SPRING 2008

Registration begins Tuesday, March 25.
Call 860-868-2878 to register.

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How to Wield a Knife
A one day workshop with Ira Barkoff
Saturday, April 19th • 10:00 am – 4:00 pm

Slice, scratch, smear and slather your way to creating a painting with verve and vitality. Using a palette knife alone or in combination with a large brush is a freeing experience. Bring a larger canvas than you normally use, (24x36 up to 36x48) some cheap hardware type large 1-2 inch brushes, and your favorite palette knife…The more flexible the better! Painting either a still life or landscape, you can work from your imagination, a photograph, or a copy of one of your previous paintings.

Mbrs $100 Non Mbrs $135 lunch break • Limit 14

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Chinese Brush Painting
A one day workshop with Chien-fei Chiang
Saturday, April 26 • 10:00am – 4:00pm

In Chinese Brush Painting, each brush stroke is a defining move that produces a portion of a painting. No brush stroke is improved upon nor corrected, and each image is not only a representation of an object, but also a symbolic expression. Learn how to paint without a subject, using rapid, mentally constructed strokes, transporting a 'mind and heart image' to paper. Basic brush work and composition of traditional Chinese style birds and flowers will be presented.

Mbrs $100 Non Mbrs $135 lunch break • Limit 12

Chien Fei Chiang, a third generation artist, was born in Kiangsi, China. He spent most of his childhood along the Yangtze River. Chiang began his art career at age 12 while living in China, studied at the Chen-Tse Fine Art Institute in Kiangsu and the Canton Fine Art Institute in Canton. He received a B.A. degree at the Taiwan Normal University in Taiwan, taught at the Taichung Normal Institute and the Taiwan Normal University in Taiwan, and the Lyme Academy of Fine Art in Connecticut. Mr. Chiang’s primary painting medium is watercolor, but his career has involved most forms of fine art. A very unique form of watercolor painting is being perfected by Mr. Chiang, which meshes the styles of Eastern and Western art forms.There is a great delicacy to his brush strokes which brings harmony to his realistic art works. His works have been exhibited throughout Taiwan and along the Eastern Coast of the United States. His awards are many, and he is a recognized artist in Who’s Who in American Art. He is a member of the Meriden Arts and Crafts Association, Guilford Art League,The New Haven Brush and Palette Club, New Haven Paint and Clay Club, Essex Art Association, and the North Shore Association.

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Converting Art to Digital Images-a two day workshop
Saturday and Sunday May 3 & 4 • 1:00 – 4:00pm

Saturday: Participants will learn the basics of digital imaging:
• Introduction to digital image principles.
• Digital photography, lighting, setting up an art shoot, downloading to your computer, file management.
• Image-handling, creating print and web-ready images, using image-handling software,

There will be a homework assignment:
Sunday: Follow-up and review, creating a digital portfolio
• Review of photography
• Review of image handling
• Making a CD portfolio of your images
• Sending images in emails
• Websites as a concept
Note: If bringing in a partially completed work derived from a photograph, be sure to bring the original photograph to the workshop.

Mbrs $125 Non Mbrs $160 Limit 12
Mbrs $100 Non Mbrs $135 lunch break / limit 8

MATERIALS LIST:
Bring at least one piece of original art (not more than three), a digital camera or laptop computer if you own one, and if you know what programs your home computer uses, bring whatever information you can. It could be helpful. We will provide at least two fully equipped computers and blank CD’s. If you already have images on CD’s bring them. Bring a notebook to take down information.

INSTRUCTORS: There will be three instructors:
Dimitri Rimsky: former trustee and member of Washington Art Association Exhibition Committee, 10 years experience as a graphic designer, 8 years experience as a web designer. Currently head designer for Litchfield Web Services.

Nancy Paris 10 years experience as a graphic designer and current web master and head of web development for the Reminder Newspapers of Springfield Mass.

Chris Richardson, 9 years experience as a graphic artist and web designer.

Other assistants may attend if available.

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Peonies in Watercolor
a one day plein-aire workshop with Dorie Petrochko
Saturday, May 17 • 10:00am – 4:00pm

Join artist Dorie Petrochko at the Cricket Hill Gardens in Thomaston, CT for a day of painting tree peonies in watercolor. We will paint plein air at the garden, commencing with instructional time, and a tour and brief history of the Chinese and Japanese Tree Peoniies.We will continue with independent painting with Dorie available for individual and group crititiques.

In China, the tree peony or Mudan is the national flower, and is highly regarded as a symbol of wealth, fortune, goodluck, prosperity and happiness.Tree peonies bloom for only 20 days and therefore this class will be held to take advantage of its peak blooming time. If there is heavy rain on Saturday May 17th , the class will be held on Sunday May 18th.

Mbrs $100 Non Mbrs $135 lunch break • Limit 10

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Framing for Artists
A one day workshop with Nancy Lasar, of West Wind Studio LLC
Saturday, May 17 • 10:00am – 4:00pm

This will be a one day, hands on, beginner's workshop in matting, mounting, and framing art work for artists.The advantages of archival materials will be stressed as well as sources and ideas for cost effective presentations. Proper hinging techniques will be demonstrated with emphasis on works on paper. Each participant will be provided with a 9"X12" frame in which to explore various options of design and matting.The materials fee will be $10, and an additional materials list will be provided in advance.

Mbrs $100 Non Mbrs $135 lunch break • Limit 12

Nancy Lasar has operated West Wind Studio LLC, Archival Framing and Fine Art for over 18 years. A practicing artist, her award winning drawings, paintings and prints have been exhibited in public and private museums and galleries throughout New England and New York. She is represented by Amy Simon Fine Art,Westport, The New Arts Gallery, Litchfield and Van Deb Editions in New York. Her work is held in many public and private collections including Pfizer Corp,The General Mills Corp, and Aetna Life and Casualty. She has received commissions to create unique works for private homes and offices in New York and CT and has received two CT Individual Artist Fellowships.

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The Yoga of Drawing
a one day workshop with Tony Zatzick
Saturday May 31 • 10:00am – 4:00pm

In this workshop we will use the ancient art and science of Kundalini Yoga* to increase our awareness and then use that awareness to explore our experience of the world by looking and drawing. This yoga incorporates some simple powerful techniques including: breath, mantra (sound), mudra (hand positions) and postures to help people quiet their minds and experience a relaxed state of awareness.This is an ideal place from which to begin a drawing.We will be drawing primarily from observation; (the model and the landscape if weather permits) while working with
the idea that what we our observing is a mirror for our inner experience.The art of drawing is a discipline that, when mastered, will reveal the true nature of the subject and the observer. Recording observations by looking allows one to face the inherent contradictions of time and space (The observer and the observed are inseparable according to modern physics - a truth yogis and mystics discovered long ago)

Mbrs $115 Non Mbrs $150 lunch break • Limit 10
*Kundalini Yoga is a sacred art

Tony Zatzick (Harnam Singh) has been a practicing artist/musician for over twenty years and a practitioner of Kundalini yoga for nearly half of that time. He received his M.F.A. from Western Connecticut State University (where he currently helps run the Masters of Fine Art program in Painting/Illustration ) and is a certified Yoga Instructor. He is an Art Materials expert and lectures internationally for Liquitex Acrylic Paint. His work is in many private collections and he has exhibited in many solo and group shows across the country and region. He teaches Kundalini Yoga at Western Connecticut State University and at the Santosha Center in Newtown, CT.