Category Archives: Class and Workshop Archive

240326 Introduction to Digital Photography with Jack Retterer

Art Guild of Tellico Village

Dates: March 26, April 2, April 9 & April 23, 2024
Time: 9:00 to Noon
Location: Chota Classroom A

Prerequisites: Own a digital camera and know how to turn it on.

Contact Information: jackretterer@photographer.net

Cost: $140
Class Size: Min 6 Max 16
Sign-up: Registration is closed. Contact Jack to see if you can be added to the class.
Deadline: March 12, 2024

Cancellation Policy: Participants may cancel up to 14 days prior to the start of the class for a full refund. There will be no refunds within 14 days of the class unless spot can be filled from wait list. To cancel, fill out the class refund request form

Class Content: This 4-week class will show you how to consistently create photos you will be proud to share with others. For those new to photography, we will show you step by step how to master the basics of digital photography. For experienced photographers …especially self taught photographers … we will help you fill in the gaps of your photography knowledge and help you acquire more advanced skills. This is a hands on learning experience with weekly practice assignments and 1 on 1 feedback about your work.

Topics covered will include:
How digital cameras work.
Understanding those confusing camera buttons and dials.
How to take impressive action photos.
How to take better family photos.
When to adjust shutter speed, aperture and ISO.
Composition and basic editing

Supply List: Simply bring your camera and camera manual to class.

Biography: Biography: Jack Retterer is a local Fine Art Photographer with over 50 years of photography experience.  He has taught photography at Benedictine University in Naperville, Illinois and currently teaches Fine Art Photography at the University of Tennessee.  He is a juried member of the the Art Market Gallery in Knoxville.  He is also very active in the East Tennessee art and photography community thru board positions and memberships in the Professional Photographers of East Tennessee, The Professional Photographers of America, the Knoxville Culture and Arts Alliance, AGTV and the Fairfield Glade Art Guild.

Instructor Website: JackRettererPhotography.com

240312 Pouring Watercolors by Lee Edge

Art Guild of Tellico Village

Dates: Tuesday Afternoons starting March 12 to April 16, 2024
Time: 1:00 to 4:15 pm
Location: Chota Classroom A

Prerequisites: Some previous watercolor classes/experience

Contact Information: paintingsbylee@gmail.com

Cost: $125
Class Size: Min 6 Max 12
Sign-up: Class is full. Contact Lee to see if you can be added to the class.
Deadline: February 27, 2024

Cancellation Policy: Participants may cancel up to 14 days prior to the start of the class for a full refund. There will be no refunds within 14 days of the class unless spot can be filled from wait list. To cancel, fill out the class refund request form

Class Content: Participants will use personal reference photos to create original paintings in the pour method. This involves actual pouring of color on stretched, rag watercolor paper in progressive layers, using liquid mask to preserve colors in selected areas while progressive pouring takes place. Colors retain a clarity not available in the brushing method and a transparency is evoked by the layering of colors. A simple composition is recommended if this is a first time experience. Lee will have a meeting with participants prior to the first class to ensure that reference photos are adequate for the assignment based upon levels of experience. Lee will be creating a model demo to explain the process and will offer suggestions as participants work to interpret their original concepts.

Supply List: Gator Board with stretched Fabriano or other good quality paper (not Arches)…ready for the first class
(Contact Lee for instructions on how to stretch watercolor paper if a new experience)
Good quality tube watercolors (not student grade) appropriate for the color scheme of the subject matter
Palette or china plates ($ store) for mixing paint
Small containers to hold mixed colors for paint pouring (with lids)
2 water containers of decent size…like large yogurt containers or larger
Paper towels…1 Viva with no texture and 1 cheaper brand for mop up
Winsor and Newton Liquid Mask (no other brand please)
Inexpensive synthetic (not soft hair) brushes of Wal-Mart quality to apply liquid mask
Rubber cement pick up eraser (not an actual eraser)
Hair dryer
Assorted brushes of good quality (not used for Oil or Acrylic painting) synthetic, part natural/synthetic, or sable
2” wide white artist’s tape to secure staples and to keep them dry (on stretched paper)
1 sheet of transfer paper which is waxy and grey in appearance (not carbon) for tracing the drawing in stages onto the paper
Scrap watercolor paper to test colors prior to use in painting
Ruler, pencils, kneaded eraser
Notebook
IF you wish, Lee may enlarge your photo, if emailed, to 13” x 19” (1/2 sheet of watercolor paper size) for a fee.
Please feel free to contact Lee with any questions related to the class or to the supply list. Participants will be contacted about a meeting about two weeks prior to the first class to clarify the process and to select the reference photo, etc. Fabriano paper may be purchased from Lee at the meeting. 865-458-3118

