Van Gogh – Starry Night

Go Van Gogh! with Carol Snelson!

June 8, 2013, 10:00am – Noon

$30 with all supplies furnished to create and complete your masterpiece!

(payment required to hold spot in workshop)

Subjects: Sunflowers and A Starry, Starry Night

Style: Impressionism – short, thick strokes of paint quickly capture the essence of the subject, rather than its details.

There are certain traits that we all possess. One of these is creativity. At some level, every single person has a creative spirit within.

Our new workshop series is for any and every  person regardless of their level of creativity, artistic ability or experience. Please join us as you explore a different exciting medium once a month and we find the artist within.  Every month the price of the workshop includes supplies needed for our artists to create and successfully complete their masterpieces. Our goal is that you have a rewarding first-time experience and also complete an original piece of your own artwork. Please join Amarillo Art Institute for our Saturday Art.Beat. Series. This is a workshop series where everyone  is encouraged, and invited to be a part as we take the key and unlock the door to the artist that lives inside all of us and is ready to create!

The paint is often applied impasto. Colors are applied side-by-side with as little mixing as possible, creating a vibrant surface. Grays and dark tones are produced by mixing complementary colors.  Pure impressionism avoids the use of black paint. Students will learn some of the history and background of Vincent Van Gogh. They will produce a drawing and then a pastel painting using techniques and colors similar to Van Gogh. Students will reflect on how emotions play a part in creating art.

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Wednesday Mornings, 10 am – Noon

June 5 – July 31, 2013

(no class on July 3) Make-up class Aug 7

8-week sessions

AAI Members – $140, Non-Members – $155

Vance is an amazing artist and teacher who will work with you to help you discover what style and subject matter you want to pursue as a beginning artist. For those who have already been painting, Vance will help you to continue to grow and improve your skills. Sign up now as spaces are limited!

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Cost: Members – $150 – Non-members - $175

Ongoing 8-week sessions

Tuesday afternoons 1-4pm

Wednesday nights 6-9pm

Thursday afternoons 1-4pm

Emin, a Russian immigrant, has been teaching on Wednesday nights and now has been kind enough to add this daytime class. Emin teaches in a variety of mediums. Learn from a traditional classically trained European artist Emin Abbasov. Emin is an amazing artist and teacher who will help the individuals of all levels in this class with just about anything they will want to do. He teaches oil, acrylic, and charcoal. Emin will help with still life, landscapes, portraits, abstract, drawing, color, composition, tone and shape.

This is an opportunity you will not want to miss.

Emin Abbasov– painter, restorer, sculptor– received a Masters Degree Honors Diploma with High Qualification of Artist and Painter at M.M. Aliev Azerbaijan State Institute of Art, Baku City. He worked as an illustrator and theater artist for Cinema, LM Nizami Theater, and was also an Instructor of Drawing, Painting, and Sculpture at an Art school in Belarus.

Accomplishments in Amarillo: Art Restoration Project at First Baptist Church Sanctuary;  Winner of the David Beck Memorial Award for Excellence inTraditional Realism and Best of Southwest Exhibition; painted four Biblical Paintings sponsored by Leisa and Allen Durrett which are displayed at First Presbyterian Church; sculptured “Angel” for Milestone Company; painted an Icon for All Saints Church; painted “Prodigal Son” at St.Luke Presbyterian Church, sponsored by Dorothy Baggerly; teaching private lessons, as well as group classes; participant of Amarillo Museum of Art’s Exhibition 12X12.

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June 11th – 13th. Monday thru Wednesday 9 am – Noon for 6 yrs – 8 yrs. and 9yrs – 12 yrs

Cost: Members $95 (all supplies included)

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Klimt – Tree of Life

Cats: Klee, Matisse and Van Gogh

July 23rd – 25th.  Monday thru Wednesday 9 am – Noon for 6 yrs – 8 yrs. and 9yrs – 12 yrs

Cost: Members $95 (all supplies included)

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Matisse – Cat

Mondrian and Mosaics

August 13th – 15th. Monday thru Wednesday

9 am – Noon for 6 yrs – 8 yrs. and 9yrs – 12 yrs

Cost: Members $95 (all supplies included)

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Piet Mondrian

Ned Mueller

Friday – Sunday, October 25-27, 2013, 9:30am – 4:00 daily
Cost: $300.00-Members $350-Non-Members

All Paint Media Welcome
($100 deposit required to reserve spot in workshop)

Born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Ned Mueller was raised in the Gallatin Valley near Bozeman, Montana. His excellent skills in depicting the human figure, animals and landscapes have earned him prestige and numerous awards. He graduated from the Art Center School of Design in Los Angeles, and worked as an illustrator for twenty-five years including work for Disney Imagineering before becoming a full-time painter. He has been inspired by such greats as Harley Brown, Richard Scmid, Bettina Steinke, and Sergei Bongart. Ned is a member of the Northwest Rendezvous Group, the Oil Painters of America, the Plein Air Painters of America, the Knickerbocker Society, and the California Art Club. Ned is a very accomplished and highly respected artist who has been drawing and painting for over 60 years. He is a graduate of the prestigious Art Center School of Design in Los Angeles. He has participated in many of the major invitational shows in the country, including the “Artists of America,” Great American Artists’,” “Prix de West,” “Oil Painters of America,” “Pastel Society of America,” “The Northwest Rendezvous,” and the annual “Plein Air Painters of America Exhibition.” His work has been on display in some of the Finest Galleries in the country, and his award-winning work is included in many private fine art collections.

