We’re developing some “Lange Studios” workshops and hope to be able to announce them early 2012. This page in under development and details are being added.
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Shauna Lee Lange Studios of Port Charlotte, Florida develops artists through education, exhibition, art community networking, and stimulating, supportive environments. We strive to offer dynamic and comprehensive visual arts offerings. Lange Studios is a non-accredited institution and is open to all. Parents of children are able to accompany children during sessions but cannot participate in learning activities as unregistered students. All instructors are professional artists. In addition to arts courses or travel workshops, day art trips to local studios, museums, frame shops, artist’s homes, art events, or art stores are offered in concentrated sessions. Intensive one and two-week art camps are also offered. No classes meet on holidays or in the case of severe inclement weather. Below is a list of 26 different art programs currently being developed.
To Register: Registration for classes is handled in person, via phone, email, or through social networking sites. Payment is due before the first day of the class by cash, or local check, or on-line through PayPal. Where multiple classes are offered in a subject, you may attend one or all of the sessions. Price per session is shown first (XX/AA) followed by the combined discounted cost for multiple sessions. Please take note of the time and location of the offered selection to confirm your availability. Due to the amount of preparation involved in presenting our intensive classes, refunds are only provided on a pro-rated schedule (75% more than three weeks cancellation, 50% more than two weeks cancellation, and 25% more than one week cancellation). You may apply the costs of your cancelled class as credit for an upcoming class.
a. Personal Geographies/Self-Portraits in Art. Adapted from a master painter’s class, this advanced session considers fetishes, totems, iconicity, masks, and configurations of the head as well as a deep exploration of self-image within and self-image from without. The goal is to advance connectives that reinforce a self-portrait project that incorporates the three main questions in life. Where have I been? Where am I NOW? and Where am I going?
b. Keeping an Art Journal or Art Sketchbook. Introductory class helps students increase their enjoyment of life by keeping a recurring, regular, and review sketchbook. Basic drawing techniques in pen, pencil, and watercolor are adapted for speed and smaller scale. Familiarization with front-runners in the art journaling world and their techniques as well as various ways to create a page will be highlighted. The work and principles of Julia Cameron and Twyla Tharp are highlighted.
c. Elements of Collage. Students explore several ways to work from the heart, access intuition, and make personal imagery by creating collage worlds, probing social issues, or transforming old items to new collage pieces. Scrap storage, transfers, adhesives, substrates, embellishments, and idea development are accentuated. Collection of ephemera, images, odds and ends, and other stashed away papers and photography will help the student integrate disparate and complementary fragments.
d. Watercolor Start to Finish. This class includes reviews of the readily available watercolor media on the market and teaches the student the four major principalities of watercolor: dry on dry; dry on wet; wet on dry; and wet on wet. Resists, washes, and application of paint to paper are highlighted. Paper explorations, archival considerations, and watercolor portability are included. Accentuating elements such as salt, alcohol, gesso, colored pencil application, ragging, sponging, offset printing, spatter-painting, and glazing will be explored.
e. Finding Your Visual Language.
f. Developing The Narrative. Students find ways to link storylines and visual elements to say something with art. By approaching content through personal experience, gestural drawing or painting, and experimentation with seemingly random ideas, discoveries are made that lead to individualistic narrative work. Risk-taking, intuitive problem-solving, and discussion are encouraged and lead the student to insightful solutions. The building of one’s own vocabulary of forms is a goal.
g. Creating Your Artistic Vision Board.
h. Photography and Art. Students will begin to think about digital photography in the realm of art. It will include composition, lighting considerations, and style while honing and adding techniques in the macro or micro applications to optimize artistic impact. Included are weekly critiques of student work. A manually operated camera, film or digital, and comfort shooting is required. Photography will include the exploration of themes at night and day. Artist’s will be encouraged to see through the mind’s eye and not the physical eye.
i. Art Portfolio Reviews. This is a one-on-one critique of artist portfolios for those wishing to approach galleries, those attempting to gain entrance into art programs or schools, or those seeing consultation on the expansion of portfolios. Students will also be coached on answering calls for artists, artist request for proposals, or artist submissions for local and national contests. The artist resume, statement, and marketing materials are also reviewed in consultation.
