Workshop Content: This workshop will focus on individual development and personal expression, and is appropriate for all levels from beginner to advanced students. Strong design and use of color will be central themes. Liduine will demonstrate her unique method of working with sharp focus on a wet background, encouraging participants to try it themselves. Throughout the workshop, students will be guided toward individual expression.

Each day will focus on different techniques including composition with unusual focal points, use of lines, neutralized colors, and white/light areas for impact. Students may bring their own subject matter or work with examples provided by Liduine.

Supply List: Liduine Bekman Supply List

Biography: Liduine Bekman has shown her work in many solo exhibitions in the United States, the Bahamas, and Europe. Solo exhibitions include the prestigious Pulchri Studio in The Hague, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the Netherlands, Brickell Square Gallery in Miami, the World Trade Center in New Orleans, and invitations from the Netherlands Government and other locations and galleries.

She has won numerous awards including the coveted National Watercolor Society 1st place award and many other 1st place awards in cities around the United States. She was chosen for a group exhibit with 5 five major U.S. artists in Houston, Texas. In 1998, Liduine was the featured artist for the City of Houston Bayou City Art Festival.

Liduine has been featured in published articles in the Pulchri quarterly magazine (the Netherlands), the Palm Beach Daily News (Palm Beach, Florida), the Seafood Leader (US), the Artist’s Magazine (US), the Oklahoma City Newspaper (US), the Houston Post (US) and was featured on television in Houston (Channel 8) and local television in Naples, Fl. Her work is in many of the major collections in the US, amongst which the Jean Jacques Cousteau (of the Cousteau Foundation), the City of Houston, hotel chains including Hilton, Marriott and Wyndham. Company collections include IBM, Exxon, various banks, designers, hospitals and many others.

Instructor Website: liduinebekman.com

Live on Zoom from Canada

Workshop Content: Conjure the spirit of the landscape in this innovative program. Discover secrets and strategies for interpreting and simplifying the landscape as you build your painting from the ground up with overlapping bands and interlocking shapes. Learn negative painting strategies and the successful sequencing of opaque and transparent glazes for a luxurious patina and gentle glow in your work. 

Explore brushwork techniques for creating textures and subtle transitions of delicate tints and muted hues. Learn how to layer lost and found edges to suggest windswept meadows and distant trees. Investigate how and where to use captured negatives and establish minimal hard edges to gradually bring your work into soft focus.Whether you work on location, from your imagination or photos, you will be amazed by this elegant, alternative method of painting the landscape.

Workshop format:  This workshop will be held on Zoom. Students may gather at Chota to work together or enjoy the workshop from the comfort of their home.  Each of our three days together includes live Keynote presentations, paint- along exercises, a full video demonstration, personal painting time and live Q&A. Linda will create a private webpage for the workshop where you will find reference photos, student handouts, specific supply lists and a bonus video. All of the main demonstrations will be posted on our webpage for 6 weeks following the workshop.

 Here are some of the topics and lessons we will work on together:

 – Seeing the landscape in a new, inspiring way.

 – Translating what you see into a great painting plan.

–  Simplified landscape design and dynamic stylizing. 

–  Landscape shape-making basics.

 – Layering shapes to build any landscape.

 – Creating expressive textures that paint the foreground for you!

–  Working with paints and products for spectacular visual effects!

–  Creating mood and atmosphere in your landscapes.

 Join us and discover the joy of creating landscapes using negative painting techniques. This exciting, alternative approach may start you on the path to creating your best acrylic landscapes ever!

Supply List: Click here to view the supply list. The supply list is “general”. The specific colors for each project will be provided on a private workshop website. Students will receive the link for the website closer to the workshop.

Biography: Linda Kemp is internationally recognized for her unique contemporary watercolors and acrylics. Her innovative use of negative painting is the focus of her two best-selling books, Watercolor Painting Outside the Lines and Simplifying Design and Color For Artists. Linda is featured in art publications, video and internet forums, with over 1.5 million YouTube views.

She is honored to be a Life Member of the Canadian Society of Painters in Watercolor (CSPWC), the Ontario Society of Artists (OSA) and a Life Member of the Society of Canadian Artists (SAC). Her award-winning paintings are in collections around the world, including The Royal Collection, Windsor Castle, U.K.
In 2008, Linda was awarded the A.J. Casson Medal for Outstanding Achievement in Watercolor, the top award for the CSPWC National Exhibition, Open Waters. In 2005, she was awarded Woman of the Year for Arts and Culture.

Linda instructs at symposiums and workshops throughout Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom and France and now online. She has served as juror for numerous national and international exhibitions, including the 2020 Women in Watercolor International Juried Competition and 2022 Transparent Watercolor Society of America.

Instructor Website: www.lindakemp.com

Class Content: During this fun and informative class, you will learn the entire “Tiffany” or copper foil method of creating stained glass from start to finish. All equipment and supplies are included. A Star, a Candy Cane and a Gnome will be offered as projects. You will trace the patterns, cut and prepare the glass, solder the pieces together and go home with a finished piece, all in three hours! If you have some Stained Glass experience, all the better, as if time allows, you can create two ornaments to take home

Supply List: All supplies and equipment will be provided and are included in the class cost.

