Sanctuary Arts Newsletter Archive - Aug 01 2025 Email Copy

Community, Exchange, & Mentorship –

three ingredients necessary for students of the arts to flourish creatively in a non-judgmental environment.

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REPRESENTATIONAL DRAWING
with

Joshua Langstaff

(SA 5)

Joshua Langstaff presents a great approach to Representational Drawing (SA 5). First, he introduces students to the time-tested methods of Classical realist drawing, rooted in traditional Atelier training. Students who have taken the instructor’s earlier foundational drawing courses, are welcome to pursue more advanced projects such as cast drawings, master copies, still life studies or even personal subjects drawn from photo reference. This is a way to study drawing with a master and really learn how to draw the subject of your next painting. Joshua also offers Classical Figure Drawing (& Painting) (SA 8).

SCULPTURE!

Antoinette Schultze’s Hand Carving: Wood or Soft Stone (SA 19) is perfect to take for an artistic voyage into the third dimension. Meeting at her Eliot studio, this vibrant sculptor offers her expertise as you learn to visualize and block out the object of your choice.

Painting!

Tom Glover offers Lab Doors are Always Open (SA 1).

This class is for painters with painting problems. Bring in paintings you have been struggling with, or a new painting you might have been struggling with. Commiserate with other artists as you discuss, share, and together come up with new ideas and approaches.

Drawing Nature!

Explore the natural world through sketching and drawing with Carol Morley in her Drawing Nature

(SA 9) class. Capture the diverse and intriguing shapes of plants and other natural forms with colored pencil or mixed media. Learn observational drawing, tonal studies, composition and how to create a colored palette to complete the chosen piece. Open to any level.

Creativity flourishes most abundantly when shared!

New Fall Workshops & Classes begin September 25th

Go to

http://www.sanctuaryarts.org

to sign up for over 20 Classes

& Workshops

Sanctuary Arts offers mentorship with 14 professional artist instructors in topics from painting in oil, acrylic, watercolor, drawing, sculpting in clay, wood, and stone, jewelry and metalsmithing, wheel throwing and hand building in clay and Indigo Dyeing. Students and instructors exchange ideas, critiques and insights in an engaging and encouraging environment that inspires community. Classes begin September 25th.
We offer full scholarships for high school students and half scholarships for adults at www.sanctuaryartsconnects.com.

Grist Mill By Russel Whitten

Russel Whitten and Bill Paarlberg were trained by watercolor master Dewitt Hardy, who taught at Sanctuary Arts for many years. Each offers outdoor watercolor classes- Rivers & Seas in Watercolor ( SA 3) with Bill Paarlberg and Plein Air Watercolor (SA 4) with Russel Whitten.

Shack with Dock by Bill Paarlberg

Jewelry with Alice Carroll!

Learn the use of basic hand tools and primary techniques in making jewelry and metal objects in Alice Carroll's Jewelry & Metalsmithing (SA 18) class. Hot and cold connections, piercing, surface decoration, light forging, forming and basic stone settings are all covered. More advanced students will receive one-on-one help in applying advanced techniques to their designs.

Ceramics with Rebecca Emerson and Julie Marvin

Learn how to make pottery on the wheel in All Levels Wheel Work (SA 17) with Rebecca Emerson. Her class covers wedging clay, centering, making a cylinder, learning surface decoration, finishing and glazing techniques. Students have open access to the studio.

Julie Marvin demonstrates basic hand building construction methods in her Handbuilding with Clay (SA 16) 6 week classes. Slab, pinch and coil and a variety of textural and patterning techniques, as well as learning about molds and templates, stamps and sprigs for decoration, are all part of this relaxed class designed for the curious.

ATTENTION HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS!

Sanctuary Arts Connects, our non-profit, offers scholarships to students 16 and up. Go to sanctuaryartsconnects.com or call (207) 438-9826 for further information.

(We also offer half & full scholarships to adults)

www.sanctuaryarts.org