Mixed media painting workshops
with Jeanne Krabbendam
Fantastic Acrylics | The Built Surface, paint and collage | Exploring the Built Surface, Gels and Wax | Refresh, Re-think, Re-design! | Advanced Experimental Mixed Media Techniques | Shadow Box Art | Anything But the Brush | Open Studio Layering Techniques | Go Big or Go Home | Express Mixed Media | Private Classes Mentor Hours | Painting Party
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Jeanne offers gift certificates for art or art classes in any amount.
You have never painted before, but you still have the wish to try it? You had your last art experience in high school and you are thinking of picking it up again? You've been painting for years and you feel the necessity to bring your work to another level? Sign up for one of Jeanne's art courses! Jeanne also instructs at Emily Carr University in Vancouver. Her course "The Built Surface" runs four to six times a year with Level 1 and Level 2 series of weekly classes open to the public. See below for more information and registration.
Here is a general overview of what will be taught in her classes:
You will get instruction, techniques and tips on how to 'translate' your ideas into a piece of mixed media art. These workshops and courses include information and lots of hands on exercises in painting with acrylics, colour, composition and texture. Jeanne will introduce you to the use of:
- Spackle
- Different gels and mediums
- Transfers
- Monotypes / printing techniques
- Lifting techniques
- Collage
- Cheese cloth and other fabrics
- Tissue paper, news paper, magazine paper
- Washes and Glazes
- Antiquing techniques
- Faux encaustics
- Oil sticks
- Inks
Fantastic Acrylics
Maybe you have never painted before and you always had the wish to try it, maybe you liked art in high school and you are thinking of picking it up again, or maybe you have been painting for years and you feel that your artwork could use some new push and inspiration.
This is the course for you! In four weeks you will learn a variety of different acrylic painting techniques. We will cover items as colour, composition and design.
Through lots of hands-on experiences you get an idea how you can approach your work and what techniques and methods you can use to 'translate' your ideas into a piece of art. This will be a fun course in which you can try all kinds of different painting tools and mediums. It is also a worry-free class: all use of tools and materials are included!
- July 4 - 25, 2013
four Thursday Nights, 6:30 pm - 9:30 pm
$149 for four sessions, all use of tools and materials included. Note: repeating Creekside students receive 15% off.
For further details and registration please contact:
Creekside Recreation and Community Centre
1 Athletes Way
Vancouver phone: 604.257.3050
Email: creekside@vancouver.ca
Advanced Experimental Mixed Media Techniques
This is an intermediate course, for people who have already taken mixed media classes and are looking to explore the endless possibilities of layering and expanding their techniques through the use of antiquing, frottage, grattage, scraffito, intaglio, working with cold wax and oil sticks, mylar, etc.
- March 16 & 23, 2013, 9:30 am - 4:30 pm | Sorry this workshop is full. The course will be scheduled again for the Fall with dates to be announced.
The Built Surface, paint and collage
A course at Emily Carr University: Six sessions of introduction to collage and mixed media, working with non-traditional art materials to build exciting layers on your art work. For beginners and intermediate students.
Location: Emily Carr University, Granville Island campus
Vanouver, BC
- June 25 - August 13, 2013
Eight Tuesday mornings, 9:30 am - 12:30 pm
For more details and registration, please go to:
www.ecuad.ca/cs
or call 604 844 3810 / 604 844 3856
exploring the built surface, gels & wax
This is an intermediate course, for people who have already taken mixed media classes and are looking to explore the endless possibilities of layering and expand their techniques through the use of antiquing, frottage, grattage, scraffito, intaglio, working with cold wax and oil sticks, mylar, etc.
Location: Emily Carr University, Granville Island campus
Vancouver, BC
- June 26 - Augtust 14, 2013
eight Wedneday nights, 6:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Refresh, Re-think, Re-design!
A workshop based on requests of students as a refresher on different mixed media techniques. The workshop is again being offered on:
- Saturday, October 5, 2013
9:30 - 4:30 pm
Salt Water Studio on Granville Island
For anyone who has ever taken a course or workshop and wants to refresh techniques. On request Jeanne will do demos, give instructions and offer handouts.
