Exciting New Online Painting Class!

 

If you love to paint, would like to learn how to paint, want to be a better painter or just want to learn some new techniques, I found an incredible online class you won't want to miss!

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The Dynamic Duo of artists, Chris Cozen and Julie Prichard have teamed up once again to bring us another fabulous online class that is sure to inspire you. It's called, "Chaos and Calm: Over the Edge Painting Techniques." It starts on Sunday, July 18th, but you are welcome to join at any time and complete the course at your own pace. 

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It includes 15 different high definition, video classes, with a beautiful PDF for each class; which you can download. You will get enough instruction to complete five paintings from start to finish. You can also work on any other painting you're having a tough time finishing. 

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You can watch a video about the class and workshop here or click on the video below.    

Chris and Julie will teach composition, form, fine glazing and really interesting ways to help you incorporate abstract shapes into your artwork. This course material has not been taught in any other of their other online workshops.

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The class goes from July through September, but you may take as long as you need to complete it. Plus, you will receive timely feedback from both instructors. All of this for only $49!  

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Chris Cozen is a member of the Working Artist Program for Golden Artist Colors, Inc.  She lectures and teaches throughout Southern California. She is the author of three popular books on acrylic painting techniques:  ALTERED SURFACES, TRANSFERS & ALTERED IMAGES, and MIXED MEDIA & COLOR. You can buy these books by looking on the right side of this blog at the "My Favorites" box and clicking on Chris's books.

Julie Prichard has been published numerous times in Art Journaling and Artful Blogging magazines and teaches a plethora of other online classes.

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If you've taken any of Chris and Julie's classes before, you know how inspiring, instructional and fun they are. If this is your first time, you're in for a treat. Don't sit home alone struggling with your paintings - sign up for this class and receive quality feedback to create beautiful, luminous, finished pieces.

(All images are copyrighted and the property of Chris and Julie. Please do not copy or use them without their consent.)

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Added note: If you live in Southern California, Chris is teaching five classes in a weekend workshop at Stamping Details in Poway. Sign up as soon as possible, because seats are limited for July 30th, 31st and August 1st.

Despite Losing My Job, I've Registered for New Art Classes!

Two Black Birds: 8x10”, Wood Panel

From Julie’s Prichard’s Real Time Class in March/09

SOLD!!

Despite losing my job last week, I decided to go ahead and register for some art classes. I had planned on signing up for these before I lost the best radio job I’ve ever had on 01/03/10. It was on my list of art goals for 2010, so I can't shorten the list this soon in the year. I know they are an investment in my future and will bring me so much joy in the present. I am staying positive and have a ton of hope about my future!

Two of my favorite teachers, Julie Prichard and Chris Cozen, have teamed up and are teaching an online class all about color. I have taken real time classes with each of them, so I could not allow myself to miss this exciting opportunity. This class is all about color.

Lesson 32: 8x10”, Wood Panel

From Julie’s Prichard’s Real Time Class in March/09.

SOLD!!

If you aren’t familiar with Ms. Cozen, she’s a working artist for Golden Acrylic Paints and this woman knows color! I am 100% certain my knowledge of color will go through the roof by the time I’m finished with their lessons. The first video lesson will be posted Jan. 24th, but you can register anytime.

Click here to read about the online class, watch a video with Chris and Julie, check out the supply list and sign up for it yourself.

Lesson 8: 9x12" Stretch Canvas

From Julie Prichards Online Class, Layered Love, July/09

I also signed up for Chris Cozen’s weekend classes at Stamping Details in Poway, which is in North San Diego County, CA. It's slated for the last weekend in Feb. 26, 27 and 28, 2010.

Here's a run down on the classes being offered:
Fri. 02/26 pm - Developing your Backgrounds: Layering Color over Color
Sat.02/27 am - Design Elements in Mixed Media Applications; Sat.02/27 pm - Collage Composition & Construction
Sun. 02/28 am - Deconstructed Screen Printing on Paper & Fabric.

