Pottery: Wares to be Enjoyed Everyday
~With Setsuko Watanabe-Morinoue
Tuition: $200
Supply Fee: $45
Level: Beginners - Intermediate
Students will learn the basics of working with clay. "Mind, Hands, and Clay" is the main focus to make personalized pots as students learn the basic techniques of making pinched, carved, coiled and slab constructions.
Demonstrations and personal instruction, discussions on aesthetic criteria, as well as handling, glazing, and firing ceramic ware will be covered.
Disciplines to be taught in class cover perspective, volume, shapes, light, shadows, values, techniques, tools, paper and composition. Intense homework assignments will be combined with constructive critiques and demonstrations. Join this class and experience satisfying progress in creativity.
Woodcut Printing in Reductive Process
~With Jeera Rattanangkoon
Tuition: $200
Level: Beginners - Intermediate
Students will learn the most ancient form of printmaking; woodcut printing in black and white to multicolored images. This class will cover the entire spectrum from basic cutting, inking and printing to the types of paper used and the inks and tools required for the reductive process. It will be an introduction to artists who wish to work independently in the Foundation's print studio. These 8 and 4 week sessions will enable students to continue woodcut printmaking in reductive process under the instructor's guidance. Instructions and demonstrations will be offered to new students.
Pottery: Mastering the Wheel Level 1
~With Gerald Ben
Tuition: $200
Level: Beginners - Intermediate
Learn basic techniques of pottery creation using the potter's wheel. While seemingly simple and easy, students will be challenged by the skill necessary to throw a pot on the wheel. Each student will discover their own individual style that all potters find necessary in mastering this form.
Students will become comfortable with throwing by first learning centering, making perfect cylindrical forms, then shaping. Ben will guide you through these basic techniques and help you better understand this form of pottery.
Discussions will cover form design, glazing, and firing.
"WET PAINT!"Plein Air Painting in Oil
~With Lynn Capell
Tuition: $125
Level: Beginners - Advanced
We live in a beautiful place- let's paint it!! Using a fresh, step-by-step approach to working quickly in oil, students will be painting outdoors on prepared wooden panels as they learn the techniques for capturing in paint the beauty that surrounds us. We will be painting in various locations in Kona. As a small group (great for the timid of heart!) we will explore the alla prima approach (capturing the scene in one sitting) in this spontaneous style of painting.
Students will be given adequate instruction to complete one small painting within a three to four hour session. Demonstrations as well as personal instruction will be given.
Drawing from Life
~With Lee Ballard
Tuition: $12
Level: Open to All Levels
September 6 and 20 (first and third Friday)
* Please enroll one week in advance
Whether you're a beginner or an advanced artist, these life drawing sessions allow you to develop or refine your life drawing skills. Participants that want to paint or explore mixed media are welcome. BYO art supplies.