A 4 week session that allows the artists to design, form, and complete a hand-building project using slab, coil, or pinch construction. Surface and glazing techniques will be explored and designed to complement their project. Clay handbuilding techniques allow for true freedom of form. Captivating asymmetry and unique sculptural aesthetic can be achieved using techniques like slab rolling, pinching, and coil building. We will learn and practice the skills needed to create functional and sculptural vessels, finishing with carved patterns, attached elements, underglazes, and glazes to decorate our handbuilt pieces. Students will walk away with unique ceramic art. All work will be fired and ready for pick up in the Kimball Art Center 7-14 days after your class. We do not ship class work. If artwork is not picked up after 60 days it will be recycled. *Since artwork may look different after firing, make your pottery or sculpture recognizable by carving a signature into your piece.
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Handbuilding in Clay Session 1
A 6 week session that allows the artists to design, form, and complete a hand-building project using slab, coil, or pinch construction. Surface and glazing techniques will be explored and designed to complement their project. Clay handbuilding techniques allow for true freedom of form. Captivating asymmetry and unique sculptural aesthetic can be achieved using techniques like slab rolling, pinching, and coil building. We will learn and practice the skills needed to create functional and sculptural vessels, finishing with carved patterns, attached elements, underglazes, and glazes to decorate our handbuilt pieces. Students will walk away with unique ceramic art. All work will be fired and ready for pick up in the Kimball Art Center 7-14 days after your class. We do not ship class work. If artwork is not picked up after 60 days it will be recycled. *Since artwork may look different after firing, make your pottery or sculpture recognizable by carving a signature into your piece.
Plein Air Painting
With a new location chosen each week, student’s will have the chance to paint outdoors amidst Park City’s varied and beautiful natural landscape. We will learn about composition, value and color relationships, layering, and steps to develop a plein air process. Overcoming the challenges of painting in shifting light and changing weather is invigorating and fulfilling! Any preferred painting medium is encouraged. This is an 8 week session.
See material list below:
Material List:
-Plein air easel (French easel, tripod easel)- available to borrow from KAC
-Plein air painting supplies: palette, brushes (variety of round and filberts recommended), palette knife for mixing, medium (linseed oil or medium of choice) and medium container/ palette cup, brush cleaner of choice and container (air-tight brush washer recommended), thick paper towels/rags, bag for collecting dirty rags, gloves
-8 small painting surfaces (7×5-10×8 inches)
-Canvas carrying case/ flat boxes for transporting multiple wet paintings (I recommend flat boxes like these or pizza boxes work great).
-Oil Paint, warm and cool of each color (suggested palette options below)
-Titanium White
-COOL YELLOW: Cadmium Yellow Light or Lemon Yellow
-WARM YELLOW: Indian Yellow or Cadmium Yellow Medium
-EARTH YELLOW: Yellow Ochre (or Mars Yellow, Mars Orange, Raw Sienna)
-COOL RED: Quinacridone Rose/ Red or Alizarin Crimson
-WARM RED: Cadmium Red Light
-EARTH RED: Indian Red or Red Ochre
-COOL PURPLE: Dioxazine purple
-WARM PURPLE: Magenta
-EARTH PURPLE: Caput Mortuum Violet
-COOL BLUE: Cerulean Blue and/or Phthalo Blue
-WARM BLUE: Ultramarine Blue
-COOL GREEN: Viridian
-WARM GREEN: Green Gold and/or Chrome Oxide Green
-EARTH GREEN: Terre Verte
-EARTH BROWN: Burnt sienna, or transparent earth tone (Transparent Earth Orange, Transparent Earth Red, Transparent Earth Yellow, Transparent Brown Oxide, Quinacridone Gold Brown)
-sunscreen, bug spray
-large water bottle
-hat for sun protection
-lots of layers for unpredictable/ changing weather
-pack your lunch & snacks daily
I recommend having a backpack to carry all supplies. I also love using a paint saver palette so I do not have to bring all my tubes out. This is the one I use!
Find Your Voice Session 2
Exploration
Join us for a session of exploring your artistic voice, in any medium under the guidance of instructor Leona Gamble. This class is the perfect opportunity for new students to test the waters, and returning students to take what you learned in previous Kimball art classes and explore your personal voice and artistic expression! The subject will be open to each student as they get to choose what expression they would like to explore – from realism to impressionism, to abstract, the options are all yours!
Materials:
– Sketchbook
– Pencils
– Eraser
– A pad of Canvas paper (Oleo, thick watercolor paper, or canva paper is fine)
– Oil Paints / Acrylic Paints
Kits are fine, but if you choose to purchase individual tubes of color, please include these:
- Titanium white
- Ivory black
- Cadmium Red
- Permanent Alizarin Crimson
- Ultramarine Blue
- Phthalo Blue
- Cadmium Yellow
- Lemon Yellow
– Optional additional colors Yellow Ochre, Burnt Sienna, Burnt Umber
– Firm Bristle Paint Brushes Please select one or two small, medium, and large round brushes, as well as flathead brushes
-Palette A palette is any surface on which you can mix your paint. I prefer to use a covered palette which preserves paint for longer use. You want a palette big enough to mix all your colors on
– Odorless Gamsol, Turpenoid, or other odorless mineral spirits
-Linseed Oil Linseed oil increases the transparency of paint as well as the fluidity, while maintaining the paint’s oil base.
-Glass Jar To hold our solvent. You may want to purchase one with a metal coil inside to help clean brushes. Bring an extra empty, sealable jam jar as well.
-Palette Knife If you prefer to mix your colors with brushes, that is fine.
-Rags Used for cleaning/drying brushes
–Painting Clothes These are clothes you don’t mind getting paint on
–Canvas Canvas boards are very economical but you may want to choose a stretched canvas. The stretched canvases one can purchase at art stores are already primed and ready to paint on. If you are stretching your own canvas, you will need to prime your surface with an acrylic gesso. Bring at least one of a smaller dimension, for example an 8” x 10” canvas board, and one larger surface, for example a 16” x 20” stretched canvas.
Wheel Try It
This is not a typical class, instead, a studio staff member will provide a demonstration at the start of the session in either wheel throwing or hand building techniques. A nominal $45 fee includes enough clay for two completed pieces as well as firing and glazing. All ages are welcome, but children 16 and under must be accompanied by an adult. Potter’s wheel not recommended for children under 8. All work will be fired and ready for pick up in the Kimball Art Center lobby 7-14 days after your class. We do not ship class work. If artwork is not picked up after 60 days it will be recycled. *Since artwork may look different after firing, make your pottery or sculpture recognizable by carving a signature into your piece.
Wheel Try It
This is not a typical class, instead, a studio staff member will provide a demonstration at the start of the session in either wheel throwing or hand building techniques. A nominal $45 fee includes enough clay for two completed pieces as well as firing and glazing. All ages are welcome, but children 16 and under must be accompanied by an adult. Potter’s wheel not recommended for children under 8. All work will be fired and ready for pick up in the Kimball Art Center lobby 7-14 days after your class. We do not ship class work. If artwork is not picked up after 60 days it will be recycled. *Since artwork may look different after firing, make your pottery or sculpture recognizable by carving a signature into your piece.