Biography: Bachelor’s Degree from Moore College of Art/Design-4-year scholarship, Summa Cum Laude
Master’s Degree from Temple University, Tyler School of Fine Arts, with Honors (nights and summers while teaching)
30 years + experience teaching art in public schools in PA, WY, OH, UT, VA, TX. Including AP art and Adult Ed.
Outstanding Ohio Art Teacher Award, Three-time recipient of VA Governor’s School for Visual Arts Outstanding Teacher Award and other recognitions by school district administrators
Highlights: Three paintings juried into an exhibit at the Denver Art Museum: juror at art exhibits in WY and Nebraska: Woodcut Print toured the contingent Rocky Mountain States:Oil portraits on Commission: Awards in Exhibitions at Fountain City Art Center, The Oak Ridge Open, Southern Watercolor Society, TN Watercolor Society.
Professional Memberships: Signature Memberships in Southern Watercolor Society and TN Watercolor Society, Exhibiting with Knoxville Watercolor Society.

240220 Wet Felted Bag with Lori Demange

Art Guild of Tellico Village

Dates: February 20, 2024
Time: 9:30 to 3:30
Location: First Baptist Church, 205 Chota Road

Prerequisites: None

Contact Information: lkdemange@gmail.com

Cost: $80 (some supplies included)
Class Size: Min 6 Max 6
Sign-up: Registration is closed. Contact Lori to see if you can be added to the class.
Deadline: February 5, 2024

Cancellation Policy: Participants may cancel up to 14 days prior to the start of the class for a full refund. There will be no refunds within 14 days of the class unless spot can be filled from wait list. To cancel, fill out the class refund request form

Class Content: We will make a small tote bag, approximately 11 by 10 inches, using the wet felting method. No experience necessary as I will walk you through each step. We will layout the wool fibers over a resist, wet with soapy water, and roll it up into a bundle and then begin the agitation phase. The photos show some example bags, some plain, and some with designs that are wet felted into the wool. You will be able to choose your style according to your comfort level with working with the fibers once the class is in progress. The small class size will allow us to work together to achieve the results you desire. I will have a few “kits” of colored wool available so you will have some choices, but the colors in the photos may not be available.

You will learn the important skill of weighing your wool and planning for multiple layers. You will use a resist to make a three-dimensional object out of wool fibers that requires no sewing. You will learn how the directional layout of wool fibers affects the shrinkage of the final bag we are making. You will make an amazing bag with a little soap and a lot of wool!

Supply List: Teacher supplying wool.

Students to bring:

2 old bath towels
4 kitchen towels
1 large bowl or small bucket (4 quarts)
1 iron (for pressing)
1 wooden spoon
1 ball brause (for sprinkling water)
scissors
lunch

Biography: I have been needle felting and wet felting for 7 years, making vessels, bags, toys, and decorations. Felting has been a hobby that has introduced me to the world of fiber artists, shepherds, and fiber enthusiasts around the world

240206 Pastel Painting with Cathy Bordenaro

Art Guild of Tellico Village

Dates: February 6, 2024
Time: 10:00 to 3:00 pm
Location: First Baptist Church, 205 Chota Road

Prerequisites: None

Contact Information: cathymarie543@gmail.com

Cost: $55
Class Size: Min 6 Max 12
Sign-up: Registrations is closed. Contact Cathy directly to see if you can be added to the class.
Deadline: January 23, 2024

Cancellation Policy: Participants may cancel up to 14 days prior to the start of the class for a full refund. There will be no refunds within 14 days of the class unless spot can be filled from wait list. To cancel, fill out the class refund request form

Class Content: Open for anyone who wants to try or continue pastel painting. Pastels are a fun and forgiving medium. They can layer like oils but without the drying time. They can be painted over or brushed out as you change your mind.

In this class we will try rubbing alcohol technique, dark to light layering and try three different grades of pastels.

Supply List: Teacher will provide boards, sanded paper and plenty of pastels to lend for use.

