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Arts
Fine Crafts Studio Art Many second-level drawing classes offer opportunities to gain skills with more challenging techniques and drawing mediums. Continuing and advanced painting and drawing students will find stimulating opportunities to experience new materials and methods while developing and polishing personal styles within a supportive peer environment led by instructors who are professional artists. View studio art classes. Materials Fine craft classes generally provide a kit of materials to be purchased in class or provide the materials as part of the class cost. Consult the class description for details. A few classes, such as the picture matting and framing workshops, have a supply list that is mailed in advance of class, so that students may customize their projects. Instructor Exhibits and Awards ACE instructors are professional artists working in the metro area and beyond. Arlita Kadar, instructor of Asian brush painting, received the People's Choice Award for her one stroke painting, Happy Day, in the Fairfax Art League June 2009 exhibit. She used ink mixed with watercolor on watercolor paper. Leo Deege visiting our great national parks last summer, capturing breathtaking scenery on canvas. He’s entered two paintings in the US Geological Survey show and will have a joint show in the Herndon Arts Center this fall. The latter show will feature scenes from US national parks, including the Tetons, the Rockies and Yellowstone. Wayne Wolfersberger, a wildlife photographer and ranger in Yellowstone who teaches ACE photography classes, will be the other featured artist. Should be a great show! View Leo's website at www.LeoDeegeStudio.net and Wayne's at www.waynewolfersberger.com/. Amy Vanden Boogart, instructor for card-making workshops, will be a vendor at Ballston Arts & Crafts Market fair in August and October and at Art on the Avenue in October in Del Ray, Alexandria. View Amy’s website, www.lovemypaper.com. The August issue of The Pastel Journal features Fairfax Station artist Lynn Goldstein. Two articles, one written by Lynn herself, accompany eight images from her tree series entitled Reaching. Lynn teaches painting, pastels and portraiture throughout the mid-Atlantic region. Her work can be viewed at www.lynngoldstein.com. Jean K. Gill, AWS, NWS, is enjoying much well-deserved attention locally and nationally in 2009. She was awarded Best in Show at the Green Spring Gardens Show of the Potomac Valley Watercolorists (PVW) and took an honorable mention at the PVW 35th Anniversary Show at Strathmore Hall. She also received the Canson, Inc. Award in the 17th Annual National Exhibition of the Western Colorado Society (March-April 2009); her painting was chosen for the catalog cover. She had a painting accepted into the Baltimore Watercolor Society's Mid-Atlantic Regional Watercolor Exhibition (April-May 2009) and will be included in the Virginia Watercolor Society's 35th Anniversary Show this September. Jean teaches advanced watercolor classes. Her work can viewed on www.jeankgillwatercolors.vpweb.com.
Watercolor students refine their talents while in the company of like-minded friends.
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| Last Updated: November 9, 2009 | Curator: Lynne Plante Lynne.Plante@fcps.edu | ||||||||||||||||