Printmaking Made Simple

Instructor:  Carl Homstad

Date:  Saturday, July 10 & Sunday, July 11, 2010

Fee:  $45

Hours:
Saturday -10 a.m.-noon
Sunday - 1 - 4 p.m.

GPAL Registration

Workshop Description: This special workshop is for children age 8 through age 15.  Classes with be held in Plainview at the Jon Hassler Theater.  Demostrations and individualized instruction will be tailored to the age and skill - level of each child. To learn the printmaking process, the children will make mono-color syrofoam, linolium, multi-color styrofoam and rubber stamp prints. They will have the opportunity to do more in-depth work using their favorite process. Children have the choice of bringing a brown bag lunches or ordering a boxed lunch. Because they will be working with paint and ink, they should also dress comfortably in clothes that can take an occasional spill.

A secondary goal of the workshop is to give children the opportunity to interact with a professional artist.   Mr. Homstad's "Why I Make Art" statement summarizes his own experience,

"When I was in Junior High, like all kids I was given apptitude tests and grilled about what I would like to do for the rest of my life.  I always loved to draw and did it all the time.  I liked the idea of being my own boss, so I picked being an artist and studied art every change I got. After graduating from college I was driving across the country for my 10th art fair and I thought, "I am a traveling salesman!" The last job I would have picked was traveling salesman. But as Greg Brown says in a song, "It's not what you think it is, it's just what it is."If you don't have to draw or sculpt, or paint every chance you get; if you don't regret leaving an art museum before you have seen every object; if you don't think about art all the time; then maybe this is not the job for you.... Why do I make art? Because I have to!"     

Painting Outdoors

Instructor:  Carl Homstad

Date:  Saturday, September 25 &
Sunday, Septebmer 26, 2010

Fee:  $175

Hours:
Saturday - 9 a.m.-noon & 1-5 p.m.
Sunday - 10 a.m.-noon & 1-4 p.m.

GPAL Registration
Scholarships available for this workshop!

Workshop Description:  This Plein Air painting workshop will be held in the countryside surround Plainview. Students will have the opportunity to paint four paintings at four different locations in either oil or acrylic. Homstad will demonstrate how to develop a work from thumbnail sketch to finished painting with special attention given to composition and strategies to capture transient atmospheric elements of the setting. Students are encouraged to bring cameras.  An end-of-the-session critque will be ehld.

Maximum No. of Students:  15