Image Transfer

I just visited Linda Lock's blog and found that she has a nice video on image transfers. Those of you who painted the Paris Grocery or Paris Cafe with us might be especially interested in see the video demo.
I see that she has a new book also. I'm sure it will be as good as the others have been. Check out her web site for info.

Seminar updates for 2010

Ginger Edwards Seminar

All of our project photos are in from Ginger Edwards and they are beautiful. We don't have a lot of time to get ready for this seminar so be sure to register soon so that we can get a head count.
Get more information and register on the seminar page.









Ros Stallcup Seminar July 18 - 20 & 22 - 24, 2010

We have more of our Ros Stallcup photos available. What a great variety of designs. Registration is open and available on the seminar page where you'll find complete information for our week of painting with Ros.

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Artful Play

Class last night was just pure fun, playing with watercolors. All the students were in the right mood to experiment with a new medium, new to us at least, and I was starting to remember what I had learned from Anne Abgott in the seminar I took from her last summer. We played with mingling colors and watched how they interacted, and applying them to a wet surface or a dry surface. And then we all wandered around to see what everyone else had discovered. And we even started a painting of the pears above. More fun waiting for us next week.

I love the vivid colors that Anne uses and her techniques, and have been wanting to play with more watercolors. I've been collecting photos, thinking that this one would be a great watercolor and that one would be exciting as a watercolor. Taking this seminar with Anne helped me see the paintings waiting to happen in the scenes around us. Now I'm into it, watercolor that is. Be sure to check out Anne's web site for some of her amazing paintings.

Just last Saturday while we watched it snow outside, I had a class warm and inside painting a Kathie George watercolor batik. What fun and all the painting turned out so nice. We even had 2, new to painting, students that painted wonderful Tuscan Window batiks using Kathie's design. Now the whole group of them wants to paint another batik. We're thinking of having an "open" batik class on another Saturday where each student can choose the design she wants to work on and I will assist.
If you have tried the watercolor batik and were less than satisfied with your result, please reconsider and come paint with us in one of these small Saturday classes where I have the time to give you individual attention. I even show you how to correct your painting if you need to adjust something. Some of the students are saying that after this type of experience, they love the batiks. And start with a less complicated batik until you understand the process. That makes a big difference. The Tuscan Window is a wonderful design because it is not difficult and turns out beautiful. You can paint it in our open batik class, to be scheduled soon.

If you are interested in an open Batik class, start checking out the wonderful designs on Kathie George's web site.

And if the watercolor class sounds like something you would like to try, but need to paint during the day, let me know. We're having day interest and I need to find out who is interested so that I can plan a date and time. The class fee includes the paint, paper, and pattern.

OK, what next with watercolors?

Don't worry I haven't neglected our acrylics either.

Trapped in the Rubble in Haiti

Here is a moving story about experiencing the earthquake in Haiti from a UNC student that was there doing research.

No Tue classes this week

No Tue, Feb 2 classes.

There is still enough snow and ice on the road to make driving conditions a little slippery so we will not have classes on Tue Feb 2 either in Raleigh or the Cary evening class.

If the Tue morning painters would like to come to the Wed morning class this week to work on their paintings, they would be welcome. Please pass the word.

Wednesday classes will meet this week.

Cary painters, we will just meet next week to continue with our Breath of Spring painting.

See you painting soon.
Liz

Feb/March/April Class Schedule

We're updating our schedule. Check often for added classes.

Winter Weather Policy

Our primary concern is for you to be safe on the roads. If you don't feel safe to be out driving, please stay at home.



In general, our policy for inclement weather is to follow the Wake County School closings. If the schools are closed, so are we.

Please check the blog for our current status in case of bad weather. I'll post as soon as I can tell what the road status will be.

If we cancel a week of class, we will resume our projects the next week and push the classes forward a week. If I don't cancel a class but you don't feel you should be on the road, I will help you make up your class as I usually do. We have our Tue morning open class or any other time period that I feel I would have time to assist you.

More Projects Painted

While I've been snowed in I've completed two more of our upcoming projects. Fun.



The Fruit and Nuts is a wonderful Barb Watson design.

This Flower Still Life is a Cheri Rol design that we are painting in acrylics. Love this design. It's coming up soon so register now.

Invite Liz to Teach at Your Chapter or Art Group

Liz will travel to teach at your Chapter or art group. For more information check the travel teaching page.

Ginger Edwards Seminar Paintings Photos

We have the first of our photos in from Ginger for our April 30, May 1 & 2, 2010 seminar. Watch for more of our project photos soon.

Mastering the Decorative Painting Basics

Registration is open for Liz's Decorative Painting Basics video on Creative Workshops. This is the first video in a 3 part series on the basic techniques that we use in our acrylic painting. In this first video you will learn preparation of your unfinished wood surface, strokes with the round and flat brushes, and base coating your design elements.



This video is great for the novice acrylic painter or for those painters who would like to improve their techniques. Liz presents the material in an easy to follow, step by step manner. The video is broken into short segments between which you can take time for that important step, practice.

Register now at Creative Workshops. Also check out the other educational opportunities.

Help for Haiti

My cousin, his wife, and daughter, an RN were in Haiti working at the Ryan Epps Home for children when the earthquake hit. They are OK, but report lots of devastation and desperately pray for supplies to be able to help those in need. If you are able to give any amount of money for medical supplies and necessities please do so.

Don't know where to give? Horne Memorial United Methodist Church is providing help directly to Haiti.

Liz

Painting in 2010

The holidays are over for another year and we're back to our usual routine. That means it's time to paint. Classes resume at Artful Endeavors this week with some of our special picks.

We have some lovely assorted Trudy Beard birds starting Wed morning, and Betty Caithness' Four Seasons starting in the afternoon. Wed evening will begin the highly popular Paris Cafe by Linda Lock.

On Friday, Jan 15th, we'll paint the so cute fawn by Peggy Harris that everyone admires at our studio near the door. This is a four hour class and the project will be completed in one day.

Those of you who have been wanted to paint another batik, here it is. Saturday, Feb 6, we'll paint Kathie George's Tuscan Window, one of her new designs from her travel teaching in Tuscany this past year.

We'll start Basics students on Jan 13. You have the choice of a 10a-12:30p or 6:15p-8:30p class. If you haven't painted with us or if you haven't painted at all, this is the class to get you started.

If you have some idea of what the term "side loading" means, and are at least somewhat proficient in it, you probably need to join our ongoing classes. Come visit our studio and see the actual projects. Can't come right now? Check the photos on the class page.

Can't come out in the oh so cold, then it's a good time to take one of our on line classes at Creative Workshops.

And there are lots of other exciting painting waiting to come out of the paint bottles.

Remember:

Seminars for 2010

This year at Artful Endeavors we are fortunate to again host seminars with
Ginger Edwards, with new dates of April 30, May 1 & 2,


and Ros Stallcup, July 18-20 & 22-24.


Look for more seminar information and photos on our seminar page. Photos will be posted as soon as the projects are painted.

Information on ordering surface will be available a little later.

Be sure to note cancellation policies before registering.
You can register on line or by a check in the mail with registration information.

(photos of past seminars)