‘Creating Textures in Mixed Media’   Bonnie will be demo how to integrate texture with acrylic medium and fanciful tools to create unique textures to be used in your mixed media painting.

Using a variety of watermedia, we’ll explore diverse drawing materials and surfaces, learn new products and find new things to incorporate into our artwork

‘Squelching the Mystery of Mural Painting’.  Daunting to most of us... Kathy’s aim is to show us how she tackles large murals. She’ll give a short history as well as a slide presentation.

‘Sumi-e’  Arlene has developed into a truly wonderful Sumi-e artist and will be demonstrating the ancient art of Chinese black-ink painting on rice paper and ways to use Sumi-e in our mixed media pieces

‘Alcohol Inks’ Learn how to use alcohol inks as an art medium, using tools and techniques to create abstract and objective paintings, and in creating decorative finishes on a variety of surfaces.

Advanced student workshop with internationally recognized Colorado artist JOAN FULLERTON Join us for inspiring demonstrations, lectures, encouragement and practice. You’ll learn how to coax hints of reality from an abstract background, how to integrate collage imagery, how to control values and colors for emotional emphasis, and how to suggest rather than delineate. You’ll explore working intuitively, responding to what shows up, working in a series, mixing and utilizing neutrals for softer, more ethereal abstracts.    www.JoanFullerton.com

Award winning artist and instructor Cindy Wilson will demonstrate the process of BATIK, an ancient decorative art form that uses molten   wax and dye, typically on cloth. This will be a hands-on demo, participants will have the opportunity to experiment with applying wax and building colors thru overlaying dyes.