela will help students understand and practice the visual tools of "blocking-in." Spending time and focusing on "block-ins" is a traditional academic training method that allows one to fine tune foundational skills for high accuracy.
Over the course of the three-day workshop, each student will get a chance to organize a strategic method of thought and process to develop a clear approach to drawing. The first day, we will work with drawing from the Charles Bargue Drawing Course Figure Plates, a 2-dimensional reference, to introduce the approach and build the foundational skills required to approach a live model. During the next two days, we will apply these techniques while working from a live model, refining and internalizing the approach. Students will develop their comparative measuring and shape-seeing abilities along with patience, focus, accuracy, and observational detail.
Each student can expect to walk away with a good grasp of a systematical approach to drawing the figure and multiple practice drawings. Instructor, Angela Cunningham, will give demos throughout the workshop and will advise each student one on one. Beginner and experienced students are welcome!
|
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Angela Cunningham earned her BFA in Drawing and Painting with a minor in sculpture from Laguna College of Art and Design. After teaching in California at LCAD and Saddleback College from 2005-2007, Angela pursued her passion for the classical techniques of drawing and painting under the mentorship of Jacob Collins at the Grand Central Academy of Art in New York City. She graduated GCA in 2010. She now teaches privately at her own studio in Asheville, North Carolina. She also teaches workshops at various studios nationwide. Angela is a recipient of various awards including the Morris and Alma Schapiro Achievement Award, Art Renewal Center First Place Scholarship Award, and the Alfred Ross Achievement Award. Most recently, Angela earned "Best Fine Art" for her painting Yellow Rose at The Gallery of Flat Rock's annual Art in Bloom exhibition (pictured, left). |
“We have to teach our eyes to look at nature, and there are many of us who have never seen it and never will.”
- Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin
- Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin
|
"Eye to Hand" Drawing WorkshopAugust 18, 1:00 - 4:00 PM
Instructor: Janet Orselli
Skill Level: Beginner to Intermediate Ages: 14+ Media: Charcoal Fee: $45 (materials included) This 3-hour drawing workshop focuses on learning to draw hands by first learning to look closely. Instructor Janet Orselli will guide you to see the hand with an artist’s eye, and through very specific drawing exercises, help you build new skills. Students will learn how to approach the human hand using contour, form, scale and gesture and proportion. A short powerpoint presentation, reflective writing exercise, and the opportunity to connect with other students adds to the overall workshop experience. Discover how learning to see using your unique internal eye can inform and inspire your drawings. Guest Artist/ Instructor Janet Orselli creates drawings, sculpture and site-specific installations. She earned a MFA from Clemson University, has received three Regional Artist Project Grants from the NC Arts Council, and was awarded a national Pollock-Krasner Foundation Fellowship in 2005. Janet has exhibited widely including solo exhibitions at OK Harris Works of Art, NYC; Spartanburg Museum of Art, SC; and the Gibbs Museum, Charleston, SC. Janet is a seasoned art instructor, and currently teaches at Isothermal Community College, Columbus, NC and Blue Ridge Community College, Hendersonville, NC. |
|
Zentangle: The Art of Meditative DrawingAugust 25, 10:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Instructor: Susan Goodman
Skill Level: Beginner Ages: 14+ Media: Pen & Ink Fee: $45 (including a take-home Zentangle drawing kit) Join instructor Susan Goodman in a fun and relaxing atmosphere to discover how the Zentangle Method can teach you to unwind while creating beautiful images. With Susan's guidance, you will learn about this meditative art form which uses elemental strokes in repetitive patterns to create zen-inspired art.
During this hands-on workshop, you will create a one-of-a-kind Zentangle "tile" to bring home, and will leave with your very own Zentangle drawing kit so you can continue to develop your new-found skill, with a Zentangle practice of your own. |
|
Zentangle: Beyond the BasicsAugust 25, 1:00 - 3:30 PM
Instructor: Susan Goodman
Skill Level: Beginner Ages: 14+ Media: Pen & Ink Fee: $45 (including a take-home Zentangle drawing kit) Beyond the Basics is the next level in the Zentangle series. The prerequisite is having taken an introductory Zentangle class with a certified instructor (CANVAS's Zentangle: The Art of Meditative Drawing is a qualifying class). We will build upon the tangles you learned in the first class, and will be introduced to new tangles. In this class we’ll learn more advanced techniques -- using ‘strings’ as a guide, as well as shading -- to bring depth and dimension to the design. Please bring the supplies from your Basics class and more supplies will be provided.
|
Interested in teaching a workshop?
CANVAS ArtSpace wants to feature the talented artists of our region and beyond. If you have talents, knowledge or experience you would like to share, we'd love to know more. Learn more about teaching a workshop at CANVAS ArtSpace, including how to apply:
Have a suggestion for a workshop topic?
Is there something you've always wanted to learn about or try in the studio? We have a network of talented artists and teachers who would love to use your idea to create a workshop.
Workshop Refund Policy
We understand life can throw unexpected things your way. As a small, family-owned business, we strive to work with you to resolve any changes you need to make in a way that works for both of us.
Make-up workshops: Unfortunately, we are unable to offer make-up sessions for one-day workshops.
Cancellation: If you would like to cancel your enrollment in a workshop, CANVAS ArtSpace will provide you with a full refund minus a $10 registration fee up to one week prior to the start of the workshop. Within one week of the workshop, CANVAS ArtSpace will provide you with a full refund minus the $10 registration fee ONLY if CANVAS ArtSpace is able to fill your place in the class. If CANVAS ArtSpace is unable to fill the place in the workshop, the workshop will be non-refundable.
Changes: Workshop dates, times and prices are subject to change. If you are unable to attend a workshop due to a change made by CANVAS ArtSpace, we will issue you a full refund.
Make-up workshops: Unfortunately, we are unable to offer make-up sessions for one-day workshops.
Cancellation: If you would like to cancel your enrollment in a workshop, CANVAS ArtSpace will provide you with a full refund minus a $10 registration fee up to one week prior to the start of the workshop. Within one week of the workshop, CANVAS ArtSpace will provide you with a full refund minus the $10 registration fee ONLY if CANVAS ArtSpace is able to fill your place in the class. If CANVAS ArtSpace is unable to fill the place in the workshop, the workshop will be non-refundable.
Changes: Workshop dates, times and prices are subject to change. If you are unable to attend a workshop due to a change made by CANVAS ArtSpace, we will issue you a full refund.