Panel Painting on Aquabord, Claybord, Gessobord, & Pastelbord

Friday November 20
10am to 1pm in The Limelight Gallery
Presented by Michael Hammer

Panel Painting is one of the hottest trends in the art materials world.  Find out why these pre-Renaissance surfaces are completely archival, easy to use, and a pleasure to paint on.  Ampersand Art Supply, a 15 year old company, pioneered this panel painting revolution through its’ innovative grounds applied to hardbord surfaces. The lecture will include working on aquabord, claybord, gessobord, and pastelbord.

Michael Hammer is an independent manufacturers representative who has been working in the field for almost 40 years. His company began representing Ampersand Art Supply 14 years ago as he gained feedback from artists who said their panels were clearly superior supports to paint on.

Friday November 20
10am to 1pm in Art Studio A
Presented by Celia Buchanan- FULL

Explore the diverse and fascinating world of Fine Art Fabric through a study of fabric patterning techniques. Students will be able to expand and diversify their skills and talent through this introduction to Fiber Art. Using dyes and paints the workshop will cover techniques such as Silk Painting, Shibori, Indigo Dyeing and Screen Printing onto fabric. It will concentrate on the Fine Art applications of these techniques and culminate in the students holding a broad understanding of this rich and complex medium.

Scottish Artist and Masters Degree Graduate from the City University in London and formally the Fibers Lecturer at the Boca Museum School of Art, Celia Buchanan has been working in her field for over 20 years. She now works and lives in south Floria and teaches throughout the southeast. Celia’s chosen medium is surface design which she now incorporates into mixed media pieces.

Friday November 20
2pm to 5pm in The Limelight Gallery
Presented by Anna Fox Ryan

The goal of the presentation is not only educate participants on oil paints but to provide information that will enable attendees to create their own personalized palette. All attendees will receive FREE Gamblin Product & Literature Samples.

Anna Fox Ryan, Artist Representative for Gamblin Artist’s Colors, has her BFA from Savannah College of Art & Design. Currently residing in Savannah, Georgia, her paintings examine the effects of mass industrialization on society and the environment. Her most recent show will be “New American Artists”, in Lisbon, October of 2009. Her work has been featured in Arts Calendar Magazine, The South Magazine, Manhattan Arts International and Savannah Now. Anna is represented by Santa-Rita Contemporary Art. In addition to being a practicing oil painter, Anna has worked in various capacities within the art material industry, specializing in oil paint and brushes. Her work can be viewed at www.foxryanstudio.com.

This demo is designed to investigate and explore the limited colors and their transparent and opaque uses as related to portraiture. Some basic principles of composition are covered, as well as the setting of lighting source and posing model.

Chin-Cheng Hung was born in Keelung, Taiwan, in 1966. He has devoted his attention to the study of Chinese art since he was 12. In 1997, he came to the United States to pursue his MFA degree in painting at the Savannah College of Art and Design. Here he also established his teaching career in the Foundation Studies since 1999. He is currently teaching at the School of Fine Arts at SCAD-Atlanta. Hung has received numerous awards from different juried competitions and has been featured in “The Pastel Journal”, “Pastel Artist International,” ìInternational Artistî, and “New American Paintings” magazines.

Saturday November 21
10am to 1pm in The Limelight Gallery
Presented by Karl Story

Karl will be demonstrating Brush, Quill and Pen inking techniques using india ink on Bristol paper.

Karl Story has worked as an inker in the comic book industry for over 20 years for clients such as Marvel, DC, Dark Horse and others and on titles such as Aliens VS Predator, Star Trek, Legionnaires, Tom Strong, Ocean, X-men, Nightwing, Batman, and many more over pencillers like Chris Sprouse, Adam Hughes, Brian Stelfreeze, Stephane Roux and Scott McDaniel. Karl is currently inking Tom Strong for Wildstorm/DC and Zatanna for DC.

Come join us for a two-hour introduction to bookbinding workshop.We’ll be gluing, folding and stitching up two beautiful books for you to take home and treasure.

The Accordion Fold Book: Often called the “Slinky Book”, this charmer fits in your hands, has a hard coverand is hinged by 7 interlocking folded pages. It displays beautifullyon the table and makes a terrific photo album.

The Japanese Stab Bound Book: If you’ve never stitched up a book before, this one’s the perfect place to start.Having been around for centuries, this basic book is elegant in its simplicityand can be dressed up or down with the right materials.

Anne Dusenberry Elser grew up here in Atlanta and earned her BFA from the Cleveland Institute of Art in 1991 with a major in painting and a minor in ceramics. She then studied Graphic Design at The Portfolio Center in Buckhead, where she has been teaching design classes for over 10 years. Anne freelances as a graphic designer and illustrator and as a calligrapher.

Adam Hughes will do a comic book drawing demonstration using Copic markers and Canson products.

Adam Hughes has been a comics professional for over 20 years. His work has graced the pages of books like Dark Horse’s GHOST and DC Comics THE JUSTICE LEAGUE. In recent years he’s become primarily a cover artist, with his run of nearly 50 consecutive WONDER WOMAN covers and his current home on the monthly title CATWOMAN, both for DC Comics.

Saturday November 21
2pm to 5pm in Art Studio A - FULL
Presented by Chery Baird

Students will learn a little about the history of collage, about found and manipulated papers, different kinds of glue, texture, pattern and how to compose a good collage. Students will produce 2 - 4 finished collages by the end of the class. 

Chery Baird has collages and paintings in corporate, state, city and private collections across the nation and received her MFA in Painting from Georgia State University.  She is a Signature Member of the National Collage Society and has won 3 national awards for her work in collage.  Over the past 10 years she has produced in excess of 700 collages.  She has taught in Atlanta for 29 years and is currently teaching at the Spruill Center for the Arts.