This Saturday
Indigo Dyeing

Amanda Rouse offers her popular Saturday Indigo Dyeing (SA 22) workshop from 1 -5, November 9th. In this 4 hour workshop you will learn Shibori, the Japanese traditionof folding and manipulating fabrics to make intricate patterns of dyeing, along with the history and process of Indigo Dyeing. 

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Third Annual Holiday Fair & Open House 

Sunday, December 8 11 - 4
Buy Local & Support your Neighborhood Artists!

Necklace by Kristin Fellows

Our Sanctuary Arts community presents our 3rd annual holiday Art Fair & Open House, December 8, 11 – 4. Twenty or more artists from the Sanctuary Arts community will sell their unique works that are sure to please the most discerning holiday shopper. Artists studios will be open, holiday cheer will be swinging and treasures will be found. Come explore the unique property and support your local artists.

Wreath by John Forti
Expect to find ceramics, sculptural bronze and resin castings, holiday wreaths and salves, paintings, jewelry, metal work in iron and silver, collage, woodcraft, enamel vessels, lantern lights and more.

 

 Salt Bowl & Spoon by Sandra Cole

Create a Portrait of your Favorite Animal 

 

SA 3 Drawing Animals with Carol Ann Morley runs for 4 weeks on Mondays, 12:30 – 3:30, November 18  – December 9. Learn how to develop your drawing from sketch to finished rendering, using photo references. Find out how to select the best image from a group of photos, make compositional sketches, transfer your sketch and prepare a tonal or colored study to proceed to a finished work.

Colored Pencil Techniques-
No Drawing Experience Necessary!

 

Spend a day with Botanical artist Carol Morley. She offers a Saturday, 10:30 – 3:30, November 16th class (SA 3) exploring a variety of colored pencil methods that can produce effects from drawing to painting. Examine how colors can harmonize together or create great contrast, recede into the background or appear to advance in space. Create patterns and textures, abstract designs, decorative letters or bring in photo images to make an illustration or design. 

 

Experiment with
Graphite Powder Drawing (SA 13)

 

For 4 Saturday mornings , November 23 – December 14, explore a method of “painting” with graphite powder. Artist Gretchen Woodman has taken a medium that has been used largely for medical and scientific illustration and used it to create soft, beautiful, surreal animal images with photographic accuracy. Beginning with a simple form, students will learn how to use the medium and experiment with different surfaces and images. Mylar and various papers will be provided.

We have a wonderful array of courses to suit the discerning pallette for a Fall of lively, artful learning. We welcome you to join us! www.sanctuaryarts.org