Course fee is $ 200, bring a surface to work on; all use of materials and tools included
For registration contact the artist by phone: 604 434 1367 or email: jeanne@axion.net
SHADOW BOX ART
Get a taste for building artwork in a box. You will get inspiration to create a narrative piece of mixed media art. Techniques such as image alteration, simple transfer techniques, plaster, foils, rust and use of artifacts will be discussed and demonstrated.
This introduction, 3-hour workshop will be held at Emily Carr University's 'Leeway'
Thurs June 27, 6.00 - 9.00 PM
$ 65
For more information and registration please contact Emily Carr University: P: 604 844 3810, W: ECUAD.CA/CS
Anything But the Brush
Emily Carr University, Granville Island campus
Vancouver, BC
This course is for students who want to broaden their horizon, who would like to be challenged in their art making and who are not afraid for experimentation. During the four sessions of the course students will expand their use of the brush by introduction to a broad range of usual and less usual art tools, from knifes and rollers, to tile setting tools, brooms, sticks and trowels. We will work on larger projects, focused on creating art in a non-conventional way.
No prerequisites
- June 25 - August 13, 2013
eight Tuesday nights, 6.30 pm - 9.30 pm
For more details and registration, please go to:
www.ecuad.ca/cs
or call 604 844 3810 / 604 844 3856
Open Studio Layering Techniques
Emily Carr University, Granville Island campus
Vanouver, BC
This Open Studio course is excellent for the student who has taken both the Built Surface and Exploring The Built Surface classes and would like to keep working on development of their mixed media layering work. It will be useful for those who like to get more studio time to experiment and exercise the different techniques taught, integrating them in their art work with some guidance of the instructor.
To successfully make use of this Open Studio, students are expected to have completed courses in ‘The Built Surface’ (level I) and ‘Exploring The Built Surface’ (level II). Students must be able to create their art mainly on their own, with guidance and mentorship from the instructor.
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July 30 - August 9, 2013
This is a two week intensive class with eight sessions over two week
$285
For more details and registration, please go to:
www.ecuad.ca/cs
or call 604 844 3810 / 604 844 3856
Express Mixed Media
This course brings you a wide range of mixed media painting techniques and ideas. Great for everyone who wants to learn in a short time a ton of new techniques. This course is for anybody: people who have never touched a brush, or those who have and want to incorporate mixed media in their art work. We will cover textures, glazes, gels, cheese cloth, transfers, collage, papers and much more! Express yourself and come home with a cool piece of mixed media art! Jeanne will introduce you to usual and less usual (affordable) art materials. Also great for teachers who want to fil up with new ideas and concepts for in the classroom! All materials and use of tools included.
- This course will come back at Coal Harbour Community Centre in the Fall 2013. Date and time to be announced.
For information and registration online : www.coalharbourcc.ca or phone: 604 718 8222
GO BIG or GO HOME!
Create a large canvas in one day!
Get yourself a LARGE surface to paint on, bring it to the studio and I will get you going. We'll get on it with brushes, knives and more unusual art tools. Prepare to work hard. This workshop is not for the timids amongst us (or maybe especially for them…). Challenge yourself, think large and come play with acrylics and mixed media at the SALT WATER STUDIO.
- July 20, 2013.
Workshop Fee: $200
Location: SALT WATER STUDIO,
1650 Duranleau Street (second floor),
Granville Island,
Vancouver
All use of materials and tools included.
For registration, please contact the artist by phone (604-434-1367) or email: : jeanne@axion.net
PRIVATE CLASSES AND MENTOR HOURS
By appointment, $80 per hour ($60 sharing with a second person, $50 sharing with three).
Give art a first try or learn new skills in the privacy of Jeanne's studio. From acrylics to photo transfers, collage, antiquing or alteration techniques, you can get private lessons in any water medium or mixed and experimental technique. Trying new techniques for the very first time? Preparing for an art show or art school? In need of feedback on your work? Anything is possible, just arrange a date and time with Jeanne. Use of tools and materials included.
For more information on all these workshops please call or email: 604 434 1367 / jeanne@axion.net
PAINTING PARTY!
Jeanne presented a workshop in which participants all painted a small canvas as part of a larger picture.
Over the course of a few hours during the party 24 people were involved; they created together this multi-paneled piece.
Would you like Jeanne to be involved in something like this at your place? Call or email her and she will arrange the activity with you! Call 604.434.1367 or e-mail: jeanne@axion.net
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