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

Class Content: Drawing/Painting 103: One-Point Perspective!!

How to DRAW and PAINT using ONE-POINT PERSPECTIVE
(the art method that converges lines onto one single vanishing point that creates depth and proportion in a drawing/painting).
Beginners and Intermediate

Let’s have fun learning this skill. Learning this will improve our drawings; watercolor, acrylic, oil paintings; colored pencils, and any medium we use…even collage and photography. When we have our perspective off in our artwork it can throw our whole painting out of whack. But when we learn the skill and get it right it pulls everything together.

Hands-on Class: Graphite and Watercolor.
After a short lesson, we will put our learning into practice. This class will be a step-by-step learning of how to draw depth with using converging lines, one vanishing point, and the horizon line in drawing, and then we will create a one-point perspective in color/painting which will give a very different feel when it comes to this technique. We will see how to create city or farm scenes, beach or hiking paths, bridges, or tight ropes.

The class development is as follows:
1/3 of the class learning the technique
1/3 of the class practicing this technique with graphite (pencil)
1/3 of the class practicing this with paint (no experience with paint necessary)

Supply List: All supplies included in the class fee

Biography: Glenda Bowles has over 30 years of experience in the Arts. She has a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Tennessee Knoxville with a concentration in watercolor. She furthered her education at the University of Tennessee with a Master’s in Curriculum and Instruction and then went on to receive a Certificate in Counseling in Saint Louis Missouri. She has taught over 25 years to affluent and impoverished students, over a range of ages – from 4 years old to adults. She has taught core art skills, art history, and art theory, as well as many other mediums. She has taught in classroom settings in the States as well as overseas. She has also taught art in an Art Therapy setting. She enjoys just about every medium of Art that is out there. Presently, she is creating art in watercolor, oils, and graphite predominantly.
She has exhibited her artwork in numerous settings from Fine Arts shows and sales including the Brentwood Academy show in Nashville, Memphis College of Art, and in smaller settings in Knoxville and Morristown. She has created murals here in Knoxville as well as in Greece, Belize, and Jordan. 
She has lived in Nashville, Knoxville, St.Louis, Memphis, and the country of Jordan. She loves the complexity of this world and seeks to create this in her artwork by reimagining the beauty around her. She hopes to reflect this beauty of her surroundings into her art for her viewers to experience and enjoy.

Click here to view some of the patterns you can get using alcohol inks
Click here to view some gourds using driftwood or found objects

Class Content: Students will be provided with a prepared gourd that will be decorated with alcohol inks, once dry it will be coated with several coats of UV varnish then a coat of wax.

After an early lunch, students will start weaving southern longleaf pine needles onto the gourd using the simple or spiral stitch. Students will learn how to start a basket, how to wrap a coil to add color, how to add a bead, and how to add thread when it runs out. Ways to add texture to your basket will be taught as well.

The gourds are prepped ahead of time by the instructor, prepared gourds have been cut, the guts cleaned out, sanded, holes drilled with proper spacing, wood petrifier added to the inside, formula 49 applied to the outside, and the interior sprayed black. Pine needles will be preconditioned using a turkey roaster and glycerin. A material fee of $88.00 is included in the price of the $178 two-day class fee.

Provided: Dessert (Email Kathy ahead of time if you are gluten free or have a nut allery. 865-660-6400 or info@GracehillArt.com)

Supply List: All alcohol inks, varnish, and wax to decorate the gourd are provided. Roughly 5 to 8oz of southern longleaf pine needles, dyed or natural color, in a glycerin bath, choices of artificial sinew or jewelry twine, and beads. How many beads depend on what you pick out. These are your supplies to make the basket.

IF YOU WISH TO BRING A SMALL DEER ANTLER OR PIECE OF DRIFTWOOD OR OTHER NATURAL WHAT NOT WE’LL SEE IF YOU CAN WEAVE IT ONTO YOUR BASKET. Click here to see samples. Anywhere from 1″ to 12″.

She will also provide different-sized sewing needles, clips, and gauges that stay with the instructor. She’ll have a few extra pairs of scissors and pliers she’ll bring with her but if you have a pair you might want to bring them from home. She’ll have an assortment of prepared gourds in different shapes, but mostly round, cut with a wave in the gourd rim rather than straight across. (Adds interest.) Under the pictures above is a link where you will see some of the patterns you can get using alcohol inks. She has over a hundred colors to pick from. The rim you sew on can take many forms. No two baskets are ever similar. You will have plenty of time to finish this basket.

