Photographing Your Artwork
~With with Alvis Upitis
Event Type: Workshop
Tuition: $35
Level: Intermediate
This three-hour workshop will cover basic to intermediate techniques for archiving your drawings,
paintings, fiber art, ceramics or sculptures. The workshop goal is to teach people with basic cameras
and no special lights how they can document their work and also to give people with more advanced
equipment methods for improving their photos. Format will include an illustrated lecture covering
simple to intermediate techniques. Advanced points will also be mentioned however emphasis will be
on methods using equipment available to the amateur photographer. There will be demonstrations, but
no setup for photographing individual pieces at this event
Alvis Upitis is a working commercial photographer with 40 years experience shooting for Fortune 500
Companies and top advertising agencies worldwide. He has a BS and MFA in photography and taught
photo art and technique at the college level for 10 years.
Ceramics Sculpture Workshop
~With Visiting Artist Tip Toland
Event Type: Workshop
Tuition: $225
Level: Open to All Levels
Tip Toland is one of the Donkey Mill's recipients of the Laila Twigg-Smith Artist-In-Residence Grant. In this three day workshop students will learn how to build a basic life-size head using Rules of Thumb to cover proportion and mapping in the features. Participants will come away from this class with a step-by-step understanding of how to sculpt the head. We will learn about the basic musculature of the face as it relates to expression.
Tip will lead participants through topics such as asymmetry, layering expressions, aging, and how to turn up and down the degree of volume of expression. The goal is to give voice to inner psychological states, projecting aspects of humanity which create a felt response in the viewer.
Bring photos of facial expressions to work with.
The supply fee includes the hardware and materials for building an armature, which students will keep at the end of the workshop, as well as use of all the basic studio tools. It also includes 50 pounds of clay to work with; busts will not be fired.
Material list for students to bring:
A fork and a spoon
Fat Bamboo skewers (can be gotten at Safeway)
One piece of foam rubber about 2 feet square
A sketch pad and pencil
measuring tape
large banding wheel if you have it
Artist Talk & Aloha Potluck
~With Tip Toland
Event Type: Presentation
Cost: Free!
Tip Toland was born outside of Philadelphia and now lives in Vaughn, Washington. She received her MFA from Montana State University in 1981. In 1986 she received a visual arts Fellowship grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. She was awarded first-place in 2005 for the Virginia Groot Foundation grant. Tip is a full-time studio artist and a part-time instructor in the Seattle area. In addition, she conducts workshops
across the United States and in Europe. Her work has been shown nationally and internationally. She is currently represented through Barry Friedman Gallery LTD. Her work is represented in both private and public collections, including the Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian, Kohler Art Center, The Museum of Art and Design and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
ARTFUL SEEING: FOCUS ON COMPOSITION
~With Kathleen Carr
Event Type: Workshop
Tuition: $85
Level: Beginners
If you'd like to learn how to take better photographs, come to this all day workshop on composition. After a slide presentation reviewing the key elements of good composition and artful seeing, we will go to two locations to photograph. Kathleen will assist each participant with composing the elements while photographing. After lunch, we will meet at Donkey Mill to review a selection of everyone's images. Kathleen will lead a discussion on how to improve the composition for each photograph shown. Please bring your camera (it can be a point and shoot, a fancy DSLR or anything in between), and a laptop if you have one. If you have any questions about the course, you may contact Kathleen at 808-328-2162.
Kathleen T. Carr, BFA Photography, is a fine art photographer, author, and teacher whose work has been exhibited widely and published in numerous books and periodicals. She has been teaching photography workshops and courses since 1991. Her books include To Honor the Earth, Polaroid Transfers, and Polaroid Manipulations. Visit her websites at www.kathleentcarr.com and www.kathleencarr.com
Photographing Flora and Fauna
~With Doreen Wynja
Event Type: Workshop
Tuition: $85
Level: Beginners
Participants will meet at a field location TBA and spend 3 hours photographing with Doreen. After the field trip students will return to The Mill to review their images from the morning in a group session lead by Doreen. Please bring your laptop if you have one.