Texture Painting #1: 8x8" Stretched Canvas 

from Chris Cozen’s class Aug/09

For sale: $100

I’m taking the first three classes, which looks as if I’ll have six completed paintings to show for it. I’d love to take the fourth class on Sunday as well, but didn’t think I should push it. If you’d like to make a donation to my art education, please email me at Nreeba@aol.com to make arrangements. You’ve always wanted to become a benefactor to the arts haven’t you?!

Texture Painting #2: 8x8" Stretched Canvas 

from Chris Cozen’s class Aug/09.

For Sale: $100

 Click here to read the details about each class, listed towards the bottom of the page on this link.

Chris Cozen has written two books and is expecting her third publication to be for available for sale sometime next month. I own both and cherish them. They aren't thick books, but each page is jammed packed with more information than most books have with three times as many pages.

Click here to learn more about AlteredSurfaces.

Click here to learn more about Transfers & Altered Images

I also found out about a FREE online Watercolor Class!!
Click here for the link

I'm so happy and very grateful there are so many wonderful teachers living and working in San Diego! My sister Melanee lives in a small town in PA and therefore, doesn't have access to great teachers like I do. But she's taking Julie and Chris's class with me. It will be fun to paint with her again, even though it's online and not in person. I wish she would win the lottery so she could move to San Diego too!!

Fabric Circles Aug. 2009

from Chris Cozen’s class Aug/09

For Sale: $75

I hope you are fulfilling your Art Goals for 2010 and living an authentic, artistic life too! Stay positive and thanks for visiting my blog.

Reverse Painting on Vinyl Class with Chris Cozen in Poway, CA on Halloween Weekend, 2009

Here's Chris Cozen, on the right, busy working explaining the process. This class, at Stamping Details, was much more managable than the Faux Encaustic Class, with only seven students, compared to 18. Nice and quiet and very productive.

This is a sample of the canvas Chris completed of a botanical reverse painting on vinyl, then stapled onto a small canvas.  (Sorry about the annoying flash on the bottom left of it.) Pretty though, isn't it!

Fellow classmates, including my friend Diane in the middle, studiously painting on their squares of vinyl. Diane and one other student took this same class before, but wanted to try it again.

I selected one of Chris Cozen's own stamps of a flower to use as one of my botanical images. First I traced the flower onto the vinyl with a white Sharpie Poster Paint Maker. We used fine and very fine. I selected pink and orange as my color choices and ended up using Quinacrinone Magenta and Pyrrole Orange and added Hansa Yellow Light and for the center and Ultramarine Blue for the highlights. I used only Golden Fluid Acrylic paints.

When you flip over the vinyl, this is what you see!!

I kept adding more and more layers of magenta and orange to get a more intense color. The white lines are from the Shapie Poster Paint Marker. I used a toothpick to subtract a bit of paint to create some clear lines in the flower. Then I painted the blue over the lines to give the flower some added depth. I also used the toothpick to make the little circles in the center of the flower, then painted orange over them. During the entire process, you have to keep flipping the piece of vinyl over to see what it looks like on the other side, since that will show the finished outcome.

Here's the finished flower!!

I used Ultramarina Blue, Cobalt Teal, Turquois Phthalo to paint the background. The palette knife naturally left some clear lines, so I added Indian Yellow and Magenta Light to fill them in and add some texture.

Here's is the same flower stamp created by Chris Cozen, but traced twice on the piece of vinyl  This is what it looks like on the bottom as I painted it. I added the Quin Magenta first and let it dry, then added the Pyrrole Orange and let that dry. I added Hansa Yellow Light for the center of the flower and Cobalt Teal to give the petals highlights. Each of the pieces shown here will fit on a 4"x4" canvas.

This is what it looks like with the vinyl flipped over. No need to add varnish, since the paint is on the bottom, which faces the canvas. Any mistakes can be washed off with a spritz of alcohol.

