Open Acrylics is a new way of working with a new product. Open Acrylics resist the skinning that forms on your painting pallet when left open. This medium is a new unique product with relaxing property that facilitates blending, softening, shading, glazing and final detail. The unique characteristics of Open Acrylics allow them to be used with natural fiber brushes and for a range of techniques including monoprinting. It also allows painting as you have before but coming back the next day and blending colors or glazing. Collage is always easy to add for a different result.

GOLDEN MEDIUMS offer a range in consistency from pourable to sculptable with various levels of transparency and finish. Experimentation is recommended. They may be used to build texture, add interest to your paintings, and work as a glue agent for collage. Because there are so many mediums, an artist first needs to determine which characteristics they wish to achieve.

This class is open for all levels. In this class we will experiment with this new media. Each student will be met and pushed past their level.

BRING AN OPEN MIND & BE PREPARED TO EXPLORE YOUR GOALS IN ART!
A BIG IMAGINATION!

www.braukmanart.com

Date & : 08/30 - 08/31 - 09/01 - 09/02 - 09/03 2010
Time: 10:00am - 4:00pm (1hr lunch break)
Tuition: $395 p/ 5 days
Location: 2401 Central Avenue St. Petersburg FL
Teacher: Mary Alice Braukman

Erika Greenberg Schneider lived and worked in France for 20 years, becoming a Master Printer in Intaglio and Lithography for Atelier Franck Bordas, and then Director and Master Printer of the Gallery Maeght print studios in Paris and St. Paul. She also served as a consultant and faculty member to the City of Paris for their experimental art school based on Thierry De Duve's philosophy "Faire Ecole." Motivated by her desire to share knowledge across disciplines, she has taught regularly at the university level. Upon returning to the United States in 1998, she was Master Printer of Intaglio at USF/Graphicstudio and a Visiting Professor in Drawing and Printmaking at USF Tampa. She is currently a Visiting Professor in the Graphic Design Program at USF St. Petersburg.

A relief print is an image created by a printmaking process, such as woodcut, where the areas of the matrix (plate or block) that are to show printed black (typically) are on the original surface; the parts of the matrix that are to be blank (white) having been cut away, or otherwise removed. Printing the image is therefore a relatively simple matter of inking the face of the matrix and bringing it in firm contact with the paper.

Relief Printing II: CMYK Color Linocut
Following the successful workshop Relief Printing I, this new workshop will address
the process of multiple plate and mono-print printing and will start with a one hour introduction to the process at The Artista Project. Erika Schneider will show Linoleum Prints from her collection, discuss mark making techniques as well as demonstrate the process. You will be able to pick up your supplies and start your image making.

Week I: yellow and red
Week II: blue and black

www.bleuacier.com

LIMIT 8 PEOPLE

Date: 05-22-2010 @ Blue Acier Studio, Tampa
Time: 10:00am - 4:00pm

Date: 06-05-2010 6/05 @ Blue Acier Studio, Tampa
Time: 10:00am - 4:00pm @ Blue Acier Studio (1hr lunch break)
Tuition: $250
Teacher: Erika Schneider