Students will bring:
Pastels of their own if you have them
Drawing boards if you have one
Rubbing alcohol
Small bowl
Clips to hold the paper to the board
Paper towels
2 brushes (one stiff, one pliable)
Pictures you might like to paint

Biography: Cathy has been painting since 2006. She has experience in oils, watercolor, acrylic and pastel. Pastel is her main medium and true love.

240329 Mosaic HEARTS with Susan Watson

Art Guild of Tellico Village

Dates: Rescheduled from January 30, 2024 to March 29.
Time: 1:00 to 4:00 pm
Location: Chota Classroom A

Prerequisites: None

Contact Information: Susanwatson3907@gmail.com

Cost: $60 (includes materials)
Class Size: Min 6 Max 20
Sign-up: Registration is closed. Contact Susan to see if you can be added to the class.
Deadline: March 15, 2024

Cancellation Policy: Participants may cancel up to 14 days prior to the start of the class for a full refund. There will be no refunds within 14 days of the class unless spot can be filled from wait list. To cancel, fill out the class refund request form

Class Content: Hearts and flowers” is the theme for a fun mosaic class this Spring. Students will use a variety of materials to create a heart wall hanging or a picture frame. Class participants are encouraged to bring any sentimental bits or pieces to include, but all materials are included in the class fee.

Supply List: Bring an apron and anything special you’d like to include in your design.

Biography: Susan Watson LOVES creating mosaics in many medias — stone, glass, jewelry, ceramics, metal and organic s — sticks, pine cones, nuts, etc. She picked up a glass cutter at a hobby course in 1983 and has hardly put it down since that time! Her hobbyist days ended in 1984 when she was selected to be the Stained Glass Master craftsman at Dollywood.
Over the ensuing years she has created traditional stained glass pieces, studied glass and mosaics from artists all over the world, and done community mosaic projects in villages in Belize, Africa, France and Mexico.

Instructor Website: Susan Watson (susanwatsonsglass.com)

240404 Beginning to Intermediate Encaustic (Hot Wax) Painting with Lil Clinard

Art Guild of Tellico Village

Dates: Rescheduled from February 1,2&3 to April 4,5,&6, 2024. If you would like to cancel your enrollment, please submit the workshop refund request form and you will get a full refund.
Time: 9:00 to 4:00 pm
Location: Chota Classroom A

Prerequisites: This class is appropriate for anyone who would like to have a new and exciting experience. Whether you have painted before or not….YOU CAN DO THIS!

Contact Information: watercolorsbylil@charter.net

Cost: $225 (members) $260 (non-members)
Class Size: Min 8 Max 16
Sign-up: Registration is closed. Contact Lil to see if you can be added to the workshop.
Deadline: March 1, 2024

Cancellation Policy: Participants may cancel up to 30 days prior to the start of the Workshop. There will be no refunds within 30 days of the workshop. If AGTV or the instructor cancels the workshop, participants will get a full refund. To cancel, fill out the workshop refund request form

Workshop Content: Have fun learning the basic and fascinating techniques of hot wax painting. You will be introduced to the equipment and materials used by beginners and pros; you’ll have ten different techniques demonstrated and can try them yourself with individual help to guide and encourage you. For those who attended my encaustic class before, we’ll try some new approaches and techniques.

Day 1
Introductory Presentation: Encaustic Painting with hands-on examples
Demo I: Encaustic safety, equipment, and paints, preparing boards and mono printing
You’ll prep your boards and create 1 to 3 mono prints on rice paper. The boards and rice paper will be provided.
Discussion: Importance of fusing, and characteristics of encaustic paints with examples
Demo II: Collage and imprinting on board to create a painting
You’ll try your hand at creating two 4×4 paintings with your mono prints

Day 2
Demo III: Using fluid wax and incising or stamping to create a painting
You’ll try your hand at a fluid 6×6 encaustic using flower or NASA images (provided) as a reference
Demo IV: Photo transfers, incising, taping, and stamping to create a painting
You’ll create an 8×8 painting using these techniques

Day 3
Demo V: Using various media (pencil, watercolor, pastels, oil sticks, or inks) to create an underpainting and building up a painting with layers
You’ll begin a 12×12 painting with an underpainting
Demo VI: Accretion, embedding and layering the wax to create textures
You’ll add texture and other techniques of your choice to your 12×12 and finish it off
Demo VII: Using varnish and a torch for special effects

Supply List: Click here to view the supply list.