Biography: Kathy Janke works in several mediums, primarily alcohol inks and pine needle basketry. What she loves about alcohol inks are the vibrancy of the color and the utter spontaneity of the medium. For the most part, she rarely uses a brush. Kathy sells her artwork on her website and at art shows. The Townsend art gallery Gracehill Fine Art and Basketry will be opening in April 2024.

Instructor Website: Www.GracehillArt.com

Class Content: Join me in painting a beautiful Spring Valley scene with a field of flowers. Learn how to create simple trees and a field of flowers. I will help you make the painting your own . While I paint thinner on the canvas generally, I will show you several techniques so you can paint with more texture if you prefer that. Its about having fun and making it your own!

I provide personal assistance around the room as you all create your own special Smoky Mountain landscape and learn techniques to take home and try on some more paintings. The sample image is done in Watercolor, but we will paint it in Acrylics and add even more color if you want to! Some painting class experience will help, even if it was just a Painting with a Twist class or something like that.

Supply List: Click here to view the supply list. NOTE: If you do not have time to buy the paints before class, I will loan my paint.  Fee is $5 and you can pay cash at class for using my paints.

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 Pivot Point Gallery in Knoxville and she just opened a gallery with a couple other artists in Gatlinburg Tennessee in the Morning Mist Village on Glades Road. We hope you can stop by and visit at one of these locations!

Instructor Website: www.carolrobinking.com

Class Content: We will be working on either two smaller canvas or one larger canvas, painting, abstract landscapes from photographs. We will begin by covering our canvas with a chosen acrylic color, then spend the rest of our day layering lots of acrylic paints, creating beautiful abstract, landscapes using pallet knives.

Supply List: Palette knife set (click here for example), either 2 small canvas (12×16 or 11×14) or one larger canvas (16×20) photograph of landscape or landscapes to paint, lots of acrylic paints (click here for example), brushes, palette for paints, and rags

Biography: Christian Freeman is an artist and Knoxville native with a BFA degree from the University of Tennessee. She began her career 24 years ago as a muralist and faux finisher painting in The Knoxville Symphony Showcase Home and Parade of Homes. Since, she has completed countless residential and commercial projects, has the ability to work on any scale, and within current budgets.

Christian’s work is her passion and she has used it to transform homes and businesses into esthetically beautiful spaces. One of her well known creations were the women in the windows painted on the glass windows in the former Patrick Sullivans restaurant in Knoxville’s old city. Done in Toulouse-Lautrec style the women looked down upon the city as they did in the late 18th century. Later the windows were all auctioned off to benefit Knox Heritage. Along with her mural and faux work Christian has taught privately through the years. She has been fortunate to have seen some of her students obtain scholarships and become successful artists on their own. Currently Christian resides in Lenior City where she is restoring an old 1940’s home while continuing to create commissioned art, paint murals, teach art, and exhibit her work in art shows.

Instructor Website: www.facebook.com/christianfreemancreations

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. 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: 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 paints landscapes and seascapes as well as abstracts. 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 Europe. They are available at her studio here in Tellico Village.

Instructor Website: www.WatercolorsByLil.com

Class Content: This is an introduction to felting over a resist and using a special technique to create a 3D texture on the surface of the felt. I will walk you through step by step so you can create an 8 inch tall wool lampshade. The fibers are natural and lovely and create a beautiful soft glow when illuminated. The lampshade will sit on top of an LED puck light. All materials are supplied for you. The image shows white and yellow fibers, but I will also have other colors for you to choose. The LED puck light is included in the price of the class. I will bring all the fibers you need to create one lamp.

Supply List: Students should bring:

• 6 dish towels/hand towels
• 1 ball brause if you have one
• 1 plastic bowl (about 2 quart size)
• 1 ruler or tape measure
• 1 pair of scissors
• Lunch

Biography: Lori has been wet felting and needle felting for 8 years, creating vessels, purses, and sculptures. She was a high school English teacher for 20 years, during which time her favorite pass time was creating lesson plans. Presently, she is pleasantly obsessed with the activity of teaching others the joys of manipulating wool fibers into felt.

Instructor Website: https://www.etsy.com/shop/WoolFeltedDesigns?ref=seller-platform-mcnav

Class Content: Students will work on sanded paper and learn to prepare colored backgrounds.

Supply List:

Students should come with:
Any pastels you have (a variety will be made available)
Rubbing alcohol and a container to hold some
A loose brush and a stiff brush.

If you have no board or would like your own set of 12 pastels call me at (708) 558-1321 by Jun 14. I’ll get them and you can pay me at class

Biography: Cathy began painting in 2006. She has worked in oil, colored pencil, watercolor, acrylic and pastel. Pastel is her favorite medium for its bright colors, layering ability, and ease of correction. Hopefully you will learn to enjoy it as much!