Here's the double flower all done!

I used the same colors already mentioned, since I created them to go together as a set. Note how different it looks with the background colors added in!

Here's Chris's pomegrante stamp, traced onto vinyl with a few layers of paint.

Here's how it looks after I used a toothpick to subtract some paint to make little circles and add Cobalt Teal over it. My detail work isn't very good here, but I love the colors.

Here's how the Pomegrante looks all done!

The background was so easy to paint. All I did was take some paint and use a palette knife to spread it over the vinyl surrounding the image. I added a touch of yellow for highlights. It couldn't have been easier. It's important to allow each layer to dry before adding the next layer of paint.

Here's how the Monkeytails stamp by Chris looks from the back after I painted the Quin. Magenta and Pyrrole Orange over the image. (It's upside down.)

                                    Here's how it looks when it's finished!


I enjoyed the process so much, I stopped at a Joanne's fabric store on the way home from class and picked up one yard of clear vinyl for about $5.00.  I'm planning to create a few more botanical paintings like this, but on a much larger scale with a lot more details.


I hope you enjoyed my class trip by way of Blog. Feel free to ask any questions or leave a comment. Thanks for stopping by! Nina/Ruthie

Chris Cozen Classes Halloween Weekend at Stamping Details in Poway, CA

(That's me on the far right.)

Mixing Fall Colors Class Friday night

Chris's Color Chart

My favorite art girlfriends Sally and Diane!

My new friend Suzi Blu and Gigi took the class too.

Chris explaining something to the only man in our class - a Frenchman

My classmates mixing new fab shades of Golden Fluid acrylics

Faux Encaustic Class Sat. am

My artist friend Davi holding up her work in progress

We used soft gel medium to adhere collage images to the canvas. I made three of them. After the images were dry, we used a palette knife to add two colors of Golden Fluid Arylic paint to the canvas. After that dried, we selected a third accent color and painted it on a rubber thing, which was then pressed onto the canvas. The checkerboard looking thing is used under carpet padding. Chris gave us each a sample.

Chris and Diane

My friend Kat is spraying alcohol over the faux encaustic layer to get rid of the air bubbles.

Diane and other classmates

Here's the first layer of faux encaustic mixture spread onto the canvas. Chris gave us a few different formula's, including a base of acrylic ground for pastel or soft gel medium. But we used a formula which dried the fastest, consisting of less than 1/4 cup Golden Fluid Matt Medium for each 8"x8" canvas, with a drop of Quinacridone/Nickel Azo Gold. Another formula substituted the gold for 3 drops of Interference blue and 2 drops of Iridescent gold to add a sheen to the finished look.

You can see the spreader tool (top of photo) we used to smooth the mixture over the canvas. It was difficult to get it perfectly smooth.

Works in Progress drying outside. Diane made the two on top.

More works in progress drying; top 2 are Kat's

More works in progress drying; top 2 are Davi's, bottom 2 are Vickie's

My green canvas wet with the mixture. I used the rubber thing to make the red marks and then used it again while the faux encaustic layer was still wet.  8"x8"

This is my Green canvas after it dried. I'm not sure what made those white spots, but I took it home this way and will be adding additional layers of paint, collage images and marks. I used Turquoise Phthalo and Diarylide Yellow on the first paint layer, with Cadium Red Light as my accent color.

My pink canvas while wet with the mixture. 8"x8"

I used Quinacridone Magenta and Indian Yellow as the first layer of paint and Cobalt Teal as the accent color.

My Pink canvas after it dried.

My purple canvas while it's still wet. 8"x8"

I used Quinacridone Magenta and Cobalt Blue on the first layer of paint and Chromium Oxide Green as the accent color.

My Purple canvas after it dried.

The gang from Stamping Details, Vickie, Clare and DiAnn

DiAnn, the owner of Stamping Details in costume #2

I'Il post the photo's from the Reverse Painting on Vinyl Class next time. Thanks for stopping by!