Biography: I love to experiment and create with watercolor, oil, acrylic, pastel, and wax. In 2012, I attended an encaustic demo at Jerry’s Artarama, created two small pieces and was hooked. I found I could use all the media I love in an encaustic. I can underpaint with watercolor, add pastel or oil paint, add collage and photographs, embed objects, carve into the wax and layer, layer, layer. In wax, I can paint abstractly, impressionistically, or realistically! I’ve had a lot of fun and learned a lot by experimenting. I have exhibited my encaustics in juried shows at Oak Ridge Art Center, The Emporium in Knoxville, and Knoxville McGhee Tyson Airport, Art Market Gallery, as well as Chota Rec Center. Instructor’s Website: www.WatercolorsByLil.com

Instructor Website: www.WatercolorsByLil.com

240123 Painting with Watercolor on Yupo with Lil Clinard

Art Guild of Tellico Village

Dates: January 23, 2024
Time: 9:00 to 4:00 pm
Location: Location Change: First Baptist Church, 205 Chota Road

Prerequisites: For Beginners to advanced artists who want to have fun and learn new things. Even if you took this class before, come and try some new techniques.

Contact Information: WatercolorsByLil@charter.net

Cost: $60
Class Size: Min 10 Max 16
Sign-up: Class is full. Contact Lil to see if you can be added to the class.
Deadline: January 9, 2024

Cancellation Policy: Participants may cancel up to 14 days prior to the start of the class for a full refund. There will be no refunds within 14 days of the class unless spot can be filled from wait list. To cancel, fill out the class refund request form

Class Content: In this one-day class, Lil will cover an array of techniques to provide basics and exciting possibilities for painting watercolor on Yupo, a durable, silky plastic paper. Watercolor flows and mixes freely on Yupo; it’s a wonderful substrate. With Yupo you can use resist, scrape, or lift back to white for highlights. For those of you who took the Yupo class in September, in addition to the basics, Lil will introduce additional and more advanced techniques. Topics covered will include how to prepare Yupo for the best results, multiple ways to apply the paint, exciting ways to manipulate the paint, how to make changes and corrections, and how to frame and protect your painting. There will be a brief presentation, demonstrations and you will paint 2 or 3 paintings trying the techniques. There will be time for Q&A and critique. It will be FUN.

Supply List: Click here to view the supply list

Biography: Lil Clinard is known for her large paintings on Yupo. Her paintings have won numerous awards. You may have seen her Yupo watercolor paintings in the AGTV Spring Shows. She paints in both a realistic and abstract style and uses both intense and soft hues. She applies paint wet into wet, rewetting to activate dry paint and to lift, wet into dry and dry onto dry. Lil’s paintings are in private and commercial collections across the US. She has been painting watercolor on Yupo for the last 10 years and has learned a lot through trial and error. You have an opportunity to benefit from her experiences. Visit her website: www.WatercolorsByLil.com. Lil’s paintings are in private and commercial collections across the US and are available at the Art Market Gallery in Knoxville and her Studio

Instructor Website: Lillian Clinard Fine Art (watercolorsbylil.com)

240109 Paint Loosely Without Fear with Lil Clinard

Art Guild of Tellico Village

Dates: January 9, 2024
Time: 9:00 to 4:00 pm
Location: Location Change: First Baptist Church, 205 Chota Road

Prerequisites: Appropriate for beginning as well as experienced artists who want to loosen up and have more fun creating their art.

Contact Information: WatercolorsByLil@charter.net

Cost: $60
Class Size: Min 10 Max 16
Sign-up: Class is full. Contact Lil to see if you can be added to the class.
Deadline: December 26, 2023

Cancellation Policy: Participants may cancel up to 14 days prior to the start of the class for a full refund. There will be no refunds within 14 days of the class unless spot can be filled from wait list. To cancel, fill out the class refund request form

Class Content: In this one-day class, Lil will cover an array of techniques to help you loosen up free of fear. We will use watercolor or acrylics since it dries quickly. Mix it up; bring different pigment types: paint, pencil, pen, stick, marker, or powder. You can use what you have, and we will share. Topics covered will include how to prepare to paint loosely, multiple ways to get started on a painting, exciting ways to loosen up, experimentation without fear, and when to step away from your painting. There will be a brief presentation and demonstrations of numerous techniques. You will try the techniques by participating in exercises and beginning 2 or 3 paintings. There will be time for Q&A and critique. It will be FUN.