Doreen L Wynja has been a professional photographer since 1987, recently wanting to share her knowledge she has started doing presentations on garden imagery. Her most recent collection of work can be found in the New Sunset Western Garden Book, as well as in the pages of Fine Gardening, Horticulture, among other garden editorial. More information on Doreen's work can be found at - http://eyeofthelady.smugmug.com
Camera Sensor Cleaning with Dave, (Doreen's husband) owner of www.advancecamera.com will be available to do camera sensor cleaning, and talk with you about any camera problems you maybe having. $30 for regular sensors and $50 for full frame sensors, that's a 50% saving off regular prices.
* The sensor cleaning will be available from 12pm-4pm on Saturday and from 6-8:30pm Friday evening. Please call to set up a reservation.
Artists Talk: Photographing Flora & Fauna
~With Doreen Wynja
Event Type: Presentation
Cost: Free!
Friday Evening Artists Talk
Doreen will be sharing a presentation about how you might take better photos in the garden with the use of over 200 plant & garden images in a Power Point presentation filled with differing times of day and depth of field to name a couple. Doreen will inspire you and lend you new ideas on how to approach light, composition and taking just a moment to get the shot you're really after.
Film Club Screening: The Secret Roan Inish
~With group
Event Type: Presentation
Cost: Free!
Join us Thursday, March 14th at 6 p.m. as we celebrate St. Paddy's Day by showing The Secret Roan Inish, written and directed by John Sayles. Set in a small fishing village in Ireland, 10 year-old Fiona is sent to live with her grandparents. She learns that she has an relative that married a selkie, a seal that can turn into a human. The New York Times called the film "a cinematic poem in which man and nature, myth and reality, flow together in a way that makes them ultimately indivisible."
The film will be hosted by Loren Lindburg. Popcorn is free. Donations gratefully accepted.
The Passion of Light, oil painting workshop
~With Rose Adare
Event Type: Workshop
Tuition: $250
Level: Open to All Levels
Work with the concept of "illumination" in painting, understand the passion of your model and completion of a full painting within the time frame.
First Day: beginning with line of action drawing to a descriptive solid drawing then translating this into a workable value scale incorporating gold leaf (optional) into the painting.
Second Day: using oil washes to understand midrange color, and color harmony, Learning how color can manipulate the viewer, How colors read and what is their power.
Third Day: finishing with accents of darks/lights re-establishing focal point, illumination and passion. Incorporating gold leaf so it is seamless.
Art Supplies for Students to bring:
Pencils or charcoal
Oils paints
Turps and other mediums
Brushes
Paints
an image of a person to work from
canvas either 8x10 thru 16x20
any other paint materials you use
Family Pottery Workshop
~With Toni Murray
Event Type: Workshop
Tuition: $40
Level: Open to All Levels
Sunday
Tuition: $40 for 1 adult and child, or $20
per person includes supply
Bring a lunch and spend a day playing in clay with your child! This one day class is an opportunity for parents and children to get a taste of ceramics together, with guidance from an experienced ceramicist. This is a hand building class, without use of the wheel. Bring a lunch and spend a day playing in clay with your child! Come prepared to get dirty and have some fun trying something new with your child.
Please call to register: 322-3362
Introduction to Digital Photography
~With Eric Edwards & Alvis Upitis
Event Type: Workshop
Tuition: $30
Level: Beginners
Saturday Morning
What camera is right for me? How can I get the best out of my digital camera? What can I do with
the images once I have them? The goal of this workshop is to teach people a basic understanding,
functions and use of digital cameras. Format will include an illustrated lecture covering simple
techniques to understand and operate your camera. Students are asked to bring their cameras so they
can practice the different functions and techniques.
Eric Edwards developed digital imaging products, technology and intellectual property at Sony, and
led development of international standards in digital photography, digital cinema, JPEG and MPEG.
Alvis Upitis is a working commercial photographer with 40 years experience shooting for Fortune 500
Companies and top advertising agencies worldwide. He has a BS and MFA in photography and taught
photo art and technique at the college level for 10 years.