New Classes of Note

Anthony Alemany is presenting Human Anatomy: A Journey Through Écorché (SA 17). Explore the inner workings of the skeletal system and major muscle groups as you gain a stronger grasp of human anatomy and structure. This class is a must for artists in drawing, painting and sculpture who want to create believable figurative work. Anthony also offers Sketching in Clay from Life (SA 18) where students will learn to capture the gesture or essence of the pose.

Still Life & Figure in Watercolor for High School Students (SA 8) is offered by Russel Whitten. Come work from still life objects and a clothed human model reference as you learn how best to control watercolor through the means of washes and techniques with step-by-step demonstrations. Color mixing, drawing and the understanding of forms are all part of this class designed to help High School students advance their visual practice. Sanctuary Arts Connects (www.sanctuaryartsconnects.com) is offering scholarship help specifically for this class.

Fur Real: Pet & Animal Portraits in Oil (SA15), is offered by Joshua Langstaff in a three day workshop intensive. Utilizing traditional oil painting techniques, this workshop will guide you through the process of creating a lifelike and ex pressive portrait. Become immersed in the joy of painting your beloved pet or a favorite wild creature!

Bill Paarlberg offers his Sketchbook Adventure: Pen & Ink &Watercolor (SA 3). Bill is noted for his amazing series of pen and ink drawings of mythical creatures in and about Portsmouth. Here he combines his love of watercolor with pen and ink, an exciting combination that plays off each other with both dynamic and understated effects. Lines and textures are combined with color. What more could you want?

Margaret Dwyer presents Watercolor Winter (SA 7). Engage with winter through an artistic lens alongside fellow watercolor artists! Enter a frosty world of frozen ponds, wintry woods, warm lights, moody skies, and falling snow. Demonstrations will address when to leave the white of the paper, use masking fluid, or add white ink.

Special Fundraiser Studio Tour for our Scholarship Program (SA 23), March 15 at 10 am (snow date March 22). Vicky and Lawrence Elbroch invite you to see a demonstration at their studios in an old Victorian in Kittery, as a fundraiser for Sanctuary Art Connects, our scholarship program. Victoria draws her inspiration from trees, especially ancient survivors. She will show you her process from sketchbook or line drawings done on location in the UK, to impressive large tree portraits either in color or black and white. Her smaller work incorporates cut paper and collage and tells the nostalgic story of the English countryside she left when she was 19. Lawrence is a photographer with a huge body of work from their travels in Asia. His latest works are collaborations with Victoria; he photographs her drawings and using them as a starting- point, mixes them with photographs of the real trees by layering in photoshop. It is difficult to know where one begins and the other takes over. These two working artists are being so generous with their time. I hope you will take the time to engage with them and their wonderful work.

It’s for a good cause!

Cheers,

Christopher