Kimball Art Center

Park City, Utah Art Center

Saturday

Experiment in Clay

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Every Saturday we will dip our toes into the world of ceramic sculpture.
See things you might not see in a “pottery” class.
We will explore:
Expressive Portraits
Carving and Hollowing
Abstract Figurative
Musical Ceramics ~ Bells and Whistles
Relief Sculpture
IMAGINATION!
I encourage parents and Grandparents to take the class right alongside your kids. It’s a great family bonding activity.  ~
All work will be fired 7 to 14 days after class.  If you haven’t heard from our clay technician by then, just come pick it up in the front lobby.

Organic Sketching – Session 2

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Organic Sketching (OS) is a relaxing, natural, and pleasing way to express our concepts, ideas, and dreams into their first visual stages. It’s a combination of learned skills, observations, employing creative techniques, and endless practice. Sketching is typically the very first step in almost every genre of art, be it drawing, painting, sculpting, architecture, or design. Unreliable skills make starting a sketch frustrating for some people, and can even make the experience of sketching a fearful hurdle! We are here to help make first sketches exciting, more accurate, and something to look forward to!

 

OS builds eye-brain-hand connections, instills confidence, and allows our visions to comfortably and smoothly come to life by returning to very basic sketching skills. OS is a non-mechanical freeform way to think your ideas through as you lay them out. Pencil-control and finesse become second nature over time, the act of sketching becomes liberating and sensual. 

 

OS is designed around finding mass and volume, making decision lines, commitment lines, examining light, depth, and understanding effective line-crafting. Tool-familiarity is emphasized, as it’s an easily correctable issue some people don’t even realize they have! We will learn to “see” an object as opposed to just looking at it, developing natural pathways from our brain to our hand. In the end we find life in our sketches!

 

OS teaches self-correcting critiquing. You’ll find “freedom from resistance” allows you to become emotional about your images as they develop. Sketching, more often than not, is the end-point of most concepts… they’re worked and reworked, exploring variation after variation, never culminating in a “finished” piece. And that’s great. Because Sketches are sometimes the goal, not the means to a goal. (Have you ever seen a sketch that took your breath away, or told the whole story in a tangle of lines and gestures?) The secret to capturing your ideas is the life in their lines, the motion in their figures, the belief you have in its tangibility! That, my friends, is Organic Sketching! 

 

This Workshop is very unique and vibrant, unusually interactive, and not like any class or workshop you have ever explored! From beginner to advanced, you will leave with new skills and techniques, new desires to create, and a higher confidence level than when you first sat down. So join us for this amazingly creative 2 hours that will last a lifetime.

 

Don’t bother bringing an eraser, we won’t be using one!

**Materials are provided**

 

Organic Sketching – Session 1

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Organic Sketching (OS) is a relaxing, natural, and pleasing way to express our concepts, ideas, and dreams into their first visual stages. It’s a combination of learned skills, observations, employing creative techniques, and endless practice. Sketching is typically the very first step in almost every genre of art, be it drawing, painting, sculpting, architecture, or design. Unreliable skills make starting a sketch frustrating for some people, and can even make the experience of sketching a fearful hurdle! We are here to help make first sketches exciting, more accurate, and something to look forward to!

 

OS builds eye-brain-hand connections, instills confidence, and allows our visions to comfortably and smoothly come to life by returning to very basic sketching skills. OS is a non-mechanical freeform way to think your ideas through as you lay them out. Pencil-control and finesse become second nature over time, the act of sketching becomes liberating and sensual. 

 

OS is designed around finding mass and volume, making decision lines, commitment lines, examining light, depth, and understanding effective line-crafting. Tool-familiarity is emphasized, as it’s an easily correctable issue some people don’t even realize they have! We will learn to “see” an object as opposed to just looking at it, developing natural pathways from our brain to our hand. In the end we find life in our sketches!

 

OS teaches self-correcting critiquing. You’ll find “freedom from resistance” allows you to become emotional about your images as they develop. Sketching, more often than not, is the end-point of most concepts… they’re worked and reworked, exploring variation after variation, never culminating in a “finished” piece. And that’s great. Because Sketches are sometimes the goal, not the means to a goal. (Have you ever seen a sketch that took your breath away, or told the whole story in a tangle of lines and gestures?) The secret to capturing your ideas is the life in their lines, the motion in their figures, the belief you have in its tangibility! That, my friends, is Organic Sketching! 

 

This Workshop is very unique and vibrant, unusually interactive, and not like any class or workshop you have ever explored! From beginner to advanced, you will leave with new skills and techniques, new desires to create, and a higher confidence level than when you first sat down. So join us for this amazingly creative 2 hours that will last a lifetime.

 

Don’t bother bringing an eraser, we won’t be using one!

**Materials are provided**

 

Silversmithing (2 Day Workshop)

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Design and make a pair of sterling silver earrings inspired by Karl Blossfeldt’s classic botanical photography.  Students will learn the basics of Metalsmithing.

Acrylic Paint Pouring / Fluid Art Workshop

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Acrylic paint pouring is dazzling, unique and ;*WARNING* can become addictive! From crafting with pouring on coasters, ornaments, jewelry, and vases, to creating fine art on canvases and substrates, the skies the limit. This acrylic paint technique process creates beautiful abstract art. No two pieces will ever be alike and the results always have the element of surprise. This cocktail coaster painting class will be hands on and you will learn: -prepping surfaces -how to mix the basic 3 layers -the actual pouring onto surfaces and a few techniques -manipulation of the paints to create desired effects -glossy acrylic finishes that makes the paints POP! **Suggested dress: Jackson Pollock casual. The paint tends to wander and fly

Experiment in Clay

by

Every Saturday we will dip our toes into the world of ceramic sculpture.
See things you might not see in a “pottery” class.
We will explore:
Expressive Portraits
Carving and Hollowing
Abstract Figurative
Musical Ceramics ~ Bells and Whistles
Relief Sculpture
IMAGINATION!
I encourage parents and Grandparents to take the class right alongside your kids. It’s a great family bonding activity.  ~

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 you have not received an email from us after 2 weeks, please check the lobby (sometimes emails go to spam or the email used to sign up is invalid).
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.