Class Content: Whether you are a beginner or advanced painter, Have some fun with this WHIMSICAL flower arrangement Still Life in a 16×20 canvas. ALL SUPPLIES PROVIDED!!! I will demonstrate each step and then provide personal assistance around the room as you all follow along. If you prefer oils or even watercolor, you can bring your own supplies and follow along. I have taught in various media and can come around the room and assist when needed. Lets paint together and create something wonderful!

You will learn techniques to make simple flowers and leaves by using specific brushes and strokes. You can change the colors up to colors you prefer. Once you learn these techniques, you can go home and use them to create art on your own. This painting works for Beginner to advanced students. The more advanced can add more details or more trees. Both samples are provided.

Supply List: ALL SUPPLIES PROVIDED! I will provide a 16×20 canvas and all the paints and brushes for our project.

Biography: Tennessee artist Carol Robin King was born and raised in Argentina where she discovered her love for drawing at the tender age of 3. At 13, Carol advanced from drawing to painting with oils and acrylics. While in Argentina, she attended 3 years of professional Art School. She loves continuing to learn and perfect her techniques through workshops and online classes. Art has always been a part of Carol’s life. She made extra money selling paintings as a child and painting portraits in college. Throughout the last 30 years, she has had the privilege of teaching art classes for children and teens as well as adults.

Current projects are recording online video Watercolor lessons, teaching acrylic classes and working at the shared Studio 106 located inside the Emporium in the downtown Knoxville art district. Her work can also be found at various shows around Knoxville.

Instructor Website: www.carolrobinking.com

Class Content: We will make a wool felted vessel that is inspired by the forest floor! Appropriate for beginners to intermediate level. You will enjoy wet felting over a resist to create the 3D hollow form of the vessel. You will incorporate surface design elements, including the super fun curly sheep locks, to represent the forest flora. All materials are supplied for you, although you will bring a few towels (see the list in supply list). In one photo above, you may see two other vessels: one inspired by water and one inspired by stones. We will be concentrating on the forest vessel in this class, but the techniques you learn will apply to any vessel. I will provide you with instructions to create the other vessels at home.

Supply List:

• 2 old bath towels
• 5 old dish towels
• 2 pillowcases or 10 cloth napkins
• small bowl (1 quart)

Biography: I have been felting for 10 years and teaching felting for 3 years. I am a member of the International Feltmakers Association, and I’m the current IFA Editorial Coordinator of the Felt Matters magazine. I do both needle felting and wet felting and I love working with all the materials I can get my hands on. I have made garments, bags, lighted objects, sculpted pumpkins, and vessels–all from the wonderful wool from sheep. Felting is not the most common art form, so I love to teach classes in Tellico and share the felting world with all who are interested.

Instructor Website: https://woolfelteddesigns.etsy.com

Class Content: Dragonflies are symbolic of transition and change. You are invited to change things up a bit by pairing Zentangle with different pens as well as mixed media techniques and materials to create a lovely composition on a traditional surface as well as a translucent background. We will focus on the Zentangle “embedded letters” technique, but instead of letters, our projects will incorporate the dragonfly as a focal point–it could be stamped, stenciled, embossed or collaged… you choose! A glass-backed frame is included with the class so that light can travel through your translucent piece as it would through the delicate wings of a dragonfly. Color might be incorporated into your creation if you wish, as a subtle hint or a bolder statement.

Supply List: All necessary supplies provided in the cost of the class; participants are welcome to bring their favorite pens and colored pencils/chalk pencils if they wish.

Biography: Amy Broady, M.Ed., is a Certified Zentangle Teacher™ and a Veriditas-trained Labyrinth Facilitator. She began her career as a professional art educator in 1995. She has spent most of her school career teaching at the elementary level, but loves teaching adults just as much as she loves teaching children. She started practicing and teaching the Zentangle Method in 2010 to children in the school setting and adults in various community venues as well as at retreats and conferences; she has provided professional development to countless art educators at the local, state, and national levels. Amy is delighted that Zentangle permeates her personal and professional life, creatively, philosophically, and socially as she has made dear friends through her involvement with Zentangle. In 2022 she established her own tiny little art studio, Pen & Path, for helping others begin or progress on their creative journeys through mixed media adventures in Zentangle, labyrinths, and more. Amy doesn’t sell her artwork and rarely displays it in public venues, but derives great joy and satisfaction from her personal practice as well as teaching others.

Instructor Website: tanglefish.blogspot.com