Anderson Ranch Arts Center Workshop Catalogs 2010-2014 | Page 46

Kara Maria, Who Watches the Watchers 

Nancy Reyner, Blue Curve & Mountain (detail)

Nancy Reyner, Bosque Lake (detail)

July 23 - 27

July 23 - 27

July 30 - August 3

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 xpressive works on paper

Nancy Reyner

Nancy Reyner

Skill Level:  II

Skill Level:  III

Concept: This workshop presents a broad and
extensive overview of acrylic painting techniques. Participants create a series of 15 to 20
small paintings, exploring methods and techniques to use acrylic in its most distinctive and
expansive ways. The emphasis is on creating
multiple experiments rather than producing finished work. Any subject matter and all styles
benefit from this in-depth, comprehensive,
fast-paced workshop.

Concept:  Move beyond the comfort zone in
this idea-generating acrylic workshop. Participants gain exposure to a broad spectrum of
styles, ranging from classical realism through
minimal color field and everything in between.
Acrylic’s wide range of possibilities, uses and
techniques can easily be adapted for any style.
Participants discover the medium’s versatility
for particular styles, processes and problem
solving. Each student creates at least one finished painting in a new direction by the end of
the workshop.

Between Thought & Thing:
Kara Maria
Skill Level:  II - IV

Concept:  Create vibrant works on paper that
are informed as much by the world around us
as by our own intuition. Experimenting with
the unique formal and technical possibilities
of painting and drawing on paper, students
combine appropriated and invented images
to create pieces that navigate the relationship between our interior and exterior realities. Participants bring reference materials
from which they borrow details for use in their
artwork. These found images are integrated
with improvisatory gestures, colors, forms and
other elements.
Media & Techniques:  Paper, water-based
paints, drawing materials, wet-on-wet and
wet-on-dry painting, layering, tracing, transfer,
collage and decollage, and masking.
Activities:  Our days are organized to allow
ample studio time for working, with technical
demonstrations, supportive group critiques
and individual feedback.
Faculty: Kara Maria received her BA and MFA
from the University of California-Berkeley. Her
work can be found in public collections including the Cantor Arts Center, Stanford University,
the di Rosa Preserve in Napa, the de Saisset
Museum and Santa Clara University. Her prints
have been published by: Gallery 16, San Francisco; Shark’s Ink, Lyons, Colorado; and Smith
Andersen Editions, Palo Alto, California, among
others. Maria is represented by the Catharine
Clark Gallery in San Francisco.

www.karamaria.com
Tuition: $920 OR Tuition + Studio Support Donation: $1120
Studio Fee: $75 Code: D0817 Enrollment Limit 10

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Mastering Acrylic 

Media & Techniques:  Acrylic mediums, gels,
pastes and grounds, organic and inorganic pigments, textural layering and glazing, interference and iridescent paints, surface treatments
and underpaintings.

Acrylic Innovation 

Media & Techniques: A wide variety of acrylic
paints and products.

Activities:  Each day the instructor presents
short demonstrations, introduces new concepts, and allows ample hands-on time in
between demos to paint and incorporate new
techniques.

Activities:  The instructor begins each day
with a technique demonstration, then rotates
to give each participant personal instr X