Ned is a Signature member of the Oil Painters of America, Plein Air Painters of America, California Art Club, Northwest Pastel Society, Puget Sound Group of Northwest Painters, Northwest Rendezvous Group, and the American Society of Marine Artists. He has been designated as “Master Artist” status with the Oil Painters of America and has been invited to show in the 2013 Autry Masters Show which is considered the top Traditional/Impressionist show in the country. Ned continues to challenge himself to grow artistically and is regularly asked to jury Regional and National Art Shows. He loves to teach and share his many years of knowledge and experience, and is highly sought after to teach classes and workshops nationally and internationally.   Ned states, “I love the challenge of painting outdoors – particularly figures of people doing everyday things in different cultures.”

$350 Add to cart

Guido Frick

Plein Air and Studio Oil Experience

Thursday – Saturday
May 9 – 11, 2013

Members – $500 Non-Members $550
($100 deposit to hold your spot in workshop)

Guido Frick is truly an outdoor painter. “It might sound overstated, but I really consider nature as my original studio. It is because of this belief, that I claim the whole American West as my own personal studio”. This German-born painter lives half of the year in Europe and travels the other half almost exclusively through America´s western states. In the early 1980´s he met with famous instructor and painter Sergei Bongart, and still considers this encounter as the most influential experience he has ever had as a painter. “Sergei truly opened my eyes and showed me the way”. By the 1970′s, Guido had already studied with Professor Karel Hodr from Prague, a well-respected impressionist painter and art teacher throughout Europe.

Soon Guido´s work was shown in exhibits in Germany, Switzerland, France and Italy, and most recently in England. He was published in “Maler sehen den Bodensee”, and in 1980 he won the Prix de Salon in Fontainbleau-Paris. “As a painter I do not like to be labeled. I am always crossing the borderline between impressionism and expressionism. In art there should be no border, no fences, no stop sign. I want to paint free and generous and be independent …I love the outdoors, in nature.” http://artmatch4u.com/artist912_frick.html

$550 Add to cart

Channel 7 Daybreak  April 30, 2013

Dyan Newton – Hecho in Mexico

Saturday June 15, July 20 & Aug 17, 2013  10am-3pm
Cost for 3 workshops: $185 – Members, $200 – Non-Members
Level: Beginner to Advanced

($100 deposit required to hold your spot in workshop)

Students will complete a painting every class.

Dyan Newton has been painting for over 30 years, working in watercolors, pastels and oils. She has studied with well-known local and national artists. Throughout the years, Dyan has developed her own impressionistic style of painting, recognizable by her lively brushwork and bright, vivid colors. Her love of painting is evident whether she is painting landscapes, portraits, animals or florals. Visit Dyan’s website at dyannewton.com

Dyan is a signature member of West Texas Watercolor Society, has won numerous awards, and has paintings in private and corporate collections throughout the U.S. and internationally.  She also teaches classes at Louise Hopkins Underwood Center for the Arts in Lubbock, Texas and at Amarillo Art Institute in Amarillo, Texas starting in February 2013.

$200 Add to cart

Pam Allison – Weaving Class

Weaving – Unraveling the Mysteries

This months Third Saturday Art.Beat. for Kids will feature Pam Allison who will be teaching the full class – Weaving – Unraveling the Mysteries – May 1st – June 26, 2013.

With hands on shuttles, we will sample different looms and weave structures on a path to better understand and experience the dance of color, texture, and design in the realm of fiber.

Third Saturday Art.Beat. for Kids

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Pam Allison – Weaving – Unraveling the Mysteries – May 1st – June 26, 2013

$150 Add to cart

Alexis Lavine

Watercolor Workshop

$295 Members  $350 Non-Members

($100 deposit holds your spot for workshop)

We are excited to announce Alexis’s “Painting Creatively from Photographs” Watercolor Workshop, September 12-14, 2013, Thursday – Saturday, 9am – 5pm

Workshop Description

Plan ahead for Alexis’ Watercolor workshop!

The focus here will be painting in a creative, personal, and expressive way from photographs -in other words freeing yourself from copying!!  Demos will include specific lessons designed to give students new ideas, methods and inspirations for working in this manner.  This is a good studio workshop and is designed for all levels of painters, from experienced beginners on up.  Painters in all media are welcome. Daily demos and critiques and ample student painting time.

Alexis Says:
During my demonstrations, I talk to the students at length while I paint or draw,  explaining what I am doing and why, what I am thinking, what I am deciding to do, what colors or techniques I am using, etc., and constantly inviting questions.  Critiques are designed to be positive and constructive experiences; during critiques I emphasize the students’ strengths and offer suggestions to help them improve their work.  During individual work time, I circulate among the students, offering help, suggestions, and information as needed.  When I am teaching, I am there 100% for the students.  I work very hard to give the students as much help, information, inspiration, and motivation as I can!

Alexis Lavine

Alexis Lavine has devoted the last two decades to watercolor painting. Her award winning paintings have been included in numerous juried and gallery exhibitions, and they hang in private and corporate collections throughout the country, as well as overseas. Alexis divides her time between painting in her studio and painting outdoors on location.

Alexis is an enthusiastic art instructor, who teaches painting and drawing classes and workshops.  She gives her students a sound background in technique and esthetics, encourages them to express their individuality through their art, and helps them to relax and enjoy their artistic pursuits.

Alexis’ watercolors are full of luminous color,  rich shadows, and beautifully drawn shapes.  With meticulous attention to composition, she crafts paintings that are descriptive and yet expressive, realistic and yet abstract.  She lives and paints in central North Carolina, except during the winter, when she migrates to the Virgin Islands and paints lots of palm trees!

$350 Add to cart