Art Workshops at ASK

Accomplished artist and veteran art teacher, Fran Sutherland, will be teaching a two-part series at ASK in May! Please see below for this exciting opportunity! All ages are welcome, youth and adults are invited.

Dates: Saturday May 10 & May 17, 10 AM – 12 Noon

Choose one or both classes!

Fee for both classes: $100 (Non-Members), $80 (Members)

Fee for individual classes: $60 (Non-Members), $45 (Members)

How to Create Better Brush Strokes

In this workshop, Fran Sutherland will take you on a journey to explore the intricacies of paint brushes and the nuances of brushstrokes. Experiencing the unique qualities of each brush for a particular media, especially to hold and manipulate the brush to achieve the desired result. Students will also learn why we choose a specific bristle, size, and shape for painting to achieve a particular result.
Date: Saturday May 10, 10 AM – 12 Noon

How to Start a Painting

Fran Sutherland has designed this workshop painting based upon photos from a trip, a hike, a garden, or a special place. During this class, she will lead the students through the steps of planning a composition using their photos for inspiration. This will include thumbnail sketches, value studies, enlarging a photo to scale, and ways to start a painting with a watercolor, acrylic, resist, or collage painting.

Date: May 17, 10 AM – 12 Noon

Instructor: Fran Sutherland

Fran Sutherland, a native New Yorker, is a classical trained painter and educator who developed an art curriculum that coordinated with global students. She has taught watercolor, acrylic, oils, mixed media, in addition to photography, silk screening, and encaustics. Fran’s creative paintings synthesize both Eastern and Western formats in multi-media works. Her teaching objective is to show how the chosen media and techniques express personal ideas.

An award-winning artist and teacher, Fran Sutherland earned her BS and MS degrees at the State University of New York at New Paltz, NY. She is a member of the Arts Society of Kingston (ASK) Kingston, NY, Woodstock Art Association and Museum (WAAM), Woodstock, NY, Tubac Center of the Arts, and the Santa Rita Art League (SRAL), Green Valley, AZ. View works by Fran at Fran Sutherland.

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