Supply List: Click here to view the supply list

Biography: Lil Clinard is known for her watercolor, acrylic and encaustic paintings. Her paintings have won numerous awards. You may have seen her paintings in the AGTV Spring Shows. She paints in both a realistic and abstract style and uses both intense and soft hues. She loves to have fun and experiment with her art. Who says you can’t paint a watercolor 40” x 60”? Who says you can’t put dryer lint and used dryer sheets in a painting? Who says finger painting is only for children? She often mixes media and for fun and effect. Lil has been painting for many years and has learned a lot through trial and error. You have an opportunity to benefit from her experiences. Visit her website: www.WatercolorsByLil.com. Lil’s paintings are in private and commercial collections across the US and are available at the Art Market Gallery in Knoxville and her Studio.

Instructor Website: www.WatercolorsByLil.com

240119 White on White Mixed Media Collage with Martha Kisling

Art Guild of Tellico Village

Dates: January 19, 2024
Time: 9:00 to 3:00 pm
Location: Chota Classroom A

Prerequisites: Appropriate for beginning as well as experienced artists

Contact Information: marthakisling@msn.com

Cost: $45
Class Size: Min 6 Max 16
Sign-up: *** CLASS CANCELLED *** Refunds will be issued.
Deadline: January 5, 2024

Cancellation Policy: Participants may cancel up to 14 days prior to the start of the class for a full refund. There will be no refunds within 14 days of the class unless spot can be filled from wait list. To cancel, fill out the class refund request form

Class Content: Create a dynamic mixed media piece of art using a black and white or low color photo as a focal point. Have fun building up layers of collage, paint and more collage while incorporating fabric, lace, rice paper and more to create interesting textures. Utilize white paint to push certain areas back and pull other shapes forward. As each layer of paint and collage are added, hints of the layers below will peek through to create an exciting and dynamic composition.
Demonstrations along with individual instruction will encourage everyone to explore their own artistic expression.

Supply List: Click here to view the supply list

Biography: Martha Kisling has over thirty years experience painting in the exciting and spontaneous medium of watercolor. She also enjoys experimenting with acrylics, mixed media, collage and batik. She has taught painting classes and workshops while living in Colorado, South Carolina and now Tennessee and enjoys sharing her personal creative discoveries while encouraging students to develop their own artistic expression. Her original artwork has been exhibited and sold in art shows and galleries.

Instructor Website: Martha Kisling Art With Heart

240130 Creative Self Awareness with Donna Hart

Art Guild of Tellico Village

Dates: RESCHEDULED to January 30 from January 5 & 6, 2024. Note this will only be a 1 day class.

Refunds will be issued for the difference in cost for the replacement class.

If you are not able to make the rescheduled date, please submit a class refund request form.


Time: 9:00 to 4:00
Location: First Baptist Church, 205 Chota Road

Prerequisites: None

Contact Information: dharts2@comcast.net

Cost: $40
Class Size: Min 6 Max 10
Sign-up: Class has been cancelled.
Deadline: January 16, 20243

Cancellation Policy: Participants may cancel up to 14 days prior to the start of the class for a full refund. There will be no refunds within 14 days of the class unless spot can be filled from wait list. To cancel, fill out the class refund request form

Class Content: A mind of peace is a quiet mind enjoying the present moment. A mind of anxiety is talking to you all the time, it might be focused on what people think, or the endless task list, stealing your peace. Mindfulness is learning to be present in the moment. Art is a wonderful avenue for pulling your mind into the present and knowing what might be stealing your peace. In this class we will use a series of art therapy exercises to explore our thinking and learn how to move our minds to enjoying the moment. We will use the exercises to create a mixed media collage. You do not need to have any previous art experience.

Supply List:

3 sheets 9 x 12 watercolor paper (cold press). Cut one sheet into 4″ x 4″ squares. Prang oval 16 semi-moist watercolors or watercolors of your choice. Felt tip pen, pigma micron 05, or whatever you want to draw with. Various brushes, a container for water, paper towels, Matte Gel Medium, and one old brush for the gel medium. Bring magazines and collage papers if you have them. I will bring some limited collage papers.

Biography: Donna Hart is a practicing Biblical Counselor with a Master of Divinity degree from Trinity International Univocity and a PhD in counselling for Trinity Seminary. She has been counseling since 2003 and sees the benefit of the use of Art a a Therapy. Drawing and painting have always been a passion since she was in elementary school. She finds drawing and painting restful and rejuvenating.