Join me, Penny Tyler, in creating another Rock Dotting design for you to cherish.  ALL supplies are provided, including a pre-prepped rock ready to paint.

Sea Turtles! – Monday, August 9

Just when I thought I had it all… Smokey Mountains, sparkling water, flowering trees, and a menagerie of wildlife—birds, deer, fox…everything!  But wait, NO SEA TURTLES???  That’s just not right!

If you are like me and find that your life is incomplete without a sea turtle to gaze upon, meet me at the Chota Rec Center for this month’s Rock Art class.  Learn to dot your very own baby sea turtle on a rock that you don’t have to feed or carry to the ocean.

Sign up online, pay when you get there—class limited to 10 people—class is $10—laughter is free.

Beginners are welcome—if you can’t paint or draw, this class is for you!

Remember:  You can’t buy happiness—but you CAN paint a rock—it’s the same thing!

If you have any questions about this class, contact Penny at pennychismtyler@gmail.com or 248-303-5585.

BIOGRAPHY: Penny Tyler is a life long crafter/artist/writer, always trying new things and happy to share. New to Tennessee and looking forward to meeting “like minds”.

Instructor Website: pennytyler.com

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Do you paint, sketch, collage, photograph, print, pour, marbleize, Zentangle® or use multimedia? Fine artist Judy Lavoie is excited to introduce the unique art surface of Claybord™. This smooth white panel has so many advantages over art papers, canvas and boards, with amazing results! Judy will share her Claybord work, using a dozen different media, to illustrate the versatility of the surface and inspire you to try Claybord for your art.

By the end of the presentation, you’ll want to try Claybord yourself and Judy will be providing free samples – join in for the details on how to get yours, in ATC size too!

BIOGRAPHY: Judy is an award-winning artist in watercolors, acrylics, and scratchboards. She loves to share her techniques, tips, discoveries, successes and blunders, while encouraging others to find passion in art as she has. Her work can be viewed on her website: https://judylavoieart.com

Workshop Content: Join award winning watercolor artists, Soon Y Warren, for a two day workshop to learn how to create a watercolor of Garlic in a step by step process. Soon Y Warren will provide a reference photo, drawing, and step by step images for the group exercise.  Following a painting demonstration of each step, workshop participants will do their own painting in order to fully understand the process. While concentrating on technique, the concept of color theory, composition, and color values will be incorporated into the workshop. The recordings of the YouTube sessions will be made available to participants after the workshop is over.

Garlic Drawing File & Materials List:
“Garlic”  Watercolor Drawing
Materials list 

Biography: Soon Y. Warren is a full time artist, teacher and workshop instructor nationally and internationally. She has an Associate degree in commercial art. Soon Y. had numerous exhibitions and earned numerous awards. Soon Y. is a signature member of National Watercolor Society (NWS), American Watercolor Society (AWS), Southern Watercolor Artist (SW), Texas Watercolor Society, Purple Sage Brush (TWS), Transparent Watercolor Society (TWSA), Rocky Mountain Water-Media (RMNW), and Society of Watercolor Artist (SWA).

Her paintings are in permanent collections of private, corporate and educational institutions the US and internationally.

She is represented by Your Private Collection Art Gallery, Granbury, Texas and Southwest Gallery in Dallas, Texas

web site: www.soonwarren.com

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Class Content: An art journal is a form of self-expression which incorporates colors, images, patterns, and may include many materials. Some art journals have a lot of writing, while others are purely filled with images.  An art journal is a place where you can practice new art ideas and techniques and is also a place where you can express and explore personal feelings through images and writing.

In this class, Cindy Moser will share many of her art journals as examples. Participants will be given a variety of ideas, plus information on how to use various mediums and on how to personalize your Art Journal cover, should you want to do that. Actual hands-on development of your journal will be done, by doing the front inside cover and the first page of your Journal.

Participants will cover the inside of the cover of their journal by using cardstock scrapbooking paper, or any heavyweight paper available.  “No matter if the front covers of my journals are later covered with paint, clay, or scrapbook paper, I still use the scrapbooking paper for the inside of the journal cover. It will give you a thicker cover and provides a good balance if the front cover bends slightly due to the clay, paint, etc.”

After that we will do a simple, but fitting, beginning journal page, using watercolors, or paints, or markers, or colored pencils. You will also need a Sharpie Black permanent pen and compass, bowl or whatever you have available to outline a circle. Any black permanent pen will work. We are going to get creative and have fun!

Supply List: Art Journaling Supply List

Biography:

Cindy Moser is a Monroe County native, where she taught high school art for over 30 years; she loved teaching teenagers.  Upon retirement she began offering classes in acrylics, watercolor collage and art journaling from her home studio and is now teaching on Zoom.  Prior to the pandemic she offered workshops at art conventions from coast to coast as a Helping Artist for DecoArt Paints and an Ambassador for Royal Brush Company.  Cindy earned an MFA at Tennessee Tech.  She lives in Knoxville with her good-looking husband, who joins her in hiking and photography.