TNWS Workshop with Anne Bagby and Sandra Paynter Washburn
Thurs.-Sun., June 9-12, 2011, 9am-4pm (Room will be open from 8am-5pm) Central Standard (Daylight) Time
Setup Wed., June 8: p after 5pm and optional evening session at 7pm ($10 extra)
Cumberland Art Society, 186A Walnut Ave. (in the Cookeville Senior Building) Cookeville TN
Workshop fee: $235 TNWS members, $250 non-members (for one 4-day workshop with 2 teachers)
Registration:
TNWS members only: March 1-April 1. TNWS and Non-members: April 1-May 15 Fee is non-refundable unless your space can be filled from a waiting list. No fees will be refunded after May 15, except in emergency situations. Optional Wed. evening session ($10) may be paid for on that day. Please indicate if you plan to attend it. No partial workshops will be sold-payment is for all four days. We expect to sell out quickly after April 1.
Send your check for the entire amount to: Leslie Dulin, 2641 Kell Road, Signal Mountain, TN 37377. Make checks payable to: Tennessee Watercolor Society
Contact: Leslie Dulin magileslie@comcast.net 423-886-6256 before 10pm EST
The TNWS workshop this year is the result of a collaboration between two outstanding TNWS member-teachers, Anne Bagby and Sandra Paynter Washburn. These are completely NEW workshops, designed specifically for our painters by two multiple award-winning mixed media artists. Anne will be teaching Still Life: Shape and Pattern, and Sandy will follow with Still Life: Tonal Abstraction. Both are very giving as instructors, willingly sharing their techniques and their knowledge.
The Teachers
Anne Bagby is well-known for the beautifully patterned surfaces and rich colors and textures in her mixed media paintings. She is a signature member of the Tennessee, American and National Watercolor Societies. Her work has been published in many books and magazines, including the groundbreaking True Colors: A Palette of Collaborative Art Journals by Kathryn Bold and articles in Somerset Studio Magazine and The Artist's Magazine. She will be exhibiting her work at the Oak Ridge Art Center in July 2011and at Yavapai College, Prescott AZ, in 2013 among others.
On her web site, www.annebagby.com, she says "I employ a combination of printmaking and painting, with layers of color, glaze, texture and pattern. The paintings play with the boundaries between design and texture. My work is deliberately formal and beautiful. The quilt tradition, oriental rugs, and the kaleidoscope inspire the fabric-like look, the lack of volume and deep space and the use of multiple images." Anne has taught numerous workshops on creating and using hand-carved stamps in collage and mixed media work. Her part of our workshop draws on her earlier days as a painter of still life, using strong shapes to create dynamic compositions, adding texture and using exciting painting techniques to finish them.
Sandra Paynter Washburn is an art educator, painter and jeweler who has won multiple awards for her watercolor, mixed media and acrylic paintings. Her skill and diversity make her work eye-catching, contemplative and timeless. Sandy's work was featured in a major article in The Artist's Magazine in April 2005, and several of her pieces appear on The Artist's Network.com web site. She is a signature member of the Tennessee and Southern Watercolor Societies, among others.
"My artwork is inspired by the patterns, textures and colors in the natural world. I seldom have a finished image in mind when I begin to work. Through a highly intuitive process, I work, then look and think, allowing each piece to speak, to tell me what it needs, until it is complete. Painting is a language I use to speak about my profound awe and gratitude in the presence of the great Creator. Painting gives voice to my spirit," says Paynter Washburn.
The Workshop
This is the only workshop Anne Bagby will teach anywhere this year. No stamp carving! Anne will offer an extra session at 7pm, Wed. June 8 ($10 extra fee covers the cost of the room) where she will help students do set ups and discuss aspects of shape as a design element. Thurs. and Fri. will be spent drawing the set ups, developing compositions and learning how and where to add pattern to them. Innovative painting techniques will also be introduced.
Sandy Washburn will follow up on Sat. and Sun. teaching how to develop abstract compositions from the still life drawings done earlier in the week. Working in neutral colors on unconventional materials, she will teach abstract design with shapes from drawings, incorporating elements from unexpected sources. A master at abstract design, Sandy will teach you new ways to look at the world around you.
The still life is only a starting point. These techniques can be used for any subject matter. The teachers have designed the workshop to require very few supplies that you don't already have. You do not have to be working in mixed media to benefit from this workshop. Watercolors may be used for some of Anne Bagby's projects, and a limited supply of acrylics will be needed for the rest.
The Space
The Cumberland Art Society has room for up to 18 artists at tables and a kitchen with refrigerator, etc. There are several good places for lunch within walking distance.
Accommodations:
Because we lost the original workshop location on Feb. 25, a block of rooms at a motel has not been reserved. Information will be sent as soon as we know something.
There is already a waiting list of non-members. Send your registration NOW!
The Tennessee Watercolor Society will have its Spring Meeting, Saturday, 
