Jeanne Krabbendam - artist

Mixed media painting workshops
with Jeanne Krabbendam

LOOKING FOR A GREAT GIFT FOR A FRIEND OF LOVED-ONE?
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!

There are two choices:

Four Monday nights, Feb 6 - 27, 2012
$ 144 for four sessions – all use of tools and materials included.

For further details and registration please contact:

Creekside Recreation and Community Centre
1 Athletes Way
Vancouver phone: 604.257.3053
Email: creekside@vancouver.ca

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

January 21 - Feb 25, 2012
6 Saturdays 1.30 - 5.30 PM
CEPN 165-S001
$315
March 7 to April 11, 2012
6 Wednesday nights 6.00 - 10.00 PM
CEPN 165-S002
$315

For more details and registration, please go to:

www.ecuad.ca/cs

or call 604 844 3810 / 604 844 3856

Exploring The Built Surface

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

March 6 to April 10, 2012
6 Tuesday nights 6.00 - 10.00 PM
CE$PN 265-S001
$325

For more details and registration, please go to: www.ecuad.ca/cs

or call 604 844 3810 / 604 844 3856

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

Feb 11 to March 31, 2012
8 Saturdays, 9.30 - 12.30 PM
CEPN 190-S001
$285

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.

March 8 to April 12, 2012
6 Thursdays, 6.00 - 10.00 PM
CEPN 365-S001
$285

For more details and registration, please go to:

www.ecuad.ca/cs
or call 604 844 3810 / 604 844 3856

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.

This workshop is now full.

Location: SALT WATER STUDIO,
1650 Duranleau Street (second floor),
Granville Island,
Vancouver

All use of materials and tools included.

Art With A Story

Jan 18 - Feb 8, 2012
4 Wed nights, 6.30 - 9.30 PM
Coal Harbour Community Centre
$ 135

This is a mixed media painting course.

Learn to use different mixed media painting techniques to create your stories on canvas. The course includes lots of information and hands-on exercises that enable you to explore this narrative art form. Jeanne will introduce you to the use of acrylic paints, spackle, gels, transfers, lifting techniques, collage, fabrics, tissue paper and other techniques to create expressive, unique and dramatic paintings which tell stories. No painting or drawing experience necessary.

All supplies included.

For information and registration online : www.coalharbourcc.ca or phone: 604 718 8222

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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Mixed media painting workshops with Jeanne Krabbendam