Sketchbook Winter Series with Sarah Kahn: Wednesdays (Winter)

Name: Sketchbook Winter Series with Sarah Kahn: Wednesdays (Winter)
SKU: 40919
Availability: InStock

Price range: $225.00 through $250.00

Have fun exploring techniques for mixed media collages!

Class Price

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SKU: N/A Categories: Adult Classes, Adult Art Classes

Description

Wednesdays, January 20-March 10, 2027
10:00-12:30

This is an 8 week class

Bring a sketchbook, and fill the pages with innovative pieces, as we explore four ways to begin acrylic mixed-media collages. We will follow exercises and prompts, as you are introduced to a smorgasbord of techniques for creating collage papers, texturing a ground to begin a sketch, innovative drawing, shape exploration and collage building.

You will come away with a “full toolbox” of innovative techniques for stoking your creative flow and a fresh curiosity for art-making. This class is for the student interested in broadening their skills and refueling their art practice!

Class will center on visual vocabulary, both abstract and figurative. We will experiment with a range of art supplies, so bring your favorite materials as well as ones you have yet to open!

Check the “materials” tab for supplies you’ll need to bring to class.

Please register early as class registration closes 48 hours before the start of first-class. Registration must be accompanied by full payment.

Falmouth Art Center uses email to correspond with students for updates on scheduling, etc. Please check your email to be sure you do not miss any updates.

Scholarship information:

The Falmouth Art Center is very proud to have a scholarship fund supported by donations from members and friends. It is available for both children and adults who have a great desire to create art. Applications should be submitted to Laura Reckford, Executive Director of the Falmouth Art Center. If you have questions about our scholarship program, email us at info@falmouthart.org or call the art center at 508-540-3304.

Scholarship Information and Forms

Falmouth Art Center Refund Policy:

Refunds will not be given within one week of the start of a class. Classes are not pro-rated, and there are no makeups for missed classes. A $25 processing fee is withheld from all refunds.

The Art Center reserves the right to cancel any class due to insufficient enrollment, in which case tuition will be fully refunded.

Materials

Materials List

🫆9”X12” Mixed-Media Spiral Sketchbook

🫆Assorted Brushes

🫆Expired Credit Cards or Plastic Wallpaper Scraper or Catalyst Wedge

🫆Assorted Mark-Makers (pencils, charcoal sticks, crayons, felt markers, pens…)

🫆Jar Heavy Gel Acrylic Medium

🫆Jar Soft Gel Acrylic medium

🫆Sheets or Roll thin drawing paper (computer printer paper is fine)- 60 lb. or less is best

🫆Printer’s Brayer (if you already have one)

🫆Assorted Acrylic Paint Colors

🫆Scissors

Instructor Bio

Sarah Kahn:

I am drawn to non-representational art, because it endows the viewer with the freedom to associate, remember, and find sensory response. Amidst passages of color, form and textures, one is invited to draw upon internal imagery and personal experience. While I am inspired by recognizable images, it is the abstracted details from these pictures, that I am drawn to record and create. Wordless forms have power, because they can be either re-attached to words, and recognized as pictures, or they can remain label-less, therefore maintaining a direct connection to our senses and to our unconscious.

I work in a sculptural manner, layering paper, fabric, drawings and prints. As the collage evolves, I scrape away thickened patches of acrylic paint, and peel away strips of unwanted cloth. I overlay monoprints, monotypes, woodcuts and other textured passages. I cloud forms over with fabric, to have them recede, while I bring other forms and colors into the foreground. The composition of each collage is as important as are the techniques I use to create dimension.

While I occasionally add representational drawings, such as portraits, I remain committed to the abstract, and the power it has to direct the viewer inward. The nameless form, texture and color, allows us to free-associate, and often to recall important experiences we may have hidden away.

I am under representation at Soprafina Gallery, SOWA Art District, Harrison Ave., Boston, MA.