AwaliArts Autumn 2009

   (All classes are designed as year long courses, but are broken into 4 or 5 week terms, for your convenience. Come when you can! They are all held at my studio in Awali. Materials for the first week, snacks and beverages are included. Course will start the week of September 27. If you are interested, please get in touch with me on mallengallery@gmail.com)

Acrylics Workshop- A great chance for people who have to work in the day to come out at night and CREATE! This term I would like to concentrate on Acrylic Painting, specifically using YOUR OWN photographs as the springboard for expressive paintings. (in other words, you use your photograph as a starting reference point, and then create a more personal expression of it. We're not slavinshly copying photographs!) This course is for beginners or more advanced painters. The subject matter is up to you.

We will discuss composition, colour, and basic painting techniques, but most importantly, how the artist transforms reality into a more personal and expressive, even abstracted artistic statement.

Starts September 28 for 5 weeks, 40bd.

The Painting Studio is an open session for painters who meet to work on their own projects in a supportive and stimulating environment with, I hope, a bit of inspiration and guidance and occasional tuition from me. If the group is interested, we might follow some of the exercises from the Monday evening class, basing some of our work on the artists' photographs. Artists supply their own materials for this course, in any medium they chose.

Starts Sept. 29 for 5 weeks, 30 bd.

The Art and Craft of Watercolour: Designed as a year long course, but broken into 4 and 5 week chunks, this is both an introduction to this delightful but often maddening medium, and an opportunity for more advanced painters to broaden and deepen their skills. One week will be "craft based" with demonstrations and experiments with new techniques and approaches. The next week,will be "art-based" giving you the time to apply the new techniques to subject matter and ideas of your own, with help from me, of course. In the first few weeks, we will focus on drawing as a basis for painting, working tonally with water-soluble graphite and pen and ink before mmoving on to full colour water-colour.

Starts September 27for 5 weeks, 40bd.

  If you would like to join a class, please get in touch with my wonderfully well organised friend, R Rhona Beh (she's the one with the ponytail in the photo to the left!) on as soon as possible.

  Her email is rbeh@yahoo.com

  and her phone is39217940