“Introduction to iPhone Photography” will be taught by Karen Klinedinst on Sunday, March 8, 2015, 1:00-5:00. The class will be held in the Studio Gallery at RiverArts, 315 High Street, Suite 106.
More than just a snapshot device, the iPhone is a powerful tool for creating photographs and photo-based art. In this 4-hour workshop, you’ll learn camera techniques that are exclusive to iPhone photography; find out which apps are best for image capture, editing and stylizing your images; and study combinations of apps that transform your images into photo-based art.
The workshop requires a working knowledge of the iPhone 4s or later. Please have the most recent iOS downloaded on your iPhone. A list of apps that we will be working with in the workshop can be downloaded from the class description on the RiverArts website (www.chestertownriverarts.org). Please download these apps to your iPhone prior to the workshop.
Karen Klinedinst is a landscape photographer and graphic designer from Baltimore. She graduated with a BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA). She has exhibited her landscape photography in galleries throughout Maryland and the East Coast, including a 2013 solo exhibition at Adkins Arboretum of her landscape iPhoneography.
The cost of the workshop is $120 for members and $150 for nonmembers. The maximum number of students is eight.
A four-day workshop, “Watercolor Plus Mixed Media”, to be taught by Nancy Barch, will take place March 9-12 from 9:30-3:00. In this class students will learn to create fabulous mixed media images by applying acrylics, collage, and pastels. Also students may experiment with stamping onto new watercolor paintings or old ones to be revived. This workshop is about utilizing various techniques. The choice of subject matter is up to the student; everything is fair game!
As a signature member of the American Watercolor Society and the Philadelphia Water Color Society, the work of Delaware County Artist, Nancy Barch, has traversed the United States. Nancy has garnered many coveted awards for her work in a variety of media including Best of Show in the Pennsylvania Watercolor Society, the Elizabeth Shober Hooper Award and the Emerton Heitland Memorial Award from the Philadelphia Watercolor Society, the Paul Remy Award from the American Watercolor Society, NY, the Daler-Rowney Award and Silver Brush Award from the Kentucky Aqueous Touring Exhibition, and the Peterson Memorial Award from the National Society of Casein and Acrylic Painters. In 2011, 100 Artists of the Mid Atlantic, published by Amazon.com books, included a feature article on Nancy’s experimental work. Needless to say, her work is included in many corporate collections.
The cost of the class is $275 for members and $335 for nonmembers. The registration deadline is March 2.
“Baltimore Painted Screens” will be taught by Brenda Foehrkolb on Sunday, March 22. 1:00 -5:00. This class is an introduction to Baltimore Painted Screens, covering their place in folk art history and how they are used today in both traditional and modern ways. Students will go over the history of how this art form began 100 years ago and how it is unique to Baltimore.
Students will learn to prepare their screen for painting, using primer and basecoat to ensure longevity and durability and review organizing the design and setting up the work space. Brenda will discuss suitable types of paints available for this application and the traditional colors used.
Brenda fell in love with the Painted Screen art form when her husband introduced her to it through a tour of his childhood neighborhood in Highlandtown, Baltimore. She loves the traditional scenes of a red-roofed cottage with a pond and swans – in its many variations. Painted screens were so popular in the Baltimore row houses because “no one can see in, but you can see out”. This once forgotten folk art is enjoying a new interest as more people embrace its history.
Brenda has been painting screens since 2004 when she took a class with Dee Hergert at the Baltimore Historical Society. She is an active member of the Painted Screens Society and participates in many of their events, often giving demonstrations on this art form.
The cost of this workshop is $135 for members and $165 for nonmembers. The registration deadline is March 16.
Both workshops, “Watercolor and Mixed Media” and “Baltimore Painted Screens” will be held at KidSPOT, next to RiverArts, 315 High Street, Suite 104. It is important for participants in these classes to go to RiverArts’ website, www.chestertownriverarts.org to get a list of supplies.
For more information and/or to register you may go to our website. You may also contact RiverArts at 410-778-6300 or email [email protected]. If you wish to stop by the gallery, hours are Tuesday-Friday, 11:00-4:00, First Friday, 11:00-8:00 and Saturday, 10:00-4:00.
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