Biography: With a BA in Interior Design from Kent State University, Marc has enjoyed creative outlets most of his life, whether generating Frank Lloyd Wright inspired designs in paint, as floor treatments, or devising intricate designs for stained glass compositions. The college curriculum while design oriented, was also focused on architecture and fine art, including numerous drawing, visual organization, and construction technology courses, which have all added to the depth of Marc’s design acumen. In the mid-1990’s, Marc fulfilled a longstanding desire to learn Stained Glass techniques. Early on, Marc’s secondary career as a Stained Glass artist took the turn toward utilization of repurposed and reimagined materials and he has never looked back. In fact, many of his commissions feature unusual glass items or materials as their focal point, and it is these reimagined elements that serve as the inspiration for a given piece. He is a firm believer that Stained Glass is a complex hybrid of art and craft, requiring artistic creativity to design a composition and select the appropriate glass colors, patterns, and textures. It then takes the skills of a craftsman to fabricate the designed composition.

In 2013, with the opening of F.L.A.V.O.R. Studio in upstate NY, Marc realized a lifelong dream to have a dedicated art/work space, which not only allowed for an improved studio environment, but also provided a creative atmosphere where Marc could teach Stained Glass Workshops. With his wife, Debbie, Marc, was also responsible for the creation and administration of a county-wide art trail in Steuben County, NY that showcased the amazing art that was being created in that rural county in western NY. Featuring as many as 35 artists during the weekend event each April, attendees could visit each and every studio and artist, to watch live demonstrations, meet the artists in their work environments, and even purchase works to take home. Running for 8 years, the Arts in Bloom Art Trail helped create a community between the local artists and their neighbors and patrons.

Now in Knoxville, Marc and Deb have rebranded their studio from F.L.A.V.O.R. Studio to Master Repurposers to better reflect the inspiration that secondhand materials can bring to their art. His first local exhibit took place in April 2021 at the Fountain City Library, followed up by an exhibit in August at The Emporium with his wife in a joint show. In November, 2021, Marc was not only selected as one of five local artists to demonstrate his process at the United Way ADT Celebration Event, but he was chosen to film a live Stained Glass demonstration for the Discovery+ network for specific broadcast on their youtube channel.

Marc is excited to call Knoxville home, and in his first year as an artist here, he has found great support from both The Maker City and Arts Alliance organizations, and looks forward to creating exciting new collections in the coming year. He encourages you to find him at maker’s markets around the greater Knoxville area and at his home studio in Fountain City.

Instructor Website: masterrepurposers.com

Class Content: In this class you will learn to create a fairly large bunny. We will learn the technique of making parts and proper felting density. You will learn to make flat felted and folded ears. We will create White rabbits with color patches of your choice. You will learn to make clean cut lines to differentiate colors and facial details and sew in horsehair whiskers. The rabbits will measure approximately 9 inches tall with 4-inch ears. This class requires a larger felting mat and a two-needle tool which I will include in complete kit with everything you will need to complete this and future projects. It will be an all-day class.

Supply List: I will provide the whole kit in the class price. You only need to bring your lunch and be ready to have a fun day.

Biography: I am a self-taught artist with experience in many areas. I am very much a fiber artist. I have been a competitive art quilter as well as needle felter and weaver. I also do watercolor, mixed media, acrylics and collage. I simply am a happy maker. It is a vital part of my life.

COVID Protocol: Individuals are invited to wear face masks based on their own comfort level.

Class Content: Learn how to add depth, interest, and storyline to your collages and mixed media art by using image transfers. Image transfer is a process of lifting the inks off a printed image, such as magazine or photocopies, and applying it to another surface. Transferred images are usually more transparent than the original, making them great for layering.

Try a variety of techniques for transferring images from magazines and laser-copied photos. Create beautiful collage papers by experimenting with image selection, surface choice, and transfer technique to achieve different effects. See what you can do with gel mediums, solvents, acrylic gesso or paint, packing tape, acrylic skins, and specialty printer papers.

Develop an interesting base, then learn to integrate your image transfers into a collage / mixed media work of art by adding paint and papers to achieve a finished and cohesive look.

Supply List: Click here to view the supply list.

Biography: I love to create with paper — cut, torn, sliced, ripped, painted, and reassembled. I am particularly drawn to the look, color, texture and malleable nature of torn magazines and painted papers. Images originally meant to convey one message in a magazine can be used to communicate something entirely new in a work of art. An automobile advertisement might become part of a face. A face might become part of an abstract image. Disparate images can be used to tell a story or to extract personal meaning. Discovering hidden images embedded in collage creates a mystery that I simply can’t resist! I have been collaging for 15 years and never grow tired of it. Come explore with me.

COVID Protocol: Individuals are invited to wear face masks based on their own comfort level.