i. Art Camps. Art Camps are offered in drawing, painting, sculpture, mosaic, and holiday crafts preparation.
j. Famous Artists in Art History. This class is a lecture forum featuring biographies and slides of works of Famous Artists in Art History. The instructor may select a common-denominator to focus on (i.e. women artists, male artists, black artists, visionary artists) to encourage the growth of one’s art knowledge. The class is followed by a companion course called Contemporary Famous Artists which focuses on trends and controversies of modern-day art.
k. Color, Color, Color! Students will engage in various color studies exercises designed to hone the perception of temperature and improve the ability to mix color accurately. Basic color theory, use of the color wheel, and color use in art are covered. What color should you use? The teacher will explore color relationships and how they play in art and design. Lectures, demonstrations, exercises and discussions are included. This class enables the artist to use the colors on his palette with more confidence and understanding. The focus is on acquiring knowledge to be applied to future projects, rather than on producing a finished work.
j. Pastels. Chalk, oil, and acrylic pastels will be covered to introduce participants to this fundamental medium for making color studies, quick sketches or ambitious paintings.
k. The Artist’s Studio.
l. Box Assemblage.
m. Making Books Cover to Cover. Making your own book is easier than you may think. The workshop includes instruction for making multiple types of books, the instructor collects an additional materials fee of $20 to cover the cost of consumable supplies. Learn how to expand landscapes, extend books, or use decorative papers in book covers. Paper handling, stitching, glues, and pastes are covered to include paper grain, proper cutting, and measuring techniques. Japanese books, accordion books, single and multi-signature books are included.
n. Xacto Book Arts. This medium level course offered to adults only is part book arts and part sculpture. Students will use cutting and pasting techniques to turn an ordinary book of their choice into an unbelievable work of art. Contemporary and famous book arts artists will be reviewed – by seeing what others have done in book arts, your true creativity can emerge.
o. Becoming a Professional Artist. A very intensive and information filled workshop, Becoming a Professional Artist is designed to catapult the serious artist into the world of art. Build a resume, approach a gallery, organize a show, curatorship, selling your works, operating out of studio, coping with rejections, publicity, marketing, taxes, and many other topics pertinent to the business world of art. Tips and tricks of the trade are pulled from multiple leading authorities.
p. Music and Art. The Magic of Sound Art.
q. Nature and Art.
r. Art and Healing.
s. Stamping.
t. Basic Drawing. This class originally designed for adults has been adapted to also meet the needs of school-aged children who are missing a full arts curriculum. Students will gain a better understanding of the principles of drawing from observation. Learn how perspective, light, shadow, line, mass, and simplifying techniques can be used to connect the eye and hand. A great place to start for beginners, a better place to return for the more experienced student. There will also be drawing from still-life and model drawing (no nudity) where it can be arranged. A fabulous class for teens who are exploring the idea of art as a career.
u. Wine, Cheese and Date Night Out. In this special studio session, parents or dating partners are invited out to the studio location for wine, cheese and date night out. This session can be arranged for private couples or for groups and involves a concentrated art activity to heighten the senses, fun, and relaxation in art.
v. Art Book Club.
w. Discussion of Contemporary Issues in Arts.
x. Arts Advocacy in Our Community.
y. Art Auction Primer. Whether you’ll be attending an Etsy or Ebay auction, a cruise ship vacation art auction, or you’re headed to an online auction, or up to New York or down to Miami for a major auction house auction, this short seminar will prime you with all you need to know about how to bid, how to inspect, how to protect your interests, how to prove provenance, how to review appraisals, and how to buy.
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Note to Teaching Artists: We are always looking for colleagues or distinguished visiting art instructors who can offer courses in jewelry, metalsmith, printmaking, paper and book making, weaving and textiles (including knitting, spinning, felting, etc.), calligraphy, graphic design, Photoshop and other computer technologies (including creating art on the iphone or ipad), framing, matting or mounting, cartooning, manga, paper mache, decoupage, or other arts applications. If you have experience teaching, please contact Shauna Lee Lange Studios as we